Legal
June 23rd, 2007
The “legal” stuff
It’s been said that if 1,000 monkeys were placed in a room with typewriters, they would eventually crank out all the great works of Shakespeare. Well, after more than a decade of open and accessible Internet access, we see quite the opposite many times when it comes to life on the Internet. Frankly, a fair portion of what is found on the Internet could be a demonstration of a clear de-evolution of writing, thinking, and of even social habits. Manners, politeness, and even the basics of writing, such as appropriate use of ALL CAPS, or, for that matter, the use of upper- and lower-case letters in sentence structure.
That said, as with anything else in society, there are rules, regulations, and certain accepted policies. The same holds true on this site, as well as this domain, Scoop0901.net.
The content below outlines the policies for Scoop0901.net and Scoop’s Views, setting the standard for both site visitor, as well as those maintaining various aspects of content on the site. Should you have comments or need clarification on any point, contact us using our contact form.
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Terms of Use of Scoop’s Views
Use of Scoop’s Views and all other sections of the domain Scoop0901.net are subject to the following Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Scoop’s Views or Scoop0901.net indicates acceptance of these terms.
This website is intended for informational purposes only, and information gleaned may be used for your personal, non-commercial use only, without any redistribution rights.
You agree to follow all applicable laws when using Scoop’s Views or Scoop0901.net. You agree you shall not upload or post unlawful, threatening, harmful, obscene, defamatory, or objectionable content, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to, transmit junk mail or comment posting, collect information about other users, sell access to the website or the data herein, or redistribute any content of this website.
You agree that all user-generated content, including but not limited to comments you leave, correspondence with its authors, participation in dynamic polls or any other form of user-submitted communication with this website is that sole property of the owner of this website. There is no expectation of confidentiality or privacy in any communications you may have with this website, its authors, or any other users on any forum(s), wiki(s), and/or blog(s) maintained by, for, or related to this site.
You agree your use of any and all RSS feeds generated by this site or affiliated services will be for personal, non-commercial news aggregators only, without any redistribution rights. Aggressive actions are taken by the site’s owner to maintain all legal rights of self-produced content and other intellectual property.
Unless otherwise stated, all content is the original work of Dave Jackson, known on the Internet as Dave J. (Scoop0901), and is Copyright 1994 through the most current year by Dave J. (Scoop0901). All rights reserved.
Policy Statement
This domain, Scoop0901.net, is host to a variety of sites and services, including, but not limited to Scoop0901 Online and Scoop’s Views (blog).
Scoop’s Views and Scoop0901.net is based in Philadelphia, PA (USA).
As part of overall information collected by site statistics, we collect the name of the visitor’s Internet service provider (ISP). This does not provided the visitor’s e-mail address or other aggregate information, such as your exact location. Some ISPs use server names that may indicate the name of a town or section of town, but there is no way for us to determine your physical location. It is not our intention to ever learn your location, unless, of course, you are involved in criminal activity on or against Scoop’s Views or this domain. In that event, a Court Order will be obtained to secure your name, address, and other information, including Internet activities, for criminal and civil action.
The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, or is used to improve the content of our site. After its purpose has been served, all information is discarded and never shared.
With respect to cookies: We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart and allow users to interact in specific areas, such as blogs, forms, and other interactive area.
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If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.
Please provide us with your name and phone number. Your name or other personally-identifying information is never shared with other organizations unless so stated in a particular area. If that is the case, the reason will be provided, as well as any other specific terms, and, more importantly, for you, the limitations.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of the various sites serving ads on our site, which change from time-to-time.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.
Upon request we provide site visitors with access to no information that we have collected and that we maintain about them.
With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site and any information we have, such as orders placed through PayPal which we must ship directly may, at times, lead to printing of personal information from the order form, including your name, address, city, state, zip code and possibly phone number. If this is the case, all information is destroyed by micro-shed shredders on-site for destruction.
If you feel that Scoop’s Views is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.
Access to Scoop’s Views or this entire domain may be blocked by IP, domain, or other characteristic for a variety of causes, including, but not limited to, SPAM activities (sending SPAM to, from, or representing it is from this site or domain), splogging (blog SPAM), posting commercial advertising or links in comment or contact fields, or hacking attempts.
Disclosure Policy
This policy is valid from 22 August 2007
Scoop’s Views is personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me using the contact form on this site.
Scoop’s Views accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
Scoop’s Views abides by word of mouth marketing standards. I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics, or posts that appear in the pages of Scoop’s Views or the Scoop0901.net domain. That content, advertising space, or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content unless it is an obvious ad, such as the case of banner ads and such.
