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Publicly Available = Public Domain

Non-Commercial = Copy Anything

You can’t just download stuff off Internet and use them without explicitly getting permission from the copyright owner. Just because it is available publicly, it doesn’t mean it is in the public domain.

Crediting Source = Safe to CopyEven to copy content with credit, you have stick to the “fair use policy”. This policy sets limits on how, how much of, and why some content may be copied and used.

ISBN = CopyrightISBN is an identity number for your book. Having an ISBN does not prove that the copyright belongs to you. If someone challenges it, you will have to take the legal route to prove that you are indeed the copyright owner.

Unless the license of the work allows its use, you cannot copy it even for a purpose that is making you no money, or one which if for public good, or for charity.

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4Registring Copyright = ProtectionEven if you have registered the copyright, nobody is keeping track of whether your work is being plagiarised or not. You have to do that yourself.

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5ISBN = CopyrightISBN is an identity number for your book. Having an ISBN isnot a certification of copyright. If there is an issue, you will

to prove that you are indeedthe copyright owner.

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4Registring Copyright = ProtectionEven if you have registered the copyright, nobody is keeping track of whether your work is being plagiarised or not. You have to do that yourself.

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