Copyright Statement.

[Extremeskins Staff]

Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

ExtremeSkins respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Material available on or through other web sites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those web sites, and not the ExtremeSkins or Washington Redskins Terms of Service, govern your use of that material.

It is the policy of ExtremeSkins, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of other parties.

Notice for Claims of Intellectual Property Violations and Agent for Notice

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide ExtremeSkins’ Copyright Agent with the following information:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;

2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the ExtremeSkins site, with a link or .url to the specific page or enough other detail that we may find it on the web site;

4. your address, telephone number, and email address;

5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; and

6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

ExtremeSkins’ Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

By mail:

Copyright Agent

Attn: Office of General Counsel
21300 Redskin Park Drive
Ashburn, VA 20147

By phone:

(703) 726-7122

By fax:

(703) 726-7011

Please note that, due to security concerns, attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed.

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All, for a complete understanding of this, please read our statement at the time this rule was tweaked.

All,

Given our association with the Redskins one thing that will be looked at more closely now than in the past is the posting of full text news articles where you do not have permission. Now that we are owned by a commercial business it is likely news organizations will no longer turn a blind eye to our capturing of their articles (their mistakes) as they had to in the past.

We have already received specific contact on this matter by the USA Today and our buddies at the Washington Post. Copyright law is such that we -- owners and staffers -- of this site are not responsible for confirming each individual member has a legitimate ability to post copy protected material. In many cases the material is not copy protected at all. In other cases ALL material may be protected. We can not know and we are not able to confirm which are and which are not and whether you've received permission or whether you have not.

In all cases, if we are notified by news organizations that a violation of their copyright happened here with the posting of full-text news articles, we will have to remove the full text portion of the post. You are responsible for the content you post. While this doesn't really have a great impact on us, we feel due to the increased attention this site brings on us that we have to provide you all with a heads up as to the possible action that can be taken against you -- as individuals -- by news organizations should they feel you have violated their copyright.

We already know news organizations have people visiting here EVERY day gathering names of individuals who may violate their copyrights. Please be careful as to what you post to prevent any possible action taken against you. On our end we will edit violations reported to us and in extreme cases where a member has been contacted for obvious and repeated copyright infringement we could take more drastic moderating action to rectify the problem.

What this all means is pretty simple. By default any full text posting from the Washington Post and the USA Today will be edited down and we will request you not make full text postings from those sites any more. All other posts are your responsibility. We will take no action at all unless contacted by the organization at which time we will simply request you no longer do so. Only if you ignore that request will any further actions be taken against you.