Legal/Copyright

Here's a few legal things that need be covered.

These Website Standard Terms And Conditions (these "Terms" or these "Website Standard Terms And Conditions") contained herein on this webpage, shall govern your use of this website, including all pages within this website (collectively referred to herein below as this "Website" or "website" or "makerviews.com"). These Terms apply in full force and effect to your use of this Website and by using this Website, you expressly accept all terms and conditions contained herein in full. You must not use this Website, if you have any objection to any of these Website Standard Terms And Conditions.

Legal note

The views and opinions expressed within the interviews on this site are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Makerviews or Mathson Design Co. (Mathson Design, LLC), ("we", "us"). All images, artwork, and music are either produced by Makerviews or are used with permission of the authors/creators or their representatives.

Intellectual Property Rights - Other than content you own, which you may have opted to include on this Website, under these Terms, Makerviews and Mathson Design Co. and/or its licensors own all rights to the intellectual property and material contained in this Website, and all such rights are reserved.

Design and visual content may not be reproduced

The design of this publication is copyrighted and may not be reproduced. Visual content belonging to interviewees/contributors may not be reproduced without the explicit permission of interviewees/contributors and/or their representatives.

Interviews may not be reprinted

Interviews published on Makerviews are original works and cannot be reproduced electronically, digitally, in printed or any other form, format, or media in whole or part without the explicit, written permission of Makerviews or Mathson Design Co., except in the cases outlined below under "fair use" rules.

"Fair Use" Rules

Written content may be quoted or excerpted only for the following non-commercial and beneficial purposes:

  1. Analysis and comment (i.e. quoting or excerpting written content in a review or analysis for purposes of illustration or comment)
  2. News reporting (i.e. summarizing an interview with brief quotations for use in a report)
  3. Research and scholarship (i.e. quoting or excerpting written content in a scholarly work)
  4. Nonprofit educational use (i.e. quoting or excerpting written content for use with students in a classroom setting)

All quoted and excerpted content must be attributed to Makerviews on the same page as it appears, and should be credited as shown below:

Reprinted with permission of Makerviews; the original content may be found at: [link to original interview or article]

In most other situations, copying is not legally a fair use, and will require explicit, written permission of Makerviews or Mathson Design Co.

You are expressly restricted from all of the following:

Certain areas of this Website are restricted from access by you and we may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in its sole discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality of such information.

Your Content and Views, opinions, and liability

In these Website Standard Terms And Conditions, "Your Content" shall mean any audio, video, text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. With respect to Your Content, by displaying it, you grant Mathson Desin Co. a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media. Your Content must be your own and must not be infringing on any third party’s rights. Mathson Design Co. reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from this Website at any time, and for any reason, without notice.

The views and opinions expressed within this publication are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Makerviews or Mathson Design Co.

No warranties - The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by makerviews.com and while we endeavor to keep the information up-to-date and 100% accurate, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics and media contained on the website for any purpose. It is provided "as is", with all faults, and we make no express or implied representations or warranties, of any kind related to this Website or the materials contained on this Website. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

Limitation of liability - In no event will we, nor any of our officers, directors and employees, be liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Website or for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, personal injury or death, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Severability - If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render these Terms unenforceable or invalid as a whole, and such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

Please, please, please be safe and measure twice, cut once.


Other information

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If you have any questions regarding this disclaimer, please do not hesitate to contact, attn: Scott Mathson, Mathson Design, LLC [email protected]

Thank you to Pandadoc, DIY Pete, LLC, Jeffrey Zeldman (A List Apart), and The Great Discontent for the inspiration of this legal page's language.

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