Anyone is free to
use public domain material.
Not exact matches
However, MIBLSI
materials are in the
public domain and may be
used by non-partnering entities when proper credit is given.
SB 1784 by Sen. Larry Taylor / Rep. Dan Huberty clarifies the definition of «open - source instructional
material» to refer to resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free
use, including courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, videos tests, software and other
materials used to support access to knowledge.
Again, seek an attorney's help on how to properly
use quoted
material, gain written permissions for it, or confirm its
public domain status in order to help mitigate your legal risk.
Have you received written permission to
use quoted
material OR confirmed it as being in the
public domain?
I republish older
public domain material, and they
use archaic spellings and dialect.
If you don't want to hire someone, you can
use existing
materials, including
public domain and PLR (private label rights) items.
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the
material in the
public domain or (if) where your
use (it) is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
LNC makes no claim to ownership of copyright in text that is in the
public domain or is subject to Crown Copyright, but you agree nevertheless not to download, print or
use such
materials except in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.
In that article, Hirtle argues four reasons why efforts by libraries and archives to
use their physical control over
public domain materials in their collection to impose quasi-copyright control over them are doomed to failure.
They may be happy to
use it as a traditional print casebook (those hard bound books do look good on a young lawyer's bookshelf); they may prefer to make it available to their students electronically; they may wish to insert their own teaching notes into our content and then provide their students with either a print, electronic or hybrid version of the teaching
material; or they may wish to supplement a principal resource (such as casebook) with other proprietary
material (such as text from a doctrinal work) or
public domain material (via links to cases, statutes and other resources).
As such, since the
materials in question are clearly
public domain under federal copyright law, any attempt by a library to place restrictions on the
use of this
material would be unenforceable under the «federal pre-emption doctrine» (in addition, the library would not like not gain copyright in the pre-1923 music by merely digitizing it: Bridgeman Art Library v Corel, 36 F. Supp.
Using as much or as little EMP / Irwin content as you wish, and supplementing it with additional content (your own or
public domain material), you may develop course
material in whatever configuration you wish.
Before
using any
material you believe is in the
public domain, you should investigate the copyright status of the work, at least to establish whom to credit even if formal permission is not required.
Any elements that appear in the submission, including, without limitation, images, text, or other
materials used must be entirely original and created by the entrant, or be in the
public domain.
What if the work is not in the
public domain, it is definitely copyrighted, and you want to
use it in your business
materials?
Don't
use third - party works in your business
materials unless those works are in the
public domain, or you obtain permission from the copyright owner, and your
use falls within the scope of that permission.