Legal and copyright Notices

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About copyrighted documents:

The Internet is filled with unauthorized copies of many copyrighted works, in violation of international law. For example, our essay on Islam has been pirated by two known web sites, without acknowledgment -- one of them is an Islamic site. Laws generally allow a person to quote text from works copyrighted by others as long as the quotation is sufficiently short. We have seen 400 and 500 as commonly used upper limits on size, beyond which permission to duplicate from the owner of the copyright should be sought. 

Our use of other group's copyrighted material - Fair use notice:

We typically report all viewpoints on each topic. This often requires us to use copyrighted material in our web site's essays. This use may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available on a nocharge basis for educational and discussion purposes only. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in U.S. federal law17 USC § 107. (We cite U.S. law because over 90% of our site visitors are from the U.S.)

For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/.

Copyright of material on our web site:

This web site, www.religioustolerance.org including the home page and underlying HTML documents are copyrighted © 1995 to 2010 CE inclusive by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT). Our address is: PO Box 27026, Kingston ON Canada, K7M 8W5. For the convenience of our U.S. visitors, we also have a mail drop at PO Box 128, Watertown NY, 13601-0128.

No copyright claimed in works of any federal, state, provincial government or the United Nations which has been included in our web site. Copyright is not claimed for material written by other than OCRT personnel. The material is protected under the 1995 Berne Convention covering International Copyright laws. All rights are reserved. However, we grant the following privileges:

We ask that you include the copyright notice and our site's URL on each copy.

Our use of Bible quotations:

We often quote the same passage from a variety of Bible translations. This is to indicate the degree of bias in these translations.

We normally quote from the King James Version, even though it is a difficult translation to use because of its antiquated English from the early 17th century. That is because there are no copyright limitations on this translation.

Lack of warranty or liability:

The information on the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance Web (OCRT) site is disseminated "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The OCRT assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this web site or other documents which are referenced by or linked to this web site.  In no event shall the OCRT or its members or its contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in the use of this information, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.  

By making use of this material you are declaring that you will hold the authors, their families, heirs, and agents harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, that arise directly or indirectly from anything you do or cause by any use, distribution, presentation, unauthorized reproduction, alteration, modification, addition, representation, or attribution of any of the texts, opinions, instructions or images contained herein.

Material on this web site is not intended to be used as legal, therapeutic, spiritual, or medical advice. Please consult a trusted lawyer, therapist, clergyperson, and/or physician if you have problems in these areas.

We try to write clearly, accurately, inclusively, completely, and without bias, or lack of balance. However, in a web site of this size, technical, historical, religious, spiritual, or other inaccuracies or typographical errors cannot be totally prevented. Please Email us with any concerns that you have over lack of balance, obscurity, inaccuracies, etc.

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