Copyright Issues

About Copyright

These pages were prepared as a service to the Sea Scouting community. The content of these pages is unofficial and may not reflect the official position of the Sea Scout Support Committee of the Boy Scouts of America. Information found on this web site may be used by currently chartered Sea Scout Ships and their membership, but copyright of all BSA publications rests with the Boy Scouts of America. Copyright of all other copyrightable materials rests with the Sea Scout Internet Service.

The Sea Scouts BSA website is copyrighted 1994-2003 by the Sea Scout Internet Service. All rights reserved. The Sea Scout Internet Service takes no responsibility for the content of any pages. Links from any Sea Scouts BSA website page do not imply endorsement of any products or services. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information on all Sea Scouts BSA website pages, but the Sea Scout Internet Service and the Boy Scouts of America bear no responsibility for inaccurate or outdated information.

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Copyright questions

The Sea Scout Internet Service wants to hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified on this website so that we may make the appropriate corrections. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please send reports alleging copyright infringements on the Sea Scouts BSA website to Bruce Chr. Johnson. You may send any such allegations to him by e-mail to commodore@seascout.org or to his attention at 6148 Llanfair Drive, Columbia, MD 21044.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires you to provide specific information in writing (either e-mail or paper letter) and must include the following:

a physical or electronic signature;
identification of the infringed material;
information sufficient to locate the material;
your complete contact information, e.g. address, telephone number, e-mail address;
a statement that you have a good-faith belief that this use is not authorized by the copyright owner or the law; and
a statement that the information contained in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.