Legalese/Privacy-Policy
Contents of this webpage:
Binding Effect
By
your:
you
agree to be bound by the terms of this legalese/privacy-policy.
Keep in mind the
rather Draconian laws in California, such as
this one, on recording private face-to-face conversations (or telephone
conversations) without the consent of all parties to the conversation. I
certainly do!
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
I am a citizen and
resident of Orange County, State of California, United States of America.
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The laws of The
State of California shall govern any dispute which may arise out of your having
linked to, framed, engaged in a copyright-related act, or publicly emailed me, except to the extent
that California laws have been displaced by the laws of The United States of America, in
which case the laws of The United States of America shall govern such disputes.
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Such laws shall
apply without regard to choice-of-law rules, as though you were also a citizen
and resident of Orange County, State of California, United States of America.
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The courts having
jurisdiction over
Orange County, State of California, United States of America -- whether courts
of The State of California or of The United States of America -- shall have
exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any dispute which may arise out of your
having accessed this website, or out of your having contacted me.
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You irrevocably
appoint The Secretary of State of The State of California as your agent for
service of process if service of process by ordinary means has been
unsuccessful.
Well, some might
say that I live in The Benevolent Dictatorship of Baja
LasVegastan. However, I'm reasonable, and will not subject you to Baja
LasVegastani laws and courts.
Takedown
I have a reasonable
takedown policy:
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If you think that my website contains (or links to) material that you have the
copyright on, please contact me.
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For that matter, if you find
anything else on my website (or linked-to from it) that looks illegal
to you (obscene, classified military secret, trademark infringement, etc.),
please contact me.
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Heck, if you find anything that
looks just plain stupid and/or wrong, please
contact me.
Hey, I'm in this to inform and
entertain. I'm not in this to get folks all riled up when there's no cause for riling.
In an astonishingly large percentage of situations, I'll take down
a webpage (or modify it to your satisfaction) simply because you ask me to (and
not because you have the legal power to force me to -- after we've both spent a
gazillion dollars on lawyers and legal expenses).
Lemme say it again:
Intellectual Property
Everything on this website
is
Copyright © Tom Streeter 1991-[whatever this year is]. And that goes
double for patents, trademarks (oh, yes: ™), and all other
Intellectual Property. That's IP, for the
cognoscenti.
Here is a cool
copyright notice. I'm copying it, without permission (or even attribution), as
part of "fair use":
We have gone to
considerable difficulty and expense to assemble a staff of necromancers,
sorcerers, chamans, conjurers, and lawyers to visit nettlesome and mystifying
discomforts on any ninny who endeavors to reproduce or transmit this work in any
form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including information storage
and retrieval systems, without permission from the publisher. Watch yourself.
Pretty
Broad License To You
That having been said:
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Feel free to
link to, quote, copy, modify, create a derivative work, archive, or frame any
page on this website. An acknowledgement and a link-back are appreciated, but
not necessary.
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If I decide that you're not playing nice, I reserve the
right to give notice that I have revoked this permission by the simple
expedient(s) of:
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Note that phrasing: "and/or".
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If you make it easy
for me to send you an email/snail-mail, then I am more likely to do so, and to
thereby bring the problem to your actual attention. "Ask, and
you might well receive; don't ask, and your odds go way down." Maybe I'll:
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That "and/or"
phrasing means that "notice" to you is complete once I update this webpage of
legalese. So:
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Don't worry about pre-notice use; just don't do any
post-notice use.
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If you're thinking about starting some
hard-to-back-out-of project that uses stuff from this webpage, and that you
could find yourself suddenly not permitted to use any more, then:
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double-check back to this webpage; and
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yes, I'm prepared to cut special deals.
Call me on the telephone, and let's meet
face-to-face. I'm reasonable.
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Keep in mind the
rather Draconian laws in California, such as
this one, on recording private face-to-face conversations (or telephone
conversations) without the consent of all parties to the conversation. I
certainly do!
