In cases where the original owner cannot be found or contacted authors and contributors have made a good faith effort to credit sources and obtain permission and in compliance with fair use.

Owners of copyrighted or trademarked works that feel their works have been published without permission and beyond acceptable fair use may contact the site management and request the work in question be removed. The work will be removed immediately and reviewed by site management, and the post author will be contacted to discuss the matter further. If it is found that the information within the post was within the authors rights to use or within the bounds of fair use the post will be restored, and if it found that the matter cannot be resolved clearly site management will request a rewrite of the post without the material in question.

All writing, files, images, and contributions to MMM and hostomni are property of their respective owners and are self published by the originators of such works, or published electronically with permission.

Authors and contributors that violate copyright and/or intellectual property laws, either through willful disregard or ignorance accept personal and legal risk of doing so.

Now that we’ve waded through all that stuff, let me just put it to you straight. If you don’t own it, don’t know where you got it, can’t credit the originator– I want you to think long and hard before hitting the publish button. If it came from a website and you assume the website’s author is the owner, I want you to take the time to ask permission to use it and link to the website. Link love is the least we can do, lets give them some credit for sharing what they have.

Second, although recipes and techniques are not copyrightable if you learn a trick from a fellow modeler/artist/crafter do not leave it as if you’ve made it up on your own; give credit where credit is due, show your appreciation, link and share the love.

Last but not least, if you need help sorting out what you should and shouldn’t include in a post, leave it in draft form or publish it privately and ask one of the admins to review it.