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COPYRIGHT:
1. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced, stored in a data base, cache, retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other - except for brief quotation in printed reivews, without the prior permission of the webmaster.
A COPY OF THE ENTIRE WEBSITE
2. The downloading of the entire website is forbidden. Those wishing a copy of the entire website for their personal usage may purchase one or more on CD or DVD by clicking on the top right of this webpage where it says "Order a copy of the website." It is forbidden under International Copyright Laws to reproduce the purchase CD or DVD.
THE BIBLE COURSES
3. All the Bible Courses found on this website were authored by the webmaster of this website. Their texts is protected under International Copyright Laws. No part, nor the entire content of any course may be copied and uploaded on another website in any language anywhere in the world. This includes the uploading of the Bible Courses on any website or online storage and hiding them behind password access. Nor can anyone but the Catholic Doors Ministry at http://www.catholicdoors.com charge a fee for student registration to these courses.
THE HOMILIES
4. All the homilies found on this website were authored by the webmaster of this website. Their texts is protected under International Copyright Laws. No part, nor the entire content of any homily may be copied and uploaded on another website in any language anywhere in the world. This includes the uploading of the homilies on any website or online storage and hiding them behind password access. Nor can these homilies be part of a data storage where an annual or monthly fee is charge for priests/ministers to have access to a large variety of christian homilies.
Priest and deacons may freely print these homilies for their personal usage, either as preaching tools, reflections, or as a draft to prepare for their upcoming homilies.
ICONS
5. Visitors may download the icons found at the above link for their personal usage on their computer. Visitors may download a reasonable number of the images/graphics on their website, but no more than 15 on any one webpage. No one, under any circumstances, are to link directly to the url of the graphics in order for them to download from this website each time someone visits their webpages. Such abuse will not be tolerated; such a website will be banned from future access to the Catholic Doors Ministry website.
MOUSE CURSORS
6. Visitors may download the mouse cursors found at the above link for their personal usage. Visitors may download a reasonable number of the images/graphics on their website, but no more than 15 on any one webpage. No one, under any circumstances, are to link directly to the url of the graphics in order for them to download from this website each time someone visits their webpages. Such abuse will not be tolerated; such a website will be banned from future access to the Catholic Doors Ministry website.
CREATED GRAPHICS
7. Visitors may download any of the graphics at the above link and sub-links. These were created by the webmaster of this website. Visitors may download a reasonable number of the graphics on their website, but no more than 15 on any one webpage. No one, under any circumstances, are to link directly to the url of the graphics in order for them to download from this website each time someone visits their webpages. Such abuse will not be tolerated; such a website will be banned from future access to the Catholic Doors Ministry website.
The graphic reference excludes the holy pictures found in the e-card section and all the other graphics found on the website that are not mentioned on this webpage.
PRAYERS
8. Many requests are received for the reproduction of one or more of the prayers for personal usage, for Parish bulletins, for publishing, etc... Here I will explain what you can do and what you cannot do.
For your information, the thousands of prayers fround on this website fall into two categories, those that have a copyright and those of the Public Domain.
It is understanding that a prayer becomes part of the Public Domain after 75 years of it creation or upon the death of the author. Prayers of the Public Domain, anyone can use.
Examples Public Domain prayers for which you need no permission to use:
- Old Catholic prayers that are over 75 years old. (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be..., etc...)
- Prayers written by the Saints, but not all the prayers "to" the Saints.
- Prayers written by the Popes.
- Prayers found in the liturgy of the Mass.
Regarding prayers that do not belong to the Public Domain:
- Some of the prayers on the website do indicate their source, either under the heading or at the bottom of the webpage. It is your responsibility to track down the person and to obtain permission to use his/her copyright material. Please note that some priests may object to you using their authored prayer without their written consent. It does not mean that because a prayer was written by a priest or that it is a Catholic prayer, that anyone can use it freely. Authors have protective rights under International Copyright Laws.
- The following prayers were authored by the webmaster of this website. They are protected under International Copyright Laws. Permission must be requested to use anyone of them.
For The Virtue Of Charity,
For The Virtue Of Chastity,
For The Virtue Of Compassion,
For The Virtue Of Faith,
For The Virtue Of Honesty,
For The Virtue Of Hope,
For The Virtue Of Humility,
For The Virtue Of Love,
For The Virtue Of Mercy,
For The Virtue Of Obedience,
For The Virtue Of Patience,
For The Virtue Of Piety,
For The Virtue Of Respect,
For The Virtue Of Trust.
The above is the guideline that must be followed before deciding if you will use a prayer or not. As a general rule, providing the author is unknown, no one complains if you print prayers for your own personal usage. Nor does anyone complain if a Church prints 100 or so copies of a prayer to distribute in the parish bulletin to promote a certain devotion. But to publish a prayer, and charging money for the published work, is another thing. There is a high risk that an author might find his published work and seek "royalties" (payment for his work).
Please do not write to the webmaster of the Catholic Doors Ministry to ask who is the author of a certain prayer. If it was known, the information would be found on the webpage. Secondly, time does not permit the webmaster to start doing the research on a volunteer basis.
PROSE
9. The spiritual poetry found on this website is protected under International Copyright Laws. Most of the pieces found on this website were published in the mid 1990's in both, Canada and in the United States, some as many as three times. Permission is required by the webmaster of this website to reproduce any of them in any format.
THE TREATISE: "KNOWING GOD"
10. The Treatise "Knowing God" that is found on this website is copyrighted material that is protected under International Laws. No one, no matter their excuse, a professor of religious studies or not, has a right to download this work on their website. Such an action is considered theft of copyright material.
CONCLUSION:
This website has zero tolerance for those who steal copyright material and place it on their website. Usually the abuser is contacted and asked to remove the copyrighted content. If he fails to respond or responds negatively, because of the increase number of abuses during the past few years, it has become necessary to take drastic steps. Contact is made with those responsible for hosting the websites to have certain webpages removed. In some cases, because of the severity of the abuse, entire websites were closed down. Self-proclaimed Churches who use the word "Catholic" in their title to deceive the Catholics, will not be tolerated anymore than individuals who abuse International Copyright Laws.
There are many resources available on the internet to stop abusers of copyright material. Hosting companies will terminate their agreement with the abusers. All major search engines will remove the law breaking websites from their data bank, therefore putting an end to their traffic. Email services will close down the email addresses as they are being used alongside criminal activities. And the list goes on. These and other resources are used to the full extent of the law when an abuse take place. Please, do not take what is not yours!