Permissions, citation, copyright and copyleft

Resource creators are responsible for due diligence in permissions, citations, and appropriate honoring of copyright. Further material about these areas is detailed in the Terms of Use.  All members must agree to the Terms of Use when they join the site.

Permissions

Please make sure you have permission to share all content you are posting to Digital Is, including images, multimedia, quotes, and downloadable documents such as PDFs.

When posting any content that is created by or features students under the age of 18, you also warrant and represent that you have all the necessary permissions required by your district or institution’s acceptable-use policy and that you are in compliance with protections afforded minors as per U.S. law. Furthermore, you warrant and represent that you have protected the privacy of minors in your content, including removing student names and other identifiers as per U.S. Law (i.e. CIPA/COPA) and your institution’s acceptable-use policy.

Citations

Please cite all documents, images and resources as necessary. Please provide links to original content if reposting. Links that provide reference to materials discussed in a post should be done as in-line hyperlinks. Related Links, posted at the bottom of a page, should be reserved for significant items that viewers are encouraged to visit.

Copyright and Copyleft

As per the Terms of Use, you are agreeing to a certain set of copyright guidelines when you post to Digital Is.

Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to this site (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

This work by digitalis.nwp.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

If you prefer to offer your Content on more or less restrictive terms, you may do so as follows:

• For Content you submit that requires less restriction, license your work via Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/choose/) and embed the code at the end of your resource; or, to keep something already in the public domain entirely public, please use the CCO code (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/).
• For Content you submit that requires more restriction, include in the title a full copyright notice, i.e., your name, the word “copyright” or symbol “©”, and the year of first publication.

Please note that by posting your Content on this site, you are granting NWP a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.