Copyright Policy and Remedies
The manager(s) of this group respect the rights of all authors. We will not knowingly use your copyrighted material or permit members to use it in any manner inconsistent with your specified terms of use. We make every reasonable effort to police our own, but the logistics and practality of researching each and every contribution here is beyond the scope of what the law deems a "reasonable good faith effort"; therefor,
Authors: If your material is displayed in a manner inconsistent with your terms of use, Join this community and E-mail the managers. NOTE: MSN group mail sometimes has issues. If you do not get a response within 24 hours. Please notify us on the boards. Provide us with the URL and description of the offending entry and reasonable evidence that you are the lawful claimant. It will promptly be removed. If it is determined that the infringement was deliberate, the responsible person(s) will be banned from this group.
MSN rules, code of conduct and decisions shall prevail in any dispute.
Consider also:
Excerpt from USC Title 17
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Release date: 2004-04-30
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (Money MSN Groups lololol)
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (more than likely wannabe artists' stuff snagged from another public site. Real artists would be licensing to real businesses)
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
USC 17;107 Courtesy of: Cornell University
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