Jake Chanenson · Aug 17, 2025
Students keep the copyright. The license takes everything else.
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Under 17 U.S.C. § 102(a), copyright in an original work attaches automatically the moment that work is fixed in a tangible medium. A student submits an essay. At that instant, they are a copyright holder. The exclusive rights enumerated under 17 U.S.C. § 106 belong to them: reproduction, distribution, preparation...
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