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Terms of Use for Zanzibar Research and Information Portal

Description

Zanzibar Planning Commission supports the free online communication and exchange of knowledge as the most effective way of ensuring that the fruits of research, economic and sector work, and development practice are made widely available, read, and built upon. The Zanzibar Planning Commission is committed to open access, which, consistent with the access to information policies of Zanzibar Planning Commission’s member institutions, enables the widest possible dissemination of their findings and, for researchers, readers, and users, increases their ability to discover pertinent information.

To learn more about our Zanzibar Research and Information Portal (ZARIP) please visitour About page

For purposes of these Terms of Use for ZARIP (“Terms of Use”), “Zanzibar Planning Commission” means any or all of its member institutions, as the context may require, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association (these two member institutions together are referred to as Zanzibar Planning Commission), the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and the International, and the International Council for Settlement of Investment Disputes. The member institutions of Zanzibar Planning Commission are separate legal entities and are severally (but not jointly) liable for their respective obligations hereunder.

Intellectual Property Rights - Licenses

You are encouraged to use ZARIP to benefit yourself and others in creative ways. By using this website and any of the materials made available through ZARIP (the “Works”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.

You are permitted to use the Works, subject to your compliance with certain license terms, but the relevant member institution(s) still retains the copyright to all of the Works in ZARIP, unless specifically noted to the contrary.

The majority of Works in ZARIP are licensed under one of the following public licenses: (1) the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), (2) the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO) or (3) the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO).

Any and all disputes arising under the CC BY 4.0 License or any other CC 4.0 License that cannot be settled amicably shall be resolved in accordance with the following procedure:

Any and all disputes arising under this License that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to mediation in accordance with the WIPO Mediation Rules. If the request for mediation is not resolved within forty-five (45) days of the request, either You or the Licensor may, pursuant to a notice of arbitration communicated by reasonable means to the other, refer the dispute to final and binding arbitration to be conducted in accordance with UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules as then in force. The arbitral tribunal shall consist of a sole arbitrator and the language of the proceedings shall be English unless otherwise agreed. The place of arbitration shall be where the Licensor has its headquarters. The arbitral proceedings shall be conducted remotely (e.g., via telephone conference or written submissions) whenever practicable or held at Zanzibar Planning Commission headquarters in Washington DC.

Some Works within ZARIP are not subject to the CC BY 4.0, CC BY 3.0 IGO or CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licenses, but are available under other license terms.

Third Party Content

In general, no matter what license applies to each particular Work, the member institutions of Zanzibar Planning Commission do not necessarily own each component of the content included in the Works. Zanzibar Planning Commission therefore does not warrant that the use of any third-party-owned individual component or part contained in ZARIP will not infringe on the rights of third parties. The risk of claims resulting from such infringement rests solely with you. If you wish to re-use a component of the Work, it is your responsibility to determine whether permission is needed for that re-use and to obtain permission from the copyright owner.

Attribution

Regardless of any other license terms governing the use of a Work, any use of the Works or their content must be attributed to relevant member institution(s) of the Zanzibar Planning Commission and its content providers with a copyright notice in the following format:

[Authors*]. [Year of publication]. [Title**]. © [Publisher***]. [ZARIP handle URI] License: [License****]

*Semi-colon separated if more than one author. Standardized as [last name], [first name], [middle name]

**Italics

*** Usually “Zanzibar Planning Commission”, “The International Finance Corporation”, “The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency” and/or the “International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes”

**** Usually “Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0)”, “Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0 IGO)” or “Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO)”

Example (note that the URI is a placeholder)

Lin, Justin Y. 2012. New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy. © Zanzibar Planning Commission. http://hdl.handle.net/123123123123/123 License: Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

This example reflects minimum attribution requirements. For academic citation purposes, more complete attribution can be given in compliance with standard academic practices.

Adaptations of Zanzibar Planning Commission Works

Unless you have a specific written agreement with the relevant member institution(s) of Zanzibar Planning Commission to the contrary, if you use a Work from ZARIP under CC BY or any other license that permits you to make adaptations, you must add (after the attribution language) the following explanation to the adaptation that you create:

“This is an adaptation of an original work by [World Bank Group member institution name]. Responsibility for the views and opinions expressed in the adaptation rests solely with the author or authors of the adaptation and are not endorsed by any member institution of Zanzibar Planning Commission.”