Terms of Use

Terms of use for this web site.

OpenOCW

This document spells out the terms to which users must agree in order to use OpenOCW.

Intellectual Property

All course materials, comments, and other content posted in OpenOCW forums are the property of their authors and are licensed for display, copying, reuse, and distribution according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. The full text of the license is available online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Representing material posted in OpenOCW by another individual as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your OpenOCW account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.

Liability Disclaimer

Information, advice, opinions, and other expressions in OpenOCW are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The entire liability for any use of any materials available through OpenOCW lies with the user of the materials.

Abuse of OpenOCW

The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within the OpenOCW system. Attempting to commit, actually committing, or aiding in the commission of any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your OpenOCW account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Users shall not do anything to intentionally degrade the performance of the OpenOCW system hardware, software, or network.
  • Users shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the OpenOCW system.
  • Users shall not post commercial solicitations or "spam" content in OpenOCW.
  • Users shall not attempt to spread viruses, worms, or other files harmful to computer systems and/or networks via OpenOCW.
  • Users shall not gather personal information about other users (including, but not limited to, harvesting email addresses) via OpenOCW.
  • Users shall not share their password or account with other individuals.
  • Users shall refrain from making harassing, intimidating, or libelous statements or other expressions in OpenOCW.
  • Users shall refrain from offensive/inflammatory statements or other expressions (for example, offensive images) in OpenOCW.
  • Users shall not engage in impersonation or other behavior designed to deceive OpenOCW users and/or community leaders.
  • Users shall respect the intellectual freedom of others’ expression of their opinions and ideas.

Reporting Suspected Violations of these Terms of Use

All OpenOCW content is the property of, and copyrighted by, the individual authors and posters. COSL, Utah State University, and other members of the OpenOCW community are not responsible for content posted on OpenOCW. Content on OpenOCW is licensed for display, copying, reuse, and distribution according the Creative Commons license described in this document, unless otherwise stated.

If you believe a particular piece of content in OpenOCW violates the Terms of Use described in this document, you may click the Report Content icon Report Content to notify the Open OCW administrators. They will examine the content, remove the content if it violates these Terms, and determine whether or not the author's account should be terminated and/or other action perused. You must be logged in to report content that violates these Terms. You must also provide a brief summary of why you think the content is in violation of these Terms. Should you frequently report content that is judged to not actually violate these Terms, your OpenOCW user account may be terminated.

Citation: admin. (2007, September 22). Terms of Use. Retrieved December 05, 2008, from OpenOCW Web site: http://openocw.org/about-ocw/terms-of-use.
Copyright 2007, by the Contributing Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License