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ACCUS Legal Notices and Copyrights

Legal Notice

The American Catholic Church in the United States (ACCUS) is not in solidarity nor does it support individuals, groups, or institutions who claimed to be a part of us or who have included us in their websites, newsletters, bulletins, and other media without our knowledge. There are groups who dedicate themselves to include other institutions in their web pages without authorization causing harm to such institutions. The American Catholic Church in the United States (ACCUS) is not linked to any independent group or institutions whose beliefs and actions are contrary to the Goals and Mission Statement of the ACCUS.
The American Catholic Church in the United States (ACCUS) will post links on it's website to those organizations or religious institutions with which we have Intercommunion Agreements or with whom we have chosen to associate. At present, The American Catholic Church in the United States is in Intercommunion Agreement with several organizations, however those agreements are kept private out of respect for those other organizations. An Intercommunion Agreement does not constitute inclusion in the American Catholic Church in the United States (ACCUS) nor does it constitute membership in the other organizations.
The American Catholic Church in the United States (ACCUS) is an Autonomous Rite of the Catholic Church. We are not a Roman Catholic Institution and are therefore not subject to its rules and regulations.

Copyrights

The name "The American Catholic Church in the United States" and subsequent acronym, "ACCUS" are copyright protected names as well as official names as provided by the IRS, State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia (Washington, DC.)
The American Catholic Church in the United States ("ACCUS") holds several copyrights on works produced for, and by, the "ACCUS" as well as for/by it's subsidiary Jurisdictions, organizations, churches, schools or other affiliates. No portion of the pages of this web site may be reproduced in any form for any purpose except those provided by law, without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. Violation of this copyright will be enforced by law and may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
Included copyrights include graphics, text, formatting and/or special code developed for this website. All pictures, documents, reflections or other material submitted to the ACCUS for submission on the website become the property of the "ACCUS".
Any document created for use by or at the direction of the ACCUS, by any person and submitted to the ACCUS for use, remains the property of the ACCUS under Section 101 of the 1976 Copyright Act known as Work-Made-For-Hire.

What is a work made for hire?

Although the general rule is that the person who creates the work is its author, there is an exception to that principle; the exception is a work made for hire, which is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or a work specially ordered or commissioned in certain specified circumstances. When a work qualifies as a work made for hire, the employer, or commissioning party, is considered to be the author. See Circular 9, Work-Made-For-Hire Under the 1976 Copyright Act.

Statutory Definition

Section 101 of the copyright laws defines a “work made for hire” as:
1 a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment;
or
2 a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. For the purpose of the foregoing sentence, a “supplementary work” is a work prepared for a publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introducing, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes, and indexes; and an “instructional text” is a literary, pictorial, or graphic work prepared for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic instructional activities. [from Circular 9 by U.S. Copyright Office · Library of Congress · 101 Independence Avenue SE · Washington, DC 20559-6000 · www.copyright.gov]