Licensing & Permissions

Using Our Research, Teachings, Books & Creative Works

We welcome thoughtful engagement with the research, teachings, books, stories, and other creative works published through Oma's Garden (Odinani Insights Archive), Odinani Mystery School (OMS), and related projects by Oma.

Our goal is to make it easy for researchers, educators, creators, publishers, producers, and members of our community to understand how our work may be used while protecting the intellectual property, creative worlds, and educational resources we continue to develop.

The basic rule is simple: You are welcome to discuss, reference, review, and appropriately quote our work with proper attribution. If you want to reproduce, adapt, translate, perform, distribute, or commercially build upon our work, please contact us for permission or licensing.

Quick Licensing Guide

If you want to? + What is required.

No permission required.
Attribution appreciated.
Attribution + source link.
Proper academic citation.
Attribution + source link.
Written permission.
Written permission.
Written permission.
License required.
Permission/license required.
License required.
Audiobook license required.
Adaptation license required.
Adaptation license required.
Adaptation license required.
License required.
License required.
Negotiated license required.

When in doubt, please contact us before publishing, producing, or distributing your project.

Research Articles & Oma's Garden

Articles published through Oma's Garden / Odinani Insights Archive may be referenced, discussed, and reasonably quoted for purposes such as research, commentary, education, reviews, essays, videos, podcasts, and academic work.

For public online uses, please provide:

Author: Oma
Article: Title of the original article
Source: Oma's Garden / Odinani Insights Archive
Link: Direct link to the original article

Suggested Attribution

Source: Oma, “[Article Title],” Oma's Garden – Odinani Insights Archive. [Original Source Link]

You do not need to request permission simply to link to our work, discuss it, recommend it, or appropriately quote from it.

However, reproducing an entire article, substantial extracts, images, original diagrams, or republishing the material in another publication, website, book, course, or commercial product may require written permission.

Odinani Mystery School Teachings

Our educational materials are the result of extensive research, practice, documentation, teaching, and curriculum development.

This includes materials produced through Odinani Mystery School, its faculties, OMS Varsity, and related educational programs, including:

Written teachings and articles
Lesson videos and recordings
Study guides
Audio lessons
Pronunciation guides
Original diagrams and illustrations
Educational frameworks and teaching methods
Exercises, quizzes, assignments, and learning materials
Course structures and curricula

Students, researchers, and creators may reference or discuss our teachings with appropriate attribution.

However, enrollment or access to OMS materials does not grant permission to reproduce, redistribute, publish, teach, sell, upload, translate, or create derivative educational products from those materials.

If you would like to incorporate OMS material substantially into a course, workshop, publication, documentary, educational platform, or other public project, please contact us regarding an Educational Content License.

Books & Published Works

Readers, reviewers, researchers, educators, and creators are welcome to discuss, review, recommend, and appropriately quote our books where permitted.

Permission or licensing is required for uses such as:

Audiobook production
Translation
Abridgment
Serialization
Dramatic readings or performances
Audio drama
Podcast adaptations
Film and television adaptations
Animation
Stage productions
Comics and graphic novels
Games
Commercial illustrations
Merchandise
Other substantial adaptations or reproductions

Purchasing or receiving a copy of a book does not include adaptation, reproduction, translation, or commercial exploitation rights.

Audiobook Licensing

Interested in producing an audiobook edition of one of our books?

Audiobook rights may be available for licensing on a case-by-case basis.

Independent narrators, audiobook producers, publishers, studios, and distribution companies are welcome to submit proposals.

Depending on the project, an audiobook license may specify:

Title • Language • Territory • Distribution Platforms • License Term • Exclusivity • Production Standards • Narrator Approval • Fees • Royalties • Credits • Reporting Requirements

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, no audiobook production rights should be assumed simply because a book is publicly available for purchase.

Please contact us before recording or commissioning an audiobook.

Fiction, Characters & Story-World Adaptations

We are especially protective of the fictional stories, characters, worlds, mythology, series, and interconnected creative properties developed through our books.

