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Research Data at Auburn University: Copyright

Explains the services, policies and procedures available to researchers at Auburn University who need to archive their data.

Copyright

US Copyright Office

Creative Commons

Note: SPARC says, "SPARC considers the terms outlined by the Creative Common's Attribution-Only license (CC-BY) to be the standard terms for Open Access."

The terms of the CC-BY license state:

     

Attribution
CC BY

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

For example, Wikipedia articles are licensed under a Creative Commons--Attribution--Share Alike license.

Free Software Foundation offers its own licenses