A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

What rights and responsibilities do you have as a creator?

Learning Objectives

• Define "copyright" and explain how it applies to creative work.

• Describe their rights and responsibilities as creators.

• Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.

Vocabulary

attribute: giving credit to the person who created something, such such as listing the author's name and date, or a citation

copyright: legal protection that a creators have over the things they create

intellectual property: the ownership of something you create, giving you a right to how others use it

license: a clear way to define the type of copyright creative work has so others know how they can use it

plagiarism: using someone's creative work without providing attribution