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Disclaimer
I don’t give legal advice at Letters Blogatory. If you think you need legal advice, please talk with a lawyer. Your use of Letters Blogatory, or submissions of any comments, posts, or messages to me on this website, does not create a lawyer-client relationship between you and me. Please do not send me any information in confidence, as the attorney-client privilege will not shield the information from disclosure. Also, while I do my best to be accurate at Letters Blogatory, I may sometimes make mistakes, or the law may change over time, and so you should not rely on anything you read here as a substitute for legal advice. In short, if you need legal advice, speak with your lawyer. Letters Blogatory may be considered legal advertising under the rules of various jurisdictions.
Copyright
With the exceptions noted below, all content on Letters Blogatory is © 2011-2013 Theodore J. Folkman and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
When you submit a post or a comment to Letters Blogatory, you own the copyright in your own work. But by submitting the post or comment, you license it to me under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, and notwithstanding that license, you are authorizing me to license your work to Newstex, a content syndicator, under its standard licensing terms, and to Amazon.com under its licensing terms for Kindle publishing, with the understanding that you will not be entitled to any royalties on account of Newstex’s syndication of your work or on account of subscriptions to Letters Blogatory on Amazon’s Kindle. You also agree that I can refuse to publish the post or comment, edit the post or comment, or remove the post or comment (or refuse to remove it) from Letters Blogatory, without permission from you. I own the copyright in any collection of Letters Blogatory posts or comments.
I claim no copyright in any court decisions, pleadings, briefs, and other similar documents from publicly available court dockets that I make available on the Letters Blogatory website. Nor do I claim any copyright in any document hosted outside the lettersblogatory.com domain, unless I wrote the document to which I link. Nor do I claim any copyright in any image that I publish on Letters Blogatory, unless specifically noted.
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Your Responsibilities
As a reader, you are solely responsible for whatever use you make of posts or comments that you read on Letters Blogatory. I offer this website “as-is”, and I make no representations or warranties of any kind concerning any of its content, express, implied (to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law), statutory, or otherwise, including without limitation any warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, the absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the absence of errors, whether or not discoverable.
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If you republish material from Letters Blogatory elsewhere, then you are responsible for complying with all applicable copyright laws, and in particular, for ensuring that your use of any image or other content that I have published with a post or comment complies with the license under which the image or other content has been made available or otherwise complies with applicable copyright law.
Miscellaneous terms
I reserve the right to change these terms of use without notice.
This agreement, including the exclusive choice of court clause below, is governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.
In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to your use of the Letters Blogatory website, these terms of use, or the interpretation, breach, termination, or validity or invalidity thereof, no actions, suits, or other proceedings arising out of or relating to the dispute may be brought except in a court of competent jurisdiction sitting in Boston, Massachusetts, and in any such action, suit, or other proceeding brought in such a court, you and I waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction, all objections to venue, and all forum non conveniens or similar defenses. But if such an action, suit, or other proceeding brought in such a court results in a judgment, supplementary proceedings or an action for recognition and enforcement of the judgment may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction, wherever located.
These terms of use are a complete and final statement of the agreement between you and me, and neither of us have relied on any representations not contained in this agreement in deciding to enter into this agreement.