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Discovery Seminar – Elion – Fall 2020
A guide for students in the Sounding Out the City Discovery Seminar.
The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist.
How do works fall into the public domain?
Copyright typically expires 70 years after the death of its author
The copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal rules
It was placed in the public domain deliberately by the copyright owner (also called ”dedication”)
Source: University of Guelph Library. [U of G Library]. (2018, September 21). What are Creative Commons Licenses [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/srVPLrmlBJY (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Four Creative Commons license elements
BY – Credit must be given to the creator NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms [share alike] ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted