copyright and you

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John Fink

Digital Scholarship Librarian

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WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?

It's a legal framework designed to protect both users and creators of intellectual work.
It grants for a limited time the ability for a content creator to profit from their creation.
It's intended to both ensure that a content creator gets paid for their work and that their work can be used by the public.

There are several exceptions to copyright.

The public domain refers to works that have no copyright protection whatsoever, for (usually) two reasons: