Copyright
The © Legal Notice
All material in Pender Harbour Online is protected by copyright of the Pender Harbour Paper Mill and Myrtle Winchester unless otherwise stated.
Material not under copyright of the Pender Harbour Paper Mill is, unless otherwise arranged, under copyright by its individual author, artist, photographer and/or advertiser. See below: Copyright on Material Provided by You.
What is “Protected by Copyright?”
A copyright notice and/or the © symbol is a reminder that it is illegal to copy-and-paste stuff for your own website, brochure or ad, or to publish or use it in any other way, regardless of whether or not you profit by doing so.
Even without the © symbol, the author of the material holds a legal copyright to it from the date it is published. The copyright lasts until 50 years after the death of the author.
It is not "public domain" just because it's on the internet. Yes, someone actually used that excuse for stealing our work.
Using Material From This Website
Using any material from Pender Harbour Online without our permission, regardless of whether you make money from it, is theft of intellectual property. Yes, illegal.
If you want to use something from Pender Harbour Online for business purposes, we’ll probably want payment for it. If not, we’ll likely require that you credit us as the source of the information or image.
If it comes to our attention that material from Pender Harbour Online is being used illegally, we will initiate legal action, and we are under no obligation to notify the copyright violator in advance of this action.
If you see written material or photographs from Pender Harbour Online on another website or in a publication, be aware that it is being used illegally unless it credits Pender Harbour Online, the Pender Harbour Paper Mill or Myrtle Winchester. This will tells you something about the individual, organization or business using our material illegally.
Your Copyright
You retain full copyright on all original listing and advertising material that you provide for us to publish on Pender Harbour Online.
We will require you to sign a disclaimer stating that you either hold the copyright for, or have permission to use, this material, and that it is not copyrighted or considered public domain.
In other words, we’re not going to let you steal someone else’s copyrighted artwork, writing or photography off the internet and call it your own. Likewise, we won’t steal your work.
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