Comments and Fair Use

Disclaimer and Fair Use Notice

All material on this blog is posted in accordance with the limitations set forward by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If a documented copyright owner so requests, the disputed material will be removed from published display, although I reserve the right to link to that material or to a source for that material.

This blog may at times present copyrighted material, the use of which might not always have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available in an effort to advance understandings of democratic, economic, environmental, human rights, political, and social justice issues, among others. I believe that this constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U. S. Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the articles published on this blog are distributed without profit for research and educational purposes.

Please contact me if you have questions or concerns about anything on my blog.

Please see the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Legal Guide for Bloggers for more information.

Your use of my stuff

If you use something I have written or a photograph I have posted, please give me credit, cite this blog as your source and link back to my blog.

Comments Policy

Please remember to be respectful and considerate in your comments and I’ll do the same. If your comment is offensive, I may edit it or delete it. I understand that not all comments will be of the friendly variety, as some of my posts are controversial, but please be constructive, not destructive.  I make an effort to respond to all of your comments in the comment section.

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