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Avoiding Risk Table
| Text Source | Public Domain | Works Created by You | Open Access | Creative Commons | Licensed by UCM | Copyright Protected |
| Publisher | No Risk | Check with publisher (Risk is low if you reserved rights when publishing) | Low Risk - Check with the Publisher | Depends on license | Depends on license | Risky |
| Internet Pages | No Risk | Low risk - Specify the usage permission | Low Risk | Depends on license | Depends on license | Risky |
| Social Media | No Risk | Low risk - Specify usage permission | NA | Depends on license | Depends on license | Risky |
| UCM Images | No Risk | Check with UCM University Relations | Low Risk but verify with UCM University Relations | Depends on license | Depends on license | Risky |
| Scanned from printed materials | No risk | Low risk - Specify usage permission | Low Risk | Depends on license | Depends on license | Risky |
| Unpublished | No Risk | Low risk - Specify usage permission | Low Risk | NA | NA |
Risky |
| No idea? | Search the Public Domain | NA | Search open data repositories and databases | Search Creative Commons Licenses | Ask a representative of JCKL | Search the Copyright Catalog |