Blogs@Baruch

Blogs@Baruch is an intellectual and creative environment, maintained by the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute and the Baruch Computing and Technology Center (BCTC), Baruch College, City University of New York. Users of the system must abide by all relevant copyright and other intellectual property laws as well as by The City University of New York’s Policy on Acceptable Use of Computer Resources.  Users are encouraged to use Blogs@Baruch to explore the boundaries of Web publication in support of teaching and learning at Baruch College, with the understanding that the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute or BCTC may decide to remove at any time content that is found to be in violation of University policy, or applicable federal or state statutes, or common laws.

Content License

Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to any blog (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of an Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so. You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same Attribution-ShareAlike license that governs your original Content. Please read the full text of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Amongst other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content on your blog that you syndicate using RSS. All Content on your blog is syndicated for RSS aggregation unless you change your settings to indicate otherwise.

If you prefer to offer your Content on more restrictive terms, you may do so as follows: For Content you submit to your own blog, remove the Creative Commons logo from your blog template (contact us if you require instructions).

For Content you submit to a blog other than your own, label your submission with a full copyright notice, i.e., your name, the word “copyright” or symbol “©” and the year of first publication.

Privacy

As participants in a public Web space, users must also understand that the work they publish on Blogs@Baruch without password protection generally may be browsed or viewed by anyone on the Web. Some features are available to users who wish to protect content or their own identity. Information about protecting content and/or your identity within the system can be found in the Blogs@Baruch documentation.

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