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This legal tool automatically protects original creative works like source code, scripts, and music the moment they are saved in a tangible form.
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This is used to protect brand identifiers such as channel names, logos, or slogans to distinguish your goods or services from those of competitors.
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Often compared to the width of a pipe, this term measures the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path at one time.
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This trend describes when previously separate technologies, such as cameras, telephones, and music players, merge into one device like a smartphone.
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A deceptive cyber threat where attackers send legitimate-looking emails or texts to trick you into revealing sensitive information like passwords.
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A notorious type of malicious software that encrypts all your files and demands a payment to unlock them.
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The unethical act of presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own without giving them proper credit or attribution.
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These are hyper-realistic, AI-generated fake videos, images, or audio that make it nearly impossible to tell what is real and what is fabricated.
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The act of a private company permanently banning a user from a platform to prevent real-world harm or enforce its terms of service.
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This is the smallest single dot of color on a digital screen, millions of which combine to make up a digital image.
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Images created using mathematical equations rather than pixels, allowing them to be scaled to any size without losing quality.
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The process of making digital files smaller so they are easier to send and store using fewer bits than the original.
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A method of communication where a single stream of data is sent to multiple, specific recipients on a network simultaneously.
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This type of intellectual property protects new and useful inventions, such as technical processes or machines, typically for a period of 20 years.
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This term refers to false information spread unintentionally, without a malicious motive to deceive others.
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This is false information that is deliberately created and spread to deceive people or cause specific harm.
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A decentralized digital ledger system used to record unique tokens and prove ownership through a permanent, public record.
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A unique digital token that acts as a certificate of authenticity for a specific item, though it rarely includes ownership of the underlying copyright.
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In copyright law, this term describes a work that exists in a stable, tangible form, such as being recorded or saved to a file.
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Copyright law only protects this specific, original realization of an idea, rather than the underlying idea, fact, or system itself
