Copyright Policy

Introduction

Copyright protects "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. Copyright protection exists from the moment a work is created in a fixed form. The copyright in the work immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

Unless you have written permission (a license) from the owner of the copyright, you may only display the content for your own noncommercial personal use. You may not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, publicly display or publicly perform, distribute or create derivative works based on protected content (either in whole or in part) unless you have specific permission to do so by the owner of the copyrighted work.

Under the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law, in the United States you have the right to use a copyrighted work or parts of a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner in certain situations. For example, reporters may use copyrighted works to report news, a commentator may use clips or portions of a copyrighted work in order to write a review of the work, and, in some instances, teachers may use portions of a copyrighted work for educational purposes.

Content License from You to JWOC

Although you retain your copyright in material that you submit or upload to our website, by submitting, posting or displaying your material, you give us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide royalty-free non-exclusive license to copy, reproduce, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute your material on or through our website and our service.

If you use our service, you agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend JWOC, its officers, employees, members, agents, and affiliates against any and all claims, suits, losses, damages, costs, fees and expenses resulting from or arising out of any and all violations of this Copyright Policy, including but not limited to any damages, losses, or liabilities whatsoever with respect to damage to any property or loss of any data arising from the possession, use, or operation of our website and our service by you.

Content License from JWOC to You

Apart from content that JWOC does not own (user-submitted content, various other material), and unless otherwise specified, the contents of this website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work.

Under the following conditions:
• Attribution. You must attribute the work to JWOCn(but not in any way that suggests that JWOC endorses you or your use of the work).
• Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair dealing and other rights are in no way affected by the above.