You found scholarly or multimedia materials and would like to use it for your personal or academic purposes. Some of the files you can download and edit, others you are not allowed to.
If the creator has released it in the public domain, it's suitable for most uses. If however, the creator has put a requirement to cite them or use it for any purpose except commercial, then you can use it for your class instruction video or presentation but not for an advertisement.
In contrast to copyright, under copyleft, the author gives permission to reproduce, copy, or share works bound by the same licensing terms. The term is mostly applied to the software license.
The public domain works are not eligible for copyright protection or copyright protection has expired. In Kazakhstan copyrighted works become public domain after 70 years. These works can be freely used without copyright owner permission or a license fee.
There are a few exceptions to full copyright, one of which is Creative Commons. Creative Commons refers to a set of licenses that allows authors of papers and other works to decide exactly how people may use their work and for what purpose. It means they can decide to what use their works can be made.
There are six different licenses that are available that are made up of Attribution, that the author of the work should have their name recognised and attached to it, non-derivatives, whether or not the original can be changed; non-commercial, can they make money off using the item, and share alike that all work taken from the original must have the same creative commons license. The six licenses combine allowances and stop some of these uses to form the different license.
A breakdown of these licenses can be seen in the video below. It allows students and lecturers to see in what ways they can use certain works. It also allows authors to make their work easily shareable and accessible if they desire it. However, remember by using this license, you signing away your rights to full copyright protection and lessening any financial incentives from the work. Also remember there is a way to put your work into the public domain completely through the CC0 license but this forfeits any copyright protection including attribution.
Creative Commons allows you to register and license your work. Example of the types of licenses.
Reproducing and reusing works without copyright holder permission in ways that are considered fair - such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
There are no fair use or educational use provisions that allow works to be reproduced for educational purposes or make accessible versions such as large print or braille in Kazakhstan. However, most countries that are a signatory of the Bern Convention and WIPO use the following definition of fair use.
Fair Use allows portions of a work to be used without permission as long as certain criteria are met, and original creator(s) given credit:
The term "royalty-free" doesn't equal to "non-copyrighted". The term indicates licensed music/songs without the need to pay royalties to the right owner every time when it is used, but only once when it is purchased.
