This page contains information regarding CREATIVE COMMONS, COPYRIGHT and COMMENTS POLICY.

I. CREATIVE COMMONS

This weblog carries both original material by the weblog author as well as drawing upon scholarly, journalistic and artistic work of others.

For original writing by the weblog author, a Creative Commons license is held. For more information:

Original work that appears on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

II. COPYRIGHT

For work that has originally appeared elsewhere, attribution for copyright material will be clearly displayed and acknowledged, mindful of international law* about reproduction of articles for educational, non-commercial purposes. Such material is made available on a non-profit basis for education and discussion purposes only and as such constitutes ‘fair use’.

Please notify Peoples Geography if any use infringes copyright and I will duly remove or amend material (ann@peoplesgeography.com).

*As reflected, for example, in US law: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

III. COMMENTS POLICY

1. Comments are welcome and are moderated and approved at the discretion of the weblogger.
2. First-time commenters may have a time-lag between time of posting their comment and appearance on the site–check back usually within 24 hours as it will not immediately appear until it is approved.
3. Commenters must have a valid email address which will not be displayed.
4. Respondents are welcome to include their websites and to trackback.
5. Short, pithy and humorous comments grab everyone’s attention, but longer comments are also invited.
6. Respectful disagreement is fine; courtesy and good reasoning are expected.
7. Commenters who operate hate sites will not be let through, even to play around with and show up their tired rhetoric–comments which are also unduly repetitive with issues already addressed will also be ignored to help preserve everyone’s valuable time.
8. Very occasionally, a comment from a regular poster will be wrongly caught up in the Spam folder and may inadvertantly be cleared. While I do endeavour to check the spam folder and have so far successfully un-spammed a dozen legitimate comments, there is the possibility the Spam folder may be cleared en masse. If this is the case and your comment doesn’t appear, please simply re-post, with my apologies. This happens rarely but it is useful to be mindful that it does happen.
9. Embedded links are welcome, but please be aware that even if you are a regular poster, any comment with more than 2 links will automatically be delayed in the moderation queue until released.

Disclaimer: Any views expressed in posts independent of articles are of the weblogger and not of any affiliated institutions. Any views expressed in articles reflect the article author and are not necessarily the view of the webmistress and weblog owner. Articles may be chosen to demonstrate how a viewpoint is represented, and others may be partly but not wholly agreed with. Views expressed in comments are the sole responsibility of the respondent.