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(This Page was last revised: September 28, 2001)
As the note says, All contents are Copyright 1998-2001, Peter Jones, unless noted otherwise! Well, that's all very well, but what does it all mean? Are you allowed to look at my site, or not? Well, I could give you fifteen pages of legalese to digest, telling you exactly what you may or may not do - but does anyone ever really read that stuff? And understand it? [Yeah, okay, you in the back, with the three-piece suit and the tie! I know you understand all that! But what about any of you non-lawyers?] No?
No! Me neither! So, what does it mean? In plain English? Well, I'm still not entirely sure! Do Australian Copyright Laws apply here, or the laws in your own country? Quite frankly, I don't really care.
As far as I'm concerned, you may do anything you like with the contents of this site, provided it is for your own personal amusement! You may print it out, show it to your friends, even keep a copy of it in your browser's cache! [And I've seen the question raised by someone as to whether the copy of a website that your browser keeps on your disk is actually a breach of copyright! So all you've got to do to be safe is disable your cache! Yeah, right!] Heck, if you think it'll do any good, you can show a copy of it to the next bunch of ETs that try to invade our world, in the hopes that they'll take one look and decide we're not worth the effort!
However, if you would like to use anything from my site (my photos and my fiction spring to mind as the most obvious targets) for a non-personal reason - whether for inclusion on a CD (well, you never know!), or with the hopes of making millions of dollars (*giggle*), or for whatever other use you may have for this site - I'd appreciate hearing from you first. Thanks... (Obviously, using the contents of my site to save the world should be included here, as a non-personal reason, but I'll make an allowance in that instance - provided you write and tell me about it when it's all over. Oh, and if they decide the contents of my site are a good reason for vaporising the planet, well, I'd really rather not hear about it, okay!)
In short, if you wanna make money from my stuff, I want my cut!
shriek whizz spin k'thunk into the opposite wall, bankruptcy, tax audit, vaporisation of the planet - are entirely your own problem and no responsibility for their unfortunate occurrence can be placed upon myself or upon my service provider! Have a nice day...
Of course, as I hinted at with the very disclaimer that you selected to access this page, not everything on this site is mine to copyright! I have borrowed
several quotations from different people - some authors, some not. In all cases, I believe, I have mentioned the true author of the line or passage, and included a link to a relevant site where possible. Since this site exists primarily for personal use, and I'm not trying to make money out of anything, I'm happy enough to leave things that way. However, if someone else (or someone else's lawyer) feels otherwise, please contact me and tell me what I'm doing wrong - and I'll do my best to rectify the situation! And if someone recognises the original source of one of my anonymous
quotations, please let me know!