A broad definition of copyright is that copyright is the legal rights of the owner of the intellectual property created.
The definition of copyright according to Canada's Copyright Act is: "the sole right to produce or reproduce a work or any substantial part thereof in any material form, to perform the work or any substantial part thereof in public, or, if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof."
Copyright infringement - It is an infringement of copyright for any person to do, without the consent of the owner of the copyright, anything that by this Act only the owner of the copyright has the right to do.
Moral rights- The author of a work has, subject to section 28.2, the right to the integrity of the work and, in connection with an act mentioned in section 3, the right, where reasonable in the circumstances, to be associated with the work as its author by name or under a pseudonym and the right to remain anonymous.
Creator- A person or thing that brings something into existence
Author- writer of a book, article, or report.
Plagiarism- The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's
Fair dealing- for the purpose of research or private study does not infringe copyright.
Blanket permission- still looking for this definition
Intellectual property- referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized.
Public domain-
may refer to ideas, information, and works that are "publicly available", but in the context of intellectual property law, which includes copyright, patents, and trademarks, public domain refers to works, ideas, and information which are intangible to private ownership and/or which are available for use by members of the public
