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title: Copyright
description: Copyright is the legal right of an author determine any use of their creation, usually particularly, charging for reproductions of it. A number of outcome measures are subject to copyright and cannot be used or copied without payment or acknowledgement,…
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updated: "2021-11-10"
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# Copyright

Copyright is the legal right of an author determine any use of their creation, usually particularly, charging for reproductions of it. A number of outcome measures are subject to copyright and cannot be used or copied without payment or acknowledgement, for example the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

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[Copyleft](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/copyleft/)

#### Chapters

Chapter 4