Copyright, Intellectual Property & Authorized Use

Learn from the resources. Understand the rights that come with them.

BBGPResources.com provides educational information and resources for visitors, families, educators, professionals, organizations, and others seeking to better understand and respond to bullying-related issues.

Making information available through this website does not automatically place that information in the public domain or give every visitor the same rights to copy, modify, redistribute, resell, or rebrand it.

Different materials may carry different authorized uses.

The important distinction is:

Access to content is not the same as receiving additional rights to use that content.

This page explains that distinction and how to identify the rights that apply to different types of BBGPResources.com materials.

Using Ordinary Website Content

You are welcome to read, learn from, and make ordinary personal use of the educational information made publicly available on BBGPResources.com.

Public access, however, does not by itself authorize a visitor to reproduce substantial website content, republish it elsewhere, redistribute it as a separate resource, sell it, modify it for redistribution, or present it under another person’s or organization’s identity.

Unless broader permission is expressly provided, ordinary public website material should be treated as material provided for access and educational use—not as material carrying automatic reproduction, commercial, redistribution, modification, or rebranding rights.

If you want to use website material in a way that goes beyond ordinary access and use, review any rights information accompanying that material or use the appropriate rights-contact route when available.

Different Resources Can Carry Different Rights

Not everything available through BBGPResources.com has the same use conditions.

The website’s resource environment recognizes several distinct categories.

1. Ordinary Public Website Material

This includes educational information and other material made available for ordinary public use through BBGPResources.com.

You may access and learn from that material.

Public availability alone does not grant expanded rights to reproduce, redistribute, resell, modify, or rebrand it.

2. Free Downloadable Resources

BBGPResources.com may make certain resources available without charge.

Free does not automatically mean unrestricted.

A free resource may include its own instructions or permissions explaining how it may be used, shared, printed, distributed, or otherwise handled.

When a free resource includes specific use terms, those terms should be followed for that resource.

The fact that one free resource permits a particular use does not automatically extend the same permission to other materials on the website.

3. Standard Purchased Educational Resources

Purchasing an educational resource gives the purchaser access to the resource together with the use rights that apply to that purchase.

Purchase does not automatically mean that copyright or unrestricted commercial rights have been transferred.

Unless the applicable terms expressly provide otherwise, purchasing a standard educational resource does not by itself authorize the purchaser to:

resell the resource;

rebrand it;

claim authorship or ownership;

redistribute copies to others;

or convert it into another commercial product.

Always review the use terms provided with the particular resource.

4. Professional / Expanded-Rights Resources

Some resources may be specifically designed for professional, educational, organizational, school, training, or other expanded uses.

Those resources may provide permissions that go beyond the rights associated with ordinary website access or a standard educational purchase.

The expanded rights are not created merely because a resource is described as “professional.”

They arise from the specific permissions or license governing that resource.

The scope of those permissions may differ from one resource to another.

5. PLR / Authorized-Rebranding Resources

Some BBGPResources.com resources may be expressly offered with Private Label Rights (PLR), authorized-rebranding rights, or another defined expanded-rights license.

Where those rights are expressly granted, the applicable license determines what the purchaser may do.

Depending upon that specific license, authorized activities may include certain forms of:

editing;

modification;

branding;

rebranding;

professional use;

distribution;

or other expressly permitted activity.

Do not assume that every PLR or authorized-rebranding product carries identical rights.

The license provided with the particular product defines the rights granted for that product.

The Specific License Controls the Additional Rights

BBGPResources.com uses a simple rights hierarchy:

GENERAL WEBSITE ACCESS

↓

GENERAL USE RIGHTS

and, where applicable:

SPECIFIC LICENSED PRODUCT

↓

RIGHTS DEFINED BY THAT PRODUCT’S LICENSE

A specific product license may intentionally grant rights that are not available for ordinary website material.

That does not weaken the general protection of the website.

It means that additional rights have been deliberately authorized for a particular resource under defined conditions.

Likewise, general website language should not be interpreted to remove additional rights that have been expressly granted through an applicable product license.

Permission for One Resource Does Not Automatically Apply to Another

Rights should be evaluated at the resource level.

