MeatballWikiCopyright

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Policy.

The copyrights of material on MeatballWiki (the site) are copyright Meatball, the authors, the authors' employers or the current copyright holder. The site does not claim ownership of the content you contribute to Meatball. Works are contributed with permission. By submitting content to Meatball for inclusion in its site, you grant Meatball the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the content for the purpose of displaying and distributing such content through Meatball's systems.

Permissions are extended to reasonable use on the world wide web. Permission is granted to reference (link to), but not copy, content on this site unless within the bounds of "fair use."

Additionally, you grant Meatball a non-exclusive perpetual royalty-free universal license to distribute the content in its archives, or distribute the content in a compilation of selected Meatball content. The redistributed material will be timestamped.

The collection and structure of MeatballWiki are copyright Meatball.

The site reserves the right to make technical edits to the contributed material, but not so as to change the original meaning or intent. This is in the spirit of a letter to the editor of a newspaper.

The site or its owners take no responsibility in determining or verifying authorship of material.

Scope.

SEVERABILITY. If any part of this license is found to be unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the remaining portions of the license remain in force.

NO WARRANTY. MeatballWiki works are licensed and provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or a warranty of non-infringement.

LIMITATION OF EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY. The site nor Meatball does not review any works or material submitted by third parties. The site reserves the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or remove any works or material that are available via the site's systems. The site and Meatball absolve themselves of all editorial responsibility over the works and material on the site.

JURISDICTION. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Ontario Canada, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of MeatballWiki.

Acknowledgments.

Portions of this policy were based on the MeatballWikiCopyrightDiscussion and the OpenPublicationLicense Draft v. 1.0 (8 June 1999). In no way does that imply that the material on this site is under the OpenPublicationLicense.

Rationale

This part is not part of the policy.

Essentially, the policy says you own what you say, but people will make edits in the wiki fashion. Totally altering someone's statement around would not be allowed (of course!), because that allows for stuffing words into people's mouths.

Also, the site maintains control over its structure to prevent wholesale mirroring of the content here. Note, while anonymous contributions have no known authors, they are still protected by the law. However, it would be difficult to prove authorship of anything anyway as there is universal editing.

We'd additionally like to be able to redistribute How Tos and FAQs written here communally, not to mention taking back ups of the database. Hence the timestamped snapshots.

Finally, we'd like to avoid being sued frivolously. If we are, we prefer a jurisdiction fitting the circumstances of our lives.

Please send discussion to MeatballWikiCopyrightDiscussion, MeatballIsNotFree, CompilationCopyright. See also DefaultCopyright

Reproducibility.

Any party may reproduce and modify this copyright policy for his or her own purposes provided they disavow any legal responsibility from either Meatball, MeatballWiki, or Sunir Shah and that they remove any reference inside the policy to either Meatball, MeatballWiki, or Sunir Shah. This exclusion does not include acknowledgments that are not part of the policy. If you copy this license, you understand that no accredited legal representative has approved this license. Sunir Shah is not a lawyer. You accept full responsibility if you use this license. You agree not to hold Meatball, MeatballWiki, nor Sunir Shah responsible.

NEITHER MEATBALL NOR MEATBALLWIKI ARE A LAW FIRM AND NEITHER PROVIDES LEGAL SERVICES. SUNIR SHAH IS NOT A LAWYER. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS LICENSE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. MEATBALL PROVIDES THIS INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. MEATBALL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS REGARDING THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ITS USE.

An example of an acceptable way to copy the license is done on [AndStuff:AndStuffCopyright].

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Discussion

FridemarPache -- Thu Aug 27 17:21:42 2009

Sunir, could you please explain the meaning of "Permission is granted to reference (link to), but not copy, content on this site unless within the bounds of "fair use." I ask this question, because some people might misinterpret this as: no author can ever reuse their own texts elsewhere in public. I suppose that this is a special case of what you understand under "fair use" in combination with "The site does not claim ownership of the content you contribute to Meatball."

SunirShah -- Thu Aug 27 21:37:29 2009

You own your own words and can do anything you want with them. For other people wondering what they can do with text you wrote here, that is an expression of what their rights are by default. You have to make these things clear because most people don't understand how copyright works.