Copyright & attribution

We believe that making our content freely available for non-commercial purposes is an integral part of promoting a global debate on free expression. We think the best way to do this online is a Creative Commons licence, developed as a way of maximising the free expression possibilities of the internet. It allows all users contributing content to set the terms for how others can republish or translate their content, without having to seek prior permission every time.

All content contributed by registered users or friends of the website is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/. You should read the licence on the Creative Commons website, but this broadly means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the content and to make derivative works of it, provided you give credit to the original author of the content, do not use the content for commercial purposes and distribute any derivative work under the same Creative Commons licence.

Where you make use of any content online, we ask that you include a link to the original item. For example: “Originally published on Free Speech Debate (www.freespeechdebate.com), under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ”

Please note that some of our images are from copyright-protected sources (for example, Getty Images). Before copying, distributing or displaying those images you may need to seek a licence from the copyright holder. Also note  that the personal commentaries by Timothy Garton Ash and quotations from other contributions to the website may subsequently be used in a commercial publication.

This page provides only a summary of the Copyright and attribution issues discussed on it. Please see our Terms of use for full details in relation to licences provided to and by the University.

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