Copyright Notice & Super Disclaimer

This is a really, really dry page, so don’t read it if you don’t have to, because it’s not for the impatient of brain to burn off surplus synapses in the reading.
1 - Copyright
2 - Disclaimer
- Part A – Participating in this site, these activities, or crime
….Participating in this site
….Participating in activities related to me
….Being a Criminal in My Crime-Fought World
- Part B – What’s up with this site (legally)?
….Fair Use
….Parody/Satire
….Non-Commercial
….Not Harming Income
….Not Watering Down Brand
….Not Libelous
3 - Summary

1 - COPYRIGHT

Everything you see on this site is protected by US and international copyright laws. All images, all texts, all coding, all audio/video files, and all of everything else too. You can’t steal my stuff and expect it not to come back and bite you in the butt, because I’ve got teeth and I’m not afraid to use them. Even if the media wasn’t originally created by me, but submitted to me, it’s still protected here for my use in perpetuity because that’s the usage license I’ve been granted on the Terms of Service page.

Attacking a superhero, even in ways like copyright violation, makes you a villain by definition (not a super villain, just a kind-of villain). If you want to be my super villain, you don’t have to steal from me to do it – you can just apply.

2 - DISCLAIMER

PART A: Participating in this site, these activities, or crime

There are a great number of inherent risks in this life, whether they be from simply reading, jumping up and down in excitement after reading, or from taking part in further activities thereafter, such as meeting people in person you met first online, fighting crime, or trying to stop a villain bent on world domination. Here are just a few of the many possible fates that you should be wary of after reading or participating in this site.

Participating in the Site:

There are a few inherent risks in just reading this site, even if you don’t write to me or read interactive blog posts. You could suffer eye damage, or your mind could be blown, and you accept full risk of these possibilities, because they might happen, and I can’t be held responsible for your natural frailty or terrible over-bright monitor settings.

Participating in Me-Related Activities:

If you choose to become my arch-nemesis, my fellow superhero, my leading lady, a minion-for-good in my army, or otherwise engage me in my world of battle, whether for me or against me, you accept any and all risks associated with this fantastic new life you’ve begged to choose. You may suffer severe burns, dissolve by acid, be shot, stabbed, killed, killed and reanimated, arrested, prosecuted in criminal or civil courts, drown, be devoured by sharks, or otherwise face extremely serious, life changing and even life-taking events and mishaps. You accept all these things without limitation, because that’s what I’m all about. I sprinkle danger on my sundae.

Being a Criminal in My Crime-Fought World

If you wish to be my arch nemesis, or just a lesser foe, you accept that you may face injury, arrest, and/or loss of financial holdings due to law enforcement, civil suit, direct financial loss due to damage, or any other reason real, imaginary or as-so-far inconceivable.

PART B: What’s Up with This Site Legally?

Ok, there’s a Mumakil in the room and I have to bring it up first thing. Am I really Tron Guy? No I’m not. I have to disclaim that and put it right out there. Maybe I’m a fan of his, maybe I’m a bigger dork for sci-fi than you can imagine. Maybe I’m a fan of fans, you don’t know. Don’t judge me.

No matter what, there are some legal grounds we have to make this site, so here they are:

Fair Use

Since I’m not actually Tron Guy, but an agent acting on his behalf without his explicit permission, I should point out that the doctrine of fair use fully applies to me, my work, these texts and this site. I’ve appropriated extremely little from the original Tron Guy story, and all of it has been taken under the Fair Use doctrine. I’m not plagiarizing any material, just listing a few facts, and showing a single photograph, and only for the sake of properly identifying the coolest man in the world; the one in question at the focus of this site.

Parody/Satire

Though the legal division between satire and parody is often gray, this is not. It spans both genres, thus affording it the greatest protection available to either. It’s parody because I’m directly spoofing off the “Tron Guy” meme, and satire because I’m making a commentary on it that’s sufficiently – if not exceptionally – deep. This fully entitles me to poke my fun, since my good man Tron Guy is a public figure, as evidenced by his ubiquitous presence in popular culture.

Non-Commercial Use

What I’m doing here is not for commercial purposes. If I was making money off this, it could be argued – though even still with some degree of difficulty – that I’ve appropriated his image for personal gain. There isn’t one paid link, ad or placement on this site, nor do I have any intention of placing any. I do link to some off-site pages, though not for any financial gain to me. The guy that made the site design for me is also allowed to post some links as payment for his services, but no popups or Flash banners or anything like that. Mostly whatever links he’s posting are to other funny sites he likes, so there’s no financial gain in this for me, so that qualifies me for the “Non-Commercial Use” provision.

Not Harming Income

Since Tron Guy doesn’t have merchandise or other brand-related sales for me to cut in to, I’m not causing any financial harm. He has no goods for sale, and I’m not selling competing goods, and for that matter, I even link to his site, so all that adds up directly to NOT harming his business, and in fact adding to its merits, however limited and hypothetical they may be as of the time of writing this.

Not Watering-Down Brand

The Tron Guy brand is established, but only barely, and it’s lost tremendous ground since introduction in 2004. What we’re doing here is NOT watering down the brand, but reinforcing it, reinvigorating it, and doing our best to give it a new life. It is not reasonable to believe that a web reader would see this site and think less of Tron Guy, or in any way perceive a decrease in the value of his brand.

Not Libelous

We are not saying anything untrue, except for those things obviously in jest. There’s nothing we’re saying here that could damage his personal reputation. We’re not taking any political, religious or moral stands, except to suggest that people should do good, obey law enforcement, and try to have fun whenever possible. There is no chance of libel whatever.

3 - In Summary

To wrap this page up, I’m a bigger fan of Tron Guy than I am of Tron, and I’m just young enough that I loooooved that movie, even as bad as it was in retrospect. No matter what legal angle you consider, I’ve got my bases covered, and if you disagree, my points are spelled out above. If anybody tries to shut me down, it might meet with some success, but it would hurt my feelings deeply, and possibly do irreparable harm to the Tron Guy brand. Jay’s worked hard to build it, even if he did fall a bit ass-backwards into success, and it would be sad as hell to see it tarnished by blasting me – his only fan bigger than Jimmy – to make all my work of promotion for nothing.

And if you’re Tron Guy, baby, jump over to the contact form and drop me a line, because I’m curious as all get out what you think of this. It’s all a project I do for the love, so shoot me back just an ounce of it and let me know how I stack up… we cool?