Copyright (and the fine print)

Most content on Interaction-Design.org is covered by the the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence or the Creative Commons Attribution Licence. With these licenses, authors contributing to Interaction-Design.org keep their copyright but allow people to copy, distribute, and modify their work provided they give them credit (and make derivative works adhere to the same licence in the case of the ShareAlike licence). This way, the content of this site in effect becomes the property of the whole interaction design community.

From Copyright (C), over Creative Commons (CC), to Public Domain (PD)

The Creative Commons licences define the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright (all rights reserved) and the public domain (no rights reserved). The licences will help authors keep their copyright while inviting certain uses of their work - a "some rights reserved" copyright.

Both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence and the Creative Commons Attribution Licence ensure

• that an author's copyright is retained
• that other people's fair use, first sale, and free expression rights are not affected by the license.

The License requires licensees (i.e. people who make use of the content on Interaction-Design.org)

• to keep any copyright notice intact on all copies of the work;
• to link to your license from copies of the work;
• not to alter the terms of the license
• not to use technology to restrict other licensees' lawful uses of the work

The License allows licensees, provided they live up to these conditions,

• to copy the work
• to distribute it
• to display or perform it publicly

The License

• applies worldwide
• lasts for the duration of the work's copyright
• is not revocable

The above is adapted from creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/fullrights

Other content

The design of Interaction-Design.org (graphics, html, client-side scripts, etc.) is copyright Mads Soegaard.

Questions?

If you have questions regarding copyright and the like, please contact me or read more on the Creative Commons website.

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