Click on banner to go back to our Programs Page Award Program  Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: In my travels upon the internet in research for permission and use of certain pages and articles.... most all authors, owners, have willingly given us such permissions simply just to "ask" rather than steal. Some will even allow you to "copy and paste". Some want acknowledgement, others do not. Yes it takes time, but it is the honorable thing to do. If a author says NO then it simply means NO, plain and simple.   Sharing information is what the worldwide Internet is about and our programs are for the children. Credit given where it is known. We take our Ethics, very seriously and hold ourself to a high standard. Giving credit due, is of the upmost importance to this ministry. If you might see or feel that this site has posted any text, article, materials that you are the author of such, please direct your request for information including proof and request for removal according to the law in accordance to proper procedures listed below. Mistake's can be made and we too, can make such mistakes. If you have claim to any materials,articles,pictures or works of any such please include the following: 1. ownership name and our web site page on our site with the materials you claim to own 2. dates of copyright or proof of ownership, and such will be researched by our LCC and panel, with the U.S. copyright office. After your claim is researched and if found valid, we will immediately either change the page including wording or remove any such materials, text, articles, pictures, or media.       This site has two pages of credits and a third in the process. You can visit them from here,or our site map or home page.   Due to the nature of ownership and copyright issues, this can be a fine line which anyone can claim to be the rightful owner please allow 4 weeks for us to research such claims with the copyright office of the U.S. In any event we will disable that page from our site until our finding's are complete. Then we will return our findings to you. Even at times when such a claim is not valid, we will rewrite the materials and change them out of respect for the person, and web site.    We must ask according to the DMCA your request must be submitted by U.S.Mail. Send all inquries To: Keyboards for Christ Music Ministry 810 Jenkins Lane, Triadelphia Wv. 26059. For more copyright information visit: US GOV. There is always talk about "Fair Use" Here is what the United States Copyright Office definds Fair and copyright use as : Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work. What to know more? Click here to go to U.S. Copyright Office. For other information visit our Legal page, and our credit pages. Many resource credits are listed upon the pages you visit. All graphics, banners, navigation, and backrounds are created by Dan Wheeler unless noted other than. The Keyboards for Christ Music Ministry is a copyrighted name of Rev. Daniel L. Wheeler. 2004/2005/2007 Other copyrights pending. Permission for some materials in this web site were granted for use under one or more of the following licenses by the author of the materials: FreeBSD Documentation License Creative Commons licenses(not compatible with the GFDL) Design Science License Free Art licenseOpen Content License Open Publication License Common Documentation License Sometimes even in our research we have found that there are materials we might post upon our site to which we have contacted the persons who claim to own them.  They give us permission and are not the rightful owners. Latter we find out as we use special tools to try and prevent such problems, but even we cant find them all and perhaps some slip by us.    In random checks then we find out the materials are not owned by the person who gives us permission. So then we reasearch more and contact the rightful author/owner to seek permission of their work[s] and remove them if permission is not given. Currently every author that we have contacted has given us permission or allowed us to purchase a license for educational use.  This is not by any means done intentionally known as plagiarism.  Some of our articles will appear word for word as they are taken in that context but are used in this way either from books, or sites but this is done with rightful permission. We have found many sites within the same subject materials especially when talking about factual information which includes history, to have word for word discription or text. If we visit one site and check it with our resource [tools] then go to another we find that one site's  material's is the same as the next? Yes word for word.  This is not plagiarism of factual materials if consent or permission is granted by the rightful author or owner and such permission is posted within the article or site. Content scraping, [plagiarism] without first recieving permissions or at least posting them is plagiarism. Dealing with history, the recording of factual information placed outside in a expression of a individual person takes away from the actual event that happened, the discription, or eye witness event. The fine line here is How a person describes it through their eyes can deal with copyrights. Factual materials from books are simply that Fact. Abraham Lincoln is my all time favorite human hero so Here is a example of what I mean: Abraham Lincoln died from his wounds at 7:22 P.M. on Saturday, April 15, 1865. This is a fact. There are thousands of sites throughout the world that state the same words. These facts could also say,Saturday, April 15th 1865, at 7:22 P.M. President Abraham Lincoln Died of the gun shot wound to his head at the Ford Theatre. We call a apple a apple, it can be green or red, or yellow, but it is still a apple so factual words can be written and expressed the same. Thank you for taking the time to read this page.  D.W.