Copyright Information and Policies
All material on the DC Society of Certified Public Managers (DCCPM) web site is copyrighted. It is the policy and intent of the DC Society of Certified Public Managers to respect and give credit to the intellectual property rights of all authors. Our objective is to make relevant works regarding public management available to the community of public managers, while ensuring appropriate credit to the creators of those works.
Therefore, the content on this site may not be used elsewhere without the specific permission of the copyright holder, whether that is the Society or a cited author. Permission is required both for copying and use of specific content files and the use of links to specific content. Links to the home-page of this site are permitted in accordance with our linking policy. In general, with regard to the content on this web site, the copyrights are held either by the DCCPM, or the material is specifically copyrighted by the original authors of the materials displayed and is used with their permission. Original authors are identified at the beginning of any use of materials on the site.
The only general exception to this overall policy is where the works displayed have been written by, for, under contract to, or while in the employment of a government. In general, governments do not hold copyrights and works created under government funding are freely available for use on web sites such as this. Nevertheless, it shall remain the Society's policy to ensure that the original authors are identified and credited for the works displayed whenever that information is available to us, even if the materials were produced under government funded activities.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the original authors of content on this site are identified and provided appropriate credit for their work. If you are the copyright holder of any content on this site and believe your work is being used without appropriate credit citations or your permission, please contact the webmaster through the link at the bottom of this page and the content will either be assigned proper credit or removed from the site.