Copyright & Fair Use at Stanford University

Public Domain Dedication

“No Known Copyright” Our Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted by copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple way, making them easily discoverable and available to others. Many cultural heritage institutions including museums, libraries and other curators are kno…

Public domain Facts for Kids

Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

Information and resources to help you identify creative works in the public domain - works you can use without asking permission or paying fees.

The Fair Use Repository at fair-use.org is an effort to create a canonical resource for citations of documents by researchers. We compile, and (where necessary) make available electronic transcriptions of the portions of documents cited in fair use by participating scholars. We do our best to make c…

Copyright Office Homepage

Links to pdf on copyright basics

Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s main web site.

Collective licensing pioneer CCC helps you integrate, access, and share information through licensing, content, software and professional services.

Public Catalog Library of Congress

Learn more about how copyright applies to U.S. government works.

Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Intellectual property and copyright - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms “copy” and “publish” are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form, the making of translated versions, the creation of a television program based on the work, and putting the work on the Internet. A work is protected…

SPDX short identifier: AFL-3.0

The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-…

Copyright (c) 2000-2006, The Perl Foundation. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble This license establishes...

The COMMUNIA Final Report (as approved by the EU Commission) is finally available online.

Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free (in the sense of freedom, not “zero price”), and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.

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