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Intellectual property -
please respect the conditions of use of copyright material on this site.

Use of copyright material on this site.

Ownership. Writing content for this web site takes a great deal of time and effort, and we do not welcome wholsesale theft of our work for reproduction on other web sites. Content, text and graphics on this website are the property of UKCAF Ltd, and all original material is the copyright of the author, Doug Cross. It may not be used without permission. The views expressed in articles and reports on this web site are solely those of the author.

Limited extract of content for news-gathering. The heart and soul of web site publishing is the cross-referencing of material on other web sites that is of interest to one's own readers. An element of mutual trust is essential to prevent misuse of other people's copyright material, so here is how I deal with this issue, and how I expect other webmasters to behave with respect to my own material.

Use of contant from other web pages and sources. Where I quote material from other sites that supports or illustrates my own arguments, I keep the extracts to the minimum needed to give the necessary authority to my own text, and I always provide full active links to the original articles or pages. Where I quote full texts - for example of letters and analyses written by other authors, full prior permission has been granted by the author(s).

Original publications. Wherever possible I go back to the original published page, or as near as they can be traced. That way, the authors of the original text that is quoted are credited fully for their work, and their web pages get all the hits to which they are entited.

Archived inaccessible material. On rare occasions, I keep an archived copy of a scarce or vulnerable web page or other resource. I can usually provide a copy to individual seekers if they are unable to access a copy, but none are published on this web site without express permission.

Using my material on your own site. We welcome other web site authors quoting brief extracts from our pages on their own sites, provided that they give a clear and unambiguous active link back to the page from which they have extracted the quotation. Hi-jacking our content means that potential readers go to other site which have stolen our material, instead of coming here.

Similarly, you are welcome to refer to our news items, and to provide short summaries of relevant points. You can even provide your own commentary on my material for

your own readers - after all, everyone is entitled to comment about other people's views!

But if you do so, please ensure that you do not grab large sections of text and reproduce them wholesale on your own site - this steals readers from our site, and violates my copyright. Please make sure that your readers can see exactly where the material originates.

Feedback. We are all a little vain about our original material! It is always interesting to learn where one's own content and opinion has been referred to, or used in debate and argument, and feedback from other web sites and workers is always extremely welcome - even if you disagree with my opinions! So if you do use my material and would like to send me a copy of your own material as feedback, so I can keep track of what effect my own material is having 'out there', please feel free to do so.

The importance of links to material used in evidence. Some of my analyses are used by lawyers, scientists and business advisers, to review or provide professional decisions regarding water fluoridation. It may even be used formally in conferences and hearings. So it is very important for the original source of such evidential materials to be obvious and verifiable.

Please make sure that, where you use or refer to my personal commentaries, you provide your readers with a valid active link back to the original source page from our site. This means that any of your own readers who wish to refer to my material in their own research or reporting will be able to provide proof of origin of the material they are quoting. In evidential terms, this establishes its legally valid provenance, which could then be relied upon as evidence to a Court.

Graphics. The same applies to graphics and photographs. Some that appear on this web site are the property of third parties, and are used with their express permission here. You may not reproduce them without the copyright holder's permission, which we may be able to arrange for you.

Mutual links between web sites. We welcome requests for mutual linkages to web sites that are compatible with the aims of this site. If you wish to link with UKCAF.org, then please email us with details.

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