Database of African-American Poetry Conditions of Use

The copyright of the data in the machine-readable form belongs to Chadwyck-Healey. In addition, there are texts which remain the copyright of other publishers; specific copyright restrictions relating to individual poems can be viewed in the headers of these works.

3. Copyright

a. The machine-readable data, the SGML coding, the data arrangement and the selection of contents are copyright © 1995 of Chadwyck-Healey Inc. and may only be used as outlined in 4. below.

b. Certain texts used in the Product are copyright material of third parties. Such parts in which third party intellectual property rights exist are clearly identified if selected for downloading or printing.

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4. Restrictions on Use

a. The Licensee may print out data or copy it to a computer disk, provided that such copy is for his/her own personal use or institutional use only, and provided that such data is bona fide the result of searching the database with the software.

b. With the exception of 'Fair Dealing' (as defined in Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988), the Licensee must obtain prior consent in writing from the relevant third party (see 3.b above) and the Licensor before any publication or inclusion of any third party material in any essays, internally circulated papers, or materials for class/course work. Such consent shall not be unreasonably witheld. Both the third party and the Licensor reserve the right to require a reasonable reproduction fee.

c. The Licensee may not manipulate and use the data to create publications or services which in any way compete with or interfere with publications and services already provided or to be provided in the future by the Licensor.

d. The Product, either in whole or in part, may not be assigned, licensed, sold or transferred to any third party in any physical or electronic means.

5. Exemptions and Permissions

Exemptions from these restrictions together with rights to use the Product on larger networks than those outlined in 2. above require separate prior written permission from the Licensor.