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This material is subject to US and International copyright law. The author(s) have spent years developing this material and deserve to have their development and intellectual property rights respected by others. In addition, a majority of countries are signatories to the Berne Convention Implementation Act (1998), an act that covers International copyright protection provisions.

What you can do

• You can browse this material on-line and print it out for your personal use
• Reference this material by linking to it on a web page
• Use portions of the material as long as the original copyright remains intact (see fair use guidelines)
• Make a backup copy of the courses for archival purposes

What you cannot do

• Redistribute this material in electronic form to others (please refer them to our web site)
• Duplicate this material in printed or electronic form with the intent to distribute to others
• Remove or alter the copyright associated with this material
• Host this material on an Internet web server accessible to the general public

If you want to use the material for teaching
We do not deny use of this material for teaching purposes, in fact, it is encouraged. We do request that you consider and respect the amount of effort the author(s) of this material have invested in producing this material.

• You may copy the files from the CD-ROM to a network server
• You may print as many copies of the material as necessary for your students
• Ensure that the author(s) copyright remains intact
• If you want to host these files for general public access on the Internet, you must first obtain special permission

Fair Use Guidelines
The CONFU (Conference on Fair Use) working party established a number of guidelines that are now generally law in most countries throughout the world. These guidelines permit up to 10% of a work to be used without permission from the author(s). It does not permit you to remove copyright notice or reword the work.

Some common misconceptions about copyright
It is incorrect to assume a work is not copyrighted unless the author uses the © symbol, or uses the word "copyright". According to international copyright law, all works created since 1989 are legally protected from the moment of creation even if the copyright symbol or word is omitted.

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