Re-using our material: free but recognizing the source

Each article published on CWCommunity.org will be usually published as a free "focus material" paper: only few sections and articles will require a form of donation, payment, or subscription.

As with our BusinessFitnessMagazine.Com online magazine, published first in 2003, the purpose is twofold:

* Sharing knowledge, and showing expertise (marketing, if you want)

* Saving time, as we do not focus on selling high-volume consulting ("billable hours")

Why we do not ask you to register?

By sharing the material published here I did a radical choice: I scrapped all the registration requirements, shifting instead to a bona-fide attitude.

If you read documents online, you, like anybody else have certainly more than your fair share of registrations.

I prefer to say: if somebody likes what (s)he reads, (s)he will come back to read more and probably share the knowledge with others, and maybe find a way or another to contribute.

Is access to the material free

In the end, my purpose is: increasing exposure, by giving to you, the readers, something for free that you would usually require at least time- and probably also some money.

That's why you can see advertisement on all our websites: few of our readers will become customers for our consulting services, and therefore advertisement is just another revenue stream, sustaining the production of new material.

Some material will be subscription-only, or allow a preview and question-and-answer service only to subscribers (paid or otherwise), e.g. like the informal travel planning service around Europe that I give once in a while to my friends online and offline.

Are there any limits, copyright, licensing to reuse the material?

Except when otherwise marked at the end of each section of an article (usually, for licensed material), you will not be asked to license, pay, negotiate, and so on.

I ask you only to:

• Contact me to deliver your feed-back
• If possible, deliver an electronic (PDF) copy of any material where you use our material
• Share the link with whoever you think that could benefit from this material
• Quote in the bibliography author, title, publishing link, with the following information, in order:
  • Author
  • "Title"
  • (c) Copyright 2008 CWCommunity.org
  • (www.cwcommunity.org)
    
    

Remember the meaning of "fair use": if you want to use (online or with other media) more than 2 phrases of each article (including when the article is divided in sections or chapters: it counts as one article)- insert the link to the title instead, and me us for an abstract (if it is not already provided in this site), tailored to the context of your publication: I do not write to generate traffic for your website or sales for your publication ;-)

Complaints and suggestions

Please contact me if you have any complaints (e.g. source attribution, erroneous bibliography) or suggestion for improvements or further subjects that you would like to see discussed by us

Reporting misuses

As written above, to simplify both your and our life, I disposed with the mandatory registration used by many sites (also, because I hate spamming).

But some people unfortunately in the past copyrighted or patented business processes that we distributed for free on the web in late 1990s- and that's why for few years we did not publish any material online: we could not waste time to wrestle with patent lawyers to challenge patents obtained on our material.

Recent patent law changes in U.S.A. made our life simpler, along with a common consensus on where the patent law is heading to.

But I still see consulting companies obtaining trademarks on common names, including some that I and others used online (check in archive.org) before they obtained the trademark.

So, if you see my material misused by third parties without a proper attribution, please let me know, by sending the public accessible references and, if not confidential or proprietary restricted, links or indication where I can get copy of said material.

Your help will allow me to continue adding new material online for free.