Use of Silkstream Copyrighted Content

 

Published: August 1, 2011

 

Silkstream products and services—including images, text, and software downloads (the "content")—are owned either by Silkstream Corporation or by third parties who have granted Silkstream permission to use the content. Silkstream cannot grant you permission for content that is owned by third parties. You may only copy, modify, distribute, display, license, or sell the content if you are granted explicit permission within the End-User License Agreement (EULA) or License Terms that accompany the content or are provided in the following guidelines. For more information, consult your copyright attorney.

 

Requirements for Allowed Uses 

 

For permission to be granted for any uses allowed by these guidelines, you must comply with the following four requirements:

 

  1. If your use includes references to a Silkstream product, you must use the full name of the product.
  2. You must include the following statement: "Used with permission from Silkstream."
  3. Your use may not be obscene or pornographic, and you may not be disparaging, defamatory, or libelous to Silkstream, any of its products, or any other person or entity.
  4. You may link to Silkstream content by using either a plain text link with words such as "This way to Silkstream.ws" or by participating in an applicable Link Logo program. No other images may be used as a link to a Silkstream site.

 

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Advertising and Advertisements

 

Box Shots

 

Clip Art and Sample Art

 

Donations of Product

 

Silkstream Icons

 

Silkstream Sounds and Logos

 

Redistributing Software

 

Reprinting Book Excerpts, Articles, and Images

 

School Reports and Projects

 

Screen Shots

 

 

Advertising and Advertisements

 

If you have any questions concerning the usage or licensing of Silkstream copyrighted materials, for example, Silkstream advertisements, photographs, video footage or other Silkstream materials, please submit your detailed request in writing to:

 

Silkstream Limited Liability Corporation

3063 Mower Court, Unit B

Fort Meade, Maryland  20755

 

Please be sure to include any surrounding copy or text to the Silkstream material.

In your advertising, Silkstream does not permit you to:

 

 

 

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Box Shots

 

Silkstream product box shots are complete images of Silkstream product boxes. You may not use Silkstream box shots on third-party software packaging. You may use box shots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videotapes, or on Web sites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:

 

1. Do not alter the box shot except to resize the entire box shot.

2. Do not use any images contained with the box shot (for example, graphics, artwork, or trade dress) independently of the entire box shot.

3. Present your company name and logo, product, and/or graphics significantly larger or more prominently than the box shot.

 

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Clip Art and Sample Art

 

The End-User License Terms that accompany your software describe the permitted commercial uses of images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, shapes, video clips, and templates that accompanied the product.

 

In the absence of language to the contrary in the License Agreement, Sample Art (which includes images customarily found in the "sample" folders within Silkstream operating systems) may be used for personal use only. You may not sell, lease, or distribute Sample Art, or any materials you create that use Sample images, for any commercial purposes.

 

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Donations of Product

 

If you are part of a nonprofit organization and are seeking a donation of software or software licenses from Silkstream to your organization, please write us at: Silkstream Limited Liability Corporation, 3063 Mower Court, Unit B, Fort Meade, Maryland  20755

 

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Silkstream Icons

 

Silkstream product icons are the thumbnail-sized images indicating that a Silkstream product has been installed on your operating system. Icons may not be used in advertising, in books and other printed matter, on clothing or other promotional items, in online and Internet locations, in software applications, in television programs, in commercials, in movies, or on videotape.

 

You may use Silkstream product icons in training manuals or documentation about a Silkstream product. The use of the icon must be specific to the function of the icon within the Silkstream software. The icon may not be used as a graphical or design element. Icons cannot be modified or altered and must appear as they would within the Silkstream software.

 

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Silkstream Sounds and Logos

 

Silkstream does not allow separate distribution of audio or AVI files—that is files with the extensions (.wav), (.mid), or (.avi). For permission to use our logos and sounds, please write us at Silkstream Limited Liability Corporation, 3063 Mower Court, Unit B, Fort Meade, Maryland  20755.

 

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Redistributing Software

 

If your License Terms do not grant redistribution rights for a particular software file and you need assistance with your software, visit the Silkstream Help and Support page. For software downloads, unless expressly permitted in the accompanying License Terms or End-User License Agreement (EULA), Silkstream does not allow redistribution. You may link to the download page, but not directly to the download, from your product or Web site. If you experience technical difficulties, contact Silkstream via our Web form. If the customer does not have Internet access, Silkstream may provide a CD. Call 301-604-8338 and ask to speak with a Product Support Services representative.

 

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Reprinting Book Excerpts, Articles, and Images

 

Silkstream does not own all articles and images appearing on its pages. To determine the owner of an image, move your pointer over the image and the copyright owner’s name will be displayed. To determine the owner of an article, look at the top of the article for the author or company that owns it.

 

Anyone, including a business, may link or point to articles on Silkstream Web sites for informational purposes, provided the material is available at no charge, it is not used for publication or sale outside of your company, and the pointer takes the user to the Silkstream page from which the material originates.

 

For use of Silkstream Press materials, send an e-mail message to permission@silkstream.ws.

 

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School Reports and Projects

 

You may use images or content from Silkstream products and services in school reports provided that you comply with the guidelines above. You may critique or comment on the product or service.

 

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Screen Shots

 

You may not use screen shots of Silkstream product boot-up screens, opening screens, "splash screens," or screens from beta release products or other products that have not been commercially released. You may use other screen shots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videotapes, or on Web sites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:  

 

1. Do not alter the screen shot except to resize it.

2. Do not use portions of screen shots.

3. Do not include screen shots in your product user interface.

4. Do not use screen shots that contain third-party content.

5. Do not use screen shots that contain an image of an identifiable individual.

 

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