Copyright Policy

This copyright policy sets out how users are permitted to use our content and also explains the types of use that require the purchase of additional licences. This policy forms part of our terms and conditions. Thank you for reading this policy, our ability to invest in high quality journalism depends on our users complying with it. We reserve the right to change our copyright policy from time to time by publishing an updated policy on www.madrascourier.com, which shall become effective and replace any previous policy with effect from publication. This version of the copyright policy was published on 1st January 2017.

What is copyright?
Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. All of the material published on our website and other digital/wireless platforms is protected by copyright law and should only be used as set out in the “How may I use Madras Courier content?” section below. Use that is made without our permission may, therefore, infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability. Where we state below that something is not allowed or permitted, then to do so is a breach of our terms and conditions, i.e. is a breach of contract, and may also violate copyright law.

How may I use Madras Courier content?
You may do the following:
* View our content for your personal use on any device that is compatible with madrascourier.com (this might be your PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile devices) for your personal use;
* Share links to articles by using any sharing tools we make available.

How may I republish or redistribute Madras Courier content?
Except as set out above, you may not copy Madras Courier content from www.madrascourier.com or any third party source of Madras Courier content such as news aggregators and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including mobile phones, social media, websites, newsletters or intranets.

We recognise that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We, therefore, permit limited republishing and redistribution of Madras Courier content as set out below provided that this does not create a Substitute for Madras Courier’s own products or services. We define a Substitute as a product or service that reduces the need for users or other third parties to pay for Madras Courier content directly, or which creates revenue from the Madras Courier’s content to the detriment of Madras Courier’s own ability to generate revenues from that content.
As long as you do not create a Substitute, you may do the following:
* Publish online, the original Madras Courier headline and a link to the article and the first 140 characters of an article (we call that teaser text);
* Forward the original headlines, links and teaser text to other individuals;

Am I allowed to copy or summarise limited parts of Madras Courier full text content?
As specified above you may not republish or redistribute full text articles (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
You may however republish or redistribute ”Summaries” of Madras Courier articles if you comply with the conditions set out below. “Summaries” can be either an “extract” or an “abstract”. By “extract” we mean 30 words copied verbatim from an Madras Courier article which are inserted into a longer original work . By “abstract” we mean a 30 word non-verbatim summary of the news or facts / opinions reported in an Madras Courier article which does not form part of a longer work and does not misrepresent the original Madras Courier article.
These are the conditions you must comply with in order to produce summaries:
* you source Madras Courier as the author of any article from which you have derived a summary by way of an attribution such as “[journalist name] at the Madras Courier reported that”, with a hypertext link from the word “Madras Courier” to the original story published on www.madrascourier.com;
* in the case of abstracts, you make clear that the abstract has been produced by you by stating “this abstract from the Madras Courier was produced by [name]”, with a hypertext link from the word “Madras Courier” to the original story published on www.madrascourier.com;
* you ensure that your summaries do not in whole or in part form a Substitute for Madras Courier’s own products and services (see above for how we define Substitute). The more summaries you create the greater the risk of substitution. No individual or organisation may create, republish or redistribute more than ten summaries in aggregate each day, each one sourced from a different Madras Courier article that is published on the same day you create the summary;
* you do not use or create summaries that promote or endorse any product or service; and
* if Madras Courier notifies you that it believes you are creating, republishing or redistributing summaries outside of these parameters, you shall immediately cease doing so and your rights to create summaries shall be regarded as having been withdrawn, unless/until Madras Courier reaches an agreement with you regarding your use of Madras Courier articles.

Please note that these rights do not extend to content, data or other material published by Madras Courier that we licence from third parties which you may not republish or redistribute.

How am I allowed to link to Madras Courier content?
If you would like to link to www.madrascourier.com, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to www.madrascourier.com:
* may display an Madras Courier logo (view our brand guidelines) to indicate the source of the link, but must not otherwise use any Madras Courier trade marks without written permission from Madras Courier;
* must not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Madras Courier logo;
* may link to the homepage of www.madrascourier.com, and, provided that you comply with this copyright policy, may also link to other pages of www.madras courier.com;
* must not be a Substitute (as defined above);
* must not in any way imply that Madras Courier is endorsing it or its products or services;
* must not misrepresent its relationship with Madras Courier or present false information about Madras Courier;
* must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations; and
* must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.

What am I not permitted to do with Madras Courier content?
You cannot do anything other than make use of the content as set out above, unless you buy the appropriate licence, see below for details. By way of example only, this means that you cannot:
* If you are a registered user or subscriber, share your user name and password (which includes PINs) with anyone else. A password is for one person’s use. Sharing a password means a copy of our content may subsequently be made by someone who is not authorised to do so. Password sharing is a breach of our terms and conditions and is likely to result in an infringement of copyright. We monitor usage to detect password sharing.
* Copy, publish or redistribute full text articles, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
* Create derivative works from our content, unless you are creating summaries as described above.
* Print, photocopy or scan copies of articles.
* Remove the copyright or or trade mark notice from any copies of Madras Courier content.
* Use spidering technology or other datamining technologies to search and link to www.madrascourier.com.
* Create a database in electronic or structured manual from by systematically and/or regularly downloading, caching, printing and storing all or any Madras Courier content (by spidering or otherwise).
* Frame, harvest or scrape Madras Courier content or otherwise access Madras Courier content for similar purposes.
* Use or attempt to use Madras Courier content outside the parameters we set depending on what subscription you have.