Terms and conditions of use

Resources available through the California Language Archive (CLA) are the physical property of the University of California, Berkeley. Intellectual rights, including copyright, belong to resource creators or their legal heirs and assigns.

Digital content is also protected by United States copyright law; digital images and sound recordings are made available for nonprofit educational, personal, or research use only. Users of digital content agree to the following conditions:

  1. Users will respect the intellectual property rights and copyrights that pertain to material available through the CLA.
  2. Users will not use CLA material for commercial purposes.
  3. Users will not copy, distribute, display, or transmit CLA material without legal authorization (for example, fair use) or prior written permission from the resource’s creators.