Terms of Service

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Copyright, or the lack thereof

If this web site has a price of admission, you might say it's the release of copyright from the information you post. It's not possible to keep regular copyright protections over submitted content and have a wiki function, as every person building on the material would be violating copyright protections of earlier authors. This particular wiki uses the most liberal copyright protection scheme available, that of the public domain. This means that anyone can use the material for any purpose without attribution. (The most famous wiki, Wikipedia, requires people to link to Wikipedia when copying their material.)

You absolutely must not post copyrighted material to the site. This creates a lot of work for administrators and can subject the site to unfriendly legal machinations. If you want to post information outside of the public domain, you can upload it as a file and include the copyright information in the summary for the file.

Verifiability of accounts

To prevent vandalism and similar abuse, wikis usually either police edits heavily or impose some kind of limit on membership. This wiki limits membership to law students and law professors using their real names. In order to verify this, you are asked to provide your real name, the .edu e-mail address at your school, and your graduation date. This allows administrators to look up account holders in a law school directory to ensure that they are real people. If for some reason you did not provide this information at sign-up, your account may be blocked until you do provide it.

Rules

At the moment, there are no official rules regarding language. Wikis are founded on free expression, and school behavior policies already regulate abusive speech.

Unlike Wikipedia, this wiki does not strive to have a definitive version of any article. If two authors disagree about a subject, their views need not be merged, but should rather be placed side by side. You are encouraged to be bold when editing, but if you suspect that your changes reflect a philosophical disagreement with an earlier author, it's probably better to create a separate section within the page noting your disagreement.