Welcome to the Digital Resource Center! The Center for News Literacy ("we" or "us"), is a nonprofit charitable organization whose mission is to ensure that all educators and partners have an easy-to-use web platform to share, create, and improve upon News Literacy learning materials under a free license, or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally, free of charge.
To support our vibrant community, we provide the essential infrastructure and organizational framework for the development of multilingual projects and other endeavors that serve this mission. We strive to make and keep educational and informational content from the projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.
The community — the network of users who are constantly building and using the various sites or projects — are the principal means through which the goals of the mission are achieved. The community contributes to and helps govern our sites. The community undertakes the critical function of creating and enforcing policies for the specific project editions.
You are welcome to join as a contributor, editor or author, but you should follow the policies that govern each of the independent project editions. Each project edition has a team of contributors, editors or authors who work together to create and manage the content on that project edition. You are welcome to join these teams and work with them to improve these projects. Because we are dedicated to making content freely accessible to the public, we generally require that all content you contribute is available under a free license or in the public domain.
For clarity, other organizations, such as local Center for News Literacy chapters and associations, that may share in the same mission are nevertheless legally independent and separate from the Center for News Literacy and have no responsibility for the operations of the website or its content.
The Center for News Literacy is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free multilingual content around the subject of News Literacy to the public free of charge.
You may find some material objectionable or erroneous: Because we provide a wide array of content that is produced or gathered by fellow users, you may encounter material that you find offensive, erroneous, misleading, mislabeled or otherwise objectionable. We therefore ask that you use common sense and proper judgment when using our services.
The projects hosted by the Center for News Literacy only exist because of the vibrant community of users like you who collaborate together to write, edit and curate the content. We happily welcome your participation in this community. We encourage you to be civil and polite in your interactions with others, to act in good faith and to make edits and contributions aimed at furthering the mission of the shared project.
To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users contributing to the projects are required to grant broad permissions to the public to redistribute and re-use their contributions freely, so long as that use is properly attributed and the same freedom to re-use and redistribute is granted to any derivative works. In keeping with our goal of providing free information to the widest possible audience, we require that when necessary all submitted content be licensed so that it is freely reusable by anyone who cares to access it.
You agree that, if you import text under a CC BY-SA license that requires attribution, you must credit the author(s) in a reasonable fashion. Where such credit is commonly given through page histories (such as Center for News Literacy-internal copying), it is sufficient to give attribution in the edit summary, which is recorded in the page history, when importing the text. The attribution requirements are sometimes too intrusive for particular circumstances (regardless of the license), and there may be instances where the Digital Resource Center community decides that imported text cannot be used for that reason.
Nontext media: Nontext media on the projects are available under a variety of different licenses that support the general goal of allowing unrestricted re-use and redistribution. When you contribute nontext media, you agree to comply with the requirements for such licenses as described in our Licensing Policy, and also comply with the requirements of the specific project edition or feature to which you are contributing.
If the text content was imported from another source, it is possible that the content is licensed under a compatible CC BY-SA license but not GFDL (as described in "Importing text," above). In that case, you agree to comply with the compatible CC BY-SA license and do not have the option to re-license it under GFDL. To determine the license that applies to the content that you seek to re-use or redistribute, you should review the page footer, page history, and discussion page.
For any nontext media, you agree to comply with whatever license under which the work has been made available (which can be discovered by clicking on the work and looking at the licensing section on its description page or reviewing an applicable source page for that work). When reusing any content that we host, you agree to comply with the relevant attribution requirements as they pertain to the underlying license or licenses.
When modifying or making additions to any nontext media that you have obtained from a project website, you agree to license the modified or added content in accordance with whatever license under which the work has been made available.
The Center for News Literacy wants to ensure that the content that we host can be reused by other users without fear of liability and that it is not infringing the proprietary rights of others. In fairness to our users, as well as to other creators and copyright holders, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the formalities of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Pursuant to the DMCA, we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, users and account holders of our system and network who are repeat infringers.
If you are the owner of content that is being improperly used on one of the projects without your permission, you may request that the content be removed under the DMCA. To make such a request, please use the "Contact Us" form at the bottom of every page.
Manage otherwise the project websites in a manner designed to facilitate their proper functioning and protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and our users, licensers, partners, and the public.
The Center for News Literacy community and its members may also take action when so allowed by the community or Center for News Literacy policies applicable to the specific project edition, including but not limited to warning, investigating, blocking, or banning users who violate those policies. You agree to comply with the final decisions of dispute resolution bodies that are established by the community for the specific project editions (such as arbitration committees); these decisions may include sanctions as set out by the policy of the specific project edition.
The Center for News Literacy releases official policies from time to time. Some of these policies may be mandatory for a particular project or project edition, and, when they are, you agree to abide by them as applicable.
At the Center for News Literacy, we do our best to provide educational and informational content to a very wide audience, but your use of our services is at your sole risk. We provide these services on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and we expressly disclaim all express or implied warranties of all kinds, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement. We make no warranty that our services will meet your requirements, be safe, secure, uninterrupted, timely, accurate, or error-free, or that your information will be secure.
The Center for News Literacy will not be liable to you or to any other party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, regardless of whether we were advised of the possibility of such damage. In no event shall our liability exceed one thousand U.S. dollars (USD 1000.00) in aggregate. In the case that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you, although our liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
You understand that, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by us, you have no expectation of compensation for any activity, contribution, or idea that you provide to us, the community, or the Center for News Literacy projects or project editions.