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1. Copyright
Copyright applies to any original material, published or unpublished, created by anyone. Under United States (and international) law, you have a right to the work which you have created, be it a work of authorship, photography, musical composition, etc. Antarians.com claims that right for its webpage.

2. Filing for Copyright Protection
Contrary to a common misconception, filing for copyright protection is not a requirement to obtain a copyright. As stated above, all orginal works are inherently the property of their author(s). Antarians.com has nonetheless filed for copyright protection and will act to guard its interests.

3. Fair Use
Some webmasters erroneously believe that they may use any content, regardless of copyright, provided they cite their source. This is far from the truth. The concept of Fair Use is described in Section 110 (5) of the Copyright Act of 1976 and states that work may be reprinted without permission only when brief passages are used for journalistic, editorial, scholastic, and similar purposes, and only if the source is properly cited. Simply put: if you do not cite your source, you are stealing. If you do cite your source, you still may exceed the limits of fair use.

4. Original Material at Antarians.com
Most of the content found at Antarians.com is original material. Some is not. If you consider reprinting any material found at this site, please make sure you understand which is which.

Our copyrighted material includes, but is not limited to: our site introduction, transcripts, buddy icons, wallpapers, character profiles, actor biographies, special features, site layouts, etc.

Some materials seem to fall into a gray area regarding copyright. For instance, "Liz's Journal" is a part of the copyrighted Roswell television show. The Antarians.com transcript of Liz's Journal, however, is original work and is therefore our property. Similar reasoning applies to the Destiny Book, the Crashdown Cafe Menu, and others. While the original concepts remain property of the owners, our interpretations remain our own. Any site may publish its own transcripts, but format and grammatical interpretations create differences between each.

Materials to which Antarians.com does not own the copyright are scripts, the Roswell font, fan submissions, many of our gallery photographs, etc. Antarians.com makes every effort to obtain the permission of the owner before using any materials. However, because of the nature of a fan site dedicated to a copyrighted television show, some copyrighted material may possibly become posted on Antarians.com unintentionally. Many photographs which have propagated throughout the internet are impossible to trace to their original owners. Much of what has been published has essentially become part of the public domain. And finally, we assume that corporate copyright holders such as Fox are willing to lend portions of their material due to the publicity gained through active fan sites. All material at Antarians.com is posted in good faith. If we have infringed on your copyright, or you feel that we may be infringing on another party's copyright, please let us know and we will promptly remove it with our apologies.

5. Final Notes
The staff at Antarians.com puts a great deal of time and effort into producing this site, which we offer as a free community resource. We expect all visitors to abide by copyright law. Once again, Antarians.com monitors the Internet for sites which may be using our work without permission. Appropriate action will be taken against any sites which violate our copyright. If you are interested in reprinting our work, just e-mail us and we will consider granting permission. Copyright law allows content creators to maintain a reasonable control of their work, without which many might be discouraged from bothering at all. Please support and respect those who created Roswell, and those who continue to try to keep it alive. Thanks for reading.