Copyrights in this Edition

All transcriptions, collations, commentaries and stemmatic images ("these materials") published in this edition are copyright the general editors, Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson. The editors make these materials available as "Free Cultural Works" under the Creative Commons "CC BY Attribution" license. This allows anyone to distribute, remix, and build upon these materials (even commercially), provided they give credit to the original editors. This permission applies to all forms of these materials (HTML, Text Encoding Initiative XML, JSON), published both in this edition and on other sites (e.g. Zenodo; various institutional repositories.) The “Attribution 4.0 International” licence is available in summary form at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (full legal code at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en). The editors assert their moral rights over these materials.

The copyright situation for the document images referenced by this edition is more complex. Where possible, the edition references images available from the holding institution's website. These references are usually to full-colour high-resolution IIIF-compatible images. The references are held in a separate images.json file in this publication to enable their updating as new images are made. The copyright in all such images is held by the holding institution and the publishing conditions vary from institution to institution. Readers are advised to consult the institutions regarding any uses of these images beyond viewing within this edition. However, in many cases no recent IIIF-compatible images are available from the holding institutions. In those cases, this edition provides monochrome images taken from microfilm, some deriving from the original reproductions made by Manly and Rickert in the 1920s. These images are made available in this publication for personal research use. If you want to make any other uses of these images you are advised to contact the holding institution. (cf. the 1999 Bridgeman Art Library case)

John M. Manly and Edith Rickert (eds). The text of the Canterbury Tales studied on the basis of all known manuscripts. 1940. University of Chicago Press.
Robin J. Allan. "After Bridgeman: Copyright, Museums, and Public Domain Works of Art". 2006. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 155 (4). pp. 961–989