The Differences Between Copyright and Public Domain

If you need to know whether a work qualifies for the public domain, Cornell University's excellent Web site is as clear as copyright can get. It is located here.

This page from Stanford University provides detailed information about copyright, fair use, public domain, releases, and permissions.

Check out Washburn's copyright information page and student copyright information page. Washburn also has a page specifically about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Learn about issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world in a comic book from Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain: Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law?

Here is an interesting article from the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage that discusses the value of the public domain.

You can learn about copyright directly from the U.S. Copyright Office.