Name: Legal English VV 50 - Intellectual Property & Copyright Law (2) | Business English Vocabulary
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You're watching VideoVocab by BusinessEnglishPod.com In this lesson, we'll learn vocabulary related to copyright.

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Copyrighted works are created by authors who receive royalties for the use of their work.

進階被動語態

Copyright exists for a specific term and may be assigned to others.

Limits to copyright include works in the public domain, as well as fair use.

We'll also look at ideas like copyright infringement and piracy.

Copyright Copyright is the legal control over an original work, which may be a piece of writing, music, or software.

Copyright is automatically granted to the creator of the work.

What you create is automatically protected by copyright even if you don't register it.

Author The author of an original work is the person who created it.

Many authors of books and songs sell their rights to a publishing company.

Royalty A royalty is a fee paid to an author for using or performing their work.

A royalty is often a percentage of sales or profit.

Forty years after writing the song American Pie, Don McLean still earns $300,000 in royalties from it every year.

Term Copyright is granted for a term or period of time.

After the copyright term is over, the work can be used freely by the public.

To assign Assignment If an author assigns copyright for a work, he gives his rights to another person or company.

Authors normally ask for payment, or royalties, for assigning copyright.

If you hire a freelancer, make sure he signs a contract that assigns copyright to you for the work he does.

Public domain A work in the public domain is not limited by copyright.

Works enter the public domain when copyright term expires, or if they never had copyright protection.

A recent court case determined that the song Happy Birthday is in the public domain and can be used freely.

Fair use Fair use is the legal use of copyrighted material for certain purposes.

Acceptable purposes include commenting on or criticizing the copyrighted work.

If you are not sure whether using a part of someone else's work is fair use, you should ask the copyright holder's permission just in case.

Infringement To infringe Using copyrighted material illegally is called copyright infringement.

Copyright can be infringed if the work is copied or used without permission.

Piracy Selling or copying protected works, such as software or movies, without permission is piracy.

Piracy is a big concern for businesses as it impacts the ability of a company to recover the costs of creating the work.

Software companies use license keys and copy protection to prevent piracy of their software.

Now it's your turn to practice some of the words we've looked at in this lesson.

In a moment, you'll hear a series of sentences with a word replaced with a beep.

Repeat each sentence, including the missing word.

For example, if you hear, I've applied for a on my new speaker design.

You can say, I've applied for a patent on my new speaker design.

We'll provide the correct answer after each question.

My publishing contract gives me a 10% on all sales of my books.

My publishing contract gives me a 10% royalty on all sales of my books.

Quoting from a book in a newspaper review is allowed under fair laws.  Quoting from a book in a newspaper review is allowed under fair use laws.

There are many photos in the public that you can use for free.

There are many photos in the public domain that you can use for free.

That's all for this episode of Video Vocab.

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