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Fair Use Policy
Summary: This document describes the terms and conditions for linking to, reproducing, and using the materials located in the Purdue OWL, the Purdue OWL News, and the Writing Lab at Purdue sites.
Terms and Conditions of Fair Use
This site is copyright ©1995-2009 by The Writing Lab & OWL at Purdue University and Purdue University. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. We are glad to make materials of all kinds available to users from all over the world. However, in order to protect our rights with regard to the materials we have created, we request that you abide by the following policies. Your use of the site and any materials contained therein will constitute your acceptance of the following terms and conditions.
Personal, Educational, and Training Use
The Purdue OWL is freely available for all educational, personal, or training purposes.
- You may print pages of the Purdue OWL's instructional materials (handouts) or use other media free of charge. When printing any of our handouts, you may not modify them in any way. The copyright notice and the URL for the document being distributed must appear on each one of the Purdue OWL instructional materials you print.
- You may freely make copies of OWL materials for personal, educational, or training purposes. When photocopying any of our handouts, you may not modify them in any way. The copyright notice and the URL for the document being distributed must appear on each one of the Purdue OWL instructional materials you print
- In the case of materials such as our PowerPoint presentations, you may not modify this material in any way, and the OWL copyright notice and authorship information must remain intact.
- You may not download or reproduce our graphics or visuals separate from the documents that contain them. This includes the OWL at Purdue logo, the Writing Lab at Purdue logo, or handout graphics.
- Employee trainers, government training, workshop leaders. You may print and distribute pages of the Purdue OWL's instructional materials (our handouts) at no charge if the materials are for non-profit training purposes, such as ESL training for employees.
Using Materials: Other Commercial Uses
No commercial use of the Purdue OWL is permitted. These uses include:
- If any profit is connected to the use of the materials (including reprinting materials in a book, using them as part of a for-profit training course, reprinting screenshot, etc).
- If any fee is charged, or if providing such materials enhances your commercial interests.
- Commercial websites, book authors, and other for-profit services are still welcome to link to the Purdue OWL. See the "Linking to the Purdue OWL" section below.
MIRRORING OR TRANSFERRING PURDUE OWL MATERIALS TO A WEBSITE WITHOUT A LICENSE AGREEMENT IS NOT LEGAL AND THE REQUESTING PARTY WILL NOT BE GIVEN AUTHORIZATION.
Linking to the Purdue OWL
You are free to link to http://owl.english.purdue.edu without notifying us or asking permission. Links should be attributed to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).
In order to help us serve OWL users better and to keep our own personal records, however, we would appreciate knowing about links to our site. Please send email to the OWL Coordinator when you link to our site, telling us what site will be linking to us. Information about who links to our site will be kept confidential.
All links must be directly to the Purdue OWL site. You may not download materials to other sites or hard-drives for users to link to. MIRRORING OR TRANSFERRING PURDUE OWL MATERIALS TO A WEBSITE IS NOT LEGAL AND THE REQUESTING PARTY WILL NOT BE GIVEN AUTHORIZATION.
ANY PRESENTATION OF OWL MATERIALS THAT PRESENTS THEM WITH COMMERCIAL CONTENT ATTACHED OR SO THAT THEY APPEAR TO BE THE PROPERTY OR WORK OF ANOTHER IS NOT PERMITTED. Examples of such presentation would include linking within a frame that includes advertisements or linking within a frame so that The OWL Family of Sites' materials appear to be part of another site. While we recognize that there are legitimate uses for frames, we would prefer that links to OWL be unframed.
Contact information
Please contact the OWL Coordinator if you need further information regarding permissions, or you may write to the OWL staff at:
OWL at Purdue Staff
Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2038
When to Contact OWL
Please note that you only need to contact OWL when:
- When linking to us.
- For any requests not covered under the Terms and Conditions of Fair Use.
Individuals wishing to print or photocopy materials for their own education or reference DO NOT need to contact us. Please read through our fair use policy before contacting us. Thank you for using our site.