Thanks for coming to read my terms of service. The fact that you care enough means a lot to me, so I will try to make this short and sweet. But, I want to say enough that you will at least have an good idea of what I am talking about.

Getting Read is the product of many late and long hours of work and it is very important to me that I protect the value and the integrity of that work and content. Everything you see on Getting Read is copyright by me, Michael Carnell, in the year that it was first published. This doesn’t mean that you cannot use information from the site, but as with books and other printed media, there are a few rules.

First - Please link! Link away! If you want to link to the articles, that’s cool. It’s what makes the whole Internet wold go around. Also, feel free to post brief a synopsis of the original post. But please, limit your exact quotes to two paragraphs - three at the most. A prominent link to this site with the original content is required. We would hate to confuse readers about where the content came from, now wouldn’t we?

Second - Wholesale cut-and-paste reproductions of entire posts are strictly and expressly prohibited and are very seriously. That is copyright infringement, plain and simple. You know, stealing? Yup, that’s it. If you rip me off, I will get mad. Very mad. And then I will turn the lawyers loose on you. The ones with the sharp pointy teeth who feed on the vermin who steal from respectable websites. I would rather run over you with my car, but sometimes my car doesn’t run so well and you may be beyond the reach of my car. You will never be beyond the reach of my lawyers.

Alsong with ripping of by cut-and-paste, alo specifically prohibited are full translations on other websites or blogs. The worst of these are those sites that seek to confuse people with the use of the words “Getting Read” in the URL and design schemes that look those of the original site. I am a nice guy for the most part, but if you caught me in your house walking out with your television and computer, you might be a little miffed too.

It’s a very easy thing to get a website or blog shut down (and the content deleted) by demonstrating to the ISP and/or host that one of their publishers is flagrantly infringing copyright. (If they do not shut you down, they are liable, too.) Please don’t make me do that.

So, to sum it all up, just because the site is free and you can browse it all day and night does not mean that the content is free for the taking. Thanks for understanding, and if you have any questions just shoot me an email.

- Michael Carnell