Common use of Rights Management Clause in Contracts

Rights Management. HathiTrust strives to provide as much reasonable access as is lawful and practical to materials stored in the repository. For public domain materials and for materials where a rights holder has granted sufficient permission, HathiTrust strives to provide a level of access that makes it possible for any user in the world to read these works online. For other materials, HathiTrust will, where lawful and practical, provide reasonable search capabilities so that these works can serve as an index to the printed text. To facilitate only lawful access to digitized content, HathiTrust employs a rights management mechanism that sets default rights based on information such as the publication place and date found in the bibliographic records provided by Supporting Institutions. HathiTrust stores other rights information as a result of specific overrides. This additional overriding information is typically the result of copyright determination work, but may also include the results of collaboration with rights holders. As between the Parties, Michigan assumes liability for the parameters for general access, as outlined here. As between the Parties, Supporting Institution assumes liability for errors in the bibliographic data it makes available to Michigan.