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Contributor Works

Authors of original works appearing on Shakespeare’s Circuits retain copyright. All original contributor content is made available to the public for use and reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA) license, unless stated otherwise. If any individual contributor elects a different license, the contributor’s license takes precedence.

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Shakespeare’s Circuits does not claim copyright on any works (e.g. text, image, video and audio) that have been digitized and included in the archive. All digitized content is made publicly available for limited use within the site either by expressed permission or under the Fair Use provision (Section 107) of United States Copyright Law, solely for non-commercial research, teaching and private study.

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Disclaimer

Users assume responsibility for obtaining permission to use the copyrighted materials made available on the Shakespeare’s Circuits website. Copyright holders wishing to request removal of any content should contact John Calkins and Roger Safian, Office of General Counsel, Northwestern University. General inquires can be directed to Wendy Wall or William West of the Northwestern University English Department.