Last Updated 5.19.2025

 

Creative Commons Copyright:

Universe Institute is wholly owned as a DBA by Factnet Inc., a nonprofit organization. Our internally created materials are copyrighted using one or more Creative Commons licensing agreements. We are also very liberal in granting free use of our materials for non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use any of our copyrighted materials for commercial purposes, please write us and tell us exactly how and where you want to use our materials.

We will evaluate your commercial use request and get back to you. Until we give you an agreement that changes the following copyright policy, please do not use any of our materials in any way that violates any of the provisions above or below. Mail your copyright use requests to [email protected].

About the Universe Institute

The Universe Institute is a nonpartisan, 100% publicly funded, non-profit think tank founded in 2011. It plays a vital role at this critical evolutionary juncture, where humanity faces numerous planetary-scale challenges threatening its existence.

The Universe Institute provides uncensored analysis and solutions to critical world crises using the new DMAP methodology (dialectical metasystemic analysis and problem-solving). The DMAP methodology routinely produces original analysis and solutions unobtainable from other analysis methodologies, particularly when dealing with complex adaptive systems, like climate change, the economy, the environment, politics, war, and our complex social systems. 

The Universe Institute is the first think tank to adopt the breakthrough DMAP methodology for all its projects.

Click here for the Universe Institute's mission.

As a publicly funded think tank, Universe Institute is an information distribution and sharing hub similar to Facebook, Reddit, and Google Groups. Independent individuals who are not agents of the Universe Institute regularly post information, articles, messages, and comments in numerous places on our climate change information distribution hub. These independent individuals are solely responsible for the materials they post, including any copyright violation issues within their postings, messages, and comments they submit or post on our website. 

If you have a copyright issue, you must contact the independent poster directly for those materials. Universe Institute is not liable for any postings in its comment areas, blogs, and message areas.

 

Copyright Terms:

You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images,) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, our Services (the Services,) are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the "Content".

You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Universe Institute as a nonprofit organization owned by Factnet Inc.(or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content for any commercial purposes (either in whole or in part) unless you have explicitly been told that you may do so by Universe Institute as a nonprofit organization owned by Factnet Inc. or by the owners of that Content, in a separate written agreement.

 

Content License From You:

This Universe Institute, as an information distribution and sharing hub and website, has no employees. Everything is done by independent volunteers, who are legally and financially solely responsible for any content or comments they submit to or post on this website.

These volunteers or you retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content, which you submit, post, or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Universe Institute as a nonprofit organization owned by Factnet Inc. a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Universe Institute to display, distribute, and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

You agree that this license includes a right for Universe Institute to make such Content available to other companies, organizations, or individuals with whom Universe Institute has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

You understand that Universe Institute, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Universe Institute to take these actions.

You, as a Universe Institute independent volunteer or outsider, confirm and warrant to Universe Institute that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the above license for any materials you submit to or post on our website.

 

Limitation of Liability:

You expressly understand and agree that Universe Institute, as a nonprofit organization owned by Factnet Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors, shall not be liable to you for:

  1. any direct, indirect, incidental, special consequential or exemplary damages which may be incurred by you, however caused and under any theory of liability… this shall include, but not be limited to, any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, violation or your or another's copyright, any loss of data suffered, cost of procurement of substitute goods or services, or other intangible loss;

  2. any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage as a result of:

    a. any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy, or existence of any advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the services;

b. any changes which Universe Institute, as a nonprofit organization owned by Factnet Inc., may make to the services, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the services (or any features within the services);

3. the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of our services;

a. your failure to provide the Universe Institute with accurate account information;

b. your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential;

The limitations on Universe Institute's liability to you in the paragraphs above shall apply whether or not Universe Institute, as a nonprofit organization and DBA owned by Factnet Inc., has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.

 

Copyright Issues Relating to Individuals Posting Anything on Our Websites

Universe Institute acts as an information distribution and sharing hub similar to Facebook, Reddit, Google Groups, etc. Accordingly, independent individuals and volunteers post their information and comments on our climate information distribution hub in the blog, discussion, or project management forums, comment fields, and other areas.

If you submit or post any materials on our website as an independent volunteer. In that case, YOU are responsible for ensuring that these materials do not contain ANY copyrighted materials you do not own! If you post copyrighted materials on our website for which you do not own the copyright, you can and will be held legally and financially responsible for those copyright violations with the lawful copyright owner. 

This means that you agree that all information or data of any kind, whether text, software, code, music or sound, photographs or graphics, video or other materials ("content"), made available publicly or privately, by you will be provided and under the sole legal responsibility of the person providing the said content, or of the person whose user account is used.

You recognize that independent individuals who are not legal agents of the Universe Institute regularly post information, articles, messages, and comments in numerous places on our climate change information distribution hub. If someone has a copyright issue with something you post, those copyright holders will be directed to contact the independent poster or creator of those materials directly.

Universe Institute is not liable for any postings in its comment areas, blogs, and message areas made by independent individuals. Universe Institute volunteers are not legal agents of Universe Institute.

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