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Merchant Card Service -
Merchant Card Service, Inc. - Copyright
Although "Imitation is the highest form of flattery",
please observe our COPYRIGHT STATUS.
Merchant Card Service, Inc., Retains all exclusive
copyrights.
U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws protect all content, articles,
scheme, custom graphics and page designs available from Merchant
Card Service World Wide Web Pages.
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of
the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of
"original works of authorship" including literary,
dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual
works. This protection is available to both published and
unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright
Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive rights.
It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided
by the copyright code to the owner of copyright. Copyright
protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed
form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately
becomes the property of the author who created the work.
Only the author or those deriving their rights through the
author can rightfully claim copyright. (Quoted directly from
the U.S. Copyright Office Website)
For more information on Copyrights, visit:
The
U.S. Copyright Office Website or http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
.
No portions of this website may be reproduced or copied without
the express written permission of the owner. See: www.whois.sc
for details.
Merchant Card Service, Inc. has no other
offices located in the United States , any other company using
our name is not affiliated with us in any way, and they are
violating Trade Mark laws of the United States . Merchant
Card Service was established in 1998, at that time
there was no other company listed on the internet that we
were affiliated with or used the name Merchant Card
Service as a business name, service mark for the
processing industry.
Merchant Card Service, Inc. holds the exclusive right
therein.
Furthermore: All rights regarding the use
of 'Merchant Card Service', first published in July of 1998,
is solely owned and protected by common law trademark rights.
Any search sponsored results using the name 'Merchant Card
Service' singular or 'Merchant Card Services' plural; be aware
that the expression is "one and the same." By (PPC's)
'Pay per Click(s)' key word placement using 'Merchant
Card Service(s)' that is voluntarily used
with any search engine is essentially a theft of
that identity to benefit you personally or your business.
The continued unauthorized enrichment is a form of piracy
and willful theft, which violates Texas State and
Federal unfair competition laws and Section 106 of the 1976
Copyright Act, constitutes damages suffered including damage
to our reputation because of consumer confusion as to the
origin or sponsorship of the services or products offered
under 'Merchant Card Services line of products'.
In addition, the use of 'Merchant Card Service' in connection
with your business entity provides benefits for which you
have not paid for are not permitted to use. Continued use
of 'Merchant Card Service' is a direct violation of Section
106 of the 1976 Copyright Act.
Note: Any distribution of the name 'Merchant
Card Service' singular or plural within any URL coding, Pay
Per Click key word placement, on the phone, within any coding,
electronic documents, business cards or upon any literature
either written or displayed via the internet is considered
a willful theft and infringement under 17 U.S.C. Section 101
et seq., any violations of our business name could be liable
for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in
Section 504(c)(2) therein.
Our business name is unique to the 'Merchant Industry'
and has nothing to do with the 'Processing side
of the credit card Industry' as a: 'type of
service, technique, process or any form of modus operandi',
and should not be mistaken for 'merchant
service', for the definition of 'merchant
service(s)'
Note: Merchant services are the names given in the United
States to a broad category of financial
services intended for use by businesses. In its most specific
use, it usually refers to the service that enables a business
to accept a transaction payment by use of the customer's credit
or debit card. More generally, the term includes the following
in its use:
Other services include age verification (used by age-restricted
businesses), employee payroll
tracking functions, electronic
benefits transfer programs such as food
stamps .
Note further: Any Cybersquatting
of 'Merchant Card Service' is covered under the
following Acts:
Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 and supplemental comments:
Cybersquatting is the registration of similar
domain name(s), which is essentially identical to our domain
name, inherently causes confusion, mistakes and deception,
and hence constitutes infringement of our service mark 'Merchant
