Source: http://ezinearticles.com/terms-of-service.html
     June 18, 2007

EZINEARTICLES.COM TERMS OF SERVICE FOR PUBLISHERS:
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Attention Publishers & Webmasters; Our Reprint Policies:

1. If you wish to publish/reprint any article from our site in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication, you must:
   
   
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   • Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own.
     
     
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   • Agree to not add any active links to any article you reprint from our site. This unethical behavior would lead someone to believe falsely that the author of the article endorses the active link when in fact there is no truth to that.
     
     
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2. Your use of anything connected to EzineArticles.com, our newsletter, our RSS feed or our website is completely at your own risk.
   
   
3. While EzineArticles does not generally own the copyright to the articles found within our site, we do have permission for publishing them.
   
   
4. No additional permission is required from the author of any article within our directory as long as you agree to every term listed above in section 1. a) thru 1. n).
   
   
5. It is common courtesy to let an author know when you reprint their article, but at this time we are not providing any authors email address beyond what they may include in an article (please find it from their website link if their email address is not provided in the article.)
   
   
6. You are not required to include the Google ads that are found on our site when you reprint any article from our site, but you must respect the 25 reprint limit per year.
   
   
7. If you violate any of the above terms of service and/or any author copyright when reprinting articles from our site, you agree to be held liable for all attorney fees and statutory damages awarded upon a copyright infringement lawsuit that may be brought against you. Please read Section 504(c)(2) (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#504). You agree that any legal proceedings against you will occur in Brown County in the State of Wisconsin, USA.
   
   
8. You acknowledge that EzineArticles.com has the sole right to revoke these reprint rights at any given time for any reason provided you're given 48 hours written notice via email or via fax or via telephone or via postal mail. If you're unreachable, you also agree that we may contact your web hosting provider to reach you and serve this notice. Upon receiving notice from us, you will have 24 hours to immediately remove every article you received from EzineArticles.com and must provide us with a written reply indicating that you have complied with our request in order to mitigate further action against you and your business to enforce this covenant.
   
   
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