Definitions to know
COPYRIGHT Copyright law gives several “creator’s rights” to people producing creative work. When you create something, you get to decide who can: make copies, distribute copies, display or perform the work in 1 public, and make derivatives. Let’s look at these individually:
1. Make copies—this means photocopies or digital copies, including digital copy and pasting text or images, downloading photos, downloading songs, etc.
2. Distribute copies—this means giving away or selling copies, including emailing or texting digital files, or letting others download material you have uploaded to a website.
3. Display or perform the work in public—this means performing plays and musicals, concerts, placing art in a gallery, posting a photo on a public website, or streaming a concert on YouTube.
4. Make derivatives (spin-offs)—for example, making a book into a movie or a movie character into a toy.
* Definitions from the Internet Education Foundation
