Copyright Notice

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© + Company or Business Name + Year of Publication (or if amended over time, the first and last year of publication)

In addition to the above copyright notice, you can add a paragraph as an educational piece to your website to emphasize that website visitors should not use the content on your website without the proper permission.

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Option 1 – All Rights Reserved

This website and its contents are protected by the copyright laws of Canada and international treaties to which Canada is a signatory. Except as otherwise provided for under copyright law, this website and its content may not be copied, published, distributed, downloaded or otherwise stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or converted, in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

Option 2 – Partial Rights Reserved – License to Use for Certain Purposes

There may be circumstances where the “all rights reserved” approach of copyright is too restrictive for your business based on your purpose or business model. You can reserve certain rights in the materials on your Website while giving certain permission under certain terms.

You are free to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to adapt the material by remix, transform, and build upon the material for any educational purposes but not commercially so long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Option 3 – Public Domain / Creative Commons – No Rights Reserved

You may wish to retain no copyright in materials posted on your Website and can put these materials into the public domain.

The images and contents on this Website are public domain images and you can download and use them for free even for commercial purposes.