KatsBits Copyright Information (small print!)

All material available on, by or from KatsBits web site and/or other Properties is Copyright © 2000-2011 KatsBits and their respective owners. All Rights Reserved. Subject to UK, European and International protections. Unless otherwise stated, material made available on KatsBits.com may be used, copied or transmitted for personal use only under the explicit provision that ORIGNATION and AUTHORSHIP attribution be included and clearly stated.

All material is strictly for NON-COMMERCIAL use only, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

If you're unsure about anything, get in touch.

DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT distribution permissions [updated Apr 2011]

The following applies to 2D and 3D asset downloads from katsbits.com only.

NON-COMMERCIAL USE
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Material, files and respective content is for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.

Simple Distribution
- is permitted AS IS, providing content is not changed or altered in any way. Authorship attribution should be included.

Modified Distribution
- is permitted as part of a Modification, Total Conversion or independent project providing authorship attributions is included (author name & contact details).

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE - NON-COMMERCIAL
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Where specific cc licensing information is required this file and its contents are copyright under the equivalent of the following Creative Commons licence:

"Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported"

For more information on this cc licence see the following link
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

COMMERCIAL USE
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COMMERCIAL USE of any kind is NOT permitted without prior written agreement. Material is not for re-sale, inclusion or re-distribution in any form or on any medium without PRIOR written consent or agreement. Material may not be used as a mechanism to encourage subscription to, or for any other type of paid for service directly or indirectly.

General Notes

These terms of use may supercede any individual terms included with associated files. However, individual items may included specific conditions not raised or covered by the above. For further details please refer to the 'readme.txt' files, where provided, on each download.

What does this mean?

If you're an individual or part of an amateur and/or non-commercial MOD team or project using any material downloaded from KatsBits (with the exception of scripts and other third party content), then it's usually OK to distribute the files within your project so long as authorship attribution and origination is clearly stated. This also serves an additional purpose by saving you the hassle and worry of having someone think you 'stole' the content for inclusion in your mod when in fact you haven't. Modification of material is usually OK within the context of your MOD or project, again so long as attribution (origin/authorship) is stated. For specific requests and or information about this, get in touch.

What the above does not allow is the '(re)package' of material in any way for re-sale, and/or placement of material anywhere such that it's use directly or indirectly generates revenue of any kind without express permission to do so. Typically this means material should not be placed or made available on sites set up for the sole purpose of generating revenue through the various forms of 'farming' - ad, link, article, spam or subscription farms. (Third party scripts and tools don't fall under the above as they have their own terms and conditions of use - usually in the "readme.txt" file or included in the body of the script text).

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Web site content copyright

The Copyright of all material specific to katsbits.com domain and associated web site is provided under different terms and conditions than downloadable assets. The following applies where appropriate;

WEB SITE copyright / usage permissions [updated Apr 2011]

The following applies, but is not limited to, all HTML, PHP or other 'served' formats, images and/or activeX content or components and/or data generated by the day-to-day operation of katsbits.com, except where third party material is used. The following does not explicitly apply to downloadable content or material (see above for terms).

NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
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All material directly or indirectly provided by, or made available on or from Katsbits domain and associated properties is for NON-COMMERCIAL use only.

Simple use
- is permitted providing material is NOT changed, altered, modified in any way or duplicated verbatim. Authorship and Origination Attribution must be included and clearly marked at all times.

Simple Distribution
- is permitted providing material is NOT changed, altered or modified in any way. Authorship and Origination Attribution must be included and clearly marked at all times.

CREATIVE COMMONS EQUIVILENT
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Where specific cc licensing information is required content and material associated with katsbits.com domain is copyright under the equivalent of the following Creative Commons licence:

"Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0"

For more information on this cc licence see the following link
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

COMMERCIAL USE
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COMMERCIAL USE of any kind is NOT permitted. Content or material associated with katsbits.com may NOT be sold, re-sold, packaged or re-packaged, included, re-distributed or use in any context that results in financial gain of any kind, in any form or on any medium without PRIOR written consent.

General Notices

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What does this mean?

If you were wanting to post information from a KatsBits tutorial in a forum topic, generally speaking you only really need to quote pertinent sections; posting an entire multi-page article tends to be frowned upon because it goes against the general spirit upon which the material is provided, especially if the originating source is easily accessible and readily available.

If you do post something from KatsBits elsewhere you should endeavour to clearly state where the information came from, with a link back to the original - this is for your protection as much as it is KatsBits, without clearly stating source it's easy to be accused of stealing. Similarly, images should retain any watermarks present.

What the above does not allow is any type of commercial exploitation without prior written consent. This means that any forms of 'posting' and 'harvesting' information and data associated with KatsBits is not permitted. Material found on link, list, article or other types of "farm" is counter to the general spirit in which it is provided and may result in appropriate action being taken.

Additionally data associated with KatsBits may not be used to garner or solicit payment for or subscriptions to any products or services (premium or otherwise). This includes placing material on, but not limited to, traffic farms, public stats or any web site using or scraping data, directly or indirectly, generated by or as a result of, KatsBits operation and especially not where doing so tricks, obfuscates or otherwise unduly influences individuals into the purchase of products and service based on being mislead into such action or where the seller does not have a permissioned or lawful rights to do so.

Exemptions

The above terms may not be applicable to material purchased from KatsBits Store. Visit store for more details. Copyright remains the property of their respective owners unless otherwise stated where appropriate. For further details contact KatsBits here. If you spot any abuse or have a complaint or Copyright issue to make, contact KatsBits at the following - abuse@katsbits.com