Submitter Rights

• Conestoga will not change the content of work

• The submission of work to the repository does not transfer copyright to the repository. Copyright remains with the copyright holder. 

• Submitter may elect to provide a Creative Commons licence to give greater freedom for reuse, default licence is Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives, which is essentially a default licence for freely available web content.

Submitter Obligations

• Must be submitter’s own work, or they must have rights to distribute.

• Information about work must be accurate (e.g. included authors)

• Cannot infringe on copyright, intellectual property, trademarks, patents

• If 3^rd party content is also included, content must be clearly identified and submitter must have permission to submit that content to the repository

• If there is more than one author, submitter must ensure all authors approve of the submission and have read the licence details

• If work was sponsored or supported by 3^rd party, the stipulations of that agreement are met and do not impinge on submitter’s right to submit work to repository.

• Work does not contain personal, confidential or proprietary info

• Work does not contain libelous or unlawful info, including privacy considerations

• Work is not subject to embargo or other publication delay

• If submitter grants copyright or permissions to other organizations in future, agreement must allow for the college to hold it in the repository. Alternatively, a request for removal could be allowed, and the repository would maintain metadata only.