All websites have terms of use. I think that some of them are kind of intrusive, but in general they're upheld by the courts. So here are mine. By reading, linking to, quoting, printing out, or in any way making use of my weblog's content in any means, place, or forum, you agree to the following:
1. All original content of ChessAficionado is copyrighted by ChessAficionado's owner, presently Ron Dwyer, and is not to be used without permission except as provided herein. ChessAficionado, and ChessAficionado.com are trademarks belonging to Ron Dwyer. In using ChessAficionado you recognize that ChessAficionado is primarily a guide to content on the Web and in the world of Chess, that all content is provided on an as-is basis, and that no factual statement on this site should be relied upon without further investigation on your part sufficient to satisfy you in your independent judgment that it is true. These terms of use are subject to change, and should be reviewed regularly.
2. Permission is granted to read, quote, cite, link to, print out or otherwise use ChessAficionado content, so long as you comply with the terms below.
A. All quotations from ChessAficionado will include credit to ChessAficionado or to Ron Dwyer and, wherever practicable, a hyperlink of the form http://www.chessaficionado.com ... to the site.
B. In exchange for the access to ChessAficionado content described above, you agree not to sue ChessAficionado for its content, whether original or linked or quoted from another source, in any court, on any grounds whatsoever in law or equity. Should you violate this agreement by filing such a lawsuit, you agree to pay ChessAficionado's owner or owners the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as liquidated damages, in addition to all attorney's fees, court costs, and other expenses associated with this litigation, and to indemnify and save harmless ChessAficionado and its owners from any damage award made against them in such an action. Should this agreement not to sue be held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to binding arbitration, with all arbitration expenses to be paid by you. The arbitration panel shalll be composed of three (3) weblog operators selected by ChessAficionado's owners or operators from those in the links list on the ChessAficionado site. The award in such arbitration shall be limited to (1) a monetary sum not to exceed $10; and (2) the publication of a retraction on the ChessAficionado site. Should this arbitration provision be held uneforceable in a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to accept as liquidated damages in any lawsuit against ChessAficionado the sum of ten dollars ($10), and you agree that you will be entitled to no other relief of any kind in law or equity. You agree that all disputes concerning these terms of use or the content of ChessAficionado.Com are to be resolved in the courts of Cook County, Illinois, under the laws of Illinois and the United States of America.
C. You agree that efforts to obtain ChessAficionado content in violation or circumvention of these terms of use constitute a violation of ChessAficionado's copyright and you understand and agree that (1) by virtue of this agreement you are stopped from arguing otherwise: and (2) such violations may lead to civil or criminal penalties.
D. If you are a corporation, you agree to provide, upon the filing of any lawsuit or the mailing of any letter threatening legal action, a bond in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 2.B. above. If you are an attorney or law firm representing a party filing such lawsuit or causing such a letter to be sent, you agree to provide a bond in the same amount as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 2.B. above unless you have never accessed, viewed, read, or otherwise made use of ChessAficionado content in any form.
3. If you do not agree to these terms of use, exit the site immediately, destroy all copies of ChessAficionado content remaining in any form on your computer, any other computer or network device under your control, in print form, or on any information storage or retrieval device that you possess or control. Then execute the following affidavit and send it by certified mail to ChessAficionado.Com, Legal Department, 7301 N. Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60640:
Affidavit
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that I possess no copies of the ChessAficionado website in any form whatsoever; that neither I nor any employee or associate will access that site in the future in any form whatsoever; that I will immediately destroy any copies of ChessAficionado content that happen to come into my possession. I understand that action contrary to these statements constitutes both perjury and a violation of the ChessAficionado Terms of Use, subjecting me to possible civil and criminal liability.
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