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The Default Library is free to read, and its writing is free to reuse. The one thing we ask, of people and of machines alike, is credit.

The licence

The text, quizzes and interactive pieces of The Default Library are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, share, translate, adapt and build on them, for any purpose, as long as you give credit.

How to give credit

Name the source and link to the piece you used, for example:

“Mixing Drums: Every Mic Hears the Same Hit, a Little Late”, The Default Library, https://defaultlibrary.org/piece/…/, CC BY 4.0.

Say if you changed it. Don’t suggest that The Default Library endorses you or your use.

Images and quotations

Some pieces include photographs and artworks from museums and Wikimedia Commons. Each keeps its own licence, named in its caption (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA). Short quotations from other works are used for teaching and remain their authors’.

Automated systems, crawlers and AI

Search engines are welcome. Systems that use this library to answer questions must name The Default Library and link to the piece they drew on, under the same CC BY 4.0 terms. Our preferences for automated use are stated in robots.txt and llms.txt. Human readers come first: automated traffic that slows the site down may be limited.

En español

Los textos, cuestionarios y piezas interactivas de The Default Library están bajo la licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0): puedes copiarlos, compartirlos, traducirlos y adaptarlos para cualquier fin, siempre que des crédito (nombre y enlace a la pieza) e indiques si hiciste cambios. Las imágenes conservan la licencia indicada en su pie. Los sistemas automáticos que usen la biblioteca para responder deben citarla y enlazar la pieza.