Copyright and Licencing
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Copyright and Licencing
The following is directly quoted material from the Creative Commons website What our licenses do The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a…
Creative Commons Licences
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The Licenses Below are the summaries of the six types of Creative Commons Licence. These are shown approximately from the least to the most restrictive, and the definitions and graphics are taken directly from the Creative Commons website, where you can find out more about these licences, and how they…
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Default Licence
Unless otherwise indicated, all drawings are licenced under the Creative Commons licence shown below. For further details on types of Creative Commons licences, see the copyright section under "Site Basics" and to see full details of this licence on the Creative Commons website, click on the icon or text below:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Please note that the licence (or an alternative licence where displayed) applies to your use of individual drawings. See the Terms of Use for more general conditions on the use of the LineMine website services.
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Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.