Copyright Issues
All books, documents and media sold from this site – and all the material on the site itself – is copyright material and protected by the international laws of copyright. It is against the law to reproduce any of this material or to copy it in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owners, except for your own personal, private use (see below). These laws apply to electronic documents such as PDFs and to media such as audio and video in the same way that they apply to printed material.
It has recently come to our attention that some American college publishing houses have been trying to produce printed course packages which include chapters of our books. Please note that this is not legal.
Printed course bundles containing individual chapters of Digital Multimedia, 3rd Edition or our other books are not legal – not even when produced as college in-house publications.
What Copyright Restrictions Mean in Practice
Copyright law makes it illegal not only to make copies of copyright material for distribution, but also to reproduce all or part of any copyright material. The owner of copyright has the exclusive right to copy the work, and to issue copies to the public. Any person wishing to do either of these “restricted acts” needs prior permission of the copyright owner, by way of a copyright licence. So if you wish to reproduce part of a MacAvon Media document or a MacAvon Media work in other media for the purposes of publication or distribution of any kind, you must obtain our explicit permission in writing first.
However, copying solely for the purposes of private research or private study is permitted under the law, providing that such copying is for non-commercial purposes and private use only.
You may also quote short passages from copyright material for non-commercial purposes (for example, in an academic assignment or in a blog), providing that full acknowledgment is given to the authors and publisher. You may not “pass off” copyright material as being your own.
Please note that when you create an account on this site you explicitly agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of Use and Sale which include your agreement to observe all copyright restrictions. If we have reason to believe that an account holder is not observing copyright restrictions we reserve the right to suspend that account without notice.
Copyright Owners and Licensees
Copyright in all the material made available on or through this site, including the three books listed below, belongs to MacAvon Media or to Nigel and Jenny Chapman.
Please contact us if you have any questions about copyright or require permission to make copies or use any of the material provided through or on this site.
John Wiley & Sons Ltd., the publishers of the three major textbooks listed below in printed form, do not hold copyright in any of the material sold from this site or in any of these works, but they do hold a world-wide exclusive licence to publish the following three works in printed form:
- Web Design: A Complete Introduction
- Digital Media Tools, 3rd Edition
- Digital Multimedia, 3rd Edition
This means that only John Wiley & Sons Ltd. are entitled to publish any part of these books in print, and as sole licensees they are able to take legal steps to prevent any other publication in print or to obtain compensation for infringements. However, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. are not entitled to grant sub-licences for publication of parts of those books in printed forms.
A clear copyright statement will be found towards the beginning of every PDF document and book which we sell.
Copyright Infringements and Piracy
Everyone knows that piracy of copyright material sometimes occurs with both printed and electronic documents, despite the fact that it is illegal. MacAvon Media provides PDFs for sale in good faith, and trusts that the large majority of buyers will respect copyright restrictions. We reserve the right to close any MacAvon Media account without warning if the holder of that account is found to be abusing this trust.
John Wiley & Sons Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons Inc. can and do take legal steps to prevent infringements of their licences, and to obtain compensation for those infringements.