COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK GUIDELINES

Trademark, Copyright and Privacy Tips & Tricks

Please be aware of legal issues with expression of free speech in that you do not willingly or unwillingly violate someone's intellectual property or rights to privacy. InstaNet Community does not permit the infingement of copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights.

These tips are to be used as a basis for getting started and do not encompass everything you need to be aware of when creating your home page.

Trademarks

A trademark is a brand name, logo or slogan used by an organization to distinguish its products from others. For example, FrontPage^™ 2000 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

You may need to seek permission to display a company's logo, slogan or trademark first.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Copyright

Most of the text, graphics and other information you'll find on the Internet is copyrighted. The person or company that created that work (whether it's a book, picture, song or home page) owns it and has the exclusive right to redistribute it.

Copying any of the above may incur legal problems. Just by existing in a tangible medium lends itself to be copyrighted inherently by it's creator. Unless it states it is in the "Public Domain" (This means it is available to you do with as you like, provided you still keep it labeled as such), you should assume it is copyrighted.

In general, if you do any of the following, you may be violating someone's copyright:

• Cut n' Paste images and paste them into your home page
• Cut n' Paste blocks of text and paste them into your home page

Information and pictures within InstaNet Community may be copyrighted.

Please check the distribution license of any software you upload to your site. Check before you do this.

Corporate or Character Defamation

Please do not upload something false about a person or company that hurts their reputation. This is slander or libel, and is the result of untrue statement(s) that damage the company's or person's good name.

Privacy

Privacy is the right to be left alone from unwanted publicity. Be careful, when creating your home page, not to violate anyone's right to privacy.

Posting someone's private writings, for instance a diary, could violate their privacy. It's called publication of private facts. This can occur if you publish information that's true but not newsworthy.

If you want to use a photograph of people on your home page, you need both the permission of the photographer (who owns the copyright) and the people in the photograph (for privacy reasons). People, particularly famous people, can prevent you from using their images or name to promote something that they didn't authorize. That's called appropriation or right of publicity.

Whenever you use the name or image of a person on your home page, you need to consider whether you're violating their privacy.