Terms of Use

Welcome to the Knowledge Network on Digital Media and Learning

Our aim is to ensure this is a friendly and collaborative space, and so to protect participants and hosts alike, we need to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service. So, the MacArthur Foundation ("MacArthur") offers these website services (the "Services") to you subject to the terms and conditions of use ("Terms") contained herein. By accessing, creating or contributing to any of the community website and email hosted at and under the subdomain http://spotlight.macfound.org/ ("Site"), and in consideration for the Services we provide to you, you agree to abide by these Terms. Please read them carefully before posting to or creating any content.

1. Disclaimer

Content on this Site, including blog entries, express the research and opinions of the Service participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of MacArthur. The editors of this Service do not typically edit participants' posts or other content and cannot confirm the accuracy or reliability of their submissions. Each participant is solely responsible for the information, analysis and/or recommendations contained in their submitted content.

2. Moderation Policy

MacArthur is hosting these Services to help build the field of digital media and learning. We intend for posts, comments and content in this forum to be insightful, challenging and potentially provocative - and also to meet basic standards of respect and accuracy in tone and content. Comments on this Site are moderated to maintain the respect required for this ongoing discussion to remain productive. Voicing differences of opinion and providing countervailing information or analysis is encouraged - however, hate speech will not be tolerated. MacArthur maintains the right to edit or not to post reader comments at our discretion if said comments are unrelated to the subject of the post to which they're responding; if they are advertising products, services or websites rather than making points; or if they include racial, gender-based or sexualized slurs or attacks, aggressive harassment or abuse of blog authors or fellow commenters, or threats of violence.

3. Rights in the Content You Submit
Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to this Site ("Content") are submitted under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so. You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same license that governs your original Content. Amongst other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content on this Site.

Option for More Restrictive License Terms

If you prefer to offer your Content on more restrictive terms, you may do so as follows: For Content you submit, include in the title a full copyright notice, i.e., your name, the word "copyright" or symbol "©" and the year of first publication. By posting your Content on this Site, you are granting MacArthur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.

Attribution

When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, MacArthur will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant MacArthur permission to use your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.

4. Conduct

Posting

You may not use the MacArthur name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as institutionally endorsed by MacArthur or any of its grantees is strictly prohibited.

By posting any content, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold MacArthur harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.

You acknowledge that MacArthur does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers in violation of these Terms.

Accessing

You understand that all content posted to the Site is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of MacArthur.

You agree that MacArthur will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

Children

Collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is prohibited. No Content should be directed toward such children without the express written permission of a Vice President of MacArthur.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

This site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. MacArthur makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site's operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, MacArthur hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. MacArthur will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.

6. Privacy Policy

Please be sure to read our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

7. Modification of These Terms of Use

MacArthur reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

8. Copyright Complaints

MacArthur respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact our editor to report copyright infringements.

Thank you for participating in the Digital Media and Learning Knowledge Network. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.