Copyleft is just a special case of Copyright, in which the Copyright holder decides to give the widest circulation to their work and to allow others to use it freely, on condition that no-one should appropriate it by claiming any exclusive rights.
The foregrounding of diverse discursive registers, the explicit acknowledgement of her dependence on source texts and her commitment to
copyleft practices, together forge a fragile network of dialogue and exchange, of quiet affiliation and solidarity, and of resistance.
(This rule would apply to both prime contractors and any subcontractors.) In addition, all patents would be placed in the public domain on a
copyleft basis.
This approach combines freedom of access with
copyleft protection prohibiting others coming in and benefitting off of collective labor for the purposes of privatization with further restrictions.
The second type is what this Article calls
copyleft licenses.
As part of moving towards greater access to knowledge, this paper proposes
copyleft as a complementary component to copyright since it would enable the re-use of images for inclusion in databases of stolen art.
Copyleft is the most representative bottom-up movement that addresses problems in existing copyright law, and it was created as a direct response to the new, open mode of production and distribution of creative works.
Having developed graphics for Geno-cost commemoration day, CAYP has adopted a
copyleft (55) strategy to get Congolese communities around the world--online and offline, in the diaspora and back home--to endorse their political project and organize their own commemorations.
When asked about their basic knowledge of the differences between authors' rights and copyright or authors' rights,
copyleft and Creative Commons, 42% said that they were familiar with these differences, 55% said they were not, and 3% did not understand the question.