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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-11-10 17:39:31
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copyleft.org
 
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## What is Copyleft?
 

	
 
Copyleft is a strategy of utilizing copyright law to pursue the policy goal
 
of fostering, encouraging the equal and inalienable right to copy, share,
 
modify and improve creative works of authorship.  Copyleft (as a general
 
term) describes any method that utilizes the copyright system to achieve the
 
aforementioned goal.  Copyleft as a concept is usually implemented in the
 
details of a specific copyright license, such as the GNU
 
[General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) and the
 
[Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
 
Copyright holders of creative work can choose and implement these licenses
 
for their own works unilaterally to build communities that share those
 
creative works. 
 

	
 
## What is copyleft.org?
 

	
 
copyleft.org is a collaborative project to create and disseminate useful
 
information, tutorial material, and new policy ideas regarding all forms of
 
copyleft licensing.
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### Offsite Resources
 

	
 
#### What Is Copyleft?
 
#### More on: "What Is Copyleft?"
 

	
 
Here are a few sources to read generally what copyleft is:
 

	
 
  * [Richard M. Stallman's essay on copyleft at gnu.org](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/)
 
  * [The Wikipedia entry on Copyleft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft)
 
    (The definition of copyleft at the top of this page is modified version
 
    of the first paragraph of that Wikipedia entry).
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I'd advocate putting a very very simple statement of what copyleft is beneath the first (copyleft.org) paragraph. It's the first question that will come to mind for anyone who is not familiar with copyleft and has arrived here.
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