Rights Management

All content received by Noolaham Foundation must undergo rights research parallel to description and before being digitized or processed. Rights researcher must enter the rights metadata as noted above. Rights research will impact the Digitization Selection Policy.

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.

Access Criteria of Noolaham Foundation

Open access to some of the electronic resources available through the Noolaham Foundation Digital library is limited for the following reasons.

1. To ensure that the intellectual property rights and publication rights of the concerned parties are not violated.

2. To ensure that the potential publishers and authors are not demotivated because of the open access policy.

Basic Criteria
The selected books or documents should be written by a person or persons from Tamil speaking communities or should be about Tamil Speaking communities.

Online access to Tamil Books and Documents
Tamil Books published after 31 st of Dec 2000, should not be given access online without written permission from the right holders. Tamil Books published within three years, should not be given access online, even though permission is granted by the right holder unless the right holder requests immediate online access.

Online Access to Document in English
It includes books, publications and research papers and should be authored by those belonging to the Sri Lanka Tamil speaking community. Access can be given only after obtaining written permission from right holders.

Online access to Magazines and Journals in Tamil
Open access shall be given after obtaining permission from the publishers of the contemporary magazines/ journals. Maximum effort should be taken to obtain permission before giving open access to non-contemporary magazines or magazines gone out of publication.

Online Access to Newspapers in Tamil
Permission should be obtained before giving online access to contemporary newspapers. Maximum effort should be taken to obtain permission before giving open access to non-contemporary newspapers gone out of publication.

Online access to Other Publications and Documents in Tamil
Maximum effort should be made to obtain the permission from the right holders before giving online access