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Copyright Notice

Open Studio retains the copyrights on any Open Studio-developed material on Web pages that have an URL address beginning "www.benton.org../," including, but not exclusively, the Open Studio logo design, applications and guidelines, as well as the listings of awards. All such material may be used for educational and non-profit purposes, provided that proper attribution is given.

Other articles and images that are linked to the Web site may be reproduced only with permission. Copyright is retained by the individual artist or author. Anyone seeking to use these materials should contact Maria Finison at: maria@benton.org.


Disclaimer

All materials and articles written on the Open Studio Web site represent the individual positions of their authors and not necessarily the position of the Benton Foundation or the National Endowment for the Arts. Links to other sites from Open Studio's Web site are provided for the convenience of the user. Open Studio does not control, review, monitor or endorse the contents of any sites linked to Open Studio. Any link or reference to an individual or organization on this site is not intended as an endorsement. Open Studio cannot edit content provided by a third party linked from the Open Studio Web site.

Information on the World Wide Web changes continually. We urge all users of this site to conduct their own investigation of the products and services identified here and to share responsibility for their assessment.


Editorial Policy

Our publications included an online magazine, the Digital Canvas. Open Studio encourages public discussion of technology and its applications for the arts community; however, as this site serves primarily as an archive, we do not accept unsolicited material for publication on our Web site or in our magazine.


Privacy Statement

We have provided contact information on this Web site so that we may gather user comments and data. Open Studio will not rent, sell, or give the information you provide to anyone else without your permission. We are collecting it solely for the purpose of evaluating and improving our Web site and services.


User Comments Policy

We ask users of our online curriculum exchange, the Trainer's Lounge, to respond to the resources listed there and to suggest additions. The "User Comments" area of our Toolkit is moderated. Users should be aware that submitted comments are emailed to Open Studio staff before they are posted to the site. Vulgarity, abuse, and off-topic postings will be deleted.



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