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For works created after 1978, current US copyright law gives protection term enduring for the author’s life plus an additional 70 years after the author’s death. (That's a very long time.)

Key terms


 * Attribution (by)
 * No derivatives (ND)
 * Non-commercial(NC)
 * Copyleft/Share Alike (SA)

Creative Commons

GNU Public Documentation License

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.

Lessig, Lawrence. Code v2. New York: Perseus Book Group: 2006.