This is our legal stuff page.
Canons of Conduct
Historic Millburn Community Association,
Incorporated
Not for Profit Status
Our website is primarily for educational and informational purposes. We do not intend
to profit from it. We can include small statements about our sources of income (donations,
bequests, and memberships) but only to mention them in passing. Direct
appeals for funds are to be avoided.
Educational Purpose
We encourage personal and private use of the information as a learning tool, but don’t
wish anyone else to profit from our work. Commercial use of information on our website
should be discouraged with an appropriate statement. The HMCA, Inc. may consider licensing
any portion of the material for commercial purposes.
Copyright
We should not post any known copyrighted material without seeking a release. There will be
cases where a release cannot be obtained, either because the information in our files is
uncredited or the author is deceased. Small excerpts can be used with proper attribution
just as an author of a paper might make a citation with a footnote ("fair use", since we
consider ourselves an educational and non-profit entity).
Where HMCA, Inc., holds the original of a work, not previously published or copyrighted,
and the author is deceased, we will assume to be the holder of the copyright since we are
publishing it for the first time. This would apply to material which we have transcribed
from private papers and scrapbooks. We presume that the author desired this transfer of
ownership at the time they donated it to our collection. The original author of the material
should always be listed with the material, such as "from the scrapbooks of".
All photographs posted on our website should receive attribution. This is not possible
for a large number of loose photographs that are in the museum’s files, which should
receive the attribution "from the collection of the Historic Millburn Community Association,
Inc.". Where attribution is known, a simple "by Paul Yuska for Historic Nomination" should
suffice. A photographer may reserve his rights to photographs, in which case the attribution
should contain his copyright, such as "Copyright Paul Yuska, 1976.
Material in dispute should be removed from the website until the dispute is settled.
Privacy
There is a point where detailing historical events begins to invade an individual's privacy.
Our website should not invade a person’s privacy. For historical purposes, we should generally
avoid personal details of events that took place more recently than fifty years ago.
Exceptions should be noted to cover any situation where we have an individual’s permission.
Any newspaper article, obituary, or other matter of public record is exempt and can be
detailed on the website. Any program or operation of the HMCA, Inc. or action of board members
is likewise exempt from this restriction.
When considering the posting of material more recent than fifty years, it is possible
to replace a person’s name with a series of underscores to hold the place of the deletion.
Maintenance Responsibility
The information on our website should be kept up to date and improved over time. An effort
should be made to incorporate corrections on a timely basis. Where information is found to
be inaccurate, it should be corrected.
In the event of a invasion of privacy or copyright complaint, the information should be
pulled from the web pending the outcome of a review.
General copyright guidelines:
- If printed, published, or written before 1925 - use it
- Between 1925 and 1960, try to get a release before using it
- After 1960, get a release before using it
Contact the Historic Millburn Community Association, Inc. to
discuss any point.
