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Terms of Use
This document provides the terms of use for the Fahamu Open Courseware site.
Intellectual Property
All comments posted in Fahamu OCW are the property of their authors and are licensed for display, copying, reuse, and distribution according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0. The full text of the license is available online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
Representing material posted in Fahamu by another individual as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your Fahamu account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.
Liability Disclaimer
Information, advice, opinions, and other expressions in Fahamu are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The entire liability for any use of any materials available through Fahamu lies with the user of the materials.
Abuse of the Fahamu OCW Site
The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within Fahamu. Attempting or succeeding to allow or commit any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your Fahamu account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Users shall not do anything to intentionally degrade the performance of Fahamu hardware, software, or network resources.
- Users shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of Fahamu.
- Users shall not post commercial solicitations or "spam" comments in Fahamu.
- Users shall not attempt to spread viruses, worms, or other files harmful to computer systems and/or networks via Fahamu.
- Users shall not gather personal information about other users (including, but not limited to, harvesting email addresses) via Fahamu.
- Users shall not share their password or account with other individuals.
- Users shall refrain from making harassing, intimidating, or libelous statements or other expressions in Fahamu.
- Users shall refrain from offensive/inflammatory statements or other expressions (for example, offensive images) in Fahamu.
- Users shall not engage in impersonation or other behavior designed to deceive Fahamu users and/or community leaders.
- Users shall respect the intellectual freedom of others’ expression of their opinions and ideas.
