Citations and fair use.

Several sites in the deven.cloud network synthesize, summarize, visualize, or comment on the published work of other authors, researchers, institutions, and thinkers. This page describes how those references are handled and what to do if you're a rights-holder who would like a citation adjusted or removed.

Editorial purpose

Citations on these sites serve commentary, criticism, education, and synthesis. Those are the core fair-use purposes recognized under §107 of the U.S. Copyright Act and equivalent doctrines elsewhere. The intent is to help readers think more clearly about complex topics by surfacing and connecting ideas across many sources, not to substitute for purchasing or accessing the original works.

Attribution

Where a third-party idea, quotation, dataset, framework, or image is referenced, the original author and source are named. Where possible, a link back to the original work is included. If you find a missing attribution, please write to legal@deven.cloud and it will be corrected promptly.

Quotations and excerpts

Direct quotations from cited works are kept short and used in the context of commentary. Longer excerpts are paraphrased or summarized rather than reproduced verbatim. Where a longer excerpt is necessary for the editorial point being made, it is set off as a blockquote with full attribution.

Visualizations and data

Some sites produce original visualizations of third-party data, for example charts derived from public research reports. The data underlying those charts belongs to the original source. The visualization design and editorial framing are © Deven Spear. Where a chart reproduces a third-party dataset substantially, a citation appears alongside the chart.

Images

Photographs and images that are not original to these sites are used either under license, with permission, or in good-faith reliance on fair use for editorial purposes. If you are a rights-holder of an image used on one of these sites and would like it credited differently, replaced, or removed, write to legal@deven.cloud.

Public-domain frameworks and ideas

Frameworks, concepts, and theories that are part of public discourse (for example, generational theory, technology adoption curves, or well-known investment frameworks) are referenced as public ideas with attribution to the originator. No claim of ownership is made over public-domain frameworks. Original synthesis, naming, and editorial framing applied on these sites is © Deven Spear.

Takedown and correction requests

If you're a rights-holder and you believe a citation, summary, image, or visualization on one of these sites exceeds fair use, contains an error, or would benefit from different treatment, please send a good-faith request to legal@deven.cloud with:

• The page URL where the citation appears.
• The work being cited and its rights-holder.
• What change you would like (correction, additional attribution, different excerpt, or removal).

Good-faith requests are reviewed and acted on quickly. I'd rather be a good citizen of the citation network than a difficult one.

Reciprocal courtesy

Quoting the original writing and visualizations on these sites elsewhere is welcome under the same fair-use principles described here, with attribution and a link back. Bulk republication, AI training, and model fine-tuning still require prior written permission per the broader legal and ownership policy.