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We hope you find the content on this site useful and encourage you to utilize and re-use to the extent possible.  Since content available on this site has come from a variety of sources, you should check to see if there are any restrictions on how you can re-use the content.

If there is no re-use information associated with an item, then you should assume it is in a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY - Attribution), as described below.  This means you are free to re-use and re-post the content, providing you indicate who created it and include a link to the source.

  • Images from our Flickr group each carry an individual license, typically shown to the right of the image.
  • The webquests are provided in a CC-BY attribution license.
  • Videos and screencasts created by our team (and marked as such) are provided in a CC-BY attribution license.
  • Research papers and other documents that are published are typically copyrighted by the publishing journal and may not be re-distributed without permission.

Each piece of information (image, text description, etc.) from The Complex Life Biota LifeDesk carries an individual license, typically shown below the piece of information.

Common Licenses

The Creative Commons has set up a robust, free, easy-to-use set of protocols by which content owners can easily mark their creative work with the freedoms or restrictions that they want the information to carry. The most common licenses, both by creative commons and in general, are shown below.

  • CC-BY (Attribution), which allows users to copy, transmit and reuse the information, and to remix or adapt the information, as long as attribution regarding the source of the information is maintained. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
  • CC-BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike), which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
  • CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial), which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that you may not use this work for commercial purposes. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
  • CC-BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license and that you may not use this work for commercial puroposes. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
  • Public domain content can be re-used and modified with no restrictions.
  • Copyrighted content cannot be re-used or modified without permission from the copyright holder.

If you wish to re-use any content for purposes other than those allowed by the associated Creative Commons license, you must get permission to do so from the copyright holder (Source).