CORE Copyright

CORE System Copyright Conditions • The CORE System Trust is a not-for-profit company established to :

  • Hold the intellectual property rights in the CORE System
  • Protect the scientific integrity of the CORE System
  • Encourage most effective use of the CORE System
  • Encourage the advancement of the CORE System
  • Protect the interests of the various stakeholders in CORE who are recognised as the users, developers, researchers and software/training/support provider.

The development of the CORE System was made possible by charitable grants from the Mental Health Foundation and the Artemis Trust. In fulfilment of the conditions laid down in those grants the CORE System Trust has established copyright conditions which are intended to encourage general use of CORE without payment of a fee whilst protecting its scientific integrity and avoiding its potential commercial exploitation.

In the following "organisation" should be read as including a service, Trust, company, corporation, academic department, professional partnership or professional association.

Paper Copies
The CORE forms and manuals may be copied and used by an organisation or individual without payment of any copyright fee on condition that:

  • the forms are not altered or changed in any way
  • due acknowledgement of copyright is reproduced
  • reproduction is not for commercial gain

Electronic Copies
The reproduction of electronic copies of the CORE forms without the prior written permission of the Trust would be considered to be a breach of copyright. Making such copies of the CORE forms substantially alters them by being converted into an electronic, digital format. Thus the development of application software for processing and storing CORE data which includes entering the text of the CORE forms into a computer whether for the purposes of formatting a display screen for data entry or for the display or printing of analyses and reports would be considered a breach of copyright.

The CORE System Trust has granted a licence to CORE Information Management Systems Ltd for the development of application software to capture, store, analyse and report on CORE data. CORE IMS also provide extensive education, training, benchmarking and other change agency services in support of CORE.

Given the high development costs of application software, organisations wishing to use CORE in conjunction with application software are advised to evaluate the software provided by CORE IMS. Where an organisation does not wish to use CORE IMS software the CORE System Trust will ordinarily grant a licence to reproduce CORE forms electronically in other specified application software on payment of an appropriate annual fee. Similar conditions to those for making paper copies would apply: the forms should be reproduced as a whole, they should not be altered or changed in any way and due acknowledgement of copyright should be shown.

The CORE System Trust reserves the right to take action against any organisation or individual who breaches the copyright conditions.

The CORE System Trust - Contact details • Reg office: West Cross House, 73 Midford Road, Bath BA2 5RT Company Reg No: 4278530 • Trustees: Dr Frank Margison, Dr Chris Evans, Prof Michael Barkham, Richard Evans  •• Please address any correspondence to: • The CORE System Trust, • c/o CORE IMS, • 47 Windsor Street, • Rugby, • Warwickshire CV21 3NZ • or email admin@coreims.co.uk

 

 
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