Hi everyone, Thank you Phil for promoting the Online Volunteering service of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme!
As UNV has this nice reputation of being quick to answer questions and providing guidance, let us clarify this copyright issue: As Phil mentioned, the copyright notice (Copyright and Terms of Use, paragraph I. http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/copyright.html) refers to the content of the website - “materials provided at this Site” - not to the products of online volunteers’ work. For these, paragraph II.G.2. applies “The details regarding a particular opportunity for which a Registered User applied, regarding, inter alia, deliverables (including copyright), scheduling, collaboration processes and prerequisites are agreed between the Organization and the Registered User. UNV is not involved in such arrangements and has no responsibility or liability in connection therewith.” And obviously, UNV has no copyright for these products. As far as we are aware, the online volunteers usually grant their copyrights to the organization for which they develop a product, be it a logo, course, software, etc. For the privacy policy and your concern regarding point IV.d. (http:// www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/privacy.html), this is standard UN policy. You may wish to consult http://www.undp.org/idp/ for more information on how this policy is applied. Of course, we are at your disposal should you need any further clarification on this or guidance on our processes. We would be happy to support the WikiEducator volunteer effort and look forward to receiving your application! Best regards from Bonn, Elise Elise Bouvet Online Volunteering Programme Specialist Online Volunteering service United Nations Volunteers www.unvolunteers.org www.onlinevolunteering.org +49 228 815 23 05 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
