Copyright Protection
All text, image
and other materials contained or displayed on this site are
proprietary and constitute valuable intellectual property. No
materials from any part of this site are authorized or
intended by us to be downloaded, transmitted, broadcast,
reproduced or in any other way used or otherwise disseminated
in any form to any person or entity, unless said person or
entity has license to do so. All unauthorized duplication or
any other use of materials from this site, including, but not
limited to, use on other Web sites, or in offers to resell
products using similar names or descriptions, shall constitute
intentional infringement(s) of our intellectual property and
shall further constitute a violation of our trademarks,
copyrights, and other rights. Without further notice we
will prosecute to the fullest extent allowed by law.
If you are thinking about borrowing
(stealing) someone else's material. You should read this!
Copyright laws provide for
penalties of up to $150,000 per infringement. That is
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS! This is not
just some arbitrary number, keep in mind that this amount was
just recently increased from $100,000 per infringement in
order to give the copyright law even more teeth than it
already had.
So, let's say you go to a
someone's website, download one of their pictures, or copy
their text, and then use it on your website without
permission.
In order to save a little time and
maybe a few bucks, you have just opened yourself and or your
company up to a $150,000 liability for each infringement. And
when the rightful owner finds you (and they will), the legal
"cause of action" that lands on your desk (a subpoena)
will be seeking $150,000.00 for EACH infringement. Hiding
behind that corporate shield won't help you either, because
copyright infringement is a criminal act.
Stealing copyrighted material is
not only unfair to us, but it is also unfair to our good
customers who follow the law and pay us for the use of our
copyrighted material. We have an obligation to protect our
customers.
Because it's so
easy these days for one person to "steal" the creative work of
somebody else, lawmakers have recognized that for copyright
laws to be effective, they must have teeth. If you use our
copyrighted material without permission we will utilize the
law to it's fullest extent. We prosecute every copyright
infringement, no questions asked, and we will always seek the
maximum fine of $150,000 when we file suit.
You can have a
great web site designed using professional copy writers and
artists for a thousand dollars or less. There is no need to
steal other peoples copyrighted material. However, if you
really think that stealing that one image, or that one catchy
phrase is worth a $150,000 gamble then you must know that time
is not on your side. Sophisticated spiders can easily match
copied text and identify stolen images. Theses spiders work
24/7 and you WILL get caught.
