Ethical Use of Digital Resources Vocabulary

Property that results from original creative thought.

• Public Domain

• Intellectual Property

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

• Plagiarism

• Creative Commons

Permission to use brief pieces of copyrighted material without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder, under these circumstances: criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research.

• Public Domain

• Fair Use

A set of various licenses with conditions that allow people to share their copyrighted work with rules for how the work can be used.

• Creative Commons

• Public Domain

The exclusive legal right, given to a creator to print, publish, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.

• Copyright

• Plagiarism

Belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

• Copyright

• Public Domain