Disclaimer & legal notes

Purpose of this website

The website is run by volunteer artists, filmmakers, designers, bloggers and developers for purely private personal purposes to exchange private own video art with other friends, colleagues, supporters, fans and interested parties of open source software, especially regarding open source video post production, and to contribute to the joint development of Cinelerra GG. It serves as a platform for the exchange of opinions, ideas and the possibility to suggest improvements to the video editing software and the presentation of private artistic video works. We do not pursue any financial or commercial goals and finance this private project from personal funds. We are personally committed to the Open Source idea, which aims at free and open access to the software. The use of this website and its services and software products is made without any guarantee of proper functionality. The use of this website and services is at your own risk. In addition, the use is non-binding and free of charge. The video editing software on this website is licensed under the GNU General Public License, please read the License Agreement, and most media is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC0. Some works on this site may still be copyrighted and it requires therefore the permission for the use of the author. Read more about this in the lower section. By the improvements of the software we profit in private as well as that the improvements benefit the common good.

The authors provide references and links to selected information and other topics in the field of video post production, film making, video art and as well as information in the course of community matters which are only indicative and do not represent an offer or recommendation. All news, opinions, research, data and other information on this website are general explanations or personal opinions of the respective author and therefore do not represent an editorial article or editorial character.

Content of the online offer

The contents of this website have been created with the greatest possible care and to the best of our knowledge. Nevertheless, the author accepts no liability for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the author relating to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are excluded, unless there is evidence of wilful intent or gross negligence on the part of the author.
All offers are subject to change and non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without prior notice or to discontinue publication temporarily or permanently.

References and links

The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages – unless he has full knowlegde of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site from viewing those pages.
The author hereby expressly declares that at the time the links were created, no illegal content was recognisable on the linked pages. The author has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, content or authorship of the linked pages. The author therefore expressly distances himself from all contents of all linked pages that have been changed since the link was created. This statement applies to all links and references set within the author’s own website as well as to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and in all other forms of databases set up by the author to which external write access is possible. For illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents and in particular for damages arising from the use or non-use of such information, the provider of the page to which reference is made is solely liable, not the party who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

Copyright and trademark law

The author endeavours to observe the copyrights of the graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts used in all publications, to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts created by himself or to make use of licence-free graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts.
All brands and trademarks mentioned within the Internet offer and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners. The mere fact that a trademark is mentioned should not lead to the conclusion that it is not protected by the rights of third parties!
The copyright for published objects created by the author himself remains solely with the author of the pages. Any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the author’s agreement.

Legal validity of this disclaimer

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

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