Copyright&Licensing

The short version #

• Share links, quote briefly with a credit, and use our work for learning. No need to ask.
• Do not republish whole pieces, sell our work, or use it to train AI.
• Do not use our name or logo without written permission.
• To ask for permission, email us. We say yes more often than you might expect.

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Who owns what #

Enby Meaning Limited, a New Zealand company, owns or licenses the original content on this site: text, guides, design, audio, video, downloadable resources, and the Enby Meaning™ name and logo. The Enby Meaning name is a registered trademark in New Zealand. The work is protected by New Zealand, United States and international copyright law.

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What does not belong to us #

Some things on the site belong to other people, and this page does not give you any right to reuse them.

• Album covers, film stills, artwork and photographs credited to someone else, which belong to their owners. We use them to review and criticise the work they come from.
• Embedded posts and videos from other sites, such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
• Reader comments, which belong to the people who wrote them.
• Work by contributors, which stays theirs unless a written agreement says otherwise.

To reuse any of that, ask the owner.

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What you can do without asking #

• Share links to our pages anywhere, including social media, newsletters and group chats.
• Pin or share a page with its image and a credit and link to the page.
• Quote a short excerpt, up to about 100 words or one short paragraph, with a clear credit and a link to the original page.
• Use our work in a classroom or a study group, or in your own learning and discussion.
• Translate or adapt a short excerpt for personal use or discussion, with credit.

How to credit us: name the piece, say "Enby Meaning", and link to the page it came from. For example: "Title of the piece, Enby Meaning (link to the page)."

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What you need permission for #

Please ask us first before you:

• copy or republish a whole article, guide or page elsewhere, even with a credit;
• modify, repackage, sell or redistribute our work, or use it commercially;
• use our name, logo or visual identity for any purpose;
• pass our work off as your own;
• reproduce our downloadable resources or paid products beyond your own personal use.

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AI, scraping and data collection #

You may not use our content to train, tune or test artificial intelligence or machine learning systems, include it in AI-generated products, or copy it in bulk with bots or scrapers, without our written permission. This applies to the text, images, audio and video.

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Asking for permission #

Write to the address that fits what you want. Each link opens an email with a subject line already filled in.

Tell us what you want to use, where it will appear, whether it is commercial, and when. We reply within five working days.

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If you find our work copied #

If you see our work reused without permission, email legal@enbymeaning.com with the link. We may ask the site to take it down. If you are a rights holder with a copyright complaint about something on our site, our Terms & Conditions explain how to send a notice.

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Contact #

Permissions and licensing: partners@enbymeaning.com. Legal questions: legal@enbymeaning.com, or legal@enbymeaning.co.nz for New Zealand matters.

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