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Copyright: A form of protection provided by the laws of the United States for "original works of authorship", including literary, dramatic, musical, architectural, cartographic, choreographic, pantomimic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, and audiovisual creations. Copyright law takes its authority from Article 1, Sec 8, cl. 8 United States Constitution and 17 USC.1

Public Domain: Refers to intellectual property which have no patent or copyright intellectual property protection. Thus, public domain materials are not protected by intellectual property law.2

Open Access: Free, immediate, availability on the public Internet of works which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment – permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose.3

Creative Commons License: Allows the author to stipulate how his/her copyright terms can be used, with different levels of licensing. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that allows for the sharing of creative works through free legal tools.4

Examples: Oregon DOT uses an Attribution license (CC BY) for the photos posted to their FlickR account. This allows the photos to be shared and used without restrictions, as long as the agency is credited.

Oregon DOT uses an Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) for publications. They can be shared freely, but content cannot be altered.

Copyright Ask The Librarian!

Copyright Basics & Creative Commons for Authors Laura Wilt, MLS & Maggie Sacco, MLS

Librarian, Oregon DOT - Transportation Library Connectivity & Development, TPF-5(237)

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"Copyright" literally means the right to copy but has come to mean that body of exclusive rights granted

by law to copyright owners for protection of their work. Copyright protection does not extend to ideas,

procedure, process, system, title, principle, or discovery. Similarly, names, titles, short phrases,

slogans, familiar symbols, mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, coloring, and listings of contents or ingredients are not subject to

copyright.

Work created by employees of the federal government is in the public domain, i.e. not

protected by copyright. Individual states have their own copyright practices.

Copyright protection exists automatically from the moment of creation in a tangible fixed form. A notice

is not required to protect copyright.

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1. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/copyright.html

2. Ibid.3. SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources

Coalition4. http://creativecommons.org/about5. https://stateof.creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible

internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to

use, share, and cultivate.

Creative Commons licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to

share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights

reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Fact: As of 2014, there were 882 million Creative Commons licenses in use.5

The Basics Creative Commons

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The absence of a copyright notice does not mean that

there is no copyright.

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