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Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License ("Public License").
To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are
granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms
and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of
benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available
under these terms and conditions.
Section 1 - Definitions.
- Adapted Material means material subject to
Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed
Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged,
transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the
Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public
License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound
recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is
synched in timed relation with a moving image.
- Adapter's License means the license You apply to
Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in
accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.
- Copyright and Similar Rights means copyright
and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without
limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database
Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For
purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section
2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.
- Effective Technological Measures means those
measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not
be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO
Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar
international agreements.
- Exceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair
dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar
Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.
- Licensed Material means the artistic or literary
work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public
License.
- Licensed Rights means the rights granted to You
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to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed
Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.
- Licensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies)
granting rights under this Public License.
- NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or
directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. For purposes of
this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Material for other material
subject to Copyright and Similar Rights by digital file-sharing or similar
means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment of monetary compensation in
connection with the exchange.
- Share means to provide material to the public by
any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such
as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution,
dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to
the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material
from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
- Sui Generis Database Rights means rights other
than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as
amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights
anywhere in the world.
- You means the individual or entity exercising the
Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a
corresponding meaning.
Section 2 - Scope.
- License grant.
- Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the
Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable,
non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the
Licensed Material to:
- reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part,
for NonCommercial purposes only; and
- produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material for NonCommercial
purposes only.
- Exceptions and
Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and
Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do
not need to comply with its terms and conditions.
- Term. The term of
this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).
- Media and formats;
technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise
the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter
created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor
waives and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You from
making technical modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights,
including technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective
Technological Measures. For purposes of this Public License, simply making
modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never
produces Adapted Material.
- Downstream recipients.
- Offer from the Licensor
- Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material
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- No downstream
restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different
terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the
Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any
recipient of the Licensed Material.
- No endorsement.
Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to
assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is,
connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the
Licensor or others designated to receive attribution as provided in Section
3(a)(1)(A)(i).
Other rights.
- Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed
under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar
personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or
agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent
necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.
- Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.
- To the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect
royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether directly or
through a collecting society under any voluntary or waivable statutory or
compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves
any right to collect such royalties, including when the Licensed Material is
used other than for NonCommercial purposes.
Section 3 - License Conditions.
Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.
Attribution.
- If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:
- retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:
- identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and
any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner
requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);
- a copyright notice;
- a notice that refers to this Public License;
- a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;
- a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;
- indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an
indication of any previous modifications; and
- indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License,
and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.
- You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means,
and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. For example, it may be
reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a
resource that includes the required information.
- If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the
information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent
reasonably practicable.
- If You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License
You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying
with this Public License.
Section 4 - Sui Generis Database Rights.
Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to
Your use of the Licensed Material:
- for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1)
grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a
substantial portion of the contents of the database for NonCommercial purposes
only;
- if You include all or a substantial portion of the database
contents in a database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the
database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual
contents) is Adapted Material; and
- You must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a)
if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.
For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4 supplements and
does not replace Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed
Rights include other Copyright and Similar Rights.
Section 5 - Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.
- Unless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to
the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and
as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning
the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This
includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for
a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects,
accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or
discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in
part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.
- To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be
liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence)
or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential,
punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out
of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor
has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or
damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part,
this limitation may not apply to You.
- The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided
above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most
closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.
Section 6 - Term and Termination.
- This Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and
Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public
License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.
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Where Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section
6(a), it reinstates:
- automatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it
is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or
- upon express reinstatement by the Licensor.
For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect
any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.
- For the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the
Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the
Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public
License.
- Sections 1, 5, 6, 7,
and 8 survive termination of this Public License.
Section 7 - Other Terms and Conditions.
- The Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different
terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.
- Any arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the
Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the
terms and conditions of this Public License.
Section 8 - Interpretation.
- For the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall
not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use
of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under
this Public License.
- To the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is
deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent
necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall
be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the
remaining terms and conditions.
- No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no
failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.
- Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as
a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to
the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or
authority.
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