The Fine Print... Copyright, Trademark, Fair Use and Free Distribution

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The internet makes widespread publication easy and fast, it also makes potential copyright and trademark infringement easy and fast.  Since it is so simple to run afoul of the rules, I will take a moment to post these slides which explain the Credits and Attribution of the various trademarked names and terms forthcoming in these posts.

I am posting these up front since the notes are intended to apply to all the subsequent pages as well as the foregoing, so if you come late to the stream, please work your way back down to the start to be sure you see everything.

Commercial trademarks and copyrighted works reproduced here (AIA, CSI, etc.) are the property of their respective owners.

Use of these excerpts for educational purposes are believed by the author to be “Fair Use” per 17 U.S.C. § 107

It is my belief that all other illustrations that will be used in this series of posts will be in the public domain, or otherwise conform to the rules for fair use for educational purposes as noted above.

Certain other images cannot be attributed as the authors are unknown. Improperly attributed images will be removed on request submitted with proof of ownership.

Since I do want to encourage readers to share the information and the pictures with colleagues and interested parties, please feel free to link to the blog or re-tweet the posts, keeping the following in mind.  Basically, I would like to have credit for preparation, and it would not be cool for you to sell this material, since I am giving it away, so...

The rest of the content (including the text in the posts) is prepared and copyrighted as created by the author, John Guill, (specmonkey@gmail.com) and some rights are reserved as follows.

In accordance with the following license, you are free to copy and distribute this work for free, for noncommercial purposes, but not to change it. All copies must include this statement, the name of the author, John Guill, and attribution.

Some other restrictions also apply.

This original work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

For more information about Creative Commons, please visit http://creativecommons.org.

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Best Regards.  JG

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