Frequently Asked Copyright Questions

This Site and all materials on this Site, including but not limited to audio, images, software, text, and video clips (the "Content") is protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by U.S. copyright law, international conventions, and other copyright laws.  Unless otherwise indicated, all Content is the exclusive property of The Tall Club of Orange County (TCOC) and copying, modifying, repurposing, uploading, transmitting, distributing, reusing, re-posting, mirroring, or "frame" copying any portion of this site without permission of said copyright holder is strictly forbidden.

TCOC hereby grants you permission to download and/or print a copy of the Content to your individual computer for your personal, non-commercial use only (note that this does not include permission for governmental, educational, charitable, or other institutional use), provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices appearing on such materials is preserved without alteration, modification, or obfuscation.

This FAQ will hopefully acquaint you with our restrictions on the use of the Tall Club of Orange County (TCOC) name, logo, and other intellectual property (such as all content located on the TCOC website). If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the .

Q. Is the material on the TCOC website copyrighted?

A: Yes it is. All of the material is the protected property of TCOC, or the protected property of, and used with the permission of, the original author or owner. This includes all written works, photographs, and any other such original work.

Q: Can I link to the TCOC site?

A: Maybe. Currently, the web has basically three types of links and we have an answer for each:

1. Straight links. A straight link is a link to another site using the site's URL. For example,

<a href="http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/tcoc/index.htm"> Tall Club of Orange County</a>

We encourage this type of link and even provide this button you can use on your site. Instructions on how to insert this link button on your website follow below.

2. Framed In Link. This type of link "captures" a site's content in the frame of another site through the use of the HTML frame function. TCOC does not permit this type of link under any circumstance. Any use of frames to capture TCOC content is an impermissible and unauthorized use of TCOC property.

3. Captured Content Link. This type of link captures content by bringing content from another site into the referencing site through the use of a URL. TCOC permits this type of link to posted flyers ONLY.

Q: Can I copy things found on the TCOC site?

A: You may copy, store, and print material for your own non-commercial, personal, and individual use. You may not abbreviate, modify, edit, or republish TCOC material in any way without permission. The material on the TCOC site represents many countless hours of work, not only by those who wrote the words or took the pictures, but by those who formatted the information and built the pages. If you want to reference TCOC material, use a straight, non-framed link to the club site homepage such as:

<A href="http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/tcoc/pagename.htm">Tall Club of Orange County</A>.

Q:What if I just want to print something out so I can take it with me?

A: We absolutely encourage you and your tall friends and acquaintances to make use of the TCOC website! As long as you don't modify the information, or use the material to promote yourself or a third party, you may absolutely print out information for your own personal use. However, any reproduction or copying of any sort for any use other than your own non-commercial, personal and individual use is strictly forbidden unless you have explicit written permission from TCOC. Note that reposting TCOC material on a publicly accessible web site IS NOT personal use.

Q: What if I want to print something and give it to my tall friends?

A: As long as you don't modify the information, or use the material to promote yourself or a third party, you can print and distribute individual copies of TCOC information to your personal friends and acquaintances.

Q: What about all of the cool TCOC stuff I've seen? Can I make some too?

A: "TCOC" has appeared on many things over the last few years, for the most part to generate funds for worthy causes and to improve visibility of the club.  Any plans to make, market or otherwise distribute merchandise that uses either the TCOC name, various logos, or any other TCOC property must first be approved by TCOC.

Inserting TCOC link button and link on your site.

If you're an HTML wizard, you aren't reading this anyway. Nevertheless, here are two ways of putting our link button on your site. The first is the preferred method because it's more efficient in terms of loading the button image and your page. The second method retrieves the GIF file off the TCOC site each time your page loads.

1. Save the button GIF file to your site's image directory, insert the image on your site in the location of your choosing, associate it with the hyperlink as in the following example.

  <a href="http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/tcoc/">
  <img src="TCOC_button.gif" border="0" height="108" width="76" />
  </a>

Voilà!

2. (Alternate) Use your cursor to highlight the following HTML code, copy it (type Control-c or Apple-c), and paste it (type Control-v or Command-V) into the page where you want the TCOC button.

<a href="http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/tcoc/">
<img src="http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/tcoc/image/TCOC_button.gif" border="0" /> </a>


   The Tall Club of Orange County link button.