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CSA Standards' IP Policy

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
CSA Standards honors and respects the intellectual property rights of others, and expects our participants and other stakeholders to likewise respect our intellectual property rights.

You may contribute to the development of a CSA Standards standard, code or related product through your participation on a CSA Standards committee, advisory council, board, consumer network or similar group, or as an external stakeholder making proposals for revisions to a draft or published document.

In making these submissions, you are giving CSA Standards a license (permission) to include any or all of the material you submit into a draft or published CSA Standards document without further notice. You acknowledge that CSA Standards will be the sole owner of the documents that it publishes (including all intellectual property).

When making submissions to CSA Standards, please remember the rights of others. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have the right to provide CSA Standards with any material that you submit, and that in doing so you are not violating the rights of others including any patents, copyrights, trade secrets or trademarks. If you are unsure of the originating source of any material you are submitting to CSA Standards, or if you know that another party claims rights in it such as copyright or patent, please notify CSA Standards.

As a participant on a CSA Standards committee, advisory council, board, consumer network or similar working group, or as an external stakeholder commenting on a draft or published CSA Standards document, you may receive copies of information in the form of a draft or published document in one of more formats, including electronic or hardcopy. Please remember that CSA Standards owns copyright in the documents and drafts it produces. You are permitted to use the documents and drafts provided to you for CSA Standards' standards development purposes only. You are not permitted to:

  • sell such documents to third parties;
  • load such documents into your organization's electronic systems for general organizational use;
  • transfer or share the material with others except to support CSA Standards' standards development activities.
If you have any questions about your roles and responsibilities regarding rights to CSA Standards standards and similar documents, or if you have other needs to copy, reproduce or store the information, please contact us at participation@csa-america.org.