Terms of Service for PhilPapers, MindPapers and Online Papers on Consciousness
In using PhilPapers (which we understand to include the ancillary services MindPapers and Online Papers on Consciousness), you agree to the following terms:
1. All information (such as abstracts, articles, or other kinds of text) to which you may have access through PhilPapers is the responsibility of the person or publication from which such content originated and is subject to their intellectual property rights. Users may not modify or sell these works unless given permission by the originator. Users may not submit material in a manner that violates the intellectual property rights associated with that material.
2. Regarding texts (for example, full articles) submitted to the PhilPapers repository: PhilPapers acknowledges that it obtains no intellectual property rights to these texts. However, when submitting texts to the PhilPapers repository, you give PhilPapers a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to host and display these texts. Users have the right to request that texts they submitted be removed from PhilPapers.
3. Regarding all other content submitted to PhilPapers: when submitting such content, you give PhilPapers a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, display, and distribute this content. PhilPapers reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any information submitted to the service. You agree to do your best to ensure the accuracy of all such content.
4. Originators are responsible for protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, and PhilPapers has no obligation to do so on their behalf.
5. PhilPapers does not share information originating from you with third parties, otherwise than through the services' public functions (e.g. paper listings, user listings, discussion forums) and through the sharing of simple usage patterns and statistics which cannot in practice be linked specifically to you. Configuration settings are available within user accounts and other services to control how information you provide is made publicly available.
6. PhilPapers' services are offered without any warranty. Our database contains inaccuracies due to the fallible nature of the automated process by which it is populated. Our software has bugs, both known and unknown, which could cause loss of information or other malfunctions. In using this service you agree not to hold PhilPapers, its editors or users liable for any loss or damages you might incur as a result.
7. We reserve the right to deny access to PhilPapers' services, and to remove any user-submitted content (including submitted entries, forum contributions, and user profiles, among other things) that we deem inappropriate. You agree not to hold us liable for removal of information or its consequences.
8. It is our policy to address any notices of copyright infringement regarding material hosted by or linked from PhilPapers in a timely manner. Such notices (and counter-notices) should be sent to our designated copyright agent, David Bourget. It is our policy to do all that is legal and practical to prevent repeated copyright infringements from third parties using PhilPapers. Note that the only articles and books hosted by PhilPapers are those submitted by users to the PhilPapers repository. For other items (which comprise the large majority of the PhilPapers database), PhilPapers does not store a copy of the item, but simply links to existing websites.

