Credit where credit is due: article copyright.

Coming from a physical books background, it seems wrong for me to claim credit for something I didn't write. So I just wanted to write a short explanation about my articles copyright and private rights. On the internet you are able to get a huge range of articles which don't appear to have an author. Perhaps they were written by a copywriter, perhaps they came from written information which is now in the public domain (that is a book or article which has passed beyond the normal rights of copyright and into the public domain enabling anyone who formats the document in a different way to publish it and thereby own this formatted copy under legal copyright)The articles copyright is sold to you under a licence to use according to the rights of the  licence.There are many versions of this but the two most used are the private rights licence and the master rights licence.

Private Rights License or Master Rights Licence

A private licence enables you to edit or use the article for copy as you choose, to display it, email it, submit it as an article to other sites etc. a master rights licence enables you to sell it on to other people to use. This is a somewhat simplified description but you get the idea.The darker side of the internet is that because it is so huge, documents, articles and books may still be under copyright and be illegally sold as private rights, although I don't think this happens often.The buyer of such may use the articles in all ignorance, thinking themselves well within their rights to use their content because they bought a private rights licence or master rights licence.

Site's articles copyright

Many of the articles on this site came from a private rights collection. I was so impressed with their quality that I am certain that someone who genuinely loved golf and knew a lot about it, wrote them. Some were absolutely perfect the way they were, I have done little more than correct a spelling mistake or typo. Some I have edited a little to make them more suitable for their placement and some I have edited so much I created a new article with only a sentence or two from the original. If I worked on the article a lot, I have claimed credit for it, otherwise I have left authorship blank. Some of the articles are all my own work, as are all the reviews, formatting, design and headings .

If there is someone who believes that any article on my site contravenes his/her own copyright, please contact me and I will remove said article or give credit where due, whichever is preferred. I have a private rights licence for these articles and use them believing this to not be the case and therefore claim the articles copyright.

Yours sincerely

JA Francis

Wikipedia www.wikipedia.com

I also wish to thank wikipedia for the excellent information and links to sources of information it provides and all the people who work on the site for love. Without wikipedia, we would all be clueless about so many trivial and important things.I look for inspiration here, I find information here, I check facts here. Nothing compares.