Trail-Finder:Copyrights
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Use of Material From Trail-Finder.com
All content on Trail-Finder.com is copyright 2007-2008 by Darrin Fowler, with individual entries having shared copyright between Darrin Fowler and the entry's author(s). For specific information on author credit and who added what, you can click the "history" link on all entries.
Limited, fair-use of materials from Trail-Finder.com is acceptable. Please quote it directly and unaltered, with proper credit, including a link to http://www.trail-finder.com.
Any form of commercial use of any materials on Trail-Finder.com, beyond fair-use, is prohibited without prior, written permission.
Non-commercial, non-profit, free, printed use of the material from Trail-Finder.com for small groups (ie: a local hiking club) resulting in less than 20 total copies, distributed at no cost to participants, is allowable, with proper credit. For greater than 20 copies, you must obtain prior, written permission. At the discretion of Trail-Finder.com, this permission may be granted on either a document-by-document basis, or for a group's use of part or all of the content on the site.
Educational use of materials on Trail-Finder.com is encouraged and allowed under the above paragraph.
Copying of entire pages, or multiple pages, of this site is prohibited, however, you may freely link directly to any page of Trail-Finder.com. These links must not place Trail-Finder.com content inside of frames, or in any other way modify or supplement the content of Trail-Finder.com.
Submissions
You may not submit any copyrighted material to Trail-Finder.com unless you own the copyright. If you are the original creator, you do own the copyright, unless you have granted exclusive rights to another person or entity.
By submitting any material, including, but not limited to, maps, photographs, graphics, and text documents, as well as by performing edits on any page on Trail-Finder.com, you are assigning unrestricted, non-exclusive copyright to Trail-Finder.com. This means we can make whatever use of it we choose, including, but not limited to on-line publications, print publications, and granting of permission to re-use the materials to other persons or organizations. As a non-exclusive copyright license, however, you may also continue to make any use of the specific content which you submitted outside Trail-Finder.com, with the restriction that you may not exercise or assign exclusive copyright license.
You understand and agree that any material you submit to Trail-Finder.com may be edited by Trail-Finder.com, or by other users of Trail-Finder.com. These edits include, but are not limited to, additions, deletions, edits, full rewrites, and page moves and refactorings.
Suspected Violations
Please be aware that, since Trail-Finder.com allows posting under pseudonyms, material which you believe to be posted in violation of copyright may actually be posted by the copyright holder. Also, many copyrights are non-exclusive, allowing posting in many locations in many mediums.
With this in mind, if do you find suspected copyright violations on Trail-Finder.com, please contact Violations@Trail-Finder.com. Please include the full URL to the page containing the possible violations, the specific material which you believe to be in violation, and evidence of original, unique, non-transferable copyright held by another.
If copyright violation is found, resolutions may include, but are not limited to, proper attribution of copyright, removal, or rewriting of the offending material. Repeat copyright offenders may be prohibited from future additions and editing.
