Creative Commons license

Where noted at various places on the site, some content on CityTools is under the Creative commons nc-by-sa 2.5 license.

Before attemtpting to reuse any content on the site, we encourage you to read the license completely.

Also please note that the only content on the site that is under the Creative Commons license is explicitly marked as such and bears the Creative Commons seal.

In general terms, the Creative Commons license CityTools employs requires that any site wishing to use Creative Commons licensed content shall:

• Be non-commercial Non-commercial sites may use CityTools Creative Commons licensed content, provided they meet the other requirements below. Commercial sites desiring to use the content, should read the "commcercial use" section below.
• Provide full attribution If you use Creative Commons licensed content from the CityTools site you must provide full attribution to the author of the content as well as attribution and a link back to www.citytools.net.
• Share alike! Sites that meet the other conditions above may use Creative Commons licensed content provided that any works in which such content appears are released under the same license.

Commercial Licenses

If you want to use content here for another commercial service, you must contact the content creator and clear those rights.

CityTools retains the copyright only for content generated by its staff members and certain specific member generated content -- such as ratings and other content not under the Creative Commons license. The details of this may be found in our terms and conditions page.

However, the rights to content published under the Creative Commons license areas of CityTools -- such as news stories -- continues to reside with the creator. In addition, CityTools places much of its staff written material under the Creative Commons license as well.

When posting, the rights owner simply agrees to provide CityTools with a perpetual, non-exclusive right to present content submitted on the site. In addition, in the case of content submitted under the Creative Commons license, the member agrees to release the content under those terms.

Utlimately, however, the rights still belong to the original submitter and any commercial reuse of content must be cleared through the rights-holder.

The sole exception to the commercial restrictions is reserved for members of the CityTools news and classified networks service. When posting news stories -- and when posting any classified ad to the CityTools public networks -- members have the opportunity to flag the content for release on the public network.

Members who mark a story for distribution on the public networks expressly permit commercial publishing subscribers of CityTools to use such content in a limited manner. Restrictions to that use are covered in the "licenses" section of our terms and conditions.

For more information on any of this, please e-mail us at info@citytools.net