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Feel free to use the crib pages on this site to help produce your own dance cribs or programmes - simply copy and paste the cribs you need.
Please retain the appropriate acknowledgements and note the following points.

• On the 'Dance Crib pages', the MINICRIB dance instructions are available FREE for normal Scottish country dancing use. In recognition of Charles Upton, of the Deeside Caledonian Society, and those who have continued his work, please retain the MINICRIB footnote that appears below each crib. If compiling your own dance programme or cribsheet containing several MINICRIB dances, a single acknowledgement of MINICRIB as the source is sufficient, as explained on the MINICRIB website.
  For a programme, the acknowledgement could simply read: "This programme was prepared using the MINICRIB database - www.minicrib.org.uk"
• On the 'Dance Crib pages', the MAXICRIB dance instructions are available FREE for normal Scottish country dancing use. Please retain the MAXICRIB footnote that appears below each crib.
• On the 'Dance Crib pages', deviser-supplied dance instructions may be used for ordinary dance programmes and recaps in accordance with the deviser's permission. Please credit the deviser wherever their instructions are reproduced publicly. Any particular conditions stated with the dance instructions should also be observed.
• On the 'Dance Crib pages' and the 'Crib Diagrams pages', Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams are available FREE for use in dance programmes and other normal Scottish country dancing activities. In recognition of the author, Keith Rose, of the Bedford Scottish Dance Group, please include a short acknowledgement wherever his diagrams are reproduced. This permission does not imply unrestricted republication of a collection of diagrams on another website.

The original manual, from which the Dictionary of Scottish Country Dancing Terms was developed, was written by Reuben Freemantle from 1982 onwards. The Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary website, based on that manual and subsequently greatly expanded, was established in 2003 and has since been developed and maintained jointly by Reuben Freemantle, Laurence Abbott and others.

Copyright in original text, illustrations, diagrams and other material remains with the respective copyright holders. Material supplied by others, including dance instructions, crib diagrams, photographs and content reproduced under Creative Commons licences, remains subject to the rights and permissions of its original authors and contributors.

Reuben Freemantle's original Dictionary of Terms diagrams, some of which bear a visible website watermark, are distinct from Keith Rose's crib diagrams. They may not be reproduced beyond applicable permissions or legal exceptions without the relevant rights holder's permission. The presence or absence of a watermark does not determine copyright ownership.

Reproduction Of Website Content - Linking to the Dictionary and normal use of the dance resources described above are welcomed. Unauthorised systematic copying, substantial extraction or republication of protected original text, diagrams or qualifying database content for another website, database or commercial service is not permitted where copyright or database rights apply. This does not restrict uses authorised by the relevant rights holders, applicable Creative Commons licences, public-domain status or exceptions provided by law. Facts and dance titles are not claimed as exclusive property merely because they appear on this website.

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The Dance Information sections of the Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary contain material from Wikipedia and other sources, together with substantial additional research, writing and editing. Although individual pages may acknowledge Wikipedia or Creative Commons material, this does not mean that the complete articles are freely available for copying. Anyone wishing to reuse Wikipedia material is advised to obtain it directly from Wikipedia, where the applicable licensing conditions can be checked.

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Current Copyright Law

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