411 for Creatives
Copyright
The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.
Creative Work
A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including but not limited to artwork, literature, music, and paintings. Creative works have in common a degree of arbitrariness, such that it is improbable that two people would independently create the same work.
License
A license is a permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade
Plagiarize
Plagiarism is take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.
Piracy
Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.
Public Domain
Public Domain is the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright
Fair Use
Fair Use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.