Terms of Use
I hope you are finding this site useful and enjoyable and want to make sure that our respective rights and responsibilities related to the site are clear. The following is intended to be a legally enforceable contract. You should be careful to note that you are assenting to the contract by accessing the site more than once. Each subsequent intentional access of the site likewise will serve as assent to the contract.
Matthew R. Breeden, Esq. (“The Guru”) offers this site as a service to you subject to the following terms and conditions of use (“Terms”). By accessing SportsLawGuru.com or its related services (collectively the “Site”) a second and/or subsequent time, and in consideration for the service that The Guru provides you (including at least access to information found on the Site and allowing your user comments), you agree to abide by these Terms. Alternative acceptable forms of assent/obligation include your creating content for the Site or contributing content to the Site.
The Site is usually hosted at sportslawguru.com or sportslawguru.worpress.com. Another related service is the daily e-mail service that distributes Site content via email.
1. Rights in the Content You Submit
Any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you (Content) to the Site are submitted under a fully paid-up license to The Guru. Under this license, you permit The Guru to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free and via any media. You also permit The Guru to distribute derivative works of your Content and to grant both explicit and implicit sublicenses to anyone. Although sites often do not make any money, the fully paid-up license gives The Guru the right to earn money from your Content in any way that The Guru sees fit — including posting it in a password protected site, publishing it in a book, making a movie, translating it to a foreign, or generally making fun of the Content.
Amongst other things, at The Guru’s discretion, this license may permit RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content that you submit. Further, your submission does not create any obligation on The Guru to publish your submitted Content or to retain your Content.
2. Conduct
Free speech is a hallmark of our society. However, this is The Guru’s Site, and The Guru reserves the right to remove any content that you may post. As a general matter, The Guru often tries to make some attempt to remove content that is illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable to The Guru. However, The Guru’s filters are far from perfect – The Guru does not accept any responsibility for poor filtering.
You may not use The Guru’s name or any other author to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as endorsed by The Guru is strictly prohibited.
By posting content to the Site, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold The Guru harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.
You acknowledge that The Guru does not necessarily pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that The Guru shall have the right to remove or modify in The Guru’s sole discretion any content that The Guru considers to violate these Terms or for any other reason. The Guru may also delegate this authority or any other rights or responsibilities of this contract.
You agree that all content posted to the Site is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You agree, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of The Guru, its owners or employees.
You agree that The Guru will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree to evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Guru does not make any representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, The Guru hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. The Guru will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.
If you distribute any Site content to any third party, you agree to warrant that the third party has agreed to all Terms.
This site belongs to The Guru. These posts are not edited by The Guru’s employers or their clients and, as such, cannot be so attributed. Similarly, this Site and these posts are not works for hire, but are written entirely outside of the scope of The Guru’s employment. To the extent that any of The Guru’s employers’ resources have been used to maintain the site, that use was done with full understanding that a limited amount of personal computer use is acceptable. Views expressed here should be double-checked for accuracy and current applicability. Don’t go playing the stock market based on these posts either — because these post do not provide financial advice.
4. Privacy Policy
The nature of blogging is to reach a public audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to The Guru whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on the Site, or on websites within or not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it. The Guru may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors the Site. The Guru may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. The Guru may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual sites, site popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access individual sites.
5. Modification of These Terms of Use
The Guru reserves the right to change, at any time, at The Guru’s sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms (Monthly). Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms and their revisions.
6. Copyright
The material here is copyrighted. Anyone should feel free to copy a short snippets from the Site, so long as you attribute the material source. A sample attribution follows: Matthew R. Breeden, SportsLawGuru.com. Attribution is required under this contract even if the use would be considered a “fair use.” Contact The Guru (via Matt@SportsLawGuru.com) if you want to copy an entire post or a series of posts.
7. Reader Addendum
Anyone who reads content from the site more than twice agrees to not charge The Guru with any violation of copyright, Lanham Act, patent, defamation, libel, or fraud claim based wholly or partially on any aspect of this Site or Site. If you do have a problem with anything posted on the site or feel that you have an ownership claim to anything on the site, please contact The Guru immediately.
8. Severability
If portions of these Terms are found unenforceable, the remainder of the contract is still enforceable.
