Intellectual Property Guidelines
- Nicolette delMuro
- I. Christopher
Version: 1.0.0
Last Revised: December 2024
Overview
This documentation covers guidelines related to intellectual property in the context of the Apply Tampa Bay Scholarship Search. By participating in the Apply Tampa Bay Council, contributors acknowledge these intellectual property guidelines and agree to comply with these terms.
IP Guidelines
General
The mission of the NSPA is to cultivate and empower our scholarship community with the knowledge, skills, and resources to strengthen the impact of scholarships. Accordingly, the NSPA publishes and otherwise disseminates information. These guidelines ensure that NSPA can share information without infringing others' intellectual property rights.
Copyright
The Apply Tampa Bay Council follows common (and common-sense) practices regarding copyrights. Contributions made in the context of the initiative are irrevocably licensed to the NSPA or its designated copyright owner:
To make any contribution available to other contributors and the general public to consider its inclusion.
To distribute the contribution included, in whole or in part.
To disseminate contributions via technical or nontechnical documentation, white papers, blog posts, or other publications, in whole or in part.
The copyright of the final publications into which contributions are incorporated will be owned by the NSPA or its designated copyright owner.
NSPA can and will provide credit for participating organizations' copyrighted or trademarked material shared under these guidelines. Simply request credit when furnishing contributions if it’s not obvious from the material itself.
Confidentiality
Whether written or verbal, contributions made in the context of the Apply Tampa Bay Council will not be treated as confidential. The council is, by design, collaborative and intended to provide a public benefit. So, please do not make any contributions you do not wish to disclose to Council members or the public.
That said, sharing information more broadly than the Council participants will typically follow the Chatham House Rule. In brief, this means that comments and contributions may be shared, but the person or organization making the comment will not be revealed. For example, a pointed comment might be shared broadly as “A foundation raised an objection to using the proposed filter for the following reasons…” or similar.