Copyright and Conditions of Use
Copyright and Conditions of Use
In Copyright
Where a text is in copyright, all text and images are copyright to the original authors and/or publisher. In copyright texts and images are made available for non-commercial use only. All forms of electronic or print re-sale or re-distribution are forbidden without written permission, please contact us.
Currently, a text is shown as in copyright when there is no Creative Commons License visible in the sidebar, and a link to this page is presented.
Creative Commons Share-Alike license
Where the original text is out of copyright it is our policy to provide the digitised version under a New Zealand Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA).
The Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license allows anyone to re-use material in our texts under the following conditions:
- attribution to the source of the material is included by marking the material with the collection name ("The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection") and the link to the material as found on our website;
- the re-use of the material is licensed under the same license, allowing others to further re-use the material. This means that the re-use of the material must be marked with the same Creative Commons license.
Use of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license allows us to make material freely available to the community for re-use, and also ensures that:
- any errors in the material can be traced back to the Victoria University of Wellington Library as the originator of the digital reproduction;
- such material continues to be freely available to the community after subsequent re-use.
Examples of Reuse under Creative Commons Share-Alike license
We encourage the re-use of Creative Commons Share-Alike licensed NZETC material. Examples of re-use include:
- Multiple entries in the Mix and Mash competitions run by DigitalNZ
- Blog posts, such as this one about the Cyclopedia of New Zealand by IwiKiwi
- Books and other publications
- Museum displays
Other Creative Commons Licenses
More restrictive Creative Commons licenses may be used in the cases of copyright texts where the copyright holder is amenable to using a Creative Commons license. You will need to refer to the license text (available by clicking on the CC license logo) for the specific restrictions and re-use allowed.
Statement of Liability
While we have sought to ensure there are no intellectual property rights in the material that would prevent copying and other re-use, please note that material on this website marked with a Creative Commons license is released on an as-is basis and with no representations or warranties of any kind, to the greatest extent permissible by law. Subject to any liability which may not be excluded or limited by law, the Victoria University Library shall not be liable on any legal basis (including without limitation negligence) and hereby expressly excludes all liability for loss or damage howsoever and whenever caused to you.