PreparingYou:Copyrights

Do not add content to PreparingYou if you think that doing so may be a copyright violation. Contributors should take steps to remove any copyright violations that they find.

However, copying material without the permission of the copyright holder from sources that are not public domain or compatibly licensed (unless it's a brief quotation may be a copyright violation and should be avoided.

Even inserting text copied with some changes can be a copyright violation if there is substantial linguistic similarity in creative language or sentence structure; this is known as close paraphrasing, which can also raise concerns about plagiarism. Such a situation should be treated seriously and could create legal issues in distribution that should be avoided.

Try to be fair and avoid plagiarism.

If someone copies material from PreparingYou they should show a link where they copied that material and should not represent it as their own work.

The text of PreparingYou is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by PreparingYou editors and contributors... not to obtain gain or profit but to prevent abuse.

To re-distribute text on PreparingYou in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the permission to use, and which provides credit to the authors or PreparingYou in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors.