Links to Policies

Collected by: Vicky Weissman

Miscellaneous

·        Hub for Creative Commons licenses: http://creativecommons.org/find/

·        EULA for Microsoft Software: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/cplusplus/powertools/Eula.doc

·        US Code (Social Security is Title 42 Chapter 7 ): http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/#TITLES

 

Medical

·        HIPAA Privacy Rule: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/finalreg.html; summary at: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacysummary.pdf

NB: HIPAA statute and security rule can be accessed from http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/.  I didn’t find the first interesting and

I’ve never looked at the second.

·        Gannett’s Policy on Patient Privacy: http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/whoarewe/commitment-confidentiality.html

·        Privacy Statement for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: http://www.chp.edu/about/privacy_notice.php

 

Education

·        FERPA: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode20/usc_sec_20_00001232---g000-.html, summary at: http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html

·        MIT online courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/license.htm

 

Entertainment

Music

·        Napster: http://www.napster.com/terms.html

·        iTunes: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/legal/policies.html and

http://www.apple.com/ca/support/itunes/legal/giftallowances.html

Nb: First says gift certificates expire, second doesn’t.  Oops :-)

 

Movies

·        CinemaNow: http://www.cinemanow.com/Terms.aspx

·        MovieLink: http://www.movielink.com/store/web/help/terms.jsp

 

Books

·        Fictionwise: http://www.fictionwise.com/terms_of_use.htm

·        eBooks: http://usa1.ebooks.com/information/terms.asp

·        NetLibrary: http://www.netlibrary.com/TermsOfUse.aspx

Nb: Cornell has an agreement with NetLibrary, but I haven’t (yet) found a person who is privy to the details of the contract. 

·        World eBook Library: http://www.worldlibrary.net/Terms.htm#eBooks_Terms

·        National electronic Library for Health: http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/privacy.asp

 

Newspaper Subscriptions

·        BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/

·        NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/agree.html

·        CNN: http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html

·        The Atlantic Online: http://www.theatlantic.com/about/terms.htm and http://www.theatlantic.com/about/terms.htm

 

Pictures

·        Cornell Image Collections: http://insight.library.cornell.edu/terms1.htm

·        ABKL Designs: http://abkldesigns.com/terms.html

·        Clippix: http://www.clippix.com/info/termsofuse.shtml

Nb: Microsoft’s EULA talks about images too.