In a position that makes it easier for you to be harmed or attacked.

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

Type of crime in which your private information is stolen and used for criminal activity.

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.

When people send your phone emails, pop-up messages, social media messages, texts, calls or links to fake websites in order to hook you into giving out your personal and financial information.

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)

Attempt to trick someone, usually with intention of stealing money or private information

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

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

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

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