Noolaham Policy on Intellectual Property Rights

Noolaham Foundation respects Intellectual Property Rights. Noolaham Foundation identifies a risk related to open access policy. Promoting open access might demotivate the publishers and authors to write and publish.

Objectives of Policy

• To provide clear vision and consistent message to stakeholders, Governments, Rights holders about the Noolaham Foundation’s position on Intellectual Property Rights
• To inform the public and clients as to how the intellectual properties created by Noolaham Foundation shall be accessed and utilized.

Noolaham Foundation’s Commitment

• Noolaham Foundation respects Intellectual Property Rights
• Noolaham Foundation utmost priority to resolve any complaints & issues related to property rights.
• Noolaham Foundation shall develop criteria for access policy so that authors and publishers will not be demotivated.

Policy Implementation

1. Intellectual Property of Noolaham Foundation
All Intellectual Propertiescreated by the Foundation should be distributed as free content (copyleft) or open content. Thus the publications should be released under either

• Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) (for corporate publications such as the Annual Report) or
• Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (for all other publications)
• All information content created by the Foundation are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 meaning that all content for which the Foundation owns the copyright may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license.

2. Intellectual Properties of third party

• Permission / consents should be obtained for any items before it is archived and given access to end user.
• Noolaham Foundation gives access based on Access Criteria.