The Rules
The Rules: Content Restrictions
Content restrictions on audio uploads
If the audio material is original to you, and no one else holds a copyright on it, we will accept it for publication. Human voices are a natural part of the audio landscape. However, for the purposes of this website, audio recordings that include clearly recognizable voices cannot be accepted unless you certify, upon upload, that you’ve obtained permission from the owner(s) of the voice(s). Incidental or ambient sounds of people recorded in public places are O.K. Audio recordings that include, even incidentally, identifiable creative content that is not your own (like the sounds of a band playing in the background) cannot be accepted unless you certify, upon upload, that you have obtained permission from the performer(s) of that material. Permission is ideally obtained through the signing of a release form. If there are sounds on your audio recording that are incidental to you, but nevertheless copyrighted (Musak on the elevator, Motown playing in a restaurant, a football game on your TV), we cannot accept it.
We will remove material that we feel has failed to meet these rules. Any copyright infringement resulting from inappropriately submitted material is your legal responsibility. There’s a special section of FAQs specifically addressing copyright and permission issues. Read it.
Content restrictions on other kinds of original submissions
Any other submitted content—digital, written, videotaped, recorded, photographed, painted, drawn, sculpted and so on—must be original to you.Your submission may not “quote” other copyrighted works, unless it is clearly intended as parody. Articles and other written submissions may site the written words of others if it is properly set off by quote marks, and is properly attributed.
What about materials for which I cannot get a signed release?
SLSI can link to other sites that host other kinds of content. For instance, we can link to a video of a scene from “Noises Off” on the SI Shakespearean Theatre site. We can link to a copyrighted poem or an article on another site. We can link to a YouTube video of your local cover band playing at Killmeyer’s.
