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==Copyright==
The general rule is that original authors (or their employers, if their employment conditions so stipulate) retain copyright unless they make an explicit transfer of their rights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trustee.ietf.org/about/faq/#reproducing-rfcs|title=Reproducing RFCs|publisher=IETF Trust|access-date=2021-08-12}}</ref>

An independent body, the IETF Trust, holds the copyright for some RFCs and for all others it is granted a license by the authors that allows it to reproduce RFCs.<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust |rfc=5378 | |last1=Bradner |first1=Scott |last2=Contreras |first2=Jorge |date=November 2008 |publisher=[[IETF]]}}</ref> The [[Internet Society]] is referenced on many RFCs prior to RFC4714 as the copyright owner, but it transferred its rights to the IETF Trust.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trustee.ietf.org/about/faq/#copyright|title=Reproducing RFCs|publisher=IETF Trust|access-date=2021-08-13}}</ref>