Presentation to the University of Michigan Wikipedians student group on copyright and what you need to know when editing Wikipedia.

1. Copyright
For
Wikipedians
Greg Grossmeier – grossmei@umich.edu – lib.umich.edu/copyright
Except where otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

3. What is ?

4. US Constitution
“To promote the progress of science
and useful arts, by securing for limited
times to authors and inventors the
exclusive right to their respective
writings and discoveries”

5. Not a tool to control all
content forever in all
mediums.

6. But what is ?

7. “a bundle of rights”

8. The right to reproduce the work
The right to prepare derivative works
The right to distribute the work
The right to perform the work
The right to display the work
The right to license any of the above to third parties

9. How do I get ?

10. How do I receive
copyright protection for
my work?

11. First, it must meet some
basic requirements:
● It must be original.
● It must have some level of
creativity.
● It must be in a fixed medium.

12. Old Days -
You use this symbol
And provide a date 1930
And register it with the
US Copyright Office.

13. Now-a-days:
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14. Now-a-days:
Also, it's instant.

15. Copyright protects… Copyright doesn’t protect…
Writing Ideas
Choreography Facts
Music Data (mostly)
Visual art Useful articles (that’s patent)
Film
Architectural works

16. How long does
protection last?

17. The life of the Author
plus 70 years
(for now).

18. After that

19. The Public Domain

20. General Rules for Public Domain/Copyright Status
Works No Longer Protected by Copyright
• Published before 1923
• Published between '23 and '63, but it depends.
• Authored by the Federal Government

21. General Rules for Public Domain/Copyright Status
Works Still Protected by Copyright
• Published after '63
• Published between '23 and '63, but it depends
• Most State and Municipal works

22. Fair Use
17 USC 107

23. An exception to
copyright
protection.

24. The Four Factors
● The Nature of the original work
● The Purpose of the use
● The Amount of the original work
● The Affect on the Market of the original
Remember: Every case is different

25. Another way....

26. ?

39. Some rights reserved: a spectrum.
Public All Rights
Reserved
Domain
least most restrictive
restrictive

42. <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/">
<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>
<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>
<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>
<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>
<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#CommercialUse"/>
<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/>
<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#ShareAlike"/>
</License>
</rdf:RDF>

44. What browsers see. What humans see.
RDFa Primer - Bridging the Human and Data Webs
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/

45. Discoverability.

50. But, not everything you find can be
used...

51. Some rights reserved: a spectrum.
Public All Rights
Reserved
Domain
least most restrictive
restrictive

55. “free content defition [1]”

56. http://freedomdefined.org/Definition

57. Some rights reserved: a spectrum.
Public All Rights
Reserved
Domain
least most restrictive
restrictive

58. Some rights reserved: a spectrum.
Public
Domain
least
XXX XX All Rights
Reserved
most restrictive
restrictive

59. Pop Quiz: What license is Wikipedia's
text licensed under?

60. And other Free licenses...

63. And things not restricted by copyright
(ie: public domain)

64. And...
Works No Longer Protected by Copyright
• Published before 1923 (in the US)
• Published between '23 and '63, but it depends.
• Authored by the US Federal Government

65. Most exhaustive list of copyright
statuses acceptable on Wiki[mp]edia
(that I could find):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags

66. However, everything YOU create can
be used.
(as long as you agree to license it under an appropriate
license)

67. Finding freely/openly licensed content.

68. General:
 Google Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Images:
 Flickr Advanced Search: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
Audio:
 Internet Archive: http://archive.org
 Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com
Video:
 Internet Archive: http://archive.org
 Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/
 Blip.tv: http://blip.tv

69. Questions?