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1.  Copyright of The Hub

The Vistua Hub and all other websites of The Vistua Network--except where noted, the User Wiki Area and user-sites-- are Copyright © MMVI-MMIX, The Vistua Network Organization, all rights reserved.

All edits to Hub pages not in the User Wiki Area are irrevocably licensed to The Vistua Network Organization for any purpose in perpetuity without royalty.

2.  Copyright of Pages in the User Wiki Area

All pages and edits of pages located in the User Wiki Area are presumed to be copyrighted by whoever created them, this information can be obtained by using the hub's history function, also known as the "diff" function.

Since each edit to the User Wiki Area is de-facto copyrighted by the creator of it, this may result in some pages having very complex copyright status. You may need to consult a copyright attorney.

3.  Miscellaneous Copyright Information

All user-sites are copyrighted by their owners or as indicated.

Adam-7 is Copyrighted by John Z. Walthall, used by permission.

Some icons are derived from The Oxygen Project which are copyright by their creators and used under the GNU LGPL license.

4.  Trademarks

Vistua, The Vistua Network, and the dynamic flexion logo are trademarks of The Vistua Network Organization,

Other terms used in this service may be trademark property of others, where the Vistua Network organization (and Hub editors) were aware of this, the term was entered in Initial Caps or ALL CAPS or with the ™ or ® symbols as required by U.S. Law.

We are not going to make a list of "this is a trademark of so and so" because they are tedious and silly and not legally necessary. Don't write to us asking for such a declaration.

5.  Copyright Infringement

Because of the Wikinature of the Hub, others, even total strangers, could put copyrighted materials up anywhere on the site. This is not allowed. If you are the owner of that copyright or the lawfully designated agent thereof you can contact us by e-mail at admin@vistua.net and ask for the content to be removed.

5.1  Special Considerations

It is the official opinion of the Vistua Network Organization that uploading the following controversial types of materials constitutes copyright infringement

1. Abandonware - software which is no longer being marketed. You are asked to not link to such works.
2. Orphaned Works - works for which the copyright owner cannot be identified/contacted.

The Organization also expressly forbids the uploading or linking to of Nintendo software emulators due to the troglodytic but quite dangerous legal position Nintendo takes towards those. Although, the Vistua Network Organization explicitly rejects the validity of Nintendo's claim in this matter as being frivolous, large powerful corporations such as Nintendo routinely warp and misuse the law for their own ends. It is unlikely the Organization would be able to afford to defeat Nintendo in court in this matter and thus we cannot be exposed to this sort of liability.

The Organization's policy regarding unique historical works is that such works can be uploaded to the Hub under the fair-use doctrine. In certain cases, such as the Zapruder film, the copyright on those works has been at times held unenforceable but nevertheless such works should be considered to be under full copyright unless it has expired.

5.2  DMCA

Removals of copyrighted information from our site are subject to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because The Vistua Network organization and our web-host are located in the United States of America. While the VNS administration violently opposes many portions of the DMCA it is the law.

If you send a DMCA takedown notice to us we reserve the right to publish it, in it's entirety, anywhere in any medium, including here. Please refrain from sending invalid DMCA takedown notices.

We will act in a timely manner on legitimate takedown requests, we respect copyright even though we feel the doctrine of copyrights is in desperate need of major overhaul; respecting others reasonable artistic wishes is only polite.

If you need to know how to contact the local administration please consult the appropriate page.