For example, permission to:

print one worksheet;

share one designated educational handout;

use one professional resource within an organization;

or rebrand one specifically licensed PLR product

does not automatically authorize the same activity with every other resource on BBGPResources.com.

When a particular product or resource includes its own license, purchaser-rights document, authorized-use notice, or distribution terms, use that document to determine the rights granted for that specific material.

Images, Photographs, Illustrations, and Other Visual Assets

Visual material requires particular care.

BBGPResources.com may have sufficient rights or permission to display an image, photograph, illustration, graphic, or other visual asset on the website without having authority to give every visitor or purchaser unrestricted rights to that asset.

Therefore:

Permission to view an image on BBGPResources.com does not automatically create permission to copy, redistribute, modify, sell, extract, or rebrand that image.

Likewise, an image appearing within a downloadable or purchased resource should not automatically be treated as independently reusable outside that resource.

If a product license expressly grants rights involving particular visual assets, those rights should be determined from that specific license.

Names, Logos, Marks, and Brand Identity

Names, logos, trademarks, service marks, product names, program names, distinctive graphics, and other brand identifiers appearing on BBGPResources.com may carry rights separate from the educational information surrounding them.

Access to the website does not by itself authorize a visitor or purchaser to use a name, logo, mark, or brand identity in a way that suggests:

ownership;

sponsorship;

endorsement;

partnership;

authorization;

or organizational affiliation

that has not actually been established.

A license permitting modification or rebranding of a particular product should not automatically be interpreted as permission to use unrelated organizational names, logos, trademarks, or brand assets unless that permission is expressly included.

Attribution Does Not Automatically Create Permission

Giving credit to the source can be important, but attribution by itself does not automatically create a right to reproduce or redistribute protected material.

Similarly, removing a name, logo, copyright notice, or other identifying information does not create a new right to use the underlying material.

When permission is required, the relevant question is not only:

“Did I give credit?”

It is also:

“Do I have permission for the way I intend to use this material?”

Linking Is Different From Republishing

Ordinary linking to a publicly available BBGPResources.com page is different from copying substantial material from that page and publishing the copied material somewhere else.

Visitors may refer others to publicly accessible BBGPResources.com resources through ordinary links, subject to applicable website-use conditions.

That should not be interpreted as permission to duplicate the underlying material or create the impression that copied BBGPResources.com content originated elsewhere.

Educational Use Does Not Automatically Mean Unlimited Use

A resource may have a valuable educational purpose while still carrying defined use rights.

Terms such as:

educational;

school resource;

professional resource;

training resource;

downloadable;

free;

or purchased

should not, standing alone, be interpreted as granting unlimited copying, distribution, resale, modification, or rebranding rights.

Where expanded use is intended, BBGPResources.com can state that permission directly.

Before You Reproduce, Redistribute, Resell, Modify, or Rebrand

Before using BBGPResources.com material beyond ordinary access, consider:

What specific material am I using?

Is it ordinary website content or a separately provided resource?

Did the resource come with its own use terms or license?

Does that license actually authorize what I intend to do?

Does my intended use involve images, logos, trademarks, or other assets that may have separate rights?

Am I relying on an assumption, or can I identify the permission that applies?

These questions are intended to make rights easier to understand—not to make legitimate authorized use unnecessarily difficult.

Nothing on this page is intended to eliminate rights that a person may independently have under applicable law.

When a Resource Gives You Expanded Rights

If a specific BBGPResources.com resource expressly grants expanded rights, you should be able to rely on the applicable license or purchaser-rights document to understand those permissions.

The existence of general copyright and authorized-use protections on the website does not erase legitimately granted product rights.

That distinction is important.

GENERAL PROTECTION PRESERVES THE DEFAULT.

A SPECIFIC LICENSE DEFINES THE EXCEPTION OR EXPANSION.

This allows BBGPResources.com to protect ordinary educational material while also supporting resources intentionally designed for broader professional, distribution, or authorized-rebranding use.

Questions About Authorized Use

If you are unsure whether a particular use is authorized, review the terms, license, purchaser-rights information, or use notice provided with the material first.

Where an appropriate rights-contact route is provided, you may also use it to ask about permission for a proposed use.

A request for permission does not itself create authorization. Where additional authorization is required, it should be obtained before relying on that use.