Copyright Information (small print!)

All material is copyright © 2000-2010 KatsBits and their respective owners, subject to UK, European and International copyright. All Rights Reserved. Written material published to KatsBits.com may be used, copied or transmitted in any form under the explicit provision that origination and authorship attribution be included and clearly stated, as outlined below, in any released material. All material is strictly for NON-COMMERCIAL use only. Commercial use is not permitted without prior written consent.

DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT distribution permissions [updated Apr 2010]

The following applies to 2D and 3D assets downloadable from katsbits.com

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

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

Modified Distribution
- is permitted as part of a Modification, Total Conversion or independent project providing authorship attributions are 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. Material is not for re-sell, included or re-distribution in any form or on any medium without PRIOR written consent.

General Notes

For further details please see the 'readme.txt' files, where provided, for each asset downloaded.

Examples

If you're part of an amateur and/or non-commercial MOD or project using any material downloaded from KatsBits, then it's usually OK to distribute the files within your project so long as authorship attribution is stated (this serves an additional purpose of saving you the hassle and worry of having something think you 'stole' the content). Modification of material is usually OK with the context of your MOD or project, again so long as attribution is stated. For specific requests and or information about this, get in touch.

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Web site content copyright

Copy right of all material specific to katsbits.com web site are provided under different attributions than available downloadable assets. The following applies where appropriate;

WEB SITE copyright / usage permissions [updated Jan 2010]

The following applies to all HTML, images and activeX web site content on katsbits.com, except where third party material is used. Does not apply to specifically downloadable content or material.

NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
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Material on, from or associated with katsbits.com is for NON-COMMERCIAL use only.

Simple use
- is permitted providing material is NOT changed, altered or modified in any way. Authorship and origin 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 origin 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 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 or re-distributed in any form or on any medium without PRIOR written consent.

General Notices

Generally speaking, duplicating written material from katsbits.com to a forum or other website, so you can share the content 'locally', is permitted so long as 'authorship' is present and watermark remains intact on images. Active distribution, i.e. passing content out as if it were yours and you authored it, is not permitted.

Copyright remains the property of their respective owners unless otherwise stated where appropriate. For further details contact KatsBits here