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Kalam Di Goonj publishes work entrusted to us by writers, inherited from the public domain, or licensed from rightsholders. This page sets out who owns what on kalamdigoonj.com, what you may do with it, and how to reach us about rights. “We” and “the Company” mean Northview Productions Inc., a British Columbia company doing business as Kalam Di Goonj.

1. What the Company owns

The Company owns, or holds the rights to operate:

• the website and applications, including design, layout, typography, code, and software;
• the databases and compilations, meaning the selection, arrangement, and editorial curation that constitute the magazine, including issue structures, collections, and metadata;
• commissioned works where a written agreement assigns them to the Company. Assignment is never presumed; see section 2.
• our names and marks, namely “Kalam Di Goonj”, the Gurmukhi mark ਕਲਮ ਦੀ ਗੂੰਜ, and our logo. See section 8.

2. What contributors own

Contributors retain copyright in their work. That is our default, stated in our Submission Terms: a poem, essay, photograph, or recording published here belongs to its creator, who has licensed the Company to publish it in the magazine’s formats. We claim ownership of contributor work only where a signed written agreement assigns it, and our published credits reflect who made what. Contributors’ moral rights of attribution and integrity remain theirs under Canadian law.

Because contributors own their work, we cannot alone grant you permission to reuse a contributor’s piece. We can license what is ours and forward your request; the contributor decides on the contributor’s own rights.

3. What third parties own

Some material on the site belongs to others and appears under a licence or permission recorded in our rights records: licensed texts and images, authorized republications, and embedded media such as YouTube players that stream from the third party’s own service under its terms. Embeds remain the property and responsibility of their sources; our External Links & Embedded Media page explains how they behave. Nothing on this site implies that any third-party service endorses the Publication.

4. Public-domain works

Part of our purpose is carrying older Punjabi literature forward. Before republishing a work as public domain we verify its status under Canadian law against our internal checklist. We do not infer status from a work’s age, its presence online, or its unavailability in print. Three points govern:

• The Canadian term. Copyright in Canada now generally lasts for the author’s life plus 70 years. The 2022 extension was not retroactive, so works of authors who died on or before 31 December 1971 remain in the public domain in Canada.
• Canada applies no rule of the shorter term. A work still in copyright by Canadian reckoning receives its full Canadian term here even if it has already entered the public domain in, for example, India or Pakistan. We therefore do not treat public-domain status abroad as public-domain status in Canada, or the reverse.
• Territory matters for you. A work we lawfully publish as public domain in Canada may still be protected where you live. Check your own law before reusing it.

Where we add new material to a public-domain work, such as a fresh translation, annotation, layout, or narration, that new layer carries its own copyright, owned as described in sections 1 and 2.

5. Translations

Translation is an exclusive right of the copyright owner under Canadian law. We publish only authorized translations: those made under written permission from the rightsholder, made by or with the original author, or made from works verified as public domain in Canada. We require the same of contributors who submit translations. Our own English and Shahmukhi renditions of contributor works are made under the licence contributors grant us.

6. What readers may do

Without asking us, you may:

• link to any page of the site, including in commentary critical of us;
• quote short passages with attribution, naming the author and Kalam Di Goonj, for purposes such as criticism, review, news reporting, teaching, or research, within Canada’s fair-dealing limits;
• read, download, and print articles for your own personal, non-commercial use, including our PDF editions under the PDF Usage Notice;
• share using the sharing tools we provide, which point readers to the original.

7. What readers may not do

Without written permission, you may not:

• republish articles, poems, images, audio, or translations, in whole or in substantial part, on other sites, in print, or in applications. Republication of member-only content also breaches the Terms of Use.
• bulk-copy or scrape the site, its feeds, or its archives, whether manually or by automated means;
• harvest our content for AI training or ingest it into machine-learning datasets;
• strip credits or watermarks, alter works, or present them in false association;
• use our marks otherwise than as the Brand Guidelines permit.

Attribution is not permission. Naming the author and the magazine is required whenever you quote us, but a credit line does not convert copying into a licensed use. A backlink and a credit are obligations, not rights. If you want to do more than section 6 allows, ask us.

8. Trademarks

“Kalam Di Goonj”, the Gurmukhi mark ਕਲਮ ਦੀ ਗੂੰਜ, and our logo identify this Publication and the Company behind it. Do not use them to suggest endorsement, affiliation, or origin that does not exist. Accurate references, such as “as published in Kalam Di Goonj”, are permitted. Logo files and usage rules are in the Brand Guidelines.

9. Licensing our content

For syndication, republication, translation rights, anthology use, teaching packs, or any use beyond section 6, write to [email protected] stating the work, the intended use, the territory, and the format. Where a contributor’s rights are engaged we will put the request to them. Outbound licences are documented in writing.

10. Complaints about content we publish

If you believe something on this site infringes your copyright or other rights, our Copyright Complaint, Rights Inquiry & Takedown Procedure sets out what to send and how we assess it. We act on credible complaints and on our own findings.

11. Limits of this page

• It grants no licence beyond section 6. Specific written agreements govern specific uses.
• It is not legal advice about your own situation, in Canada or elsewhere.
• It does not claim contributor work as ours. The opposite is our default.