Standard disclaimer for fan projects

I'd like to set a standard disclaimer message that could be used for any project, by any fan; it must be written on the disc cover, or in a video logo or presentation, or in websites, forums, blogs etc.

It should be short, general, applicable to several kind of things - restorations, preservations, extended editions etc. - my mission is to create a "set in the stone" disclaimer.

This is my attempt:

Disclaimer: This is a fan preservation project; it was created for criticism, research, and is completely nonprofit; it falls under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107.
To have this version, you must own the original, unaltered retail release. Please, respect the rights of the copyright holders and purchase a copy of the original release if you do not own one already.

Your help is needed and really appreciated!

I usually use something along the lines of "Technically, this is flat-out illegal and there is no legal justification, but I feel the need to preserve this is more important than the letter of the law."

Molly said:

I usually use something along the lines of "Technically, this is flat-out illegal and there is no legal justification, but I feel the need to preserve this is more important than the letter of the law."

 (^^,)

Warning card from my tape release of BoxMonster's King Kong vs. Godzilla restoration.

Perhaps this could be used as a template?

http://youtu.be/yqkoaVlKwTc

;)

revision 1.1:

DISCLAIMER

This is a fan preservation project; it was created for criticism, research,
and is completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as stated
in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107.

It is not an official product, and it should not be sold nor bought; this is
intended for private use and any public screening is not recommended.

To have this version, you must own the original, unaltered retail release.
Please, respect the rights of the copyright holders and purchase a copy
of the original product if you do not own one already.

I like Molly's wording.

Also her user title reminds me of the o o oa oa from this.

Seriously though, I would never support a "set in stone" disclaimer that was to be mandated for use by creators of these fan projects.

When I wrote "set in the stone", I wanted to mean that once we (forum user) will decide for one disclaimer, this will be the standard to use, but of course this will be not mandatory... the fact is that I'd like to set some "things" to be standard, like the fact that DVD/BD/HDTV all have standard features - and I think fan edit community should have ones too.

It will be something like the FBI warning... reversed! I love standards! (^^,)

this is my disclaimer, that will follow my project video logo; here I offer it to the community, with the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. Feel free to use it for your own fan project - no need to mention the attribution in the video of course, just in your info file and/or web page, forum post etc.

Text also is CC BY-NC-SA, so you could use every graphic you want with this text, or if you like the graphic I could send you the small clip with fade-in/out.

Enjoy!

P.S. Attribution will be a simpe "by _,,,^..^,,,_"

Molly's 100% right and it's silly to pretend otherwise.

Moth3r said:

Also her user title reminds me of the o o oa oa from this.

 That's exactly what it is.

Molly, great title! I love this song...

Back to topic: opinions are, well... opinable! So, there is none who's right or wrong... you could agree with someone's opinion, or disagree...

Well, I gave my opinion there, and also a disclaimer that I find interesting to put before my projects. If someone would like to grab it, and use it for his/her project, well; if someone would like to improve it, s/he's welcome!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the members of this great forum! Thanks to all, I learned a lot during the last year, and hope to improve further during the next!

And I want to add that I found here many polite persons, who's willing to help, and even if sometimes we "agree to disagree", we have always constructive talks - food for thought!