The public domain is the realm of material—ideas, images, sounds, discoveries, facts, texts—that is unprotected by intellectual property rights and free for all to use or build upon. Our economy, culture and technology depend on a delicate balance between that which is, and is not, protected by exclusive intellectual property rights. Both the incentives provided by intellectual property and the freedom provided by the public domain are crucial to the balance. But most contemporary attention has gone to the realm of the protected.
Code of best practice that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
Welcome to the Virtual Analytical Laboratory or VAL! This is an on-line resource designed by staff in the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University. This resource is intended to help students on bioscience and laboratory-based degree programmes to gain essential laboratory skills, whether they are new to the university and have never been in a lab before, or whether they are returning to year 2 or 3 and are a bit rusty.
This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the net.