Rights and Usage
Civil War Washington as a whole, as well as the texts and images available in it, are protected under the copyright laws of the United States and the Universal Copyright Convention. The copyright to Civil War Washington is held by the editors, Susan C. Lawrence, Kenneth M. Price, and Kenneth J. Winkle. Copyrights to images are held by the institutions and individuals who have generously contributed them. Publication (print or electronic) or commercial use of any of the copyrighted materials without direct authorization from the copyright holders is prohibited. The copying of materials from Civil War Washington is permitted only under the fair-use provisions of copyright law.
The Library of Congress provides information on copyright at http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/. An explanation of the fair-use doctrine is available at Stanford University Libraries' website, here (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html).
To request the right to use the texts (essays or transcriptions) in the CWW project see the Request for Permission page . For permission to use project images of any kind, you should write directly to the library holding the material (libraries are credited within the annotations in the "Texts & Images" section of the project).
You do not need to request our permission to link to the CWW project or to individual items within the project. We prefer that your links to the project in its entirety be targeted to the main page, and that any links to individual items within the project be accompanied by a link to the main page.
To identify the CWW as the source of information that you are using in a paper, article, or book, please include the complete title of the project, its URL, and the date you accessed it, along with the other relevant documentation. Here is an example: Winkle, Kenneth. "Washington, The Strategic Capital." Civil War Washington. Ed. Susan C. Lawrence, Kenneth M. Price, and Kenneth J. Winkle. 29 January 2009 < http://civilwardc.org>.
