Contributor's Agreement
From The Space Library
The goal of Spacewiki is to create a professional forum for space experts to collect together an comprehensive, context-driven database of the world's declassified aerospace science, engineering, law, history and biographical information. In the interests of attracting expert contributions Spacewiki has been designed to be as simple as possible by using popular open-source software, custom and third-party code. It is Spacewiki's goal to provide a mechanism whereby these experts are compensated for their contributions and to insure that their contributions remain unaltered by third parties.
Subscription fees for Spacewiki are used to maintain and host the Spacewiki website.
Anyone contributing Content to Spacewiki, using their Contributor Privileges, accepts the terms of the following agreement:
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Definitions:
- Spacewiki - The World Wide Web website visible to subscribers at http://www.spacewiki.org, http://www.airandspacewiki.org, or any other such URL that the owners of Spacewiki choose to use.
- Contributor - Any person granted editing privileges to add Content to Spacewiki
- Contributor Privileges - Unique Login access granted to Contributors to allow the posting of Content to Spacewiki
- Subscriber - Any person, organisation or institution paying for access to see and hear Spacewiki.
- Content - Any information posted to Spacewiki, including but not limited to, audio, video, text or images. Consisting of "Open Material" or "Premium material"
- Page - Any open content material posted to Spacewiki and accessible to Subscribers through the Spacewiki search engine or through Spacewiki internal hyperlinks.
- "Open material" - Content visible or audible to all Spacewiki Subscribers
- "Premium material" - Content requiring subscribers to pay an additional fee, over and above their subscription fee, to view or hear.
Conditions and Terms
Assignment
- 1A) Contributor agrees to grant Spacewiki permission to use all "Open Material" posted to Spacewiki in perpetuity.
- 1B) Contributor acknowledges the right of Spacewiki to license and exploit throughout the world, the Open Material posted by the Contributor.
- 1C) Contributor agrees to allow Spacewiki to use their name and likeness in conjunction with any Content they post to Spacewiki.
- 1D) Contributor agrees to allow Spacewiki to collect revenues from the sale of "Premium material", on the Contributor's behalf, subject to an agreed upon fee. Such fee to be determined by mutual agreement between Spacewiki and the Contributor.
Contributor Warranties and Indemnities
- 2A) Contributor agrees that they will only post "Open material" or "Premium material" to which they own the copyright, or which is in the public domain.
- 2B) Contributor agrees to NOT use sensitive or critically important passwords for their Login to Spacewiki, and indemnifies Spacewiki against any damages if their Login credentials are compromised.
- 2C) Contributor agrees to create and post a Page about themselves.
- 2D) Contributor agrees to NOT create Pages about any other living person.
- 2E) Contributor agrees that they will not allow any third party to use their Contributor privileges and will not deliberately give their Spacewiki Login credentials to any third party.
- 2F) Contributor agrees that they will not "cut and paste", or post in any other way, copyrighted or unauthorised third party information from other websites, books, films, recordings, magazines, newspapers or any other third party copyrighted source without the express permission in writing of the copyright holder.
- 2G) Contributor indemnifies Spacewiki from any and all action or legal repercussions, including but not limited to damages, from any such breach of third party copyrights, caused by aforesaid Contributor's postings to Spacewiki.
- 2H) Contributor agrees that they will not post anything of a slanderous or libelous nature on Spacewiki about any third party or about Spacewiki and its owners.
- 2I) Contributor agrees that any commercial advertising posted on the Contributor's Spacewiki pages is directly related to the subject of the content on that page or to the Contributor of that page. Links posted on Spacewiki to sell products on other websites must be related to aerospace.
- 2J) Contributor agrees not to post hyperlinks on Spacewiki that go to any other webpage that is not directly related to aerospace science, aerospace engineering, aerospace law, aerospace history or aerospace news.
- 2K) Contributor agrees that the administrators of Spacewiki have the absolute right to remove or edit Spacewiki pages. Editing by Spacewiki administrators will be kept to an absolute minimum and on such occasion as a major change is required Contributors will be notified.
- 2L) Open and Premium Material will be hosted by Spacewiki for no charge to Contributors.
- 2M) Exercising and utilising Spacewiki Contributor privileges binds the Contributor to the terms of this agreement.
- 2N) Contributors who are citizens or corporations of the United States agree to abide by the ITAR regulations.
Spacewiki Reserves, Warranties and Indemnities
- 3A) Spacewiki does not guarantee 100% protection of Premium Material from theft, but will strive to keep all Premium Material secure behind its hosting firewall.
- 3B) Spacewiki reserves the right to revoke Contributor privileges at any time, for any reason.
- 3C) Spacewiki reserves the right to remove any Material that may contain a harmful or injurious formula or instruction.
Application of Laws
- This agreement shall be interpreted according to the laws and statutes of the Province of Ontario and Canada.
