Terms of Use
Terms of use for this web site.
This document provides the terms of use for the ocw Open Courseware site. If you have any questions please use the feedback form.
Intellectual Property
Course Materials
Course materials made available through ocw OCW are the property of their respective rights holders. Unless otherwise specified the course materials are Copyright ocw and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 2.5.
Comments
All comments posted in ocw 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 2.5.
Representing material posted in ocw by another individual as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your ocw account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.
Liability Disclaimer
Information, advice, opinions, and other expressions in ocw 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 ocw lies with the user of the materials.
Abuse of the ocw OCW Site
The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within ocw. Attempting or succeeding to allow or commit any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your ocw 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 ocw hardware, software, or network resources.
- Users shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of ocw.
- Users shall not post commercial solicitations or "spam" comments in ocw.
- Users shall not attempt to spread viruses, worms, or other files harmful to computer systems and/or networks via ocw.
- Users shall not gather personal information about other users (including, but not limited to, harvesting email addresses) via ocw.
- 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 ocw.
- Users shall refrain from offensive/inflammatory statements or other expressions (for example, offensive images) in ocw.
- Users shall not engage in impersonation or other behavior designed to deceive ocw users and/or community leaders.
- Users shall respect the intellectual freedom of others’ expression of their opinions and ideas.
