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Copyright Policy

Last updated: July 30, 2026

This Copyright Policy explains who owns the content on iLmrary.com, what you may do with it, and how to report material you believe infringes your copyright.

Read it together with our Terms of Service, which governs your use of the website.

1. Ownership of Our Content

All material published on iLmrary.com belongs to us or is used with permission. This includes:

  • Written explanations, grammar lessons, and usage notes
  • Example sentences, word lists, and vocabulary sets
  • Tables, charts, and comparison layouts
  • Images, illustrations, and infographics we create
  • Page structure, design, and presentation
  • The iLmrary name and logo

Our content is protected by copyright law in the countries where it is published and read, including under the Berne Convention, which extends protection across most of the world without registration.

2. What You May Do Without Asking

You may:

  • Read, print, and save pages for personal study
  • Use short extracts in classroom teaching, tutoring sessions, or student handouts, with attribution to iLmrary.com
  • Quote a brief passage in an article, essay, review, or discussion, with attribution and a link to the source page
  • Share a link to any page freely, on any platform

Attribution means naming iLmrary.com as the source and, where the format allows, linking to the specific page.

3. What Requires Written Permission

You need our written permission to:

  • Republish, mirror, or syndicate a page or a substantial part of one
  • Translate our content into another language for publication
  • Reproduce our word lists, sentence sets, tables, or infographics in a book, app, course, worksheet pack, or other product
  • Use our content in anything sold, licensed, or monetized
  • Use our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement or partnership
  • Scrape, harvest, or extract content in bulk by automated means, including for training or fine-tuning machine learning systems

Rewording our explanations to disguise their origin is still copying, and so is reproducing our example sentences and word groupings with cosmetic changes.

4. Fair Use and Fair Dealing

Nothing in this policy limits rights you have under fair use, fair dealing, or equivalent exceptions in the copyright law that applies to you, including use for criticism, review, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Whether a particular use qualifies depends on the law of your country and the circumstances. We are not able to advise you on that, and we are not lawyers.

5. Requesting Permission

To request permission, write to us with:

  • Your name and the organization you represent, if any
  • The exact content you want to use, with the page address
  • Where and how it will be published or distributed
  • Whether the use is commercial
  • The audience and expected reach

Send requests through our Contact page or by email, with Legal at the start of your subject line. We answer most requests, and we grant many of them for educational use.

6. Our Use of Third-Party Material

We take care not to infringe the rights of others.

Where we quote a dictionary definition, an example from another source, or a short passage, we do so sparingly, for teaching and commentary, and in a way we consider fair use or fair dealing. Images and media we did not create are used under licence, under a permissive licence such as Creative Commons, or in reliance on a copyright exception.

If you own material you believe we have used beyond those limits, tell us using the process in Section 7 and we will review it promptly.

If you believe content on iLmrary.com infringes a copyright you own or represent, send us a written notice.

We operate a notice and takedown process consistent with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act and equivalent procedures in other jurisdictions.

A complete notice must include all of the following:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or a representative list if there are several
  3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with the exact web address of each page, specific enough for us to locate it
  4. Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf

Send the notice through our Contact page or to contact@ilmrary.com, with Legal at the start of your subject line.

Incomplete notices delay review. If any element above is missing, we may ask you to resubmit.

8. What Happens After We Receive a Notice

When we receive a complete notice, we:

  • Review the claim and the material identified
  • Remove or disable access to the material where the claim appears valid
  • Record the notice and the action taken
  • Notify the person who supplied the material, where someone other than us supplied it

We may act on a notice without agreeing that infringement occurred, and removing material is not an admission of liability.

9. Counter-Notice

If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice containing:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature
  2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
  4. Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address
  5. A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of a court in the district where you are located, or, if you are outside the United States, a court in any district where we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice

Where the applicable law provides for it, we may restore the material after a waiting period unless the original complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action.

10. Repeat Infringers

We terminate access and decline further dealings with anyone who repeatedly infringes copyright, and we may report serious or persistent infringement to the relevant platform or authority.

11. False or Abusive Claims

Submitting a notice you know to be false carries consequences. Under United States law, a person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation in a takedown notice or counter-notice may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Similar liability exists under other legal systems.

Do not use this process to remove content you simply dislike, to suppress criticism, or to gain a competitive advantage.

12. Content Republished Without Permission

If you find our content republished elsewhere without permission, we would like to know. Send us the address of the copied page and a link to the original, and we will pursue it.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Copyright Policy as the site, our practices, or the law change. The revised date at the top of this page shows when the current version took effect.

14. Contact

For copyright questions, permission requests, and infringement notices:

Email: contact@ilmrary.com Contact page: https://ilmrary.com/contact/

Begin your subject line with Legal.

This Copyright Policy should be read together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Disclaimer, Advertising Policy, and Corrections Policy.