Fair Use and Creative Commons

Seeking and Giving Permissions 

Seeking Permission for Using Data 

The primary source of our data is the The African Repository which is part of the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust has a partnership with 100 research libraries to digitize the contents to support research by scholars, legal research, use by politicains, anti-plagarism software, amongst other uses. Searchable databases, text and data mining, and digital humanities are permitted by law through fair use. 

This means that the Liberia Migration Project can use information hosted by HathiTrust to create this digital humanities project under Fair Use. 

In addition, HathiTrust's review of copyright law indicates that "Volumes that are published in the US prior to 1925, published in Canada or Australia before 1900, or published elsewhere before 1880, as well as most US federal government documents are treated as public domain. In addition, volumes published outside the US from 1880 through 1924 are treated as public domain for users accessing the volumes from US IP addresses; however, they are treated as in-copyright for users that come from non-US IP addresses." The HathiTrust, n.d. Copyright. https://www.hathitrust.org/copyright accessed 2.3.2020.

This means that The African Respository which was published in the United States before 1925, is in the public domain. The source of our images also falls under this rule.

Giving Permission to Use Our Data

We have transformed the data we've digitized from The African Repository. We welcome you to use the Liberia Migration Project data sets and maps to support and encourage members of the general public and academic colleagues work in this field of study.

We share this with an audience using the Creative Commons license - CCBY The CCBY license lets others distrubte, remix, tweak and build upon this work, even commerically, as long as credit is given to the original creation.