Public Domain

What is Public Domain?

• You need permission to use a work.

• It means you cannot use, because it's copyrighted

• It means you can use a work for free!

Are creative works always free?

• Yes!

• No, because the person who created it owns it-- it's copyrighted!

• No because you only need to give credit to use it.

Creative works include...

• books and music

• food and drinks

• plays and poems

• computer software

• movies

Works published in 1927 (or before) become Public Domain

• True

• False

A work is public domain if it was created by the government

• True

• False

Workls also become Public Domain if...

• The creator puts it into Public Domain

• The creator copyrights © the item

• The copyright expires

• It has a Creative Commons license