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Copyright

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Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.

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Assume materials found on the Internet are copyrighted unless a disclaimer or waiver is expressly stated. Note that there does not have to be a statement that the material is copyrighted for it to be copyrighted; any original work created in recent years is automatically copyrighted according to U.S. law. The copyright holder has extensive rights. Before any display of the material, contact with copyright holder must be made and permission must be given by the copyright owner.

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Failure to abide by these legal and contractual restrictions may result in civil or criminal prosecution beyond any disciplinary action taken by Elite Web Labs

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Examples of common copyright violations:

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• Displaying pictures or graphics that have not been personally created. • Offering video or sound recordings that have not been personally recorded. • Placing any materials owned by others, on web pages, or for other display, without the expressed permission of the copyright owner. (i.e. cartoons, articles, photographs, songs, sound bites, movies, software, graphics scanned in from published works or other web pages).

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Placing copyright attribution on the displayed material is not sufficient to enable its display; Contact must be made to that copyright owner to be assured that the display is acceptable prior to its release.