Six Copyright Concepts Your K-12 Students Should Know
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the impact of copyright on your daily lives.
Posted in: Copyright, Government and Law
Category: Copyright
Exploring the Early Copyright Collection at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore the Early Copyright collection and gain a perspective of diversity of American thought between 1790-1870.
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Primary Sources for Musical Learning: Celebrating the Public Domain and Engaging Creatively with Primary Sources
Posted by: Danna Bell
By understanding a work’s original context, intent, message, and audience, creators can use cultural referents to frame new ideas. Public-domain classics achieve a continually evolving immortality as they are re-imagined by new generations of creative minds. Public domain works, through creative adaptation, can be used to create a commentary on the original work, engage contemporary issues, create opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue, and promote cultural change.
Posted in: Copyright, Fine and Performing Arts, Poetry and Literature
Five Questions with George Thuronyi, Deputy Director, Office Of Public Information And Education, U.S. Copyright Office
Posted by: Danna Bell
My job is to educate and provide outreach to the public about the U.S. Copyright Office and copyright-related topics. So, on any given day, I answer questions about how creative people can register their copyrights, send out a tweet about fun facts, and talk to people interested in learning about how to be responsible users of copyrighted works.
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