Your knowledge is built on other people’s knowledge.
The Golden Rule: treat others’ work as you would like yours to be treated.
You can ALWAYS ask permission.
Scanning/photocopying/selling others' work as your own is against the law - don’t do it.
Everything you create is automatically copyrighted. As the creator, you can control who uses your work, and how. While we all want our best work to go viral, we may still have strong feelings about how it is used, and by whom.
If you have work that you would like to encourage others to use, a (free) Creative Commons license helps you do that. Follow the easy-to-use steps on this page to determine which license is right for the particular work you've just created.
Be sure to read "When you want to use other people's work" (to the right). Even when you’re creating, you’re often consuming and need to do it respectfully and ethically.
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