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Terms of Use

Terms of use for this web site.

This document provides the terms of use for the CORE's courses Open Courseware site. If you have any questions please email postmaster@localhost.

Intellectual Property

Course Materials

Course materials made available through CORE's courses OCW are the property of their respective rights holders. Unless otherwise specified the course materials are Copyright CORE's courses and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 2.5.

Comments

All comments posted in CORE's courses 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 CORE's courses by another individual as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your CORE's courses account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.

Liability Disclaimer

Information, advice, opinions, and other expressions in CORE's courses 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 CORE's courses lies with the user of the materials.

Abuse of the CORE's courses OCW Site

The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within CORE's courses. Attempting or succeeding to allow or commit any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your CORE's courses 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 CORE's courses hardware, software, or network resources.
  • Users shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of CORE's courses.
  • Users shall not post commercial solicitations or "spam" comments in CORE's courses.
  • Users shall not attempt to spread viruses, worms, or other files harmful to computer systems and/or networks via CORE's courses.
  • Users shall not gather personal information about other users (including, but not limited to, harvesting email addresses) via CORE's courses.
  • 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 CORE's courses.
  • Users shall refrain from offensive/inflammatory statements or other expressions (for example, offensive images) in CORE's courses.
  • Users shall not engage in impersonation or other behavior designed to deceive CORE's courses users and/or community leaders.
  • Users shall respect the intellectual freedom of others’ expression of their opinions and ideas.
Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Terms of Use. (2007, December 12). Retrieved January 06, 2009, from CORE OCW Web site: http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE/About/terms_of_use. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License