Yes, please use this site!
For my own purposes, I would appreciate it if you would send me an email at echaucer21@gmail.com to say how you are using the site. (I also welcome suggestions and encouragement.) Before the five-year hiatus in eChaucer, I had the pleasure of hearing from hundreds of teachers and scholars around the world, and I hope that this will happen again.
Please read below to make sure that we are in agreement on the ways you may, or may not, use the site. Again, I really do want you to use the site, so I'm open to your possibilities, as long as we talk (write to one another) first.
Anyone may visit this site for what ever reason you like. Likewise, anyone is welcome to link to the site or any of its pages. So too, it's perfectly fine to share the links via email, social media, or any other legitimate and safe means of electronic communication.
Reproducing parts of this site and/or its contents is a reasonable expectation, but there are certain limitations and requirements. Most importantly, the copyright notice should always be included. Though educational institutions often make claims that materials used in the teaching of their courses are their own intellectual property, no such claims may be made with any copyrighted material from eChaucer.
Unless I give express written (electronic) consent (which I will likely give), nobody is permitted to reproduce the content on their own website or Learning Management System (LMS, such as Blackboard or Sakai). Yes, I am usually glad to give consent, but 1. you should ask first, 2. it should contain the copyright notice and a notice that the content should not be further reproduced for any purpose without eChaucer's content, 3. it should not remain there for more than one semester, 4. it should be accompanied by a statement saying that it is in this electronic location for only a limited time; and 5. it should contain a a notice that the institution does not lay claim to it as its own intellectual property. For the fifth point, emailing me a reference to a campus policy would substitute for such a notice on the site or LMS.
Under no circumstances are the copyrighted materials of eChaucer to be reproduced on for-profit sites. This includes any sort of "study" sites. Such sites may offer links, but no more.
The reproduction in print, i.e., for publication, of any significant passage from the copyrighted work of eChaucer must have the consent of eChaucer.
All issues of permission and consent can be accomplished by emailing echaucer21@gmail.com.
Thanks for using eChaucer.
Gerard NeCastro
