RULES: GUEST AUTHOR and PRODUCER ARTICLES, BLOGS & VIDEOS
We welcome and encourage folks who have something civilized, thoughtful and tasteful to say or show (via video) to submit material for posting on our site. We would be delighted to consider same for publication and posting on our site.
Persons wishing to post articles or publish other content on our site (including pictures and videos) should submit a brief query letter to us either at our US Mailing address or through the contact form on our contact page. We promise to respond as quickly as we can. (Response times will vary depending on the length, complexity and contentiousness of the subject matter of the submission. (But usually we can do so within 48 hours.)
However, please be advised of the following:
Reasonandbalance.com and its owner(s) [sometimes referred to herein as “we” or “us”) have the unfettered right to refuse to publish any proffered blog post or other article prior to posting or publication on reasonandbalance.com (sometimes referred to herein as the site). And except for the “customary” areas commonly made available on customary blogs for short comments by visitors to the site to postings and publications made by the owner of the site (or the owner’s authorized authors and posters), no one should publish or post any content of any kind on our site without our express written approval ( In short, all proposed content must be submitted to us for approval prior to publication or posting and nothing herein shall be deemed to grant any one [other than us] permission to hack into or otherwise access our dashboard for any purpose whatsoever (including publishing or posting any type of content).
(1.) Any guest author (the author) writing, publishing, producing or making any article, blog post, web page or video of any nature for reasonandbalance.com gives reasonandbalance.com (our site) and its owners (us/we/our) the non-exclusive right and license (herein the “non-exclusive license”) to publish or post same on reasonandbalance.com (with any associated agreed upon link to any other video publishing site agreed upon IN ADVANCE IN WRITING by us and said author), WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION, WAGE, FEE OR OTHER REMUNERATION (herein the “compensation”) of any nature unless that compensation is expressly and clearly agreed upon IN WRITING by said author and us PRIOR TO PUBLICATION on our site. In addition, (unless we agree to do so by an independent writing signed by us) we shall have no duty to account to the author for any income, revenues, fees, royalties or other moneys we earn from our publication of said content pursuant to said non-exclusive license.
(2.) Our nonexclusive license as set forth in (a) shall extend indefinitely or in the event applicable law requires a shorter or finite duration then for the maximum duration permitted by applicable law.
(3.) To the extent not inconsistent with (1.) or (2.) above the author shall retain all copyrights and other legal rights related to the content; provided however, that the author shall not enter into any transaction with a third party that shall interfere with reasonandbalance’s (or its owner’s) rights hereunder.
Every article or post submitted by all persons (other than the owner of this site shall be preceded by the following statement
“The following article/blog/video post represents the opinion of only it’s author/owner/producer and not necessarily those of the owners of reasonandbalance.com nor any of its officers, directors, members, partners or employees.”
IN ADDITION:
We (reasonandbalance.com) reserves the right to delete or take down any content that we in our sole discretion may deem appropriate. Having said that we want to give guest contributors and authors as much free rein as possible to express reasonable opinions and/or to express themselves artfully and creatively. In other words, we don’t care so much that we may disagree with you, as long as what you say or post has some rational basis or a tasteful artistic purpose. However, we will have a tendency to remove any content that we find violates our terms of use, or that, in our sole opinion is libelous, slanderous, mean spirited or which has a tendency to incite violence or which is pornographic.
In providing any content you agree and warrant that; (i) you have all necessary legal rights to provide said content to us for publication and/or posting on our site; and (ii) that our publication or posting of it does not violate any third party’s rights under any trademark, copyright, patent or other intellectual property or provision of law. Contributing authors and posters shall not plagiarize the material and works of other persons.
Contributing author’s and poster’s shall be deemed to indemnify, defend and hold reasonandbalance.com (and it’s owners) harmless for any violation of the terms of use or these Guest Author and Poster rules.
Although, we appreciate, and will consider publication of well-reasoned dissenting and opposing views (and, will many times publish same) …after all healthy debate is the essence of the First Amendment and a healthy democracy…. we insist that contributing authors and/or publishers read our “About Us” page and view its video and try in good faith to post content that is consistent with this site’s overall purpose which is to inform the public of relevant facts and to allow the public to critically think about and analyze the issues or subject matter being discussed.
Contibuting authors and/or persons who post other content on our site must insert the following at the end of their article or content.
“The foregoing article, post, video, picture or other content has been posted by _____________(insert the name of the author or party posting or publishing) and does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of reasonandbalance.com or its owners.”