Adaptation opportunities may be available for:

Film • Television • Animation • Stage • Audiobooks • Audio Drama • Fiction Podcasts • Comics • Graphic Novels • Games • Translation • Merchandise • Interactive Media • Other Creative Adaptations

These rights are negotiated individually.

A license to adapt one book or story does not automatically grant rights to an entire series, fictional universe, characters appearing elsewhere, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, related mythology, artwork, trademarks, or other intellectual property.

Only the rights specifically granted in a signed agreement are included.

If you are a producer, publisher, filmmaker, studio, narrator, artist, game developer, or other creator interested in adapting one of our fictional properties, we welcome serious proposals.

Commercial Licensing

If you intend to substantially use our work in something that will be sold, monetized, licensed, distributed commercially, or used to promote a commercial product or service, please contact us first.

Commercial licenses may be structured as:

One-time licensing fees • Royalties • Revenue sharing • Advance + royalties • Limited-term licenses • Non-exclusive licenses • Exclusive licenses • Other negotiated arrangements

Terms will depend on the work, intended use, audience, territory, duration, and commercial scope of the project.

Unless specifically negotiated otherwise, our preference is to retain ownership of the underlying intellectual property.

Non-Exclusive & Exclusive Rights

Most licensing opportunities will be considered on a non-exclusive basis, allowing us to continue using our work and licensing appropriate rights to others.

Exclusive licensing may be considered for certain projects, but exclusivity must be specifically negotiated and agreed to in writing.

An exclusive license for one particular use does not automatically grant exclusivity over unrelated uses.

For example, exclusive audiobook rights would not automatically include film, television, translation, merchandise, publishing, or other adaptation rights unless the agreement specifically says so.

AI Training & Generative AI Use

Unless expressly authorized in writing, our materials may not be collected, reproduced, uploaded, licensed, or supplied as datasets for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, or developing commercial generative AI models or similar machine-learning systems.

Permission to quote, reference, study, purchase, or access our work should not be interpreted as permission to use our intellectual property for commercial AI training or dataset creation.

Organizations seeking such rights may contact us with a licensing proposal.

What Does Not Require Permission?

We want people to engage with our work.

You generally do not need to contact us simply to:

Read it. Discuss it. Recommend it. Review it. Link to it. Cite it. Or appropriately quote from it.

Please provide proper attribution whenever you draw directly from our work, and link back to the original source whenever reasonably possible.

Nothing on this page is intended to restrict uses that are independently permitted under applicable copyright law.

Request a License or Permission

If your intended use requires permission or licensing, please contact us with as much of the following information as possible:

Your name / organization:
Contact email:
Work you wish to use:
Specific material or rights requested:
Description of your project:
Commercial or non-commercial:
Format:
Language(s):
Distribution platforms:
Countries or territories:
Expected release date:
Requested license duration:
Exclusive or non-exclusive rights requested:
Estimated audience or distribution:
Proposed compensation or licensing arrangement, if applicable:

For adaptations, please also include relevant information about your company, production team, previous work, or intended production.

Providing this information does not guarantee that a license will be granted.

No permission or license should be considered granted until it has been confirmed in writing by the appropriate rights holder.

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Our Approach to Licensing

We believe knowledge should be discussed, studied, questioned, shared, and built upon through meaningful engagement.

At the same time, substantial research, teaching, writing, storytelling, and creative development go into producing these works. We therefore ask that the distinction between engaging with our intellectual property and reproducing or commercially exploiting it be respected.

If you want to discuss our work, please do.

If you want to cite our work, credit it.

If you want to substantially reproduce, publish, adapt, translate, perform, distribute, or commercially build upon it, talk to us first.

We are open to thoughtful collaborations and licensing opportunities that respect the work, its origins, and the people responsible for creating it.

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Copyright & Rights Notice

Unless otherwise expressly stated on a particular work, original written, educational, visual, audio, literary, and creative materials published by Oma and/or through Oma's Garden, Odinani Mystery School, OMS Varsity, and associated projects remain protected by applicable intellectual property rights.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

This page provides general guidance regarding permissions and licensing and does not itself constitute a license, transfer of ownership, or grant of rights. Any commercial, adaptation, exclusive, or other specially negotiated rights must be set out in a separate written agreement.