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We will provide information about the copyright status of an item if we know it. As there are many factors involved in determining the length and applicability of copyright protection, this will not always be possible. In all cases, it is up to you, the user, to secure any necessary permissions to use or republish copyrighted material found on this site.

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Rights Labelling

Wherever possible, the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol has labeled the content on this site to facilitate reuse. The following list includes all designations currently used on our site. As our online collections grow, so will this list.

Public Domain

Works in the public domain are free to use for any purpose without permission because the copyright has expired, has been forfeited, or is not applicable. We have used this designation to mark works that are free of known copyright restrictions in Canada.

Although there is no legal requirement to do so, we ask that users credit the Huron County Museum & Historic Goal when reproducing public domain content from our site. Giving credit promotes good scholarship, and helps others find the original source material.

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CC0

The Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication (CC0) allows reuse for any purpose.

We have released our collections metadata under a CC0 license to make it clear that we do not consider basic facts about the collection to be copyrightable content.

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CC BY-NC

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license allows non-commercial use of the work as long as credit is given. We have licensed our research and educational text content in this way to make it easier for teachers, researchers, and other members of the public to use our collections in whatever attributed, non-commercial way they can imagine.

Credit all reuse to the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol, including any section or document titles, and individual identifiers for images.

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“No. 31 Air Navigation School,” Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol, [url] accessed [date].

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