In an effort to disseminate National Quality Forum (NQF) publications, NQF has established a licensing and permissions policy with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). NQF will work with CCC to distribute CDP reports, charts, and graphs to various academic institutions, businesses, and hospitals, interested in licensing NQF’s published works. License uses include photocopying, faxing, and distribution on businesses intranets and distribution of published works to academic institutions for digital uses by student, faculty, and other employees. For additional questions please contact info@qualityforum.org or contact CCC for pricing models.
Permitted Uses of Materials Not Required To Obtain a CCC License:
- Scholarly research citing NQF’s CDP reports;
- NQF Members and government organizations seeking to circulate NQF publications for meetings and conferences;
- NQF Members and government organizations seeking to post a link from their Website to National Quality Forum’s Website; and
- Text excerpts totaling less than 400 words (although permission from NQF is still required.)
Prohibited Uses of NQF Material:
- NQF prohibits use of materials that are libelous, slanderous, or incorrect;
- NQF publications as they are quoted may not be adapted, quoted, or changed without written permission from NQF;
- NQF publications may not be sold to third party vendors without written permission; and
- NQF publications are prohibited to be attached to any kind of promotional material for reprint.
Copyright Attribution
NQF requires that full credit be given when citing a CDP report. Please use the following attribution line, “Reproduced with permission from the National Quality Forum, © copyright year.” For example, if citing the “Safe Practices for Better Healthcare–2010 Update,” please use the following attribution line, “Reproduced with permission from the National Quality Forum, © 2010.”
Copyright Basics
“Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.” 1
Please note that just because you find information on the Internet it doesn’t mean that you are able to replicate and distribute it without obtaining an appropriate consent or license agreement. Check first to see if the information is in the public domain.
Copyright notices are not required by law, don’t presume that information is free to download and circulate to others. If disseminating information, appropriate action includes checking with the original source before distributing. For more information about copyright, please download Copyright Basics from the United States Copyright Office.
1 U.S. Government Printing Office, Copyright Basics, Washington, D.C., 2008.
