Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 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. BY-NC-SA Compatible License means a license listed at
creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses, approved by Creative Commons as essentially the
equivalent 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. License Elements means the license attributes listed in
the name of a Creative Commons Public License. The License Elements of this Public License are
Attribution, NonCommercial, and ShareAlike. 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 subject to the terms and conditions of this Public
License, which are limited 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
automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under
the terms and conditions of this Public License. Additional offer from the Licensor –
Adapted Material. Every recipient of Adapted Material from You automatically receives
an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Adapted Material
under the conditions of the Adapter’s License You apply. 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.
ShareAlike.
In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a), if You Share Adapted Material You produce, the
following conditions also apply.
The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with the same License
Elements, this version or later, or a BY-NC-SA Compatible License. You must include the
text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, the Adapter's License You apply. You may satisfy this
condition in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You
Share Adapted Material. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or
conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, Adapted Material that
restrict exercise of the rights granted under the Adapter's License You apply.
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, including for
purposes of Section 3(b); 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.
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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