Use Information
I do not own the copyright to Are You Being Served?; otherwise I'd be living on some beach in the Bahamas. The BBC owns the copyright to AYBS and its characters. This site is not affiliated with the BBC in any way, and I am not making any financial profit from the use of their copyrights on this site.
I DO own the copyright to the original information on the site such as the summaries, original text, and website design. So don't take my text, layouts or HTML and try to pass it off as your own. First, it's not free for the taking, and second, this site has been around over 10 years and people will--and have--recognize if you're stolen material from it. You should hear some of the reports I get from visitors--they've spotted everything from whole text summaries in Dutch to META tags being lifted :)
This site is not affiliated with any other website or organization except other minki.net sites.
Requesting Materials to Use
All rants about theft aside, I am one of the most generous to share materials and honor most requests to use material from Are You Being Served? Forever for their own websites or other personal use. Just read the guidelines below:
Ask first. It's the responsible thing to do, plus it's a great way to get your site on the AYBS link list. Also, some pictures/material I have obtained from other people and are being used with their permission; therefore THEY are the ones you need to ask, not me. I have the contact info for you if necessary.
A link back to AYBS Forever is very much appreciated. A link is mandatory if you are using original text/materials.
Don't ask for every single thing you see: do some hard work of your own. Besides, if you use all my stuff, they won't see you but instead think of me...and you want them to see you, right? That's what I want too.
Don't plagiarize. You're welcome to paraphrase/rewrite text for your own site. If you're going to quote or use my exact text (cut and paste), you MUST give me credit for writing it.
Don't direct link (a.k.a. hot-link or remote link) to any images, ZIP or sound files. I do tend to use obscene pictures to deter hot-linkers.
I do NOT own the copyrights to fan fiction or fan art posted here. If you want to use someone's fanfic or fanart on your site, you must contact the author of the specific work directly. I can give you a contact e-mail address for them upon request.
The sounds clips in the sound library were made by Jeff Rice, and he has made them available to others to use under GNU license, meaning you can take them without asking and use them freely on your own sites providing that you make them available for others to take as well. So you need not ask first about them...but you have to share them with others too :)
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