"All Rights Reserved" to "No Rights Reserved": An Overview of Copyright and Other Licenses

Danhoff, Leslie "All Rights Reserved" to "No Rights Reserved": An Overview of Copyright and Other Licenses., 2009 [Preprint]

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The basics of copyright are detailed and confusing to many. The introduction of Creative Commons licenses and GNU Free Documentation Licenses has offered a middle ground between “public domain” and “all rights reserved.” As future information professionals, helping our patrons find and use information appropriately is going to be increasingly important with the advancement of digital mediums.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: copyright, copyleft, Creative Commons, public domain, GNU, GNU Project, GNU Free Documentation License, licensing
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
E. Publishing and legal issues.
Depositing user: Leslie Danhoff
Date deposited: 06 Nov 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:13
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/12719

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