It's come to my attention that some members and former members have been starting rumors refering to copyright status and the use of copyright posts.  Members who start false rumors, or attempt to profit from other members without permission from those members for their own financial gain will be banned.

The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U.S. law, although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the copyright status of older works.

Contributions to Collective Works
A “collective work” is one in which a number of contributions that are separate and independent works in themselves are assembled into a collective whole. Examples of collective works include periodicals (such as websites and journals), encyclopedias, and anthologies.

A single copyright notice applicable to the collective work as a whole serves to indicate protection for all the contributions in the collective work, except for advertisements, regardless of the ownership of copyright in the individual contributions and whether they have been published previously.

Weaponeer.net has always posted a collective copyright notice to protect the information posted by members from intellectual theft by competing websites, as well as companies and/or individuals from trying to profit from a members posted ideas without their consent.

Type of copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

As a member you are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work presented on this website

  Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).  in other words if you post this information to another website, or any other media, you are required to post the full URL to the work being copied, and to name the person (username is fine) of the originator. this retains the authors attributes for reposting and giving credit where credit is due

  • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.  Using the information contained on this website for commercial purposes (copying a members design for resale, copying build information for build CD sales is strictly prohibited unless you have the permission IN WRITING from all members you are copying information from.) this prevents people from profiting off members works without their permission

  • No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.  This should be self explanatory

    • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
    • Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder (member who posted the information).
    • Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's or members moral rights.

 Notice: Weaponeer will never use post's or content posted by members for commercial purposes without the permission of the author/member. We use the copyright notices for the sole purpose of protecting the rights and works of our members from having information and/or ideas stolen from them and used for profit without the members knowledge.

Contest notice: Per the contest rules, Entrants into the Weaponeer / Shotgun News Homebuilt Challenge Contest grant Weaponeer and Shotgun News permission to use content from the contest entries to produce articles about the Homebuilt Challenge. The designers will still be given full credit for the design in publications if they feel it's warranted, but it will be at their discretion. The designer still holds copyright over the actual design for commercial purposes.

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