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7is7.com Copyright Policy

There is a lot of content on the 7is7.com website which took a lot of time to create. By law any work is also the copyright of the person who made it, so you may not just use any content here as you please, there are a few rules.

Unless specifically stated otherwise these are the rules which apply to materials published on this site.

What you may do freely without asking permission:

  1. You may link to any page on this site, this site follows a policy to avoid pages disappearing (and will redirect them properly in the rare cases that they do). So you can rest assured that your link will not be broken.
  2. You may quote excerpts, meaning a paragraph or a few sentences, from this site as long as you accompany it with a clearly visible, followable and indexable link to the original page containing the excerpt. In print media excerpts need to be accompanied by the URL of the original webpage.
  3. You may freely make (or copy) thumbnail size (maximum 160x160 pixels) versions of any image (including photos) on this site and make them available on other sites as long as you accompany it with a clearly visible, followable and indexable link to the webpage containing the original image. In print media thumbnails need to be accompanied by the URL of the original webpage.
  4. You may download webpages, images and other media to your own computer for your own personal use (this includes showing it to friends in a fashion not accessible to the general public).
  5. Snippets of code made available in webpages, such as examples or suggestions in a text or code generated by a tool on this site can be used freely (including copying and redistribution) without requiring attribution.
  6. Software made available for download, can be used as described in accompanying licences (usualy GNU GPL).

What you need to ask permission for:

  1. Permission to use a limited number of materials from this website will sometimes be granted free of charge for certain academic projects and for certain non-profit endeavors. Send a request by E-mail detailing what you would like to use and how you would like to use it.
  2. For commercial activities, such as publishing a for profit book, permission to use materials may be granted in exchange for a small fee depending on the way the materials are going to be used. Send a request by E-mail detailing what you would like to use and how you would like to use it.

What you may not do:

  1. Hotlink JavaScript files, images and other media content.
  2. Scrape anything other than feeds intended for that purpose.
  3. Copy lengthy excerpts or entire pages without explicit prior permission and publish them in any fashion, including electronically or in print.
  4. Copy and publish images larger than thumbnails (160x160 pixels) without prior permission.
  5. Copy and publish other media without prior permission.

This site deploys strategies to detect and prevent unauthorized hotlinking and scraping so even if it may work for a while, you will soon notice broken images or non-functioning pages on your site without prior warning.

Violations of copyrights and/or persistent attempts to hotlink or scrape will trigger an automatic legal right for compensation from offenders and may result in termination of services provided to offenders by their ISP.

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