Group+2+Public+Domain+and+Creative+Commons


 * Digital Responsibility - Creative Commons and Public Domain**

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[] Creative Commons ties into our discussion of copyrights because you can access information that you wouldn't have been able to before because of copyrights. The copyright owners release some of the rights to increase access and sharing.
 * Creative Commons** is an alternative to traditional copyright, developed by a nonprofit organization of the same name. By default, most original works are protected by copyright, which confers specific rights regarding use and distribution. Creative Commons allows copyright owners to release some of those rights while retaining others, with the goal of increasing access to and sharing of intellectual property.

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Public domain works can be utilized within the classroom as well as web based course pages with having to pay royalties and permission does not need to be obtained prior to using the work. These works can be used extensively and can be used for new creative works.
 * Public domain** is defined as works that cannot be eligible for copyright protection. These works include ideas and facts, works with copyrights that have expired, works by the U.S. government, laws, words, names, numbers, symbols and works that never had copyright protection.

“Finding out who owns the copyright in a work can be difficult. Because nobody is required to register his or her copyright or to use a copyright notice, it is not always possible to find out who owns the rights in a work. Searching the Copyright Office records is a good place to start. You can do a free online search of copyright registration records on the Copyright Office website at www.copyright.gov. If you don't find a copyright registration, you can try to ask the author or the publisher of the copy of the work that you have seen. The copyright Office has published a circular on investigating the copyright status of a work. You can read a copy online at [|http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#whoowns].” Ref: []

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An example of something that would be copyrighted would be a novel by Steven King while a new law passed by a state could not be copyrighted.