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"Adaptation"
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"Distribute"
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"Entity"
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3.2.1. Reproduce the Work;
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Voluntary Licence Schemes
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Works
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Adaptations
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4.2.1.2. a later version of this Licence with the same Licence Elements as this Licence;
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4.2.1.3. either the Creative Commons (Unported) licence or a Creative Commons licence from another jurisdiction (either this or a later licence version) that contains the same Licence Elements as this Licence (e.g., Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Australia); or
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4.2.3.1. You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for, this Licence with every copy of each Adaptation You Distribute or Publicly Perform.
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Attribution
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Moral rights
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1. Definitions
- 1.1. "Adaptation" means a work based upon the Work, or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, derivative work, arrangement of music, conversion of a non-dramatic literary work into a dramatic work and vice versa , or other alterations of a work. It includes any form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted including in any form recognisably derived from the original, except that a work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of this Licence. Where the Work is a musical work, performance or sound recording, the synchronisation of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of this Licence.
- 1.2. "Collection" means a collective whole – such as encyclopedias and anthologies – which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations, and into which the Work in its entirety in unmodified form is assembled along with one or more other separate and independent works. A work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation (as defined above) for the purposes of this Licence.
- 1.3. "Creative Commons Compatible Licence" means a licence that is listed at https://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses that has been approved by Creative Commons as being essentially equivalent to this Licence, including, at a minimum, because that licence: (i) contains terms that have the same purpose, meaning and effect as the Licence Elements of this Licence; and, (ii) explicitly permits the relicensing of adaptations of works made available under this Licence or a Creative Commons jurisdiction licence with the same Licence Elements as this Licence.
- 1.4. "Diffusion Service" means a telecommunication service of transmissions consisting of sounds, images, signs or signals, which takes place over wires or other paths provided by material substance and intended for reception by specific members of the public; and diffusion shall not be deemed to constitute a performance or a broadcast or as causing sounds, images, signs or signals to be seen or heard; and where sounds, images, signs or signals are displayed or emitted by any receiving apparatus to which they are conveyed by diffusion in such manner as to constitute a performance or a causing of sounds, images, signs or signals to be seen or heard in public, this shall be deemed to be effected by the operation of the receiving apparatus.
- 1.5. "Distribute" means to make available to the public by any means, including publication, electronic communication, broadcast, or transmission in a Diffusion Service.
- 1.6. "Entity" includes a legal person or a number of persons acting together, such as a partnership or an unincorporated association and, where appropriate, a State or an international organisation.
- 1.7. "Licence Elements" means the following licence attributes as selected by Licensor and indicated in the title of this Licence: Attribution, ShareAlike.
- 1.8. "Licensor" means the individual, individuals, Entity or Entities that offer(s) the Work under the terms of this License.
- 1.9. "Original Author" means, in the case of a literary, musical or artistic work, the individual, individuals, Entity or Entities who first made or created the Work or if no individual or Entity can be identified, the publisher; and in addition (i) in the case of a photograph the individual(s) or Entity/Entities who is/are responsible for the composition of the photograph, (ii) in the case of a sound recording the individual(s) or Entity/Entities by whom the arrangements for the making of the sound recording were made, (iii) in case of a cinematograph film the individual(s) or Entity/Entities by whom the arrangement for the making of the film were made, (iv) in case of a broadcast the first broadcaster, (v) in case of a programme-carrying signal the first individual(s) or Entity/Entities emitting the signal to the satellite, (vi) in case of a published edition the publisher of the edition, (vii) in case of a computer-generated literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or computer program the individual(s) or Entity/Entities by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the Work were undertaken, (viii) in case of a computer program the individual(s) or Entity/Entities who exercised control over the making of the computer program, (ix) in the case of a performance the performer, and (x) in any other case the individual(s) or Entity/Entities who made the Work.
- 1.10. "Publicly Perform" means to perform public recitations of the Work and to communicate to the public those public recitations, by any means or process, including by wire or wireless means or public digital performances; to make available to the public Works in such a way that members of the public may access these Works from a place and at a place individually chosen by them; to perform the Work to the public by any means or process and the communication to the public of the performances of the Work, including by public digital performance; to broadcast and rebroadcast the Work by any means including signs, sounds or images.
- 1.11. "Reproduce" means to make copies by any means including, without limitation, by sound or visual recordings and the right of fixation and reproducing fixations of the Work, including storage of a protected performance or phonogram in digital form or other electronic medium. It also includes reproductions made from reproductions of a Work.
- 1.12. "Work" means the copyright-protected material which is offered under the terms of this Licence, including literary, musical and artistic works; cinematograph films; sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; published editions; computer programs and performances; or combinations thereof.
- 1.13. "You" means an individual or Entity exercising rights under this Licence who has not previously violated the terms of this Licence with respect to the Work, or who has received express permission from the Licensor to exercise rights under this Licence despite a previous violation.
2. Copyright exceptions and limitations / fair dealing
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- 3.2.1. Reproduce the Work;
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- 3.2.3. Create and Reproduce Adaptations, provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work (for example, a translation could be marked: "The original work was translated from [language A] to [language B]," or a modification could indicate: "The original work has been modified");
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Voluntary Licence Schemes
The Licensor waives the right to collect royalties (whether individually or, in the event that the Licensor is a member of a collecting society that administers voluntary licensing schemes (e.g., DALRO, NORM, SAMRO or SARRAL), via that society) for any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License. -
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- 4.1.3. You must not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this Licence or the ability of recipients of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to them under the terms of the Licence.
- 4.1.4. You must keep intact all notices that refer to this Licence and to the disclaimer of warranties with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform.
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- 4.1.6. You may not sublicense the Work. Instead, the rights provided under this Licence are granted directly to the recipients of the Work by Clause 8.
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