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-## Papers We Love
+## ![Papers We Love](http://papers-we-love.github.io/images/logo-top.svg)
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+**Papers We Love** is a community built around reading, discussing and learning more about academic computer science papers. This repository serves as a directory of some of the best papers the community can find, bringing together documents scattered across the web.
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+Due to [licenses](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love#respect-content-licenses) we cannot always host the papers themselves (when we do, you will see a :scroll: emoji next to its title in the directory README) but we can provide links to their locations.
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+If you enjoy the papers, perhaps stop by a local chapter meetup and join in on the vibrant discussions around them.
 
 ### Chapters
 
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 * Directory names are undercased and separated by underscores (example: artificial_intelligence)
 * Paper names are undercased and separated by dashes (example: out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf). Use the full title when possible.
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+### Copyright
+
+The name "Papers We Love" and the logos for the organization are copyrighted, and under the ownership of Papers We Love NYC, all rights reserved. When starting a chapter, please review [our guidelines](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Creating-a-PWL-chapter) and ask us about using the logo.