General Terms of Use and Licences for Digital Services of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

The DLA is committed to the principles of Open Access,  Open Data,  and the FAIR principles,  and strives to offer as much content as possible freely and at no cost under a Creative Commons licence. 

Essential points in overview

• Catalogue data and authority data (metadata) are held under CC0,  i.e. free and at no cost, de facto »public domain«.
• Digitizations are held under CC0, if no other legal conditions apply.
• Please check each case and, if necessary, contact us (info@dla-marbach.de).
• Please give the DLA as the source and send us evidence of the publication and a copy of the publication, even if you are not required to do so.
• Further security regulations apply to external project partners, etc. with write permissions.

Preamble

The German Schiller Association (Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V. / DSG) provides digital services (applications, systems, interfaces, data, metadata) to the general public and individual users via the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv / DLA) on the DLA campus or via the Internet.

Unless otherwise specified, this is done within the framework of these general terms of use. By using our digital services, you accept our terms of use.

These General Terms of Use establish a minimum set of rules. There may be additional service-specific terms of use or terms that apply to specific groups of users, such as the »Terms of Use of the German Literature Archive Marbach«,  the »Fee Schedule of the German Literature Archive Marbach«,  or the »Data Exchange Policy for Employees of the German Schiller Association«. If this is the case, the specific terms of use apply in addition and take precedence.

We reserve the right to change or replace our Terms of Use at any time with future effect and to publish them as part of our service, for example, on our websites. It is your responsibility to keep yourself informed and to check the Terms of Use regularly for changes. Your continued use of our services after the publication of changes to the Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of these changes.

This section applies, for example, if you use our online catalogue,  our data services,  or our viewer for digitized material without registering.

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.

This section applies, for example, if you use our cloud service, our Redmine instances, or our remote login infrastructure as an external project partner.

If you use a non-public part of our digital services with an account that requires authentication with a PIN, password, certificate, or similar, the following rules additionally apply:

Password security

The following requirements apply to passwords for our services:

• The password must be at least 12 characters long.
• The password must contain at least three different types of character (uppercase let-ters, lowercase letters, numbers, special characters).
• The password must not be included in a word list (even with simple variations).
• The password must not be easy to guess. Do not use obvious names, licence plate numbers, your date of birth, or similar.
• The password must be kept secret and may only be known to you personally.
• The password may only be used for our services.
• The password should only be written down in exceptional cases, in which case it must be kept safe in a sealed envelope or similar.
• The password must be entered without being observed.
• The password must be changed if there is any suspicion that others have become aware of it.
• Old passwords must not be reused when changing passwords.

User profiles on your client devices

The following rules apply to the creation and use of user profiles:

• Your devices (not managed by the DLA) must use local user management and access protection (passwords, file access rights).
• The services and data of the DLA may only be used by authorized external persons themselves after successful authentication.

Client security

To ensure client security on your end-user devices, the following rules must be observed:

• Always use the latest (security) patches and program versions.
• Use sufficiently complex unlock patterns/codes/passwords.
• Encryption of mass storage is recommended.
• Smartphones: location tracking and remote deletion in case of loss must be set up and usable.
• PC, notebook/laptop etc.: up-to-date, effective virus protection.

Physical security

The following measures and regulations serve to ensure physical security and must be observed at all times:

• Protection against spying by unauthorized persons.
• Protection of devices, chip cards, etc., and storage media against loss and theft.

File encryption

Confidential or sensitive information (e.g., personal data) may only be transmitted in the form of effectively encrypted files or email attachments.

Pre-defined configuration

Configurations pre-defined by the DLA may not be changed arbitrarily or without consulting IT staff.

Account suspensions

We reserve the right to remove – without comment – irrelevant comments, spam, advertising and campaigns, insults, offensive remarks, slander, threats, defamation, and sexist, racist, and discriminatory posts as well as posts that glorify violence. In such cases, we reserve the right to block the user.