Indie Film Intellectual Property Resource Site (indiefilmip.net) Terms of Service (“Agreement”)
This Agreement was last updated on March 31st, 2022.
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The full legal code for the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, referenced below, also includes a disclaimer and limitation of liability clause. Please see “Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability” in that document.
Full legal code for the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
– Creative Commons
Considerations for Licensees
– Creative Commons
Also remember that it may be possible to comply with the rules for the license, but still be committing plagiarism. Please see this article from copyright and plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey for more details:
What Is Creative Commons Anyway?
– Plagiarism.org
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