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Copyright and Trademark Notices

All contents of this Web site are: Copyright (c) 2010 IAC Search & Media All rights reserved. The Teoma name and log that appear throughout the Teoma.com web sites belong to IAC Search & Media and are protected by U.S. and international trademark laws (the “IAC Search & Media Marks”).

The Use of IAC Search & Media Marks

You agree not to display or use the IAC Search & Media Marks in any manner without IAC Search & Media's prior written permission. To seek permission to use any of the IAC Search & Media Marks, please contact IAC Search & Media in writing at the following address:

IAC Search & Media
Attention: Legal Department
555 12th Street, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94607

Image and Video Search Copyright Information and Disclaimer

The images and videos referenced, made accessible or made available to you on these pages or by means of the Teoma.com search service are protected by the copyright and trademark laws of the United States and other countries. Although you are permitted to locate and access the images through our search engine, you may need to obtain authorization of the owner of such materials before using them for any purpose other than viewing on the web. For authorizations to use an image or video, please contact the image owner as indicated on the source site, not IAC Search & Media, Inc. IAC Search & Media, Inc. cannot guarantee that an image or video search will not locate unintended or objectionable content and IAC Search & Media, Inc. accepts no responsibility or liability for such content, or for your use of such content.

Copyrights and Copyright Agent

We ask our users to respect the intellectual property of others. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512 ("the DMCA"), IAC Search & Media, Inc. has designated an agent to receive Notifications of Claimed Copyright Infringement on its site, who can be reached as follows:

IAC Search & Media
Legal Dept.
Attention: Copyright Agent
555 12th Street, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94607

If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our copyright agent the following:

1. Your address, telephone number, and email address;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
3. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
4. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
5. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf;
6. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

Pursuant to the DMCA, once we receive a properly prepared Notification asserting copyright infringement, we will de-link the allegedly infringing site until we receive a properly prepared Counter-Notification. Even after we de-link an allegedly infringing site, it is possible that the site will reappear once a further search is run, due to the technology that many search engines employ in conducting searches for our users. Therefore, a more effective way to remove allegedly infringing material is by filing a Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement with the Internet service provider that hosts the website.

You may want to seek independent legal counsel before filing a notification or counter-notification.

Qbyrd.com and Search-results.com Trademark Policy

IAC Search & Media, Inc. asks its users and advertisers to respect the intellectual property of others. Advertisers are solely responsible for the content of their advertisements and the keywords they select for keyword targeted advertising. Such responsibility includes ensuring that their use of such content is not violative of any intellectual property rights of others, notably trademarks.

IAC Search & Media, Inc. is not a publisher of the advertisements provided or produced by advertisers and simply facilitates the placement of such advertisement using its proprietary technology. Therefore IAC Search & Media, Inc. cannot arbitrate disputes between advertisers and trademark owners.However, since IAC Search & Media, Inc. is mindful of the intellectual property rights of others, we are willing to briefly investigate good faith claims by trademark owners which may be brought to our attention. If we determine that a protected trademark is used in the content of an advertisement displayed on Teoma.com, we will request that the advertiser remove the allegedly infringing content.

Any investigation by IAC Search & Media, Inc. will be limited to claims concerning Sponsored Links. IAC Search & Media, Inc. will not investigate nor will respond to trademark claims with respect to listings or websites that appear in non-paid search results, including Web Results, and the Narrow Your Search and Expand Your Search Sections of the Teoma.com site. For any such claims, please contact the owner of the relevant web-sites.

We also encourage trademark owners to make their claims directly with the owners of the allegedly infringing web-sites or advertisements, or the Internet service provider that hosts such websites. This is a much more effective way to resolve trademark claims, particularly because advertisers may have similar advertisements on other sites.