[ca5a97e] | 1 | Creative Commons Legal Code
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| 3 | CC0 1.0 Universal
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| 5 | CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE
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| 6 | LEGAL SERVICES. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT CREATE AN
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| 7 | ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. CREATIVE COMMONS PROVIDES THIS
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| 8 | INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. CREATIVE COMMONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES
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| 9 | REGARDING THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENT OR THE INFORMATION OR WORKS
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| 10 | PROVIDED HEREUNDER, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
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| 11 | THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENT OR THE INFORMATION OR WORKS PROVIDED
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| 12 | HEREUNDER.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Statement of Purpose
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| 15 |
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| 16 | The laws of most jurisdictions throughout the world automatically confer
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| 17 | exclusive Copyright and Related Rights (defined below) upon the creator
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| 18 | and subsequent owner(s) (each and all, an "owner") of an original work of
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| 19 | authorship and/or a database (each, a "Work").
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| 20 |
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| 21 | Certain owners wish to permanently relinquish those rights to a Work for
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| 22 | the purpose of contributing to a commons of creative, cultural and
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| 23 | scientific works ("Commons") that the public can reliably and without fear
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| 24 | of later claims of infringement build upon, modify, incorporate in other
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| 25 | works, reuse and redistribute as freely as possible in any form whatsoever
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| 26 | and for any purposes, including without limitation commercial purposes.
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| 27 | These owners may contribute to the Commons to promote the ideal of a free
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| 28 | culture and the further production of creative, cultural and scientific
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| 29 | works, or to gain reputation or greater distribution for their Work in
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| 30 | part through the use and efforts of others.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | For these and/or other purposes and motivations, and without any
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| 33 | expectation of additional consideration or compensation, the person
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| 34 | associating CC0 with a Work (the "Affirmer"), to the extent that he or she
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| 35 | is an owner of Copyright and Related Rights in the Work, voluntarily
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| 36 | elects to apply CC0 to the Work and publicly distribute the Work under its
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| 37 | terms, with knowledge of his or her Copyright and Related Rights in the
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| 38 | Work and the meaning and intended legal effect of CC0 on those rights.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | 1. Copyright and Related Rights. A Work made available under CC0 may be
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| 41 | protected by copyright and related or neighboring rights ("Copyright and
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| 42 | Related Rights"). Copyright and Related Rights include, but are not
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| 43 | limited to, the following:
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| 44 |
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| 45 | i. the right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform, display,
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| 46 | communicate, and translate a Work;
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| 47 | ii. moral rights retained by the original author(s) and/or performer(s);
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| 48 | iii. publicity and privacy rights pertaining to a person's image or
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| 49 | likeness depicted in a Work;
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| 50 | iv. rights protecting against unfair competition in regards to a Work,
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| 51 | subject to the limitations in paragraph 4(a), below;
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| 52 | v. rights protecting the extraction, dissemination, use and reuse of data
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| 53 | in a Work;
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| 54 | vi. database rights (such as those arising under Directive 96/9/EC of the
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| 55 | European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal
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| 56 | protection of databases, and under any national implementation
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| 57 | thereof, including any amended or successor version of such
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| 58 | directive); and
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| 59 | vii. other similar, equivalent or corresponding rights throughout the
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| 60 | world based on applicable law or treaty, and any national
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| 61 | implementations thereof.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | 2. Waiver. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention
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| 64 | of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully, permanently,
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| 65 | irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and surrenders all of
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| 66 | Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes
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| 67 | of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as
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| 68 | future claims and causes of action), in the Work (i) in all territories
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| 69 | worldwide, (ii) for the maximum duration provided by applicable law or
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| 70 | treaty (including future time extensions), (iii) in any current or future
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| 71 | medium and for any number of copies, and (iv) for any purpose whatsoever,
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| 72 | including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional
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| 73 | purposes (the "Waiver"). Affirmer makes the Waiver for the benefit of each
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| 74 | member of the public at large and to the detriment of Affirmer's heirs and
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| 75 | successors, fully intending that such Waiver shall not be subject to
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| 76 | revocation, rescission, cancellation, termination, or any other legal or
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| 77 | equitable action to disrupt the quiet enjoyment of the Work by the public
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| 78 | as contemplated by Affirmer's express Statement of Purpose.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | 3. Public License Fallback. Should any part of the Waiver for any reason
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| 81 | be judged legally invalid or ineffective under applicable law, then the
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| 82 | Waiver shall be preserved to the maximum extent permitted taking into
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| 83 | account Affirmer's express Statement of Purpose. In addition, to the
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| 84 | extent the Waiver is so judged Affirmer hereby grants to each affected
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| 85 | person a royalty-free, non transferable, non sublicensable, non exclusive,
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| 86 | irrevocable and unconditional license to exercise Affirmer's Copyright and
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| 87 | Related Rights in the Work (i) in all territories worldwide, (ii) for the
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| 88 | maximum duration provided by applicable law or treaty (including future
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| 89 | time extensions), (iii) in any current or future medium and for any number
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| 90 | of copies, and (iv) for any purpose whatsoever, including without
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| 91 | limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes (the
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| 92 | "License"). The License shall be deemed effective as of the date CC0 was
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| 93 | applied by Affirmer to the Work. Should any part of the License for any
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| 94 | reason be judged legally invalid or ineffective under applicable law, such
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| 95 | partial invalidity or ineffectiveness shall not invalidate the remainder
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| 96 | of the License, and in such case Affirmer hereby affirms that he or she
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| 97 | will not (i) exercise any of his or her remaining Copyright and Related
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| 98 | Rights in the Work or (ii) assert any associated claims and causes of
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| 99 | action with respect to the Work, in either case contrary to Affirmer's
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| 100 | express Statement of Purpose.
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| 101 |
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| 102 | 4. Limitations and Disclaimers.
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| 103 |
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| 104 | a. No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned,
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| 105 | surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.
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| 106 | b. Affirmer offers the Work as-is and makes no representations or
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| 107 | warranties of any kind concerning the Work, express, implied,
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| 108 | statutory or otherwise, including without limitation warranties of
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| 109 | title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non
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| 110 | infringement, or the absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or
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| 111 | the present or absence of errors, whether or not discoverable, all to
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| 112 | the greatest extent permissible under applicable law.
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| 113 | c. Affirmer disclaims responsibility for clearing rights of other persons
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| 114 | that may apply to the Work or any use thereof, including without
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| 115 | limitation any person's Copyright and Related Rights in the Work.
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| 116 | Further, Affirmer disclaims responsibility for obtaining any necessary
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| 117 | consents, permissions or other rights required for any use of the
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| 118 | Work.
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| 119 | d. Affirmer understands and acknowledges that Creative Commons is not a
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| 120 | party to this document and has no duty or obligation with respect to
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| 121 | this CC0 or use of the Work.
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