====== About MechanicalMusic.info ======

===== Contacts =====
  *Administrator: [[todd@mechanicalmusic.info]]
  *Editing questions: [[todd@mechanicalmusic.info]]

===== Statement of Purpose =====
**MechanicalMusic.info** is dedicated to the enjoyment, study and preservation of all automatic musical instruments. It's goal is to provide a publicly accessible repository of information on the history, design, preservation, restoration, and use of mechanical music in any form. To that end, you are strongly encouraged to contribute or add appropriate information from your own knowledge or experience.

===== Copyright and Legal =====
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In summary, you are free:
  *to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work 
  *to make derivative works 
Under the following conditions:
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  *If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. 
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

In common practice, attribution is satisfied by establishing HTML "links" to entire pages((Each page is considered a unique work, and therefore each page must be cited with an independent link.)) with an appropriate citation, such as "See also: [[http://MechanicalMusic.info/general/museums/home|MechanicalMusic.info]]" or "//[[http://MechanicalMusic.info/general/museums/home|Museums]]// at MechanicalMusic.info". However, direct links to the images, media and/or other files is prohibited.



===== Contributing Material=====
If you contribute material to **MechanicalMusic.info**, you thereby license it to the public under Creative Commons //[[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/|Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5]]//. Refer to the [[general:about::legal]] for specifics. In order to contribute, you must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either:
  *you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or 
  *you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5.

Because other organizations such as the [[http://mmd.foxtail.com/|Mechanical Music Digest (MMD)]] have complementary purposes, it is expected that material submitted here will be commonly reproduced on those sites as well.