Licensing
We firmly believe that the Internet is the freest form of the media we have today. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can start publishing their thoughts on a blog, or creating movies for YouTube, or sharing files using services like Windows Live SkyDrive in just a few clicks.
This is the beauty of the Internet. The Internet is was based on the principle of the free-sharing of the world's information and, although it has its flaws, it has largely lived up to its reputation and is the world's biggest exchange of ideas.
It's natural for most people to want to have some sort of ownership of their work, but copyright 'breaks' the freedom of the Internet. Creative Commons bridges the gap between "All rights reserved" (copyright) and "No rights reserved" (public domain) to make let people both own their work, whilst also allowing people to share.
Pisp.co.uk is licensed as Creative Commons
All content here, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK: England and Wales licence. This means you're free...
To share,
copy, distribute, display, perform, transmit our content
To make derivative works,
edit, modify, update, change our content
Under the following conditions
Attribution
You must credit Pisp.co.uk when you share or make derivative works, see
below for more information
Non-commercial
You mustn't use our content, or any derivative works, for commercial
gain without our consent
Share-alike
If you make a work based upon our content, you must release it under an
identical licence
Since we're licensed Creative Commons, anything you submit or post to us will be licensed under an identical licence. So, if you leave a comment on the Flux blog, you agree to license that comment under Creative Commons just like us.
Attribution requirements
- Include a prominent link back to the page used,
or to the Pisp.co.uk homepage...
- GOOD: Article based upon www.pisp.co.uk/learn/por/teleology.htm
- GOOD: Article based upon Pisp.co.uk article on teleology
- BAD: Article based upon pisp.co.uk/learn/por/teleology.htm [our web address should start with www.]
- BAD: Article based upon Pisp.co.uk/learn/por/teleology.htm [our web address should not be capitalised]
- BAD: Article based upon pisp.co.uk article on teleology [when referring to our site the first P should be capitalised]
- BAD: Article based upon www.pisp.co.uk article on teleology [when referring to our site use Pisp.co.uk]
- Be sure to note that our work is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK: England and Wales and include a link to either this page or the Creative Commons deed.
- In offline media, links are obviously not possible and not required.
- You're free to use Pisp.co.uk logos in your attribution, see below.
Pisp.co.uk logos
A variety of our logos are available for you to download and use. These are licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK: England and Wales, like most of our stuff. Please save them to your computer and host them yourself to save our bandwidth.
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Plagiarism
Just because our work is licensed under a Creative Commons licence does not give you the right to plagiarise. Exam boards now have automated software that can detect plagiarism. You could end up disqualified from your course!
According to SparkNotes: Plagiarism is copying the words or the ideas of another person or institution without acknowledging that you got those words or ideas from that source.
- DO NOT attempt to pass off
anything on Pisp.co.uk as your own, especially not in coursework.
Teachers know your own writing style and we write quite informally so it'll show. - DO NOT attempt to use
our content in an essay or paper without citing us.
You must cite your sources! See How do I... Cite Pisp.co.uk for more information.