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2. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". [1] [2] With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly. These ...

3. Copyright - Wikipedia

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   The basic right when a work is protected by copyright is that the holder may determine and decide how and under what conditions the protected work may be used by others. This includes the right to decide to distribute the work for free. This part of copyright is often overseen.

4. Public copyright license - Wikipedia

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   Free licenses are a popular subset of public copyright licenses. They include free and open source software licenses and free content licenses. To qualify as a libre license, a public copyright license must allow licensees to share and adapt the licensed work for any purpose, including commercial ones.

5. Creative Commons license - Wikipedia

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   The author, or the licensor in case the author did a contractual transfer of rights, needs to have the exclusive rights on the work. If the work has already been published under a public license, it can be uploaded by any third party, once more on another platform, by using a compatible license, and making reference and attribution to the original license (e.g. by referring to the URL of the ...

6. Copyright status of works by the federal government of the ...

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   Unlike works of the U.S. government, works produced by contractors under government contracts are protected under U.S. copyright law [disputed (for: only true at times) – discuss]. The holdership of the copyright depends on the terms of the contract and the type of work undertaken.

7. Copyright notice - Wikipedia

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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.