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Not that I
undertake, warrant, or represent anything, of course.
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This website is a perpetual
work in progress. A link to (or frame of) a page on this website
-- one that worked yesterday -- might well not work today.
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A lot of the
stuff on this website is
tongue in cheek.
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Sometimes it is marked as such.
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Sometimes it is
marked as not being such.
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Sometimes you're
left to think it through for yourself.
Feel free to link to this
tongue-in-cheek-disclaimer when folks start to cite to, or even quote,
stuff on this website (whether to
you or to third parties).
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As noted above,
I have no problem with you using any of the
stuff on this website in a fashion which (but for this legalese/privacy-policy
page) would constitute an infringement of my IP rights. However, you do so at
your own risk that what you do might give rise to some claim of infringement of the IP of
some
third party (or parties).
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Sure, I do my
best to avoid infringement of third-party IP. I even do a pretty prompt
takedown of stuff in response to some pretty bogus third-party claims of
infringement.
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Rest assured,
however, that anyone who is angry enough to not be satisfied with me
doing a pretty prompt takedown from this website is quite likely to also be
angry enough to not be satisfied with you doing a pretty prompt
takedown -- in any medium -- of anything which is remotely similar. You're
going to have to cut your own deal with this angry person. No, I'm not going
to help you fund that deal.
Pretty Broad License Back To Me, Too
This Pretty Broad License is a two-way street. It's just like
it says in my Privacy Policy:
Whatever you send to me (other then by telephone, or by
follow-on face-to-face) is fair game for me to do anything
that I want to with it, to the maximum extent allowed by law.
Privacy, publicity, copyright -- heck, any kind
of Intellectual Property.
Yes, I often try to maintain the reputation of someone who
knows how to keep his mouth (and keyboard) shut when appropriate
Still, if you sent it to me, don't be complaining that I did
something with it that you didn't like.
Yes, I'm prepared to cut special deals.
Call me on the telephone, and let's meet
face-to-face. I'm reasonable. Keep in mind the
rather Draconian laws in California, such as
this one, on recording private face-to-face conversations (or telephone
conversations) without the consent of all parties to the conversation. I
certainly do!
Privacy Policy
I can't vouch for my
ISP, but
I'm far too lazy, myself, to track visitors to this website:
WARNING!!!!! If you
choose to
contact me (other than by telephone or face-to-face), then whatever you send
to me is fair game for me to use or republish, whether by:
This includes not
only your message, but also your contact information: your name, postal address,
email address, telephone number, and so on.
Sure, I sometimes find it convenient to maintain my reputation
as a man who knows how and when to keep his mouth (and keyboard) shut. But, still, don't you be
hauling me into court claiming that I've invaded your privacy or other IP
rights.
If you want
privacy, then please
call me on the telephone, or meet me
face-to-face.
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I don't record
telephone conversations.
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I'll erase your
answering-machine message as soon as I've called you back.
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I'll meet you
face-to-face at a mutually convenient coffee shop.
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I'll spring for
coffee.
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I'll open
face-to-face-over-coffee negotiations with you on the details -- to be later reduced
to writing -- of what should be public and what should be private.
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I agree to keep
private the face-to-face-over-coffee negotiations themselves (and even the
existence of such negotiations), even if they fail.
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You, by meeting
me for face-to-face-over-coffee negotiations, also agree to keep private the
face-to-face-over-coffee negotiations themselves (and even the existence
of such negotiations), even if they fail.
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Keep in mind the
rather Draconian laws in California, such as
this one, on recording private face-to-face conversations (or
conversations via telephone) without the consent of all parties to the
conversation. I certainly do!
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All bets are off
if either of us gets hit with a subpoena (or national security letter, or search
warrant, or such like) directed at our negotiations and/or telephone
conversations. But each of us agrees to:
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notify the other
of having been hit, to the extent permitted by law; and to
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fight the
subpoena, national security letter, or such like, to the extent that the other
funds the fight.
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