IMR Media Pvt Ltd – Copyright Policy
Our ability to invest in high quality journalism depends on our users complying with this Section.
This copyright policy sets out how users are permitted to use our content and also explains the types of use that require the purchase of additional licences. This policy forms part of our terms and conditions. Thank you for reading this policy: our ability to invest in high quality journalism depends on our users complying with it. We reserve the right to change our copyright policy from time to time by publishing an updated policy on www.imrmedia.in, which shall become effective and replace any previous policy with effect from publication. This version of the copyright policy was published on 1 May 2020.
What is copyright?
Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. All of the material published on our website and other digital/wireless platforms is protected by copyright law and should only be used as set out in the “How may I use IMR content?” section below. Use that is made without our permission may therefore infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability. Where we state below that something is not allowed or permitted, then to do so is a breach of our terms and conditions: that is, it is a breach of contract, and may also violate copyright law.
How may I use IMR content?
All IMR Content belongs to IMR or its licensors who own all intellectual property rights (including copyright and database rights) in the IMR Content and any selection or arrangement of the IMR Content. No intellectual property rights in any IMR Content are transferred to you. ”IMR” and ”Indian Military Review” are registered trade marks and you may not use them without written permission from IMR Media Pvt Ltd.
You may do the following:
View our content for your personal use on any device that is compatible with www.imrmedia.in (this might be your PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device) and store our content on that device for your personal use;
Print single copies of articles on paper for your personal use;
Share links to articles by using any sharing tools we make available.
How may I republish or redistribute IMR content?
Except as set out above, you may not copy IMR content from www.imrmedia.in or any third party source of IMR content such as news aggregators and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets that reduces the need for users or other third parties to pay for IMR content directly, or which creates revenue from the IMR’s content to the detriment of IMR’s own ability to generate revenues from that content.
As long as you do not create a Substitute, you may do the following:
Publish online, the original IMR headline and a link to the article and the first 75 characters of an article (what we call teaser text);
Forward the original headlines, links and teaser text to other individuals; Attribute them to IMR as “© Indian Military Review”.
do not archive the IMR contents for use by others.
Am I allowed to copy or summarise limited parts of IMR full text content?
As specified above you may not republish or redistribute full text articles (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
You may, however, republish or redistribute ”Summaries” or “Abstracts” or “Extracts” of IMR articles if you comply with the conditions set out below. By “extract” we mean 30 words copied verbatim from an IMR article which are inserted into a longer original work . By “abstract” we mean a 30 word non-verbatim summary of the news or facts reported in an IMR article which does not form part of a longer work and does not misrepresent the original IMR article.
These are the conditions you must comply with in order to produce summaries:
you source Indian Military Review as the author of any article from which you have derived a summary by way of an attribution such as “[author name] at the Indian Military Review reported that”, with a hypertext link from the word “Indian Military Review” to the original story published on www.imrmedia.in;
in the case of abstracts, you make clear that the abstract has been produced by you by stating “this abstract from Indian Military Review was produced by [name]”, with a hypertext link from the word “Indian Military Review” to the original story published on www.imrmedia.in;
you ensure that your summaries do not in whole or in part form a Substitute for IMR’s own products and services. The more summaries you create the greater the risk of substitution. No individual or organisation may create, republish or redistribute more than four summaries in aggregate each day, each one sourced from a different IMR article that is published on the same day you create the summary;
you do not use or create summaries that promote or endorse any product or service; and
if IMR notifies you that it believes you are creating, republishing or redistributing summaries outside of these parameters, you shall immediately cease doing so and your rights to create summaries shall be regarded as having been withdrawn, unless/until IMR reaches an agreement with you regarding your use of IMR articles.
Please note that these rights do not extend to content, data or other material published by IMR that we licence from third parties which you may not republish or redistribute.
How am I allowed to link to IMR content?
If you would like to link to www.imrmedia.in, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to www.imrmedia.in:
a. may display an IMR logo (view our brand guidelines) to indicate the source of the link, but must not otherwise use any IMR trade marks without permission from IMR;
b. must not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the IMR logo;
c. may link to the homepage of www.imrmedia.in, and, provided that you comply with this copyright policy, may also link to other pages of www.imrmedia.in;
d. must not be a Substitute;
e. must not in any way imply that IMR is endorsing it or its products or services;
f. must not misrepresent its relationship with IMR or present false information about IMR;
g. must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations; and
h. must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.
What am I not permitted to do with IMR content?
You cannot do anything other than make use of the content as set out above, unless you buy the appropriate licence (see below for details). By way of example only, this means that you cannot:
a. If you are a registered user or subscriber, share your user name and password (which includes PINs) with anyone else. A password is for one person’s use. Sharing a password means a copy of our content may subsequently be made by someone who is not authorised to do so. Password sharing is a breach of our terms and conditions and is likely to result in an infringement of copyright. We monitor usage to detect password sharing.
b. Copy, publish or redistribute full text articles, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
c. Create derivative works from our content, unless you are creating summaries as described above.
d. Photocopy or scan copies of articles.
e. Remove the copyright or or trade mark notice from any copies of IMR content.
f. Use spidering technology or other datamining technologies to search and link to www.imrmedia.in.
g. Create a database in electronic or structured manual from by systematically and/or regularly downloading, caching, printing and storing all or any IMR content (by spidering or otherwise).
h. Frame, harvest or scrape IMR content or otherwise access IMR content for similar purposes.
i. Use or attempt to use IMR content outside the parameters we set depending on what subscription you have.
User Content
You will retain ownership of the copyright in any of your UGC that you or we publish on www.imrmedia.in so you are free to re-use it as you wish. You agree that if you post UGC to a Forum then you are granting IMR a right (but not an obligation) unlimited in time to publish, re-use, archive, modify, delete or commercially exploit that UGC in whole or in part as we see fit, whether on www.imrmedia.in or otherwise, without any requirement to pay you for this and with or without attribution to you. This means that you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use any UGC you publish in whole or in part in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever and without further obligation to you. You also waive any moral rights that you may have in regard to the UGC. Only publish UGC that is your original content and will not infringe the copyright or other rights of any third party when publishing UGC.
Copyright Over Software
Copyright in any software that is made available for download from www.imrmedia.in belongs to IMR or its suppliers. Your use of the software is governed by the terms of any licence agreement that may accompany or be included with the software. Do not install or use any of this software unless you agree to such licence agreement. IMR is not responsible for any technical or other issues that may happen if you download third party software.
