Our objectives include:
- Consolidating content about Jewish places in one central location and displaying it on one map
- Offering content worldwide, free of charge
- Encouraging people to add, improve, and complete content
- Read and print out our articles and other media free of charge, as long as the materials are published under open licenses
- Share them with others and re-use them
- In particular, duplicate them, disseminate them, and make them publicly accessible
- Contribute to and edit our various pages and projects
The precise conditions for these activities arise from the respective license, which is usually – but not always – Creative Commons BY SA 4.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International). Under this license, you can copy and redistribute the content in any medium or format, and use the content for any purpose, even commercially – online or in printed form. Adapting content is allowed under the additional condition that the newly created work is marked as an adaptation and, in case of publication, is under a comparable free license.
The following conditions apply:
- Responsibility – You take responsibility for your adaptations (because we merely make the content accessible)
- Courtesy – You contribute to a pleasant environment and do not insult other users
- Legally compliant behavior – You do not violate any copyrights or other rights
- Do no harm – You do not damage our technical infrastructure
- Respecting third parties’ personality rights – Materials on places of Jewish life in Germany may contain personal information. The personal rights of third parties must not be violated by the online posting of materials. This also applies in particular with regard to the “right to one's own image.”
- Terms of Use – You follow the Terms of Use below when you visit or contribute materials to our sites. In so doing, you are aware of the following: You must always submit contributions and edits that you make to any of our sites or projects under a free license (whenever you post materials that are not already in the public domain). We cannot guarantee a professional review of the materials – the materials are posted by users and their content is not reviewed. The participatory concept of Jewish Places is based on the assumption that erroneous attributions of materials will be subsequently revealed and successively corrected by other users.
Our Terms of Use:
You bear responsibility for your own actions!
Jewish Places merely provides technical infrastructure that you can use. However, you bear legal responsibility for your own posts on Jewish Places. This applies to all materials, including third-party materials that you post and may license. Therefore, for your own protection, it is advisable to exercise caution and avoid posts that may result in criminal or civil penalties in any applicable jurisdiction. The Jewish Museum Berlin does not provide any guarantees, indemnities, or compensation.
Personality rights of third parties
You must ensure that the personal rights of third parties are not violated by what you post online. The right of personality is a fundamental right in German law that serves to protect a person from encroachment on their sphere of life and freedom. This includes the “right to informational self-determination,” i.e. the right to decide for oneself on the disclosure and use of personal data. In the case of documents containing personal data, it is therefore always necessary to check whether this right could be violated. The right to one's own image is a particular manifestation of the right of personality. In principle, a photograph in which an individual person is recognizable and not merely incidental (German: Beiwerk) may not be used without consent.
Copyright, licensing of content
In order to promote the expansion of free knowledge and culture as public assets, all users who contribute to Jewish Places must grant the general public broad permissions to redistribute and reuse their contributions, conditional upon such use respecting attribution rights and granting the same freedoms with respect to the reuse and redistribution of derivative works. In keeping with our goal of making free information available to the widest possible audience, we require that all submitted content be licensed, if necessary, to make it freely reusable by anyone who wishes to access it. You can read the rules of Creative Commons licenses here:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en/
You consent to the following licensing conditions. Materials for which you hold the copyright: If you transmit a text, photograph, or other material for which you hold the copyright, you consent to publish this material under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (“CC-BY-SA”). The only exception is if the project version or the feature requires a different license. In that case, you consent to subject every text you contribute to that specific license.
Attribution
Attribution is an important component of these licenses. We view this as recognition of the work of authors like yourself. By contributing texts, you agree to be attributed in one of the following ways:
- Via a hyperlink to the article (when possible) or by specifying the URL of the article to which you contributed
- The rights owners must be named in all image captions
Importing materials
You may import materials found elsewhere or created by you in co-authorship with others, in which case you warrant that the texts are available under terms consistent with the CC-BY SA 4.0 license. If you import materials under a CC-BY-SA that require attribution, you must attribute the authors appropriately.
No license revocation
If you license materials under CC-BY-SA, you are aware that you cannot unilaterally revoke that license, even if you stop using our services.
Content in the public domain
Public-domain content is welcome! However, it is important that you verify the content’s public domain status. If you contribute content that is in the public domain, you warrant that such material is indeed in the public domain and agree to designate it accordingly. If you reuse or redistribute materials developed by Jewish Places, you agree to credit the rights owners and licensors in one of the following ways:
- Via a hyperlink to the page(s) (when possible) or by specifying the URL of the page(s) you are reusing
- Via a hyperlink (when possible) or URL to another, stable online copy that is freely accessible, satisfies the license, and warrants the attribution of the authors in a manner equivalent to that on the project web pages
Furthermore, please note that materials that originate from an external source and have been imported may be under a license that imposes additional attribution requirements. Users agree to clearly indicate any such additional attribution requirements and other terms of use.
Adaptations
If you make adaptations to material obtained from a project web page, you agree to license the edited or added content under CC-BY-SA 4.0 or a later version.