Ask HN: Resources for learning about licensing and copyright?

2 pointsinamiyar5y ago3 comments

Recently I had the chance to read https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html , as well as look into Creative Commons CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ). I've started looking through and reading into the CC licenses as well as FOSS licenses; but do you know of any resources that would help me along in interpreting?

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barbe5y ago· 1 in thread

There are lots of ways to look up the law, even as a lay person--googling copyright law gives you this--

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Google Scholar can also give you scholarly articles and guides

the online legal encyclopedia, nolo.com is usually helpful

and licensing, which could be state-by-state can be looked up, state by state on lawhelp.org

inamiyarOP5y ago

Gotcha, I've started looking at title 17 today. Thanks for introducing me to nolo.com and lawhelp.org. Much appreciated :D

pabs35y ago

There are a bunch of resources on copyleft licenses here:

https://copyleft.org/

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