Copyright Protection For The Inventor Sherpa Theater And Its Contents

General Statement Of Copyrights

Inventorsherpa.com is also known as the Inventor Sherpa Theater. The two foregoing names are used interchangeably herein and on the inventorsherpa.com website.

Any reproduction, distribution, on-line offering, or other use of the website inventorsherpa.com, or the content of inventorsherpa.com variously owned by Intellipreneur Consulting LLC, Richard R. Clikeman, or Chad D. Clikeman without express written consent by them regarding inventorsherpa.com and content pertinent to each of these owners is strictly forbidden.

Content not owned by Intellipreneur Consulting LLC, Richard R. Clikeman, or Chad D. Clikeman may be similarly protected, and the conditions of use of this content not owned by Intellipreneur Consulting LLC, Richard R. Clikeman, or Chad D. Clikeman should be determined by any potential user prior to use thereof.

Unless otherwise stated, all content of the website inventorsherpa.com is the property of the authors of that content under copyright laws, rules, and precedents as promulgated by and practiced at the U.S. Copyright Office and by pertinent administrative entities worldwide. That content of the website inventorsherpa.com includes, but is not limited to, the motion pictures, musical compositions and sound recordings, textual content, and all other images. In the event of assignment of ownership by an author to another entity, ownership transfers to the assignee.

Most of the content of inventorsherpa.com is registered at the U.S. Copyright Office, and ownership of that content falls to the stated author(s) and applicant(s). Certain other content, such as, for example, the content of recent posts and pages may not yet be registered at the U.S. Copyright Office, but nevertheless falls under copyright protection of the United States government.

All content of the website inventorsherpa.com is used by Intellipreneur Consulting LLC with permission. A good faith effort is made to properly indicate credit where credit is due. Any occurrence of failure to properly indicate such credit is inadvertent, and will be rectified when Intellipreneur Consulting LLC becomes aware of that occurrence.

Motion Picture Copyrights

The seven Inventor Sherpa Season One videos are registered at the U.S. Copyright Office by applicant Richard R. Clikeman under Registration Number Pau 3-761-284, effective date December 29, 2014. These Season One videos are used on the inventorsherpa.com website with permission granted to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC by Richard R. Clikeman.

The welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime and the preview video Sneak Preview ~ Season One And Beyond are the subject of a copyright application by Richard R. Clikeman at the U.S. Copyright Office under Case Number 1-2755501181, case date October 1, 2015. These two videos are used on the inventorsherpa.com website with permission granted to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC by Richard R. Clikeman.

Textual Content Copyrights

Unless stated otherwise, the textual content of the pages and posts of inventorsherpa.com, and more generally of that entire website, is copyrighted material of author Richard R. Clikeman, with permission to use that textual content on inventorsherpa.com granted by Richard R. Clikeman to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC.

Music Copyrights

The musical work Unclear Fusion is used as Rotwire’s theme music in the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime. The musical work Gizmo Rag is the theme music for motion pictures that are the episodes of Season One. Chad D. Clikeman is the composer and performer of both Unclear Fusion and Gizmo Rag. Unclear Fusion and Gizmo Rag are two of several musical compositions that make up the collection Mushroom Crowd, which is the subject of a sound recording copyright application by Chad D. Clikeman at the U.S. Copyright Office under Case Number 1-2769483221, case date October 6, 2015. Chad D. Clikeman is the sole author and performer of all of the musical compositions of the collection Mushroom Crowd. Both Unclear Fusion and Gizmo Rag are used on the website inventorsherpa.com with permission granted by Chad D. Clikeman to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC.

The musical work Chicken Feet is utilized as background music for the Season One Credits appearing in the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime. Chad D. Clikeman is the composer and performer of Chicken Feet. Chicken Feet is one of the musical compositions that make up the collection Small Comforts, which is the subject of a sound recording copyright application by Chad D. Clikeman at the U.S. Copyright Office under Case Number 1-2772415341, case date October 7, 2015. Chad D. Clikeman is the sole author and performer of all of the musical compositions of the collection Small Comforts. Chicken Feet is used on inventorsherpa.com with permission granted by Chad D. Clikeman to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC.

Copyrights Including Rotwire

The cartoon character Rotwire appears in the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime and the preview video Sneak Preview ~ Season One And Beyond under U. S. motion picture copyright application by Richard R. Clikeman at the U.S. Copyright Office under Case Number 1-2755501181, case date October 1, 2015 (see Motion Picture Copyrights herein above).

Works of the visual arts variously portraying Rotwire, grouped as the collection Rotwire Unleashed, are the subject of a visual arts copyright application by Richard R. Clikeman and Chad D. Clikeman at the U.S. Copyright Office under Case Number 1-2825071031, case date October 27, 2015.

The cartoon character designated as Rotwire appears in works of visual arts on inventorsherpa.com with permission granted to Intellipreneur Consulting LLC by Richard R. Clikeman and Chad D. Clikeman.

Additional protection for the cartoon character Rotwire derives from a Trademark/Service Mark application (International Class 041) assigned serial number 86809552 by the United States Patent And Trademark Office. Intellipreneur Consulting LLC is the applicant of Trademark/Service Mark application 86809552, filing date November 4, 2015.

Image Copyrights and Attribution

The mountaineering photographs utilized the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime and elsewhere on the website inventorsherpa.com were obtained from iStock, a Getty Images company, and are displayed herein under the terms of a pertinent license with iStock. Butterfly Capture Photograph of Wellsville, Utah Mountains and Field, Image # K8872-6, photographed by Jack Dykinga, is used with permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cardboard Rich, photographed by Maureen McCreadie, is used with permission of Maureen McCreadie.

Sound Effects

The sound effects and short audio clips utilized in the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime, the preview video Sneak Preview ~ Season One And Beyond, and the motion pictures that are the seven episodes of Season One come from one of three sources: Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection Resource Central; Freesound.org; and original sound recordings by Richard R. Clikeman.

The sound effects and short audio clips of Adobe’s Resource Central are provided attribution free and royalty free according to the terms of a pertinent Adobe license. The sound effects and short audio clips of Freesound.org are each used under one of two Creative Commons licenses: CC01.0 Universal Public Domain License; and Creative Commons Attribution License. Attribution for the Freesound.org material is given on the Credits page herein, as well as at the end of the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime.

Credits

Additional information relating to copyrights and attribution, as well as trademarks, can be found on the Credits page. Credits related to the motion pictures constituting the episodes of Season One, as well as the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime and the preview video Sneak Preview ~ Season One And Beyond, further appear in the credits at the end of the welcome video Pumped Up For Showtime.

International Copyright Protection

The content of the website inventorsherpa.com that is subject to protection under United States copyright law is also covered under the purview of two principal copyright conventions: the Berne Convention (for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works); and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). The copyright protections of the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention extend to the signatory countries for each. Beyond the protection provided by these two conventions, there may be additional protections available in other countries by virtue of a bilateral agreement between the United States and other countries or under specific provision of a country’s national laws. (See United States Copyright Officie Circular 38a, International Copyright Relations of the United States.)