As the owner of Scoop’s Views, as well as the Scoop0901.net domain, I may, at times, be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, or various other topics. Even though I may, at times, receive compensation for making a post or for various advertisements that may display on the site, I will always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely mine, and will never be adulterated by a mere offer of financial compensation. My name, reputation, and writing has never been something held to compromise for financial consideration, nor shall it ever be. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about any product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.
As the owner of Scoop’s Views, I will disclose the following existing relationships, which may, at times, present a “perceived” conflict of interest, especially because of my passion for certain topics. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of Scoop’s Views. I consult and do philanthropic work for Awake In America, Inc. and Awake In Philly. I also serve on the non-profit board of Awake In America, Inc.
E-mail policy
Scoop’s Views and this domain do not use e-mail addresses due to a large increase in SPAM in recent months. The charming and ever-so-polite SPAM-sending scum have filled my Inbox with thousands of SPAM messages a day. To rid much of that SPAM, all former e-mail accounts have been closed.
When making contact with Scoop’s Views, you will need to use a contact form provided by Scoop’s Views. If you abuse that privilege, it can and likely will be revoked by blocking your IP, domain, or other unique characteristic from using or sending information to or from Scoop’s Views or domain. Simply because you have Internet access does not mean you have a “right” to abuse others’ services, especially at their expense.
Copyright Notice
All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. Unless identified with the designation "COPY FREE," the contents of this website are protected under copyright laws in the U.S. and other foreign countries, with all rights being held by Dave Jackson (Scoop0901).
You may not copy or transmit the contents of Scoop’s Views either electronically or in hard copies.
You may not alter the content of Scoop’s Views in any manner.
If you are interested in using the contents of Scoop’s Views in any manner except as described above, please contact us using the contact form on this site for licensing information.
Individual documents published by Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) on the World Wide Web may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information specific to that individual document.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right under any patent, trademark or other property right of Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) or any third party.
Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright or other property right of Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) or any third party.
Note that any product, process, or technology in this document may be the subject of other intellectual property rights reserved by Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) and may not be licensed here under.
What is this Copyright thing?
For some really good information, be sure to check out the U.S. Copyright Office’s site.
A work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author’s life plus an additional 70 years after the author’s death. In the case of "a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire," the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author’s death. For works made for hire, and for anonymous and pseudonymous works (unless the author’s identity is revealed in Copyright Office records), the duration of copyright will be 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter.
Just some really cool information for you to consider should you decide you still want to copy something:
Sec. 501. Infringement of copyright
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Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 121 or of the author as provided in section 106A(a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be. For purposes of this chapter (other than section 506), any reference to copyright shall be deemed to include the rights conferred by section 106A(a). As used in this subsection, the term ”anyone” includes any State, any instrumentality of a State, and any officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity. Any State, and any such instrumentality, officer, or employee, shall be subject to the provisions of this title in the same manner and to the same extent as any nongovernmental entity. - (b)
The legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right under a copyright is entitled, subject to the requirements of section 411, to institute an action for any infringement of that particular right committed while he or she is the owner of it. The court may require such owner to serve written notice of the action with a copy of the complaint upon any person shown, by the records of the Copyright Office or otherwise, to have or claim an interest in the copyright, and shall require that such notice be served upon any person whose interest is likely to be affected by a decision in the case. The court may require the joinder, and shall permit the intervention, of any person having or claiming an interest in the copyright. - (c)
For any secondary transmission by a cable system that embodies a performance or a display of a work which is actionable as an act of infringement under subsection (c) of section 111, a television broadcast station holding a copyright or other license to transmit or perform the same version of that work shall, for purposes of subsection (b) of this section, be treated as a legal or beneficial owner if such secondary transmission occurs within the local service area of that television station. - (d)
For any secondary transmission by a cable system that is actionable as an act of infringement pursuant to section 111(c)(3), the following shall also have standing to sue: (i) the primary transmitter whose transmission has been altered by the cable system; and (ii) any broadcast station within whose local service area the secondary transmission occurs. - (e)
With respect to any secondary transmission that is made by a satellite carrier of a performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission and is actionable as an act of infringement under section 119(a)(5), a network station holding a copyright or other license to transmit or perform the same version of that work shall, for purposes of subsection (b) of this section, be treated as a legal or beneficial owner if such secondary transmission occurs within the local service area of that station. - (f)
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With respect to any secondary transmission that is made by a satellite carrier of a performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission and is actionable as an act of infringement under section 122, a television broadcast station holding a copyright or other license to transmit or perform the same version of that work shall, for purposes of subsection (b) of this section, be treated as a legal or beneficial owner if such secondary transmission occurs within the local market of that station. - (2)
A television broadcast station may file a civil action against any satellite carrier that has refused to carry television broadcast signals, as required under section 122(a)(2), to enforce that television broadcast station’s rights under section 338(a) of the Communications Act of 1934.
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