General Terms of Use and Licences

Considerate use

Please ensure that your use of our digital services does not place excessive demands on them and help us to continue offering our services to you and other users.

This applies in particular to crawlers, scripts, bots, and similar methods of mass or automated data collection.

Please contact us before intensive machine use to discuss the details.

Usage licences

Metadata (catalogue data and authority data)

The metadata we create, in particular the catalogue data and authority data distributed via our online catalogue, our data service, or partner systems that reuse it, is licensed under CC0 (»no rights reserved«). This means that they are de facto in the »public domain« and can be used without restrictions or costs.

Nevertheless, please refer to the DLA as the source in an appropriate manner if you use our metadata for your work.

Digital objects (digitized materials and born-digitals)

As a modern archive, the DLA is subject to a variety of restrictions when making its content available for reasons of data protection, copyright, archiving law, or contractual obligations.

We also assign the CC0 licence (see above for details) to digital objects that are not subject to any of these restrictions.

The same applies to digital objects for which the DLA itself is the rights holder (ancillary copyright, copyright) and for which no other third-party rights exist.

If you use one of our digital objects under CC0 licence for scientific or private purposes, please send us a copy or proof of publication. 

Digital publications by the DLA

We strive to increase the number of our own digital publications issued under the CC BY (Attribution) 4.0 international licence.  Individual rights holders and authors may agree on different arrangements, and older publications are also subject to the respective copyright notice contained therein.

Content with no explicit labelling

The following applies to all content that is not expressly labelled with a licence: The legal status of this content has not been checked, is unclear, or all rights are held by a rights holder. Please contact us (info@dla-marbach.de) in individual cases to clarify the details of possible use.

Warranty

As a trusted (digital) archive, the DLA naturally strives to provide its metadata, data, and services in such a way as to ensure the highest possible level of authenticity, integrity, availa-bility, and – where necessary – confidentiality. Formally, however, our services are provided »as is« and »as available«, without any express or implied warranty. In particular, we do not guarantee that:

1. the content is up-to-date, accurate, complete, reliable, or correct;
2. the services are secure or available at a specific time or location;
3. any defects or errors in the services or content will be corrected;
4. the content is free of malware or other harmful components;
5. the results of using our services will meet your requirements.

The use of our services is therefore entirely at your own risk.

IT security

If you become aware of any security vulnerabilities in our digital services, we ask that you handle them responsibly and contact us via security@dla-marbach.de.