Physiopedia:Copyrights

Content You Contribute to Any Area of the Site[edit | edit source]

Physiopedia reserves the right to remove any of Your Content at any time, without notice and for any reason or no reason, and to terminate any accounts containing or contributing Prohibited Content (as defined below). You understand and agree that Physiopedia is under no obligation to display, reproduce, or distribute the Content that you post.

Submissions to Physiopedia[edit | edit source]

You agree that you will not upload or transmit any communications or content of any type to Physiopedia that infringe or violate any rights of any party. By submitting communications or content you agree that such submission is non-confidential for all purposes.

If you make any such submission, you agree that you will not send or transmit to Physiopedia by email, (including through the email addresses listed on the "Contact Us" link) any communication or content that infringes or violates any rights of any party. If you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to Physiopedia by email, you agree such submission is non-confidential for all purposes.

If you make any submission to the Physiopedia Wiki or to a Public Area or if you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to Physiopedia by email, you automatically grant-or warrant that the owner of such content or intellectual property has expressly granted-Physiopedia a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication or content in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. Physiopedia may sublicense its rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses. If you wish to keep any business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not submit them to the Physiopedia Wiki, the Public Areas or to Physiopedia by email. We try to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so.

Please Respect the Copyrights of Others[edit | edit source]

You represent and warrant that: (a) you own the content posted by you on the Site or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in these Terms, and (b) Your Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) or other rights of any person and (c) the Content you contribute is not used for the primary purpose of promoting your business.

Note that copyright protection covers the expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves. That means you are allowed to read a magazine article, encyclopedia or other work, recast the ideas in your own words, and submit it to Physiopedia. In those cases, however, you should still cite the original source as a reference. Note that content on Physiopedia must be both verifiable and previously published so source references are welcome and highly encouraged. Your License to Physiopedia.

While Physiopedia makes no claim of ownership with respect to Content you contribute to the Physiopedia Service (“Your Content”), by providing Your Content you grant to Physiopedia a worldwide, perpetual, royalty free and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, publicly perform and publicly display Your Content on the Physiopedia Service.

User Submissions – image, video, audio files[edit | edit source]

You agree to only post or upload media (like photos, videos or audio) that you have taken yourself or that you have all rights to transmit and license and which do not violate trademark, copyright, privacy or any other rights of any other person. Photos or videos of celebrities and cartoon or comic images are usually copyrighted by the owner.

To protect your privacy, you may not wish to submit Personal Information. Uploading media like images or video of other people without their permission is strictly prohibited.

By uploading any media on the Site, you warrant that you have permission from all persons appearing in your media for you to make this contribution and grant rights described herein. Never post a picture or video of or with someone else unless you have their explicit permission.

It is strictly prohibited to upload media of any kind that contain Content of the type described in Section 10 below (Prohibited Content on Physiopedia) or any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable law or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms the Privacy Policy.

You agree that you will not upload any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or this Web site.

By uploading any media like a photo or video, (a) you grant to Physiopedia a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, print, display, reproduce, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute the media and any material included in the media; and (b) you certify that any person pictured in the submitted media (or, if a minor, his/her parent/legal guardian) authorises Physiopedia to use, copy, print, display, reproduce, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute the media and any material included in such media; and (c) you agree to indemnify Physiopedia and its affiliates, directors, officers and employees and hold them harmless from any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising from the media and/or your failure to comply with these the terms described in this document.

Physiopedia reserves the right to review all media prior to submission to the site and to remove any media for any reason, at any time, without prior notice, at our sole discretion.

Copyright Violations[edit | edit source]

Physiopedia will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you have evidence, know, or have a good faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third party have been violated by any Physiopedia Content and you want Physiopedia to remove such Content from the Site, you must provide Physiopedia with the following information:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized version of the work;
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringed or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled;
  • Information reasonably sufficient to permit Physiopedia to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted;
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

For this notification to be effective, you must provide it to Physiopedia's designated agent at: Physiopedia, 7 The Maltings, Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, DT2 7JE, UK, [email protected]

In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, Physiopedia maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of Members of the Site who are repeat infringers.