Legal basics

From K12 Open Ed Wiki

Outline      Next

---

Research, notes, and additional resources:

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.