IELTS Preparation Series 1, Episode 25: Copyright

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Hello. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation. I'm Margot Politis.

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Today we're going to talk about simple present tense, definitions and technical vocabulary,

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all the things you need to know and use to write a report.

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First, we'll listen to someone talking about copyright - the rights people have to their

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own work.

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It's structured like a simple information report.

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Copyright's a passion of mine. Copyright is the exclusive bundle of rights, which is awarded

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to the author or a creator of work, to entitle them to market it, to get economic reward

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for their creative endeavour and to entitle them to say when, how and on what conditions

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their work may be used.

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Once I put my book on the internet anybody can access it at the push of a button, or

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click of a mouse. Anybody can download it, copy it and transmit it without my knowledge,

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without my consent a hundred times over to every country in the world without me knowing.

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There is a misconception about work, which is submitted to the internet, and it's that

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if you've given it to the internet, it's gone to a public domain, therefore anyone can use

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it as they will, when they will, and that is a very seriously ill-founded misconception.

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The fact that you submit work to the internet does not affect your legal rights in relation

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to that work.

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OK, so we heard Celine McInerney present an information report.

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An information report presents information about a subject.

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Its purpose is to classify and describe a subject using a range of facts.

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The subject is usually a general topic or area, rather than a specific person or place.

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For example, the general subject of today's information report is copyright.

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But whatever the subject, there are a few common features that all information reports

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have.

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You might notice that the report is in the simple present tense.