The Legation Times holds copyright in the material it produces. This page sets out what you may do with that material without asking us first, the conditions attached, and what falls outside the permission granted here.
This policy carries no fee and requires no registration. We publish it because a source of information is only useful when the people who work in the field can put it to use.
1. Scope
This policy covers the articles, translations, fact tables and programme listings produced by The Legation Times and published publicly on thelegationtimes.com.
It does not cover images, because most images on this site are licensed to The Legation Times alone by third parties. The terms for images are in section 5.
2. What you may do without asking
You may share a link to any page on this site, anywhere, without limit.
You may quote our material in internal documents, in documents sent to clients, in your own writing and on social media, up to one quarter of the original article or three hundred words, whichever comes first.
You may reproduce a headline together with the standfirst and a link to the original article. That does not count towards the limit above.
You may translate the quoted passage into another language, within the same limit.
3. Conditions
Each quotation must credit The Legation Times and carry a working link to the specific article. Both the credit and the link must sit where a reader can see them, not in a footnote at the end of the document.
The substance of the quoted passage must not be altered. Do not remove dates or other time references, the conditions attached or the qualifying clauses, because those are the parts that make the sentence accurate.
If we amend or withdraw an article, any quotation of it already in circulation must be corrected or removed within a reasonable time of your becoming aware.
4. What you may not do
Do not republish a full article, even with credit, and even as a full translation into another language.
Do not use the name, masthead or identifying marks of The Legation Times in a way that would lead a reader to believe we endorse, recommend or vouch for a particular investment programme, project or business.
Do not place our material in paid advertising, in sales documents or in a capability statement in a way that presents it as a document we prepared for you.
Do not rebuild our material into a competing product, including systematic collection to form a derivative database, whether by hand or by machine.
5. Images
Images on this site are licensed to The Legation Times alone. That licence does not pass to the reader, so you may not download and reuse our images, even with credit.
The preview image that appears automatically when you paste a link into social media or a messaging application is not covered by this restriction.
6. Fact tables and programme figures
You may quote an individual fact from a fact table, with credit and with the verification date we print beside it. The date is not optional: a capital threshold or a fee separated from its date is a figure that cannot be checked.
Do not copy an entire table, an entire programme page, or a systematic set of facts.
7. Withdrawal
The permission granted in section 2 ends automatically for any party in breach of a condition in sections 3, 4, 5 or 6. It is restored once the breach has been remedied.
8. Beyond this policy
Use beyond the scope above may still be granted, for instance republishing a full article, translating one in full, or using our material in training material issued widely. Write to us setting out the material you need, the form of publication and the readership.
Rights of quotation granted by law are not narrowed by this policy.
9. Contact
This policy takes effect on the date of publication. Amendments are published on this page with the date of amendment.
