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Copyright
Notice
Copyright
law varies from country to country but the same
basic principle exists, that the design and content
– in the case of a web page, the coding that generates
them and the overall layout as well as some of the
components in terms of graphics, etc - are protected
by national and international laws. A web page has
the same copyright protection as any other piece
of work and is afforded the same intellectual property
rights whether or not a copyright notice is appended.
Original web pages can take a long time
to create and we spend considerable time and effort
creating a unique feature rich site, we therefore
take a very dim view of any copyright infringement
of our work, be it web pages, text therein, layout,
or images.
Boat
Loch Lomond hold the copyright to the pages they
create and publish unless otherwise stated. Although
we are not obliged to, we place a copyright notice
at the foot of most pages as a reminder that the
pages have a legal ownership.
The
layout of our pages in general and in their particulars
are also protected, a long time goes into the designing
and building any particular page.
Plagiarizers
steal web pages or images usually by amending a
few minor points to claim uniqueness. This of course
is an entirely ineffective way of avoiding an action
for interdict, breach of copyright and potential
damages.
As
a preliminary to taking proceedings, we will normally
request the hosting company or ISP to remove the
offending pages in the first instance. It is our
experience that they will normally comply with such
a request as they themselves, having been given
notice of the breach of copyright, find themselves
in the same position as the plagiarist. We hope
that we will not find it necessary to take this
course of action.
Boat Loch
Lomond
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