Copyright

Plagiarism and Citing Sources

You think we're kidding, but we have zero-tolerance for plagiarism at NowPublic. What do we mean by this? Plagiarism is using previously published work (in print or electronic media) without giving credit to the original author. We recommend you quote no more than 50 words from a given source or authority using our highlight tool and try to keep the number of quotes per story to 3 if possible (we want to hear from you too!)

Paraphrasing information is an option if your rephrasing substantially differs from the original source, but credit must still be given where credit is due. The only exception to this is in using facts that are common knowledge.

We know everybody uses it, but Wikipedia is an anonymous and collectively-written site so no one person is accountable for the information you read there. Needless to say it's not Encyclopedia Britannica, BBC, and the Harvard library rolled into one. It may be a good starting point to inform your article, but do not use it as a primary source. Many articles there are factually incorrect and the site itself is a collection of sources, so you never know who, exactly, you're citing. If you wish to be the go-to expert on a subject, then cite references that supplement, but don't directly mirror, your own words and write articles that are themselves as comprehensive as possible. Bring something fresh to the table or at least that gathers great resources and places them in context.

Infringement Warning

NowPublic respects the intellectual property of others and we expect all users of the nowpublic.com website (the “Site”) to do the same. Allegedly infringing materials on the site may be removed or suspended at any time in accordance with the Terms of Service. Repeated infringement by a user of the Site may, in appropriate circumstances, result in a termination of that user’s access to and use of the Site.

Notification of Infringement

If you believe that any of your work has been copied or published or has otherwise been used in connection with the Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or is otherwise an infringement of your intellectual property rights, please provide NowPublic’s designated agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement (the “Copyright Agent”) with the following information:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
   a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site, with enough detail that we may find it on the web site;
3. your address, telephone number, and email address;
4. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; and
5. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

NowPublic's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

Copyright Agent
Clarity Digital Group, LLC
555 17th Street, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
U.S.A.

By fax: 303-291-8855
By email: legal@nowpublic.com

Counter-Notification

If you elect to send us a counter notification (i.e. in the event we have taken down or disabled access to material that you have contributed to the Site in response to a notice of its infringement), to be effective it must be a written communication provided to our Copyright Agent that includes substantially the following:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the user;
2. identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
3. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;
4. your name, address, and telephone number; and
5. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court in the district in which your address is located or, if your address is outside the United States, that you consent to any jurisdiction where NowPublic may be found, and that you will accept service if process originates from the complainant who provided an Infringement Notice or from the agent for such person.

Such Counter-Notification should be sent to NowPublic's Copyright Agent as follows:

Copyright Agent
Clarity Digital Group, LLC
555 17th Street, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
U.S.A.

By fax: 303-291-8855
By email: legal@nowpublic.com