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All work submitted must be your original work. Your work may not contain any material from any other person or source. You may not use any names or logos of any existing products or companies. You may not make any references to any actual persons, living or dead; if you want to include the names of persons, use first names only unless clearly fictional. About.com and this site's Guide are the sole arbiters of acceptable content. We will not use, in our sole judgment, any work which contains any unlawful, harmful, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, indecent, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material.
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Submissions to About.com from users are welcome. By submitting material, users agree that any work submitted, if used, will become the property of About.com and submitter grants About.com the right to edit, copy, publish, redistribute, and reuse such content in any media. You also agree that we may post your work or any portion of your work, together with your full name, on this Site or anywhere else in About.com (which is available worldwide to anyone with Internet access) without payment of any kind to you and you will have no right of approval of or claim arising out of any use by us of your work on this Site or About.com, including but not limited to claims based on defamation or right of privacy or publicity. You must include correct contact information along with your submission including, at a minimum, name, address, and e-mail address. Unused submissions will not be returned nor can we guarantee that they will be destroyed and/or removed from our computers. About.com bears no liability for the similarity of your work, if any, to any other material appearing on any Site at any time.
All work submitted must be your original work. Your work may not contain any material from any other person or source. You may not use any names or logos of any existing products or companies. You may not make any references to any actual persons, living or dead; if you want to include the names of persons, use first names only unless clearly fictional. About.com and this site's Guide are the sole arbiters of acceptable content. We will not use, in our sole judgment, any work which contains any unlawful, harmful, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, indecent, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material.
