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Glossary for Computer Concepts: intellectual-property

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copyright: Copyright (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   Protects the words, music, and other expressions for the life of the copyright holder plus 70 years
DMCA: DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   a U.S. copyright law designed to reduce illegal digital media copying by criminalizing the production, distribution, and use of technologies designed to circumvent DRM technologies
DRM: DRM: Digital Rights Management (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   technology that protects digital forms of intellectual property by restricting the number of devices and applications on which a file can be opened and the number of times that the file can be copied
intellectual property: Intellectual Property (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   a product of the mind or intellect, includes the design of physical software, music, movies, designs, written stories, and ideas
intellectual property questions: Self Study Questions(Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   What have you learned?
intellectual property rights: Intellectual Property Rights (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   concern the legal ownership and use of intellectual property
patent: Patent (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   Protects an invention by giving the patent holder a monopoly on the use of the invention for 20 years
piracy: Piracy (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   the illegal copying, use, and distribution of digital intellectual property, such as software, music, and movies
plagiarism: Plagiarism (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   taking credit for someone else’s intellectual property, typically a written idea, by claiming it as your own
trade secret: Trade Secret (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   Protects secrets or proprietary information of individuals and organizations as long as the trade secret is adequately guarded by those individuals and organizations
trademark: Trademark (Lesson: Intellectual Property)
   Protects a unique symbol or word used by a business to identify a product or service
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