Title: Levels of Copyright
Course: Tech Tools for Teachers > Section: Copyright (Required)

Descriptions of copyright licenses.

Overview

For a overview of license types and their uses in education, watch this video (~20 min) by Rodd Lucier.

License Types

All Rights Reserved

“All rights reserved” indicates that the copyright holder retains all the rights provided by copyright law, including distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works. This is the most restrictive form of copyright. Assume a work is copyrighted with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.

Creative Commons (Some rights reserved)

Creative Commons licenses allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and remix their work. There are different levels of allowed uses, from display-only to remixing to using commercially. Read Creative Common’s About the Licenses page for more information.

Find Creative Commons material for use in your classroom.

Public Domain

Works in the public domain are not protected by any copyright, and may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner. Typically, all content found on U.S. government websites - with the exception of logos - is in the public domain; look for the .gov extension, e.g. usda.gov.

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