Copyright is the right of any author. It applies to everything I pen. Don't take this material and present it as yours. Having said this, much of the material here is available for public distribution if you don't change the text.
 Internet Informed - Internet Version
 Chapters 1 & 2 of my book, Internet Informed, are packaged and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. It is intended to be passed around but not chopped up, commercialized or passed off as someone else's work. The Creative Commons License is a very permissive (described here). You can, for instance, host a copy of the document on your own website if you like. Download Internet Informed - Chapters 1 & 2 - from SpireProject.com#book.
FAQs and Other public Documents...
The Information Research FAQ is another of my public documents released in an earlier manner for popular use and distribution. The short beyond.mp3 from my AudioCD is also for public distribution. With both, you can pass around, read/play or host as you wish provided you attribute, do not commercialize and do not alter. A Catalan and Spanish version of the FAQ exists, though you must contact the translator to see if they applied any additional limitations.
As an aside, for a time I bundled my complete website and made it available for hosting elsewhere. You can still see various copies of the early Spire Project on certain university and private websites. They are an artifact from an earlier time. (No, you may no longer copy the whole website.)
400 Words...
Permission is granted for attributed use of statements in this website, provided such quotations are not longer than 400 words in total. I hope this helps. For example, you could incorporate 400 of my words - attributed of course - into a school handout or sales brochure and that is fine with me. An email to David (via the email form at the base of SpireProject.com) is optional. Requests for longer quotations are usually agreed to but get permission first.
The book is different.
Permission is NOT granted to reprint information found within the book - unless it is also found on SpireProject.com. I have not released the book as a public document. I cannot afford to. There are two exceptions. Firstly, as described above, chapters one and two are published under a Creative Commons License. Secondly, I will personally use the Prologue in promoting the book. I will list further exceptions here.
This is not to say I won't authorize use of the text in the book, just that you must receive specific permission to use it. By the way, if you see a large and suspicious book excerpt, perhaps you could drop me a note.
Ask for other permissions...
In the past, I have allowed large documents from my website to be printed and held at a public library. I have allowed a high school to pass out certain articles as handouts. For specific permissions, contact me directly using the form at the bottom of SpireProject.com
David Novak
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