Intellectual Property Policy

1.Ownership

Rights in hosted content, platform software, design, and compilations remain with their respective rights holders, which may include speakers, authors, institutions, organisers, or publishers. Hosting or indexing content does not itself transfer ownership to us. Reuse is subject to the applicable licence, permission, or statutory exception. The “World Wide” name and related branding must not be used to falsely imply endorsement.

2.Permitted use

• Linking to public pages on world-wide.org.
• Quotation and other reuse where an applicable licence, permission, or statutory exception allows it, subject to its conditions, including attribution where required.
• Using bibliographic metadata (titles, speakers, abstracts, DOIs) for discovery and citation where permitted.

3.Prohibited use

• Reproducing, distributing, or publicly performing hosted content without rights-holder permission where permission is required.
• Removing attribution, rights notices, or DOI references.
• Automated extraction at scale that violates our acceptable-use rules, robots directives, or rate limits.

4.Submitted content

Submitting content does not transfer ownership to us. You retain any rights you hold, and other rights holders retain theirs. You must have the rights and permissions needed to submit the content and grant the service licence described in Section 4 of the Terms & Conditions — the non-exclusive permission to host, display, index, and distribute the content through the platform’s interfaces. A registered DOI remains a persistent part of the scholarly record; associated metadata can be corrected or reduced where applicable rights require it, as described in the Terms, Section 5.

5.Infringement notices

To report content you believe infringes your rights, email info@world-wide.org with:

• the URL(s) of the material on world-wide.org;
• identification of the protected work and of your rights in it (ownership or authorisation to act for the owner);
• your contact details; and
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised.

We review substantiated notices promptly, remove or disable access to infringing material where justified, inform the submitter — who may respond — and act against repeat infringers up to account termination. Where a DOI has been registered for removed material, the identifier normally resolves to a tombstone notice in line with scholarly-record practice. The identifier’s persistence does not prevent correction, restriction, or erasure of personal metadata when applicable law requires it.