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Fair Use: Fair Use (in US copyright law) is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.

Copyright: Copyright is the legal right to be the only one to reproduce, publish, and sell a book, musical recording, etc., for a certain period of time.

Public Domain: Public Domain are materials belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.

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Citation: A citation is a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

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Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the practice of taking/copying someone else’s work or ideas and using that work as your own.

Plagiarism checker: A plagiarism checker is an online tool that searches the Internet to check for duplicated content/material.

Unethical: Unethical is behavior that is improper and not morally acceptable

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Piracy: Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.

Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.

Attribution: Attribution is giving credit to the person who create the work.