Web Copyrights Guidelines


This is a resource page for issues relating to copyrights and acknowledgments of text and images on web pages. It is maintained by the webwright council, a small group clarifying and facilitating what could be called right net.speech: the right publication of dharma and lineage materials on the net, and on Shambhala web sites in particular.


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Copyright Guidelines

Shambhala has a policy of respecting the copyright laws and intellectual property laws in all countries in which it operates. Shambhala requires all of its centres to respect the rights of copyright holders as well.

We are working towards finding ways to give our centres access to as many images, quotations, etc, as we can, but we want people to ask permission before they use things and to clearly label copyrighted images as such. This applies to web pages as well as to brochures and other print publications.

In general, the author and owner of any work reproduced by you should be attributed. Permission should be requested for such use, except in fair user cases, which pertain to small quotations in appropriate contexts. Please refer to this short article on fair use.

The author and owner may not be the same.

Works by Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

Shambhala Publications publishes books by Trungpa, Rinpoche. Permissions should be obtained from Shambhala Publications as the copyright holder: contact Waylon Lewis (wlewis@shambhala.com) for this.

As a courtesy, and respecting the Vidyadhara's will (which passed on the rights to his works to his wife, Diana J. Mukpo), permission should also be obtained through Carolyn Gimian (cgimian@atcon.com). I.e., permission should be obtained from both Waylon Lewis and Carolyn Gimian, on behalf of Shambhala Publications and Diana J. Mukpo, respectively.

Your copyright notice would read as follows:

© Copyright 1997 Shambhala Publications. Used with permission of Diana J. Mukpo, All Rights Reserved.

Transcripts and other texts are published by Vajradhatu Publications. Permissions to reproduce should be requested from vajrapub@shambhala.org.

Rights to use any photographs, images, or calligraphies should be obtained from the Shambhala Archives (cgimian@atcon.com).

Questions and permissions regarding translated texts should be sent to the Nalanda Translation Committee at nalandatranslation@shambhala.org).

Works by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Permissions should be obtained from David Brown at dbrown@shambhala.org.


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