The legalities

There are potential legal issues on the stuff of this website. The purpose of this post is to point out the legalities of this site, and more importantly, to prevent unnecessary arguments relating to the potential issues in the future. As a fellow individual, I have the rights to protect myself beforehand, and I use this post as the very first defense to keep myself staying away from potential legal issues: back and forth.

1. The scope of this website (the content discussed on this site)

This site is mainly to discuss the ways of playing League of Legends © Riot Games Inc. (League), a commercial copyright-protected product based on the free-to-play model. The product itself unarguably belongs to the creator(s); the ways of using it (playing), however, belong to us (the public).

For clarity, this website is to discuss the ways we - the people - play League, not the product itself. Any side discussion if any should be in relation to the main content mentioned herein.

2. The League of Legends related images used on this website

The use of the images, alongside the captions and notes and explanations, is simply to demonstrate the aspect of depicted-icons related details mentioned in my personal, distinct, and often unconventional playstyles, thoughts, views, and opinions on playing League of Legends © Riot Games Inc. discussed here on this site. In other words, the use of the League-related images is simply to help make my descriptions of my ideas on playing League clearer and easier to understand.

This kind of use is within the scope of and is protected by fair use rule, typically "17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use" and the like. Any kind of DMCA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice without good faith consideration of fair use and tranformativeness before ordering is legally illegal and valueless.

3. The videos used on this website

All of the League videos used on this site are from my own YouTube channel. This usage of the videos is perpetually and irrevocably permitted by YouTube's Terms of Service (section 6.C):

"For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable."

The videos were created by myself and were reproduced, distributed, displayed, and performed through the functionality of the Service in association with its affiliate, Blogger. This site doesn't contain any copyright infringement video, created by other individuals or not.

4. Copyright, policy, terms of use, and the like

This website is powered by Blogger, a Google's service. Consequentially, it adopts all the matter of copyright, privacy policy, terms of services, and the like from Google on the service. Particularly, for more details for:

+) Content policy: Blogger Content Policy
+) Privacy and Terms: Google Privacy and Terms, Google Privacy Policy, Google Terms of Service
+) Legal help (including copyright issues): Google Legal Help, Google Copyright Help Center

Basically, by using Blogger – the service of Google, The Silencekeeper gives Google (and those Google works with, or simply Google for short) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes they make so that the content works better with Google Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute the content. The rights The Silencekeeper grants in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving Google Services, and to develop new ones.

The Google's usage of the content as well as the development of the services, in turn and on the other hand, will benefit the content itself for better exposure to the target audience. Except for the limited license granted to Google mentioned above, any other kind of the reuse of the content must follow the laws of copyright of intellectual property.

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There may be changes or new stuff soon
Last update: February 29, 2016

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