Creative Commons Licensing

All contributors must sign a restrictive Creative Commons license. Contributors will sign the licensing agreement while filling out the Qualtrics form; more detail on this can be found under the (Submissions)[] drop-down menu.

Below is a copy of the licensing agreement for your reference.

Project Description

Adoptee Literary and Art Archive is Hannah Gershone’s terminal Environmental Studies master’s thesis. An interdisciplinary, digital literary and art archive, it seeks to center transracial adoptee voices, experiences, and activisms surrounding transracial adoption and the environment, particularly within the context of climate change. The archive is also meant to serve as a site of primary resources, and help bridge the scholarly gap, for those interested in discussing transracial adoption and environment within the same breath.

Creative Commons Licensing

All contributors to Adoptee Literary and Art Archive must sign a restrictive Creative Commons License (available within the Qualtrics Submission form).

For your reference, we have provided a copy of this licensing agreement. Please note this is not a substitute for the license itself.

Please read the terms of the licensing agreement carefully.

Your submitted contribution to Adoptee Literary and Art Archive will be licensed under a restrictive Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). We strongly encourage you to visit the human-readable summary of this license.

In summary, under this license:

• You will retain copyright of your work

• Anyone is free to share your work (download, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format provided they do not change it or make money off it)

• Anyone can write about and/or discuss your work (provided they link to the license and give credit to you)

Under the terms of this license, people must:

• Give credit to you and link to the license (Attribution)

Under the terms of this license, people cannot:

• Make money off your work (Noncommercial)

• Edit, remix, transform, or build upon your work (No Derivatives)

It is also important to note that once images or documents of your work are licensed under this restrictive Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), the licensing cannot be changed for the remainder of the entirety of the work’s lifespan.

Upon your request, your work can be removed from Adoptee Literary and Art Archive by contacting adopteearchive@gmail.com. However, once work is published on the Internet, it is almost impossible to remove its digital presence entirely because archive visitors could download and share it elsewhere under the terms of this license.

By signing below, you agree to the full terms of the agreement above. You consent to the execution and delivery of the agreement electronically. If you are not the sole creator of this work, you certify that you have obtained permission from all other contributors to sign this agreement on their behalf.