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\label{copyleft-definition}
 

	
 
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Copyleft is a strategy of utilizing copyright law to pursue the policy goal
 
of fostering and 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
 
\hyperref[GPLv3-full-text]{GNU General Public License (GPL)} and the Creative
 
Commons Attribution Share Alike License (the latter of which is the license
 
of this work itself).  Copyright holders of creative work can unilaterally
 
implement these licenses for their own works to build communities that
 
collaboratively share and improve those copylefted creative works.
 

	
 
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Copyleft,
 
which uses functional parts of copyright law to achieve an unusual result
 
(legal protection for free sharing) forms the core legal principle of these