License and reuse
The record is free to read, and much of what is in it is free to reuse. This page says which parts, on what terms, and what to do when you need more than it grants. Three things carry three different answers, so they are set out separately: the facts, the one named slice we release outright, and everything else. The terms of use govern the site as a whole; this is the reuse part of them, in detail.
Facts are not owned
A legal status, the date an act took effect, a bill number, and the citation to the text that says so are facts. Facts cannot be copyrighted, and we do not claim them. United States law settled that in Feist; Canadian law reached the same place in CCH. Nobody needs our permission to say that psilocybin sits in Schedule I under United States federal law, and we would not ask for it.
What can be owned is the work built around the facts: the words we write about them, and the compilation that holds them, meaning the selection of what to record, the structure it is recorded in, and the dated history of every change. The rest of this page says what we grant over each.
What we release outright
Two things, and only these two, are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). You may copy them, redistribute them, adapt them, and use them commercially, including in a product you sell, so long as you credit the record and link to it.
The status census. A single file, cut on a stated day and named for it, carrying one row per jurisdiction in the register: the accession identifier, the jurisdiction, its legal status, the effective date of the instrument that set it, the date we last reviewed it, and the address of the primary source we read. Those fields, and no others.
The citation excerpt. From any one record page: the citation that page prints, its one-sentence answer, the status with its effective and last-reviewed dates, and the source citations listed on it. A record at a time, quoted as it stands. Assembling that excerpt across the whole register is not the excerpt; it is the census, and the census file above is the only bulk form of the record we release.
The attribution. CC BY 4.0 asks for credit, and this is the line we ask for. Link it to the record it came from, or to the census file if that is what you used. Record pages print a fuller citation, which also satisfies this; the line below is the minimum.
What this grant does not reach. It is narrow on purpose, and it is the whole of what is granted. It does not extend to the register as a compilation, to the change history, to the summaries and analyses written around each record, or to systematic extraction of record pages. Those are the two sections below. It also has an upstream limit: the dataset licensed here comprises facts independently verified against primary sources; it does not include or sublicense LegiScan-provided content.
How to get the census file. Ask at the address below and say which cut you want. Every copy is a snapshot: the register keeps moving, the file states the day it was cut, and the record page is always the authority.
The compilation, and reuse in bulk
The register taken as a whole is not in the grant above. That means the selection, the structure, and the dated change history, and it means using the register in bulk: systematic or automated copying across records, redistribution as a data feed or an interface, and reproducing the record, in whole or in substantial part, inside another product, dataset, or service.
Those uses are reserved, and they are also available. They are the thing we intend to license, and there is a route: write to us, say what you need and what it is for, and we will tell you the terms.
Crawler access to this site does not constitute a database license. The record is open to search engines, answer engines, and anyone else who wants to read it, because a record nobody can find is not a record. Being able to fetch a page is not permission to take the compilation, and no amount of fetching turns into one.
What we write
The summaries, the analyses, the explanatory copy on these pages, and any reports or briefings we publish are ours, and all rights in them are reserved. Quoting is welcome and needs no permission: quote at the length any ordinary piece of reporting or research would, with credit and a link. Republishing a piece in full, or reproducing enough of it to stand in for reading it here, is a different thing, and that one you should ask about.
Third-party works in the library
Nothing on this page licenses anything we did not make. The library indexes videos, books, and articles produced by others, and copyright in each of those stays with its owner; listing a work is a pointer to it, never a grant over it. The rules we hold ourselves to there, and the route for a rightsholder who wants a listing removed, are in the terms of use.
Asking for more
License requests, rights questions, and corrections all reach us at the same place: corrections@psilocybinlegalization.com. Tell us what you want to use, at what scale, and what for. How the record is built and verified, and the citation guide, are set out in the methodology.
The record is operated by Psilocybin Media Group. Written enquiries reach the operator of this site at the address above.