Unit 1: Introduction to Digital Media

Laws designed to protect intellectual property rights and provide potential monetary rewards for inventiveness and hard work

A career that involves designing and creating the graphics that accompanies text as well as page layouts

using a computer and software program to produce high quality, printed documents that combine text and graphics

Using technology to convey information

A section of the U.S. copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted works in reporting news, conducting research, and teaching

Software that is provided without charge

A career that involves designing or creating graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs

A computer-based communication process that incorporates text, graphics, sound, animation and video

A person who takes photographs, either as a hobby or a profession

Property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to use by anyone

Prepared material that can be used legally, without paying a fee to the artist, publishing company,etc.

Copyrighted software that is available free of charge on a trial basis

A name, symbol, or other device identifying a product; it is officially registered with the U.S. government

A career involved in the production of video material

A career that involves designing, creating, and modifying websites