Copyright statement and explanation

Disclaimer

Here is the best advice we can give under the circumstances. However, keep in mind that we do not intend to test these statements in any court, nor defend anyone else's actions. If you quote material, that act of quotation is your responsibility.

The List of Terms

The following statement applies to the terms listed on this site ... just the terms, as though we were looking at headwords in a dictionary. The list of Interaction Design/User Experience terms on this wiki is a compilation work. The terms themselves exist outside this site. The fact that we have made a list of them is the creative act of compliation. This compilation is made available under Creative Commons (Attribution-Sharealike).

The Entries

The following statements apply to the entries listed on this site. Because each entry is an edited combination of original material and material previously published elsewhere, the rights holders for the sources retain some rights in the individual entries. Unless we purchase rights (which we don't do) or receive a grant of rights (which may happen), we may not quote more than a fair amount of the material from each source. Similarly, to respect the rights of the original rights holder to the source material, you may only re-publish a fair amount of material from each source.

The material in the individual entries that is based on copyrighted source material are published under here, and may be re-published, under Creative Commons (Attribution-Sharealike-Non-commercial) unless more generous rights are offered in the entry. The original material in the individual entries may be re-published under Creative Commons (Attribution-Sharealike).

Terms of Service (associated with copyright)

If you contribue to this site, you must clearly cite in each entry any source from which you copy more than seven consecutive words of a definition, or the expression of the essential argument of a supporting explanation.The full citation should appear on the Rights Grant Page. The citation in the entry should link to the full citation.

We ask that rights holders add to the Rights Grant Page their permission to re-publish their content regarding an entry from a specific work. The Rights Grant Page will consist of a roster of terms, each with one or more links to the applicable grant statement for the entry for that term.

Related links

Fair use is defined in the United States as part of the US Code, the official compendium of US law. You can read the relevant text (and donate to support the service) at:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

A checklist that has been posted at Cornell University to help evaluate compliance with Cornell's approach to determining fair use:

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policy/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf

-- BruceEsrig - 26 Feb 2009