Copyright Policy

This copyright policy sets out how users are permitted to use our content and also explains the types of use that require the purchase of additional licences. This policy forms part of our terms and conditions. Thank you for reading this policy: our ability to invest in high quality production, technology and journalism depends on our users complying with it. We reserve the right to change our copyright policy from time to time by publishing an updated policy on faculti.net, which shall become effective and replace any previous policy with effect from publication. This version of the copyright policy was published on 1st September 2023.

What is copyright?

Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. All of the material published on our website and our app is protected by copyright law and should only be used as set out in the “How may I use Faculti content?” section below. Use that is made without our permission may therefore infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability. Where we state below that something is not allowed or permitted, then to do so is a breach of our terms and conditions: that is, it is a breach of contract, and may also violate copyright law.

How may I use Faculti content?

You may do the following:

View our content for your personal use on any device that is compatible with Faculti.net (this might be your PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device) and store our content on that device for your personal use;
Print pdf copies of summaries, transcripts, key quotes, key points, transcriptions and translations on paper for your personal use;
Share links to videos by using any sharing tools we make available.

How may I republish or redistribute Faculti content?

Except as set out above, you may not copy Faculti content from Faculti.net or any third party source of Faculti.net content such as news aggregators, social media sites and you may not republish or redistribute video insights, full text summaries, transcripts, key quotes, key points, transcriptions and translations for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets.

We recognise that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We therefore permit limited republishing and redistribution of Faculti content as set out below provided that this does not create a Substitute for Faculti’s own products or services.

As long as you do not create a Substitute, you may do the following:

Publish or share online, the original Faculti post headline, including resharing the social media post of the Faculti post headline, and a URL link to the video and a summary of a video (what we call teaser text);
Forward the original headlines, links and teaser text to other individuals;
Link to the original Faculti post headline and a URL link to the video and a summary of a video on external url pages, these are blog pages, professional pages (eg Linkedin, Researchgate, Academia.edu, own professional bio/cv page) VLEs, within email signatures.
Download our RSS feeds and view them for your personal use. We currently publish new posts and teaser text within our RSS feeds. You may also make an RSS feed available to third parties, users within an organisation you work for or users of a website that you publish, on condition that you comply with the restrictions set out below.

The restrictions that apply to use of our RSS feeds are that you:

only publish the feed for access via a web-based browser.
do not use or publish the feed as part of a paid for service or for other commercial gain.
publish the feed as it is made available on Faculti.net, so that you only include the headline and teaser content, and ensure that the headline links back to the full text article on Faculti.net.
attribute the feed to the Faculti as “© Faculti Media Limited [year]”.
do not archive the feed or any of its content.
comply with our guidelines on usage of Faculti logos.

How am I allowed to link to Faculti content?

If you would like to link to Faculti.net, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to Faculti.net:

may display an Faculti logo to indicate the source of the link, but must not otherwise use any Faculti trade marks without permission from Faculti;
must not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Faculti logo;
may link to the homepage of Faculti.net, and, provided that you comply with this copyright policy, may also link to other pages of Faculti.net;
must not be a Substitute;
must not in any way imply that Facultis endorsing it or its products or services;
must not misrepresent its relationship with Faculti or present false information about Faculti;
must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations; and
must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.

What am I not permitted to do with Faculti content?

You cannot do anything other than make use of the content as set out above, unless you buy the appropriate licence (see below for details). By way of example only, this means that you cannot:

If you are a registered user or subscriber, share your user name and password with anyone else. A password is for one person’s use. Sharing a password means a copy of our content may subsequently be made by someone who is not authorised to do so. Password sharing is a breach of our terms and conditions and is likely to result in an infringement of copyright. We monitor usage to detect password sharing.
Copy, publish or redistribute full videos, summaries, transcripts, key quotes, key points, transcriptions and translations, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
Create derivative works from our content.
Remove the copyright notice from any copies of Faculti content.
Use spidering technology or other datamining technologies to search and link to Faculti.net.
Create a database in electronic or structured manual from by systematically and/or regularly downloading, caching, printing and storing all or any Faculti content (by spidering or otherwise).
Use any of our content or data (including any associated metadata) in any manner for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, including without limitation for the purposes of training or development of artificial intelligence technologies or tools or machine learning language models, or otherwise for the purposes of using or in connection with the use of such technologies, tools or models to generate any data or content and/or to synthesise or combine with any other data or content.
Frame, harvest or scrape Faculti content or otherwise access Faculti content for similar purposes.
Use or attempt to use Faculti content outside the parameters we set depending on what subscription you have.

For more information on please refer to Terms and Conditions

For more information on academic institution licencing or pro licencing refer herein