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The material on our web site may be hard-printed for personal use by an
individual, but may not be distributed in any form whatsoever without the
expressed written permission of KC PET-CONNECT
. All printed copies for personal use must retain our copyright notices.
Rescue
groups are welcome to use our material in hard-print format, but only after
requesting written permission from KC PET-CONNECT
. and meeting the requirements set forth below under "Reprints".
We are pleased to have you link to our material so that viewers get the most up-to-date and unedited version. This is industry standard procedures and the only way that we can effectively control our intellectual property.
However, we do not allow any of our material to be reproduced, displayed, posted or distributed in electronic format of any kind, whether it be in a newsletter, on a web site, web page, bulletin board, chat board, mailing list, email, ebook or otherwise.
You may not charge money for our material or use it for commercial purposes or monetary gain.
We only allow actual hard-printed copies to be made and distributed, such as newsletters, brochures, and handouts. We do not grant permission to use any form of electronic reproduction or distribution.
Reprint
permission must be granted in writing by KC PET-CONNECT
. before proceeding. Permission is granted on a case-by-case basis and applies
only to a single article and a single printing run. You must request permission
to reprint on each subsequent printing run thereafter. In other words,
permission to reprint from us does not authorize you to keep printing the
article or material indefinitely. We update our material periodically and do not
want outdated articles, etc., being circulated.
Our copyright notice and web address must be displayed on each page of the material.
Normally, the entire contents must be displayed and may not be edited or altered in any way. In some cases we grant permission to use verbatim excerpts from our material.
In all cases, we require a copy of the reprint for review prior to publishing.
Our material may be quoted briefly or small sections of it condensed for legitimate "fair use" reasons, such as in a literary review by an actual publisher or for educational purposes by an accredited school. The law requires that we be credited for the material however, and that our copyright notice be displayed. We would also appreciate the professional courtesy of listing our web address.
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