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Estevan Studios
Policy on owned Copyrights,
Trademarks, and Trade Dress Rights
Estevan Studios has ownership
of certain designs, art work, images and images of our products,
Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Dress Rights. These rights
arise from original text, artwork, illustrations, and designs
that are used in our Trade. Much of the material is registered
with the Patent and Trademarks Offices of the governments of
the appropriate countries and are protected by United States
law, international laws and treaties.
All rights are
reserved.
Our designs, art work, images and images of our products which
are protected by Copyrights, Trademarks and Trade Dress Rights
cannot be copyed, altered, stored electronically, used as company
emblems, logos, or advertising material or for any other commercial
purpose other than editorial use without written permission from
Estevan Studios.
On the Internet (World Wide Web) our electronic images and
electronic images of any of our products cannot be cannot be
copyed, altered, stored electronically, used as logos or page
headers, footers or as "go to" buttons, or as a "home"
button without our written permission.
Assuming written permission to use a copyrighted or trademarked
product/image for commercial purposes has been granted, to avoid
confusion as to who owns and manufactures our products, each
copyrighted or trademarked product/image(including design and
word trademarks) used by others must contain the proper trademark
registration symbol and somewhere on the same page the trademark
(and therefore the source of the product denoted by the trademark)
must be attributed to Estevan Studios. In other words, each registered
trademark must include next to the mark the R within a circle
(®), and, somewhere on the page (usually at the bottom),
the trademark must be identified as the registered trademark
of Estevan Studios., e.g., "Estevan Studios" is the
registered trademark of Estevan Studios, Used with permission."
If the matter is a copyrighted work of Estevan Studios, the work
must contain the applicable notice of copyright, e.g., the date
of publication (in some cases, the date may be omitted), the
C within a circle (©), followed by " by Estevan Studios
". When permission is granted for use of a trademark and/or
a copyrighted material, specific directions will be given to
the licensee concerning the proper trademark notice and attribution
statement and/or copyright notice to use.
Editorial use of photographs or illustrated likeness
of our products in use is "fair use" and we make no
attempt to control the positive use in this manner. Editorial
use of photographs or illustrated likeness of our products must
be presented in a truthful manner and not be used for misleading
or false purposes.
We recognize that many of our dealers/customers use images
of our products in their printed and electronic media and will
support them in any way possible. We will grant a license for
the use of our images or images of our products free of charge
for legitimate use by our customers. Please send us a request
with a short description of how you are going to use the image
in a positive way to obtain a license from us for that use.
We believe that our designs and products should be protected
and presented in a positive way. To do this, we will vigorously
defend our Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Dress rights to the
full extent of the law.
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