Shared Creations: Making Use of Creative Commons

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6 C h a p t e r o n e W h a t I s C o p y r i g h t true for you from the moment you create something copyright law protects your work Even if you find something online it’s still copyrighted unless it says otherwise It never hurts to add copyright 2013 to your work But even without those words someone’s work is protected in the same way those movies or CDs are Some people mail their work off to the Library of Congress but this isn’t necessary Copyright is actually a set of five rights These rights let the creator of a work decide how others can use that work Creators control who can 1 make copies of their work such as prints photocopies or electronic copies 2 make any derivatives which are new versions or adaptations of a work whether using part of the work or all of it 3 distribute copies of the work such as in a bookstore or on a Web site 4 display the work in public for example at an art gallery or on a Web site and