Copyright Vocabulary

1. Copyright: A law of protection on your personal writings such as poems, books, songs, etc.
2. Fair Use: A piece of advice that says how much of a copyrighted item you are allowed to use without permission.
3. First Sale Doctrine: Once the creator allows someone to purchase their work, the one who purchased it is allowed to make copies of the work and can choose to do what they want with it: change it, sell it, etc.
4. Intellectual Property: When someone owns an idea, until someone decides to make the idea come to life
5. Patent: The person who brings someone else's idea to life and calls it their own
6. Permission: The permission to use someone else's work and maybe change it so they can call it their own
7. Phonorecords: Allows music works to be played, recorded, and stored to use on computers or other electronic devices
8. Plagiarism: To use the words of someone else as your own and not give them credit
9. Public Domain: Used for when a copyright protection is expired
10. Trademark: A word or symbol used to identity a product in the marketplace