Copyright and Reprint Terms
Can I Link From My Web Site to the Library or Any of its Topics?
Absolutely. The Library is a community resource. If linking to it from your Web site will make it handier for you and others to use materials from the Library, then go for it!
Similarly, if you want to include description of the Library and its Web address in a publication or on your Web site, that's fine, too.
However, if you would like to extract materials from the Library to include in another publication, on your Web site, etc., then read the guidelines below. Thank you.
Who Has the Copyright on Shared Resources in the Library?
The Library does not own the shared resources referenced from the Library. The ownership, or copyright, of a resource referenced from the Library is the author or publisher of that resource, whether it be an article, book, content of a blog, etc. The Library cannot grant permissions regarding that resource.
Can I Reprint Items from the Library?
There are many authors who have a resource referenced from the Library. The Library cannot grant permission to reprint a resource (articles, Websites, etc.) of these authors. To reprint, get permission from whoever has the copyright on the resource, for example, this may be the author or publisher. To find out who owns an on-line resource, follow the tips below.
1. Try find the author's contact information (name, e-mail address and/or postal address) in the article, Website, etc. Then contact the author.
2. If you can't find the author and contact information that way, then try find a link that links to contact information, for example, try find links to "contact us" and follow those links.
3.If
you can't find contact information that way, then try backing up from the address of the Web site of the item. For example,
if the Web address of the item is
"http://www.website.com/topics/articles/crisis_management.htm"
then try:
a) Connect to http://www.Website.com/topics/articles and see if there is contact information there.
b) If there is no contact information there, then try http://www.Website.com/topics/ and see if there is contact information there.
c) If there is no contact information there, then try http://www.website.com/
Free Management Library may NOT be Mirrored at Other Web Sites
The Library design and/or its pages may not be copied and maintained as a service at another Web site. While this mirroring (which produces significant, duplicate copies of the Library and its contents) may be convenient means to help others benefit from the Library, the mirroring too often causes loss of central control over administration and versions of the contents of the Library. This central control is needed to ensure that the Library design and all copies of materials are up-to-date, and that up-to-date reprint terms are applied to the Library and its contents. Mirroring also might be a copyright violation, depending on what you copy from the Library.
