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| public domain | Works that are not restricted by copyright and do not require a license or fee to use. Works can enter the public domain automatically because they are not copyrightable, be designated in the public domain by the creator, or become part of the public domain because the copyright term has expired. |
| fair use | Permits a second user to copy part or all of a copyrighted work under certain circumstances, even when the copyright holder has not given permission or even objects to that use of the work. |
| plagiarism | The practice of passing off another author's work or ideas as one's own. |
| copyright | A form of legal protection given to the creators of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. U.S. copyright law generally gives the author of an original creative work an exclusive right to reproduce (copy) or distribute the original work to the public, create new works based upon the original work, and perform or display the work publicly. |
| Peer-to-peer | P2P stands for this technology which is a network of online computers that allows users to share (upload and download) digital files from computer to computer. |
| attribution | Identifying the source of a work |
| author/artist | creator of a work |
| copyright infringement | A violation of the exclusive rights of a copyright holder, such as copying, distributing, or performing the copyright owner's work without permission unless the use is otherwise authorized by law. |
| Cite the source | When you list all the original creators of the information you write about. |
| license | Permission granted by the copyright holder to copy, distribute, display, transform and/or perform a copyrighted work. |
| parody | An exaggerated, often comical work that takes elements from the work it comments upon in order to target its point. |
| derivative work | A new work that translates or transforms one or more original copyrighted works (e.g., a movie made from a comic book, a song written about a photograph, etc.). |
| copyright term | The length of time the law allows copyright owners to hold the exclusive rights on their original works. |
| expression | A form of communication. Creative ideas alone are not copyrightable. But the communication of creative ideas in a fixed medium of expression (e.g., a book, play, drawing, film, photo, etc.) may be copyrighted. |
| file sharing | The practice of uploading and downloading digital files (text, audio, video, or image) to and from a computer network where more than one user has access to those files. |
| mashup | A genre of derivative works that are built by creatively reusing and combining various portions of music, film, audio, and graphics. |
| stakeholder | A person, group or organization that has a vested interest in the positive or negative outcome of an action. |
