• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: an idea or creation of the mind made real in a form we can touch, see, or hear, for which the law provides exclusive rights to the creator
  
  
• PATENT: an exclusive right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process.
  
  
• TRADEMARK: protects words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services.
  
  
• TRADE SECRET: information that companies keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors.
  
  
• COPYRIGHT: the legal protection for original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression.
  
  
• TANGIBLE FORM: a creative work recorded in some physical medium, whether on paper, canvas, or computer memory
  
  
• DERIVATIVE WORK: a new, original product that includes aspects of a preexisting, already copyrighted work.
  
  
• COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: the unauthorized or illegal use of copyrighted works.
  
  
• FAIR USE: a legal defense to permit limited use of copyrighted material for news reporting, parody or education without acquiring permission.
  
  
• PUBLIC DOMAIN: when intellectual property is not protected by law but instead belongs to the public as a whole.
  
  
• ROYALTY: payment for a license to copy or use a copyrighted work for a single use
  
  
• ROYALTY FREE: a license to use or copy a copyrighted work unlimited number of times
  
  
• TALENT RELEASE: a document in which a person gives someone permission to use a photo or video recording of themselves
  
  
• PROPERTY RELEASE: a document in which an owner gives someone permission to use pictures of his/her property for commercial purposes
  
  
• CREATIVE COMMONS: a simple standardized way to grant limited copyright permissions to creative work
  
  
• ATTRIBUTION: requiring credit to the author of a work used in another's work, usually in the form Copyright (C) 2000 authors name.
  
  
• NON COMMERCIAL: copyright license that does not allow a work to be used in any type of commerce or making money activities
  
  
• NO DERIVATIVES: copyright license that does not allow any derivatives such as remixes or other modifications
  
  
• SHARE ALIKE: copyright license that requires copies or derivatives of a work to be released under the same license as the original.

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