| Doctorspiller.com is a personal website written by an individual
dental professional whose intention is to enlighten the public with
generally accepted, mainstream medical/dental information. It
has become popular with dental students, hygienists, and quite a few
dentists, especially those from developing nations. All text,
photographs, illustrations and tables you find on this website (Doctorspiller.com)
are copyright protected, either by me, or by the authors who have
knowingly contributed to this website--i.e. certain images and text
which were reproduced here with attribution. The real meaning
of this phrase is that no one can simply copy information from this
website and paste it into their own website or commercial
publication without express permission from the author (Martin S.
Spiller, D.M.D.).
This does NOT mean that you cannot , copy, paste, print and use
the information in this website. This website is provided as a
public service and may be used by anyone for their own education or
as a teaching aid to teach others. Specifically:
- Any student of any age may copy and use any part, or even
the whole of this website in the course of study, written and
oral reports, science projects, or any other legitimate academic
usage.
- Any graduate student may use this material in presentations
and as part of their theses. This permission also applies
to use of the internet as part of a thesis.
- Any teacher may use any and all text, illustrations
photographs and tables for any purpose pertaining to the
teaching of their students, including temporary use of the
internet. You may print this material for students, and
feel free to use the photos for slide and Power Point
presentations.
- Any dentist or other health professional may also print or
otherwise present this material for teaching purposes for
patients, staff or colleagues.
- Any academic lecturer may likewise print and present this
material without specific permission. Attribution is not
required, but would be appreciated.
- The use of text from this website on internet discussion
boards, or text and images in email and other personal
electronic exchange is permitted.
I frequently give permission for the use of specific photographs,
illustrations and text to authors of worthy websites and printed
publications. To obtain such permission, please use the email
button in the right shared border.
I NEVER give permission to copy and paste large portions of my
pages on another website, especially a commercial website.
Unfortunately, I find this happening every so often, and I have to
spend considerable time chasing down the authors and forcing them to
remove the material under threat of lawsuit.
Web developers may NOT copy the content of this website
for use in developing commercial websites for other dentists or
health care providers. This activity is strictly illegal, and
I will seek legal damages!
How do I find out when my work has been
plagiarized?
Simple! Anyone can do it. Just select any phrase in
my website of at least a dozen words. Enclose the phrase in
quotation marks, and copy it into a Google search box. Then
press the Google Search button, and Google will return all the
occurrences of that phrase in any website on the net. Just
click on the search results and see if the page actually contains
more of my copyrighted content.
Alternatively, anyone can purchase web searches for
copyright violations for their website from a great service called
Copyscape.
http://www.copyscape.com/
What is a copyright?
The concept of copyright protection was set fourth in the
original US constitution and affords the author of an original work
specific rights that the author can give or sell to others or keep
for him/herself. It protects original intellectual material
once it has been written down. Note that the copyright
extends from the time the work is committed to paper (or, more
recently, to electronic media). The work does not have to be
published to be copyrighted. Nor does it even have to be
registered with the copyright office at the US library of congress.
This website began in the summer of 2000, and those portions which
existed at that time were, and still are copyright protected,
provided I can prove that I was the author at that time.
I can prove authorship of my website from November of 2001 by
using a web service called the
Wayback Machine which uses web crawlers to find and
archive web pages. My own archive can be seen by clicking on
the link below:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://doctorspiller.com
I can also prove my authorship as of 2006 as a result of copies
of my web site held by the library of congress copyright office.
A copyright is good for the life of the author of the work, plus
70 years.
DISCLAIMER: Statements made on this web site are for
informational purposes only and are not intended to be substituted
for the advice of a medical professional. Information
and statements have not been evaluated by the American Dental
Association or any federal regulation agency and are not intended to
diagnose, or treat any disease or medical condition. This is a
personal website written by an individual dental professional whose
intention is to enlighten the public with generally accepted,
mainstream medical/dental information. I do not claim to
represent the opinions of all dental or medical professionals. No
website is a substitute for a visit to a living, breathing dentist
or physician who can deal with you personally.
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