Legal Stuff and contact

This is a new updated version of the legal agreement concerning the hosting and reproduction of any part of this guide.  This is a modification of the old agreement and replaces it entirely.  Sites hosting version 1.05 or earlier of the guide are subject to the old agreement.  This legal section will take the place of the existing one from here on out. 

Copywrite:


This guide is copywrite September 20, 2006 originally and version 1.06 is officially copywrite for November 19, 2006 by me Darkranger or my real name Timothy Brintnall.  I reserve all the legal rights to this guide and its publication except those specifically given here.

Original Trademarks:


Harvest Moon, Natsume, Nintendo, and Nintendo DS and any other registered trademarks of any company that is affiliated with the creation of the game are their property.  I do not claim or infer ownership of any of them in this guide.  They are the intellectual property of their respective owners.  They are only mentioned in the guide for the purpose of giving credit to the company who put so much hard work into this great game.  Thanks Natsume and Marvelous Interactive for a great game !!!

Submitted information:


The information found in the guide from the tables and other ideas is derived from two sources. The first is my experience playing the game and the second is from information submitted by others for the guide.  If information presented here is taken from another source i.e. someone else's guide ect.  It will be done so only with the person's permission and proper credit will be observed.  Note, I have not done this yet, but I am leaving this here in case I need it for future reference. 

You are welcome and encouraged to submit information you find about the game to me by email for the guide at darkrangeresp@yahoo.com.  Anything that you don't see here that you think would be useful is welcome. Please understand, that by submitting information to the guide via email you are directly giving me permission to use it in the guide without farther notification.  If you submit something please give me an alias or a nickname to use to credit you in the guide.  I choose to give credit where credit is do.  If you submitted something and I misspelled your nickname or forgot to give you credit please email me and let me know.  I have received a couple thousand emails and sometimes these things get missed. 

I reserve the right to modify, reformat, or clarify anything that I put into the guide.  I also reserve the right to decide what information I want to include and at what point in time I choose to include it.  If you submit something and I tell you I plan to use it, it may be several updates before I put it to practical use.  This is my guide and I have the sole discretion of what to put into it. 

Extracting information from the guide:


Not all the information in this guide is my legal and intellectual property.  For example, the shipping prices of the level 1 crops is considered common knowledge. However, my intellectual ideas, the presentation of the information, the comments, and my strategies in this guide are and remain my copywrite intellectual property.  They may not be used directly without written permission from me or a direct citation similar to what would be found in a research paper.  A situation must be in outstation marks and quoted as follows (Darkranger's Harvest Moon DS Guide, section XX, 2006)  where XX is the section number from the guide. 
You are welcome to take general information from the guide as long as you present it in your own format and words.  If you choose to do so, your guide needs to have a section giving me credit for what you took.  I have a similar section in this guide for the submitted information I use.  If you are confused by this section, you can email me at darkrangeresp@yahoo.com for a clarification on what information you want to use from the guide.  Please be specific on what you want to take.  You can also request permission to use any information in this guide in a work of your own at the above email address. I am pretty open minded on letting people copy the information here.  I just need to make sure that I am receiving credit for my work and that my ideas are not being taken out of context. 

Transformation of the guide:


I have had a couple of requests about building a website from this guide directly.  I have already created an html version of the guide at .  However, if you would like to make a site based on this guide and add pictures or a new format I would be willing to consider such a request. Permission is herby granted to transform the guide into another format for distribution subject to the following terms. 
  1. This legal agreement must be present and easily accessible in the document or site.  It must be in its original for and unaltered. 
  2. The first page of the document or site must credit me for the guide's basic information.
  3. You must notify me by email within 7 days of any posting or distribution of the guide in an altered form for my review.
Note, just copying and pasting the text directly unaltered into an html document without adding any html tags to the body of text does not require the above permission.  See the terms of hosting the guide listed below for the relevant information.

Hosting of this guide:


I believe in the free right of individuals to post this information.  Permission is herby granted to post this guide anywhere on the internet or similar distribution network subject to the following terms and conditions.
  1. The guide must be presented in its text format unaltered and up to date with the current version you wish to post.  You may use another format such as a single html file without tags in the current text, a pdf file, or any word processing document file if you wish. 
  2. The hosting site must be geared towards content related to the games.  Relevant sites include but are not limited to, video game cheat sites, general game sites, anything related to harvest moon, a fan site, or any other site with rationally relevant content. 
  3. This guide is a free product and cannot be used for commercial or private profit.  The distortion from the site must be free.  You may not sell the guide or restrict accesses to it to paying members only.  Advertisements or links to adds may be presents as long as they are not imbedded directly into the text intermittently.  They need to be above, below, or around the text of the guide. 
  4. You must email me within 48 hours of posting the document at darkrangeresp@yahoo.com, so I can make sure your site meets the above terms and conditions.
  5. The site in question may not contain explicit or offensive material including but not limited to: nudity, discrimination, overt profanity, or anything that most people would find directly offensive.
  6. The guide must contain this legal agreement unaltered and intact. 

I know that is a lot to take in, but I wanted to be clear as I can. I want to keep track of where this guide is on the internet for the purposes of updating and the upkeep on it.  Note, that I get quite a few emails about the game at the above address and I sometimes miss a request to host the guide.  So, If you emailed me and do not receive a reply in 30 days you may assume that I have reviewed your site and it is satisfactory to post the guide.  You may continue to post the guide during the thirty day period and indefinitely thereafter unless I specifically contact you and tell you otherwise. 

Other forms of distribution:


I have had a few other request about giving the guide out between friends.  You may distribute this guide in paper or electronic form such as an email or a disk.  You can distribute it for personal use or the use of the receiving party only.  The guide must be unaltered and contain the license agreement if the entire guide is transferred.  Basically, this means you can give it out to your friends on a disk or paper as long as you don't sell it. You can also make any number of personal copies for your own use playing the game. 

Updates and Current Hosts:


This guide is currently a work in progress and I will be releasing updates to it intermittently at my discression.  I will always submit any new updates to www.gamefaqs.com first.  You can always find the most current version of the file there.  I will try to get it to everyone else as best I can remember, but please check there for the most current version.  I will also try to release the current update from my site on the game. Please check there intermittently to see if I have updated the guide.  I would appreciate it if everyone would keep the most current version posted to ignore confusion about what is covered in the guide. 

www.gamefaqs.com
www.supercheats.com
www.gamewinners.com
www.neoseeker.com

Other sites than the ones listed above have been given permission to host the guide.  However, despite my best efforts, I have lost the list I was keeping of it.  If you have a site that you are hosting it on and would like your name added to the above list please email me and I will make every effort to accommodate your request.  You can also request a current update of the guide at the above email address. 

Closing:


I apologize for those of you who had to read through this for any reason.  However, I just wanted to make everything more clear than the older agreement did.  I received quite a few emails asking about hosting requirements and I got tired of retyping all this information in individual emails.  Nothing has really changed all that much from the old agreement.  I thought that most of the new stuff here was commons sense, but apparently I was wrong.  I am just clarifying some of the obscure points from the old agreement in greater detail.  If you are hosting the guide with permission you can continue to do so without worrying about this section.  Thanks to all my submitters and hosts for making this guide such a huge success.  This agreement is subject to change without notice, but will be included in the version of the guide that the changes pertain to.

Darkranger

If you have questions concerning this section or questions about the game in general email me at darkrangeresp@yahoo.com.