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To control how my work is distributed and used, I claim the copyright to everything I write and publish, all rights reserved. So that my ideas are freely available and open to all for reading and discussion, I do not charge fees for electronic distribution for private use. There will be a charge for paper copies in book or pamphlet form and for personal appearances such as sermons, lectures, and discussions. Since I do not charge for the personal and private use of my copyrighted materials when distributed electronically, please donate to the Bible Freedom Science Network.
You are licensed, with the exceptions below, to everything on this site free of charge as long as you maintain and honor my copyright as prescribed here. This copyright and license applies to you no matter how you received this material, from the primary source or any secondary or further source.
Some of the materials on this site are copyrighted by others. If so, this is clearly stated with the material. While I believe that in every case these materials have the same copyright provisions as I do, please contact the other copyright holder for confirmation and details. You may contact me to obtain a contact with the other copyright owner.
In brief, you have permission to read, copy, link to, store, and pass on to others anything you see here. You may also print copies for your personal use. You do not have permission to charge others for copies in any form of what I copyright. You may charge for postage, media, and the like when freely transferring my writing to others. But in all cases the copyright notice and its link, in electronic or printed form, to this page on my site must remain with the material. A broken link does not give you or any secondary or further source permission to ignore my copyright which will still be enforced by traditional means.
I encourage you to take my ideas and write about them in your own words. But you may not present my words as your own, nor may you modify my words and present them as your own. Modification of a web document includes the usual changes of wording that apply to copyrighted material in any medium but also includes changing, adding, or removing HTML links, whether internal or external, except link locations and names may be changed as necessary for local conditions. If you print any of my copyrighted material to give to someone else or to store permanently or for any reason other than immediate and temporary use (for example, to read privately away from the computer screen), you must also print the copyright notice with each page.
You may modify what I have copyrighted and republish it but in that case you must copyright it yourself as well, also retaining this copyright notice, with a notice that you have modified it from original material by me. You may charge for material that you create based on my ideas but you may not charge for modified original material. This duty follows any subsequent modifications made by others after you. At some point the modifications may be so extensive that little or nothing of my writing remains. In that case I may remove my copyright notice from the new material but this is solely at my discretion, so contact me for my decision before you republish deeply modified material accompanied by my copyright notice.
Do not use any of my hymns, poems, liturgical wording, sermons, or any other copyrighted material of mine for any public use (for example, in a church service) without my written permission. Send a request by email to permit@biblefreedomscience.net and I will send you permission by email or an actual piece of paper with a written permission and my signature by snail mail. Because some of the material is poetic, fair use exceptions may not apply to small amounts of text. I do not charge for public use of my writing with permission but I do ask for a donation to the Bible Freedom Science Network. If you use my copyrighted material in public without my permission the charge is $100 per event or $0.10 per person, whichever is greater. I ask for your cooperation in notifying me of public use because I wish to keep track of and control how my materials are used in public. It is unlikely that I would refuse permission for public use but I do reserve that right due to the religious nature of these materials.