Open Access Publications Policy — CC BY 4.0

This policy governs the documents that the Company publishes as open access works. It is a dedicated policy within the meaning of the Order of precedence section of the Legal Terms, and it applies to the subject matter described below together with those Legal Terms.

Scope

The Company publishes certain technical documents as open access works under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), deposited with a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in the Company's Zenodo community.

This policy applies to:

the 3Dresyns Technical White Paper Series;
the 3Dresyns Engineering Reviews;
the 3Dresyns materials property datasets; and
any other document that the Company expressly identifies as published under a CC BY 4.0 licence at the point of publication.

A document falls within this policy only where the CC BY 4.0 licence is expressly stated in the deposited record. Where no open licence is stated, the document is not covered by this policy.

What the licence grants

For the documents within scope, and for those documents only, any person may copy, redistribute, translate, adapt, remix and build upon the material, in any medium or format, for any purpose, including commercially, worldwide and free of charge, without requesting permission from the Company.

The licence is granted on the sole condition that appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated. The full conditions are those of the CC BY 4.0 licence itself, which governs.

What the licence does not grant

The licence applies solely to the copyright and, where applicable, the sui generis database rights in the published document. It does not grant, and shall not be interpreted as granting:

any right in the 3Dresyns® trademark, trade name, logo or other distinctive signs, which remain governed by the Use of logo policy;
any patent, utility model or other industrial property right of the Company;
any right in the Company's confidential information, know-how, trade secrets, formulations, raw material grades, supplier identities or compositional data, which remain governed by the Confidentiality policy and by the Company's trade secret protections;
any right to reverse engineer, deconstruct, analyse for the purpose of reconstruction, or otherwise determine the composition of the Company's products, which remains governed by the Prohibition against reverse engineering policy; or
any right in content not within the scope of this policy, including website pages, images, product pages, technical data sheets, instructions for use, safety data sheets, quotations and commercial documentation, which remain governed by the Ownership of contents policy.

The published documents contain results, methods, reasoning and application guidance. They do not disclose formulations, raw material grades or supplier identities. Where a published document appears to disclose such information, it does not, and no licence to any such information is granted or implied.

Relationship with the Ownership of contents policy

The Ownership of contents policy restricts the distribution, modification, reproduction and commercial use of Company content without prior written consent.

For the documents within the scope of this policy, and only for those documents, the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence prevail over that restriction. No prior written consent is required in order to exercise the rights granted by that licence. The Ownership of contents policy continues to apply in full to all other content.

Relationship with other policies

This policy concerns documents published by the Company. It does not alter the obligations of any Buyer, user or research partner under:

Permission to publish, which governs the publication of the user's own independently generated research and the treatment of Company confidential information within it;
Confidentiality;
Acceptance of 3Dresyns' non-disclosure of compositional confidential information in MSDSs; or
Prohibition against reverse engineering.

The fact that the Company publishes a document openly does not extend any open licence to information that the Company has not published.

Versions, identifiers and irrevocability

Each published document carries a concept DOI, which is a version-independent identifier that resolves to the current version of that document, together with version-specific identifiers for each individual version.

The licence is granted per version. In accordance with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence, the licence granted in respect of a published version is irrevocable. The Company may publish subsequent versions under different terms, or cease publishing further documents under an open licence, and may withdraw a deposit from the repository, but no such action affects the rights already granted in respect of a version that has been published.

Repository and availability

Documents within the scope of this policy are deposited in an external repository operated by a third party, and their persistent identifiers are registered through an external registration agency. Access to and use of that repository are additionally subject to the terms of use of the repository operator, over which the Company has no control.

The availability of the repository, of a particular deposit, or of the resolution of a persistent identifier is not within the Company's control. Where a persistent identifier does not resolve, the Company may be contacted at info@3Dresyns.com and will take reasonable steps to restore access.

The Company retains its own record of each published version, so that a version may be identified and made available if the repository ceases to be accessible.

Corrections and errata

Where a published document requires correction, the Company publishes a corrected version together with a public statement of the correction, and the earlier version remains accessible through its version-specific identifier. Corrections are not applied silently.

Attribution

Attribution should identify the author, the title of the document, the Company as publisher, and the DOI. A suggested citation is provided with each published document.

Attribution does not create, and must not be presented as creating, any sponsorship, endorsement, certification, partnership or approval by the Company of the person reusing the material or of any product, service, result or conclusion derived from it. Use of the Company's name or marks in a manner that suggests such a relationship remains subject to the Use of logo policy and to applicable trademark law.

No warranty

The published documents are provided for technical information purposes. Nothing in a published document constitutes a guarantee of properties, a specification, or a representation as to the suitability of any material for a particular application. The Guarantee of properties, Limitation of liability and Website disclaimer policies continue to apply. Where a published document and a product technical data sheet differ, the technical data sheet published on the Company's website governs.

Mandatory rights

Nothing in this policy excludes, restricts or modifies any right, remedy, guarantee, protection or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified under applicable law.

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