Last Updated: August 1, 2007
This document specifies in more depth the intellectual property rights to the Content on the Site, as those terms are defined in the User Agreement and Privacy Policy (the “Agreement”) published elsewhere on the Site. Capitalized terms herein have the same meaning as defined in the Agreement.
This document also outlines how to obtain certain rights and permissions to republish Content.
1. Copyright and Trademark – Author or Artist. The author (for textual Content) or artist (for graphical, audio or video Content) who submits Content for publication on the Site may assert or retain certain intellectual property rights in his or her Content, specifically copyright rights, trademarks/service marks (especially in advertising), or, less commonly, patent rights. Notice of such intellectual property rights, if asserted by the author or artist, will appear within or adjacent to the Content itself.
Some authors or artists will copyright their works and immediately allow certain copying under a Creative Commons license. In such cases, the Creative Commons license will appear within or adjacent to the Content involved.
2. Copyright and Trademark – User as Contributor. Sometimes the person making a Submission is not the author or artist. In such cases the person making the Submission must have the authority to enter into the Agreement, and they warrant in the Agreement that they have such authority. The Submission may or may not assert or retain copyright or other intellectual property rights on behalf of the author or artist. If the Submission is copyrighted by the author or artist, the Notice of copyright (and the Creative Commons license, if applicable) will be published within or adjacent to the Content, as more fully defined in the Agreement.
3. Submissions. Under the terms of the Agreement, all users who make Submissions of Content grant to Iranian LLC a very broad license to use, edit, publish and copy the work. Iranian LLC will include in or adjacent to the Content any Notice of intellectual property rights asserted or reserved by the author or artist. Iranian LLC asserts and retains a copyright for the compilation of all Content on the Site, as well as the ownership of copyrights in any Content where the author or artist has not asserted and reserved intellectual property rights for himself or herself.
4. Permissions To Republish – Authors May Grant You Permission Directly. If the author or artist of Content has asserted or reserved copyright or other intellectual property rights, or granted a Creative Commons license, then you may seek permission from the author or artist (or use the Creative Commons license, if any, for instantaneous permission) to use, copy or republish the underlying Content without permission from Iranian LLC. If you wish to use any edits made by Iranian LLC to, or derivative works created by Iranian LLC from, the Content, as the same appeared on the Site, then you need the permission of Iranian LLC as set forth below.
5. Links To Iranian.com. Generally, you do not need permission to post on your blog or site a text link to any Content on iranian.com, provided that your reader is thereby hyperlinked directly to our Site. Retrieving our Content and presenting it in a different context, e.g., in a frame on your site, does require our permission.
Using our logo or other graphic as a link to Iranian.com is not permitted without permission.
Using graphical, video or audio Content from our Site as a link on your site requires our permission.
6. RSS Feeds. The Site supports certain RSS feeds of our Content, and you may subscribe to them, and read any Content published via the RSS feed, for personal, non-commercial use only. If you wish to republish the feed stream in your blog, another site or any mode other than a personal feed reader, you must get permission as set forth below.
7. Permission To Copy Or Republish – from Iranian LLC. Because Iranian LLC has a very broad license to the Content, it can grant permission to copy and/or republish the Content quite broadly. If you wish permission to republish, send the request via email to copyright<at sign>iranian<dot>com or by fax at (206) 279-4741. Indicate the details (who, what, when, where, why) of the re-publication requested. Also please give the URL of the Content you wish to copy or republish. The information you provide will only be used to grant or deny permission and will not be retained. We reserve the right to deny permission to anyone for any reason.
Questions or comments may be sent to:
copyright<at sign>iranian<dot>com or by fax at (206) 279-4741.