This document provides information about various intellectual property concepts including: 1. Royalties which are payments made to copyright holders for use of their work through various mediums like radio. 2. Public domain which refers to works that are not copyrighted such as very old works or those intentionally released by copyright holders. 3. Trademarks which identify brands through logos and symbols that companies have rights over. 4. Plagiarism which is passing off others' work as your own without credit. Proper citations and references must be provided. 5. Patents which give exclusive rights over innovative products/services for a period of time.

1. 
Copyrighting, it’s a fickle thing…
…unless you got the facts…
… and we got the facts!

2. Let’s talk about the Queen… just kidding,
but let’s talk about Royalties
 You and your best buds go are hanging out one
night, and all of a sudden you have an epiphany for
a sick rift for a new song. So you and your boys
head back to your garage and record a new song. 2
months later, you are signed up with a major record
label and radio stations everywhere want to play
your song. They say that they will pay you for every
time they air your song on the radio, and you are
like “sick dawg”. Thus you are getting royalties for
your music.

3. Please tell me more about Royalties!
 They are the price a company or person will pay in
order to use a copyrighted product
 This allows the creator to get paid for the work they
have done
 It varies depending on the industry and the type of
medium it is used through

4. free, Free, FREE — Public Domain
 Public Domain, is anything that is not copyrighted
 This can be due to:
 Not eligible for copyright (e.g. someone trying to
copyright the word “bootylicious”)
 It has expired (e.g. hymnals are usually public
domain due to age)
 The copyright holder released them to public
domain (e.g. music artists releasing mix tapes)

5. Oh look, a logo! — Trademark
 An icon/symbol/object/etc that refers to a specific
company and it’s branding
 Virtually all logos are Trade-Marked
 An example is the Golden Arches that McDonalds
uses
 The Coca-Cola Polar bears are trade-marked

6. I wrote the “I had a dream speech” for
Martin Luther King— Plagiarism
 Yea, you definitely did not.
 Plagiarism is passing someone's ideas or wording
off as your own and not giving them credit
 To avoid, references and citations have to be
provided so that credit goes where credit is
deserved

7. Don’t mimic Apple, they would love to sue
you for a billion dollars — Patent
 It is the right of a corporation, business, individual,
or government to use, produce or sell a certain
product/service
 Apple was able to sue Samsung for over a billion
dollars because they had a tablet that looked similar
to the iPad
 Has a lot of grey areas

8. The looming dragon — Copyright
 A copyright is legal concept that give a
person/institution/business the right to reproduce
their product and take credit for it
 In China, they have very laid back Copyright
policies, hence why you see so many cheap
knockoffs from China
 Go to the dollar store, I dare you.

9. And now you know…
…a little more then you did before
Brett Regehr, 1280799