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Copyright/Common Sense

COPYRIGHT

All content on this site is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  What does that mean to you?  It means that you should feel free to use any portion of this site (textual content, images, design, and/or actual HTML/web pages) for your personal or educational use, provided you give proper credit to this site.  This is exactly the same principle as when you quote a book or article in a paper:  only limited portions may be used, proper credit must be given. Note that “educational use” refers specifically to teachers, students, and other educators affiliated with formal education programs; furthermore, the use needs to be for a specific course or assignment.

COMMON SENSE

This website was created to share my knowledge and love of costuming, and as such I encourage you to use my research, images, and work for your own personal and educational use.  However, I ask that you respect the work that goes into this site by using a little common sense.

Obviously, given copyright law, you should not reproduce any (portion or whole) of the text, images, design, or actual HTML/web pages no matter the format (website, book, article, etc.) unless for expressly educational use (in which case, see above).

Furthermore, I request that you not represent the work that goes into any part of this as your own, and that you not reproduce it in any public format (website, book, article, etc.).  This applies not only to direct copying of links, text, design, or actual web pages, but also to rewriting, reinterpreting, or in any other way appropriating the work that I have put into compiling extensive links, writing text, creating or scanning images, or any other content.  Why?  Because part of participating in an online community means respecting the work that has already been done, referring people to existing resources, and creating new ones to fill the gaps that exist.

Have questions?  Please feel free to email me.

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One thought on “Copyright/Common Sense

  1. I am currently working on Book 3 of a composition textbook entitled *Writing the Classical Way*. Specifically, I am working on the section where students learn how to describe objects, and I have chosen seventeenth- and eighteenth-century powdered wigs as the topic for my example. The only element of description which I have not been able to find is that of age. I notice in your article that you indicate the elaborate “poufs” of the eighteenth century could be worn for days or weeks at a time. My first question is whether you would allow me to quote that phrase (with attribution). My second question is if you could tell me approximately how long a wig would last before it needed to be replaced (again with attribution).

    Sincerely,
    Eileen Cunningham
    Classical School of Wichita
    Wichita, Kansas

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