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by Linford Butler
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All of the content written and published on Gamer's Guide to Life.com is subject to our Copyright Terms. Your continued use of this website is taken as agreement to these terms. Continued use is defined as any interaction with this website in which you read, write, browse or interact with any aspect of this website. These terms of service are legally binding.

Commercial ownership of writing
Restricted Use Policies (RUPs)
Declaration of Copyright Restriction


Commercial ownership of writing

All articles published on Gamer's Guide to Life.com are the commercial property of Gamer's Guide to Life.com. At the point of transfer between a writer or contributor and the Gamer's Guide to Life.com editorial team - through any means of transfer, including but not limited to: instant messenger, email, peer-to-peer filesharing, FTP - the transferred content immediately and irrevocably becomes the permanent commercial property of Gamer's Guide to Life.com. As such, Gamer's Guide to Life.com has the right to distribute any content submitted by any writer as they so wish. Furthermore, Gamer's Guide to Life.com has the right to any and all commercial or financial profit made from use or distribution of the content and retains the rights to distribute, use and control any and all instances of content transferred to the Senior Editorial Team, in the manner in which it consideres appropriate, and regardless of where and how such content is republished.

All content posted on Gamer's Guide to Life.com remains the intellectual property of the individual writer, however the writer realises that they maintain no commercial, financial or legal ownership or right of the content once transferred via any medium to the Senior Editorial Team. Once published, writers may request for an article to be edited or removed, though this decision is made at the discretion of the Lead Editor and Gamer's Guide to Life.com is not obliged to fulfil any such request.


Restricted Use Policies (RUPs)

Gamer's Guide to Life.com writers are permitted to republish their articles only on a platform which they maintain complete control over, such as a personal blog or website. However, writers must seek permission before republishing articles from the Lead Editor and writers understand that Gamer's Guide to Life.com reserve the right to order the removal of that content from any other site, publication, platform or booklet apart from Gamer's Guide to Life.com, regardless of the matter in which such content has been reproduced (either in print or in electronic form). When exercising the previously described perogrative, Gamer's Guide to Life.com shall not be obliged to provide a reason for said order of removal. No individual permission granted by the site to republish content shall be deemed or considered a general permission, for the writer or content in question. In this sense, writers must seek individual permission for every article they wish to republish on a different outlet. If permission is granted, the republished article must clearly and non-discretely display a notice stating that the article in question was originally published on Gamer's Guide to Life.com and provide a link to the original article under the Gamer's Guide to Life.com domain name. Non-compliance with the previous requirement shall entitle Gamer's Guide to Life.com to revoke any permission which has been granted and demand the removal of the article or content in question from the site or publication in which it has been reproduced.

Gamer's Guide to Life.com entirely prohibits writers from republishing content if they have not garnered permission to republish said article. Furthermore, Gamer's Guide to Life.com prohibits writers from republishing content on any other commercial or non-commercial videogames website which is considered a competitor to Gamer's Guide to Life.com: websites on which content is republished must be personally and completely maintained by the writer in question. Exceptions to this rule will be explored on a case-by-case basis, but Gamer's Guide to Life.com reserves the right to refuse any request made by a writer to republish their content.

Writers on other sites in the Gamer's Guide to Life.com Network must also seek permission to republish their content in the same way, unless directly instructed otherwise in a similar copyright terms document on the respective Gamer's Guide to Life Network sister site.

Visitors to Gamer's Guide to Life.com, news aggregators, search engines and other such institutions may republish excerpts from articles on Gamer's Guide to Life.com without prior permission, on the understanding that Gamer's Guide to Life.com shall in all cases retain control of the content, as well as the right to edit or remove such content at any time for any reason; upon exercising such perogative, the site shall not be obliged to provide any reason or justification for the removal. Such excerpts are republished on the condition that a clear and indiscrete notice is shown stating that the original content was originally published on Gamer's Guide to Life.com, and must provide a link to the original article under the Gamer's Guide to Life.com domain name. Excerpts can only be used if they are short, non-excessive, relevant and provide an incentive to read the full article on the Gamer's Guide to Life.com website. However, republishing full articles or excessive amounts of articles, and/or the non-compliance by any party of the terms established herein above, will be considered a breach of copyright terms and shall entitle Gamer's Guide to Life.com to pursue any and all actions which it considers appropriate against the violator of such terms, in order to obtain the removal of any republished content as well as obtain compensation for any losses or damages suffered as a conseqence of such violation.

Any website considered a direct competitor to Gamer's Guide to Life.com - including but not limited to: other videogames websites, non-personal blogs, technology websites, media outlets, the press, media corporations or networks - are prohibited from republishing any content belonging to Gamer's Guide to Life.com without explicit prior consent from the Lead Editor, and any publication which republishes such content without obtaining explicit consent shall be considered in violation of the above terms, and shall entitle Gamer's Guide to Life.com to pursue any and all actions which it considers appropriate against the violator of such terms, in order to obtain the removal of any republished content as well as obtain compensation for any losses or damages suffered as a conseqence of such a violation.


Declaration of Copyright Restriction

All aspects of the Gamer's Guide to Life.com design are under copyright, by use of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works worldwide. Any blatant or explicit use of the Gamer's Guide to Life.com design for any reason will be considered a breach of copyright. Furthermore, recreating the Gamer's Guide to Life.com design in any way, shape or form is prohibited. All original images - regardless of use, quality, value or filehost - are protected by the same copyright legislation.

All original writing on Gamer's Guide to Life.com are under copyright, regardless of the restricted use policies which Gamer's Guide to Life.com allows to some. The usage rights we permit through our restricted use policies do not overrule or override in any way the terms of copyright outlined in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works worldwide.

Any original content is copyright ©2007-2010 Gamer's Guide to Life.com. Any non-original content - including but not limited to images, video, software or text - is copyright of their respective owners.
- Linford Butler

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