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Shor Copyrights
All Shor publications (web and otherwise) are
copyrighted. Significant resources have been expended in the
creation of these web pages, even when some text and/or graphics have come (with
permission) from other sources. We have no objection to the printing of our web
pages by our customers. However, the downloading
of code (or printing) for the purposes of republishing portions of pages, or the
pages in entirety, is not acceptable and will be
prosecuted to the full extent of both civil and criminal law.
The courts have confirmed that all web
publications are automatically copyrighted, simply by the act of publication.
We have taken the additional step of placing
multiple, random, unobtrusive, "markers" in the HTML code
throughout our web pages and applying digimarcs to photos. Anyone copying and
publishing copies of our pages on the web will have these difficult to detect
markers in their programming code and digimarcs invisibly embedded in their
photos, confirming copyright violation. The web pages of suspected copyright
violators will be routinely downloaded and examined for markers.
Court decisions have confirmed that the presence of even a single marker found
on a violator's website is strong evidence that the entire website is suspect.
Criminal & civil responsibility and liability is born by both the individuals
and companies involved in copyright violation.
All individuals and companies
found to be involved in copyright violation will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law!
Please accept our apologies for taking such a
hard nosed attitude, experience has given
us good reason to be so tough about this. For example, Eisinger
Enterprises (aka I. Shor Canada) has wholesale copied of our catalog pictures
and text for their own catalogs and flyers (The VP of Eisenger Enterprises,
Roger Greene, literally ripped pages out of one of our catalogs and sent them to
their printer for publication to make their first catalog. Romanoff Rubber
copied our copyrighted videotapes and sold them as if they were their own
products.
Again, our apologies but we have to be very wary and to take a no holds
barred approach. This severe policy really is necessary.