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Canadian Context
definitions
Term | Definition |
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Access Copyright | Canadian corporation that is non-profit and regulates licensed institutions seeing that they get whatever profit from ideas that are due to them. |
Copyright | Is a term referring to ownership of property that is not physical but intellectual such as ideas, creations or writings. |
Intellectual Property | Legal rights to intellectual creations and ensures credit goes to the individuals who created them. |
Royalty | Compensation work intellectual works being used for the profit of others. |
Trade-marks | Are symbols, slogans shapes, names that are unique to one person or company. |
Public Domain | Someone's intellectual property that has never been copyrighted or patented or one that has expired leaving its use to everyone. |
Moral Rights | Preservation of an intellectual work by not allowing it to be distorted or rewritten. |
Performing Rights | Regulates the performing of music that is not the singer's intellectual property in public. |
Plagiarism | Using another persons intellectual property without authorization or claiming it as your own intellectual property. |
Fair Dealing | Equal rights of others concerning the use of an individual's intellectual property. However it permits some exceptions for specific purposes such as reporting, reviewing and so on. |
Patent | Protects intellectual ideas surrounding new inventions and protects the rights of the inventor to get credit for his inventions. |
Blanket Licence | Allows TV, radio and others to use music in the public sphere without having to ask permission for its use. |