What does the word copyright mean?
The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.
What could happen to you if you copied work that had been copyrighted?
If you used someone else’s copyrighted material and commercially profited from that use, you may have to pay them monetary damages, and court may prohibit you from further using his material without their consent.
The definition of Plagiarism
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.