Intellectual Property and Copyright Clause for www.iparadigm.org As of 12-25-2011, I have coded this copyright notice so that it appears on every generated page of the website, www.iparadigm.org, using standard W3C compliant HTML, compatible with all web browsers and devices, for the purpose of establishing a written dated record of my intention to invoke all specific rights entitled to me as a citizen under United States Copyright Law. My intention is to preserve my exclusive rights to all content, images, written works, code, video game modification, and other material created by myself and posted to the website. All images, trademarks, and intellectual property not created by myself but possibly referenced in my original material, or posted in the forums by other members, remains the property of the respective authors. For that portion of work which is derivative, and falls within the public domain, or that I have otherwise licensed, that I have referenced or otherwise appears in any of my original materials, I reserve all applicable copyright under Derivative Works and/or Fair Use law. All other material is the exclusive property iparadigm.org, and therefore may not be re-posted, rebroadcast, or retransmitted in any format without my express written approval. Approval may be requested by sending me a private message, which requires signing up for a free account with the website. This will also allow you to post in the forums. I will only issue approval by email. This enables a third party arbitration and validation. From the official United States Copyright Law web page: "No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm." "The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U. S. law...", though these statements I have made are intended as official notice having been presented as of the above stated date of publication. Record of this is established both by offline digital backup of this file which maintains the creation timestamp, as well as by the timestamp applied to the online version at the time of upload of this document on the hosting server, GoDaddy.com. "To be eligible for copyright for that portion which is derivative work, content must differ sufficiently from the original to be regarded as a new work, or must contain a substantial amount of new material."