Terms of Service
www.rbs2.com
Copyright 2000, 2002-12 by Ronald B. Standler
definitions
In the following terms of service,
- "this website" means http://www.rbs2.com/
- "essay" means any document or any webpage posted at this website,
in either HTML or PDF format.
- I, me, or my refers to Ronald B. Standler,
who is the sole author of each essay at this website.
- you or your refers to anyone who either accesses this website,
reads an essay that is posted at this website, or
reads a printed copy of an essay that is (or was)
posted at this website.
general remarks
Each of the essays at this website, http://www.rbs2.com/ ,
is copyrighted by the author, Ronald B. Standler,
who retains full and complete rights under the
U.S. Copyright Laws
and the Berne Convention for the Protection
of Literary and Artistic Works. The copyrights of each essay
at this website have been registered with the U.S. Government.
This website, www.rbs2.com , including each of my webpages,
is my personal property.
Each of my essays at this website is protected by copyright law, and also
by these contractual terms of service.
This webpage gives the contractual terms of service for this website.
Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of all of these terms of service,
as well as your acceptance of my
disclaimer.
Incidentally, this webpage would be much simpler, except for
(1) my benevolently granting permission for printing
one copy of my HTML essays under certain conditions and
(2) my clarifications of misinterpretations of these terms
of service by readers who are insistent that they are entitled to free use
of my personal property.
terms of service
What you can legally do freely and without permission:
- Read any essay at this website on the screen of your computer.
- Put a link to any essay(s) at this website on your webpage(s).
- Make one printed copy of any essay in HTML format
(but not PDF) at this website
for either your educational use or your personal use,
specifically:
- "educational use" is either: (i) use by a student in preparing an assignment
for his/her class, or (ii) use by a professor in preparing lectures or
performing scholarly research.
- "personal use" is for any purpose that is both noncommercial and
nonincome-producing
(i.e., related to neither your employment nor your profession).
Printing of my essay(s) for any other purpose requires payment of a
license fee to me. Printing or distributing
more than one copy of my essay(s) for any purpose —
including for an educational or personal purpose —
requires payment of a license fee to me.
Printing any PDF file, for any purpose, requires payment
of a license fee to me.
To avoid misunderstanding, each essay at this website is available in only one
of the following formats: (1) HTML or (2) Adobe PDF.
Essays created before January 2003 are generally in HTML,
those created after that date are generally in PDF.
(Why I started using print-disabled PDF files.)
The following list specifically states prohibited and allowed acts:
- Do not display a copy of any of my essays either at your website or at any other website.
As a matter of copyright law, any unauthorized public display of a
copy of my work is copyright infringement.
(If you want to refer to my essay, then provide a link
to the URL of my essay.)
- Do not distribute one or more copies of any of my essays
in any format (e.g., paper copy, attachment to e-mail,
floppy disk, compact disk, DVD, etc.).
As a matter of copyright law, any unauthorized copy of my work
is copyright infringement.
(Instead, you may either (1) link
to the URL of my essay, or (2) you can ask permission and pay me a
license fee.)
- Do not download my entire essay to your media
(e.g., hard disk drive, flash drive, floppy disk, compact disk, etc.),
except for the temporary files in cache that are automatically created by your webbrowser
or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- You may quote or paraphrase words from any of my essays,
but only if, on each occurrence of my words,
you also provide a citation that includes
all of the following:
- the true author's name (i.e., "Ronald B. Standler"),
- the title of my essay,
- the URL of my essay, and
- the date of the last revision of my essay.
(The URL and date are found near the end of each of my essays.)
Using material without a proper citation
is plagiarization.
- Do not quote or paraphrase in a book, article in a periodical,
any other publication, term paper, or document posted on the Internet, a total of
more than 500 words from my essays. This contractual limitation
determines any "fair use" that you may have under copyright law.
- Do not prepare a "derivative work", as that term is used in copyright law, from any of my essays.
Examples of forbidden derivative works include any translation, abridgment, condensation,
revision, or any new edition. Including my name as the/an author does not make a
derivative work acceptable, but does avoid a charge of plagiarization.
As a matter of copyright law, making an unauthorized derivative work is copyright infringement.
- Do not state or imply that I have either approved, or recommended,
specific product(s), service(s), or manufacturer(s).
- At any other website:
- Do not display essay(s) from my website, www.rbs2.com , in frames at any other website,
because such display may confuse the reader about the origin or sponsorship of my essays.
Such use can also be unfair competition, in that the other website can make a profit from advertising
to visitors who read my essays at the other website, while I get paid nothing for the
unauthorized display of my copyrighted work.
- Do not offer to "download" a copy of any essay at www.rbs2.com, because
such downloading violates § 6 above.
As liquidated damages for displaying my copyrighted essay in frames at another website,
I ask for payment of the greater of either US$ 10 per copy downloaded or
the minimum statutory damages in 17 U.S.C. §504(c).
Printing or Distributing My Essays
Before I grant permission to print or distribute one or more copies
of any essay at this website (except one copy of an HTML file,
for either educational or personal use, as specified in §3 above),
I require payment of a license fee for each printed copy.
- This requirement of payment specifically applies to professors
or teachers who wish to distribute my essays to their students or
pupils as part of assigned, or recommended, readings for a class.
- This requirement of payment specifically applies to anyone seeking to
use my essay in your business or professional work, including
both self-employed people and employees of either for-profit corporations,
non-profit corporations (except one printed copy by a professor of my HTML essay),
or government.
The current licensing fee is US$ 4 per copy for my essays in HTML.
Owing to violations of my copyrights and violations of these terms of service
by professors and litigators, I no longer sell
printed copies of my print-disabled PDF files.
Incidentally, if I had a contract, grant, or salaried job that paid me for my time
to research, write, and revise essays, I would enable printing of those sponsored essays in PDF and
not charge a license fee. If you know of a nonprofit corporation or foundation that
would sponsor my work, I would appreciate your referral.
Links
You may link to my essays. The table of contents of my HTML webpage
gives internal anchors for links inside my HTML webpage.
I will make every reasonable effort to maintain stable links,
by changing neither the domain name www.rbs2.com/
nor the file name of essays at this website.
Acceptance
Your use of this website and any essay(s) therein constitutes your acceptance of the above terms
of service, as well as your acceptance of my disclaimer.
Thank you for respecting my copyrights.
Copyright 2000, 2002-2012 by Ronald B. Standler
http://www.rbs2.com/tos.htm
first posted 10 May 2000, modified 5 Feb 2017
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