LITA Blog Acceptable Use and Copyright Statement

[Rev 3, 6-9-05]

By contributing to the LITA blog, http://litablog.org , you agree to the best practices, procedures, and policies established for this blog by the LITA blog managers.

You also acknowledge that your individual entries to the LITA blog are licensed under a Creative Commons license.

LITA is using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License for LITA blog contributors.

Note that Creative Commons licenses change from time to time. LITA blog managers will alert LITA bloggers when the terms of this license change.

Key terms and conditions of your Creative Commons license

* You, the blogger, retain your copyright for your own posts.

Licensees (people who use your content in whole or in part) must…

* Request your permission for commercial use of your posts

* Request your permission to create derivative works, unless their content is also licensed under the same terms as your content

* Keep any copyright notice intact on all copies of your work

* Link to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License from copies of the work

Licensees may not…

* Alter the terms of your Creative Commons license

* Use technology to restrict other licensees’ lawful uses of the work

Your Creative Commons license allows licensees, provided they live up to these conditions, to take the following actions:

* Copy the work

* Distribute it

* Display or perform it publicly

* Make digital public performances of it (e.g., webcasting)

* Shift the work into another format as a verbatim copy

Your Creative Commons license…

* Applies worldwide

* Lasts for the duration of the work’s copyright

* Is not revocable

3 Responses to “LITA Blog Acceptable Use and Copyright Statement”

  1. Chad Mairn Says:
    July 14th, 2005 at 1:17 pm

    I am currently developing a blog for the St. Petersburg College Library (SPCLB) and wanted to confirm the terms of your Creative Commons license. The SPCLB is using the same license that LITABlog uses (i.e. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License) and one condition states that we must request LITA’s permission to “create derivative works, unless their content is also licensed under the same terms as your content.”

    So, is it appropriate for me to use your Acceptable Use and Copyright Statement and adapt it to our needs?

    Thank you,

    Chad Mairn

  2. Poom Says:
    March 13th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    I also have the same question, and am blog administrator at a public library.

    I assume, use and cite? Avoid direct plagiarism…

    Thanks.

  3. jgriffey Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    The strict interpretation of the License that we have chosen for LITABlog would insist that, any use of the content of the blog requires the use of the same license being applied (thus the “share-alike” portion of the license).

    So you may adapt the policies to your own needs, given that you license your content as we have.

    Make sense? If not, shoot me a direct email and I’ll confer with the powers-that-be: jason-griffey@utc.edu

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