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| Default Note | Access to collections in the Department of Distinctive Collections is not authorization to publish. Please see the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy for permission information. Copyright of some items in this collection may be held by respective creators, not by the donor of the collection or MIT. |
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| Public Domain (rarely used) | Material in this collection is in the public domain. |
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| Conditions Governing Use Note Examples |
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Professor Orr-Weaver's interview from 32:54–34:33 (highlighted in yellow in the transcript) can only be used in an edit of the interview only if her additional contextualizing comments at 42:19–43:46 (also highlighted in yellow in the transcript) are included as well. Per the appearance release, these restrictions apply to any uses of the recording in perpetuity. |
| No reproduction of oral history transcripts without permission of interviewee. |