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The copyright notice must also contain the year in which the work was first published (or created), and the name of the copyright owner, which may be the author (including the legal author/owner of a work made for hire), one or more joint authors, or the person or entity to whom the copyright has been transferred.
This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries. Open Clip Art – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) CC BY-NC 1.0 [11] Freesouls: 2008: 2010 (digital ebook) book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito: CC BY [12] The Future of Ideas: 2001: 2001: by Lawrence Lessig (originally published by Random House) CC BY-NC [11]
Remember that most images you find on the Web are not public domain, even if they list no explicit copyright information. Images only qualify as being in the public domain if they fall under certain specific categories described below – images ineligible for copyright protection, very old works, works by certain government employees, and ...
Free book covers belong on Wikimedia commons, and can be found there in appropriate categories. Non-free but fair use book covers belong on Wikipedia, and can be found in Category:Non-free images of book covers. All non-free content should comply with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria policy. First edition covers are preferred.
An example of a copyright waiver is the following: The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in this work and immediately places it in the public domain; it may be used, distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution or notice to the creator.
The Feist case denied copyright protection to a "white pages" phone book (a compilation of telephone numbers, listed alphabetically). In making this ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the "sweat of the brow" doctrine. That is, copyright protection requires creativity, and no amount of hard work ("sweat of the brow") can transform a non-creative ...
Authors who failed to comply with some particular aspect of a formality—for instance, placing the notice in the wrong place or in the wrong order, or failing to renew a copyright in a timely fashion—would lose their copyright.