This document provides information about copyright, attribution, licensing, fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons. It defines these concepts and discusses how they relate to each other. For example, it explains that copyright protects original works, fair use allows limited use of copyrighted works for purposes like education, and works in the public domain are no longer copyright protected. The document aims to clarify common questions around using and sharing content.

1. Copyright or Copyleft
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Fair Use
Creative Commons
Public Domain
Attribution@Cite
Permission
23nd Jan. 2020
Zakir Hossain
Teacher-Librarian
www.theresearchtl.net
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

3. Questions for the Day
• What is Copyright
• What is Attribution/Citation
• What is Licensing/Subscription
• What is Fair Use
• What is Public Domain
• What is Creative Commons
• What is Copyright Permission

4. Copyright

5. What Copyright doesn’t protect?
Copyright law does not protect:
➔ titles of books or movies
➔ short phrases such as, “Make my day.””BYOD”
➔ established facts, ideas, theories and discoveries
➔ individual words, slogans; familiar symbols or designs

6. Attribution/Citation
• A citation tells a reader where we got information, facts, or ideas that are
not our own.
• A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source.
• A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your
work came from another source.
• To me, citation is an academic manner of attribution or acknowledgement,
simply giving credits to the creators.

7. ICS Library Website@Libguides
https://icsz.libguides.com/icszlibrary/myp

8. Copyright VS Citation VS Plagiarism
• Copyright is a legal/ statutory rights whereas Citation is an academic
manner.
• Copyright infringement can still occur even if the source, author, or
copyright-holder is cited.
• Plagiarism is a violation of moral, ethical, or organization norms not laws.
• Plagiarism is using someone else's work or ideas without giving proper
credit.
Note: Citation, does not cure copyright infringement, which is the unauthorized use of another's work.
If you copy an entire journal article by someone else, without permission, into a book you publish,
you probably have infringed copyright, even if you add a footnote citing the original author and
source (Smith).

9. Licensing VS Subscription
A licensing agreement is a written contract between two parties, in which a
owner permits another party to use his/her production/asset under a specific
set of parameters. A perpetual software license is paid up-front in one big
lump sum. Such as a song for movie license (Bloomenthal).
A subscription software is priced on a yearly or monthly basis and is an
ongoing subscription. Such as a library database.

10. Fair Use (Fair Dealing)
● Teaching
● News reporting
● Commentary/Criticism
● Parody
How is fair use determined?
➔ Purpose
➔ Nature of the copied work
➔ Amount and substantiality
➔ Effect on market value
(Beach)

11. Possible Guidelines of Fair Use for Educational usage
➔ Time (Portion/Movies)
Not more than 3 minutes or 10%
➔ Text
• Not more than 1000 words or 10%
➔ Music
• Not more than 30 seconds or 10%
➔ Photos
• Not more than 15 images or 10% of an individual published work
➔ Poem
● less than 250 words (Beach)
Note: these guidelines should be used cautiously

12. Creative Commons Licenses
A Creative Commons license is one of several
public copyright licenses that enable the free
distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".
A CC license is used when an author wants to give
other people the right to share, use, and build
upon a work that they have created.
Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license)
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/freeworks/

13. Creative Commons Browser Extension
Google it
“CC Search Browser
Extension”
Link:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai
l/cc-search-browser-
extensi/agohkbfananbebiaphblgcfhcclklfn
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14. Public Domain
➔ 70 y after the death
of the author
➔ 1924 or earlier works
are on PD
(Woessner)

15. Copyright Free Images, Sounds and Artworks
@ Public Domain

16. Example Communication for Permission
https://www.slideshare.net/adamfox2052/music-permission-email-evidence-54304124

17. You don’t have to worry…
➔ If you create it yourself
➔ If you are licensed to use it
➔ If you get permission from the creator
➔ If it is in the public domain
➔ If it is licensed under creative commons
➔ If you use links to media instead of the media itself
➔ If you are only using the material within the confines of the classroom*
➔ If your use of the material isn’t affecting market value*
*conditions apply

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19. Works Cited
Beach, Jason. “Copyright Fair Use Presentation.” LinkedIn SlideShare, 21 Jan. 2016, www.slideshare.net/JasonBeachPhD/copyright-
fair-use-presentation?qid=a288bcd2-8880-494e-a12e-2a481ce0f6f9&v=&b=&from_search=1.
Bloomenthal, Andrew. “The Lowdown on Licensing Agreements.” Investopedia, Investopedia, 18 Nov. 2019,
www.investopedia.com/terms/l/licensing-agreement.asp.
"Creative Commons license." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 13 Jan. 2020. Web. 16 Jan. 2020,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license. Accessed 16 Jan. 2020.
Smith, Kevin. “If I Cite the Source I Am Using, Can It Still Be Copyright Infringement? (Weekly Widget).” Scholarly Communications
@ Duke: COPYRIGHT INFORMATION NOTES, 23 Mar. 2011, blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2007/11/30/citation-infringement/
Woessner, Patrick. “Copyright, Fair Use, And Creative Commons.” LinkedIn SlideShare, 15 Oct. 2008,
www.slideshare.net/pwoessner/copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons-presentation?qid=86e48aa3-0234-47cf-980a-
2e2e4ac3ef00&v=&b=&from_search=3.