Intellectual Property

Any idea or artistic creation that is recorded in some form, whether it’s hard copy or digital.

• Creative Work

• Copyright

• Creative Commons

• License

A law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work.

• Creative Work

• Copyright

• Creative Commons

• License

A kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your creative work, as long as they give you credit for it.

• Creative Work

• Copyright

• Creative Commons

• License

A clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be used.

• Creative Work

• Copyright

• Creative Commons

• License

Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying.

• Plagiarize

• Public Domain

• Piracy

• Fair Use

Creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use however you want.

• Plagiarize

• Public Domain

• Piracy

• Fair Use

Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you created it.

• Plagiarize

• Public Domain

• Piracy

• Fair Use

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).

• Plagiarize

• Public Domain

• Piracy

• Fair Use

Amy decided to ____________________ her paper for class by copying and pasting from Wikipedia and saying she wrote it.

• Plagiarize

• Copyright

• Piracy

• Fair Use

Because Zoe used a small amount of a movie in a remix video she made that pokes fun at the main character, she could say it's _______________.

• Creative Work

• Public Domain

• Creative Commons

• Fair Use