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Copyright is a property right whereby authors obtain, for a limited time, certain exclusive rights to their works.

In the United States, most copyright protection is exclusively granted by the federal government, which provides Congress with the power "to promote science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors...the exclusive right to their... writings."

If information can be viewed on the Internet, it can be copied. Anyone posting information on a Web site is responsible for ensuring that appropriate legal clearance and permission are obtained before using someone else's work on the Internet.

If content on a Web site or within a document is copyrighted material:

Get written authorization from the copyright owner to post the information. Display a standard copyright notice (required). Recognize that copyright owner are solely responsible for policing how copyrighted material is used.

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Last Modified: February 1, 2008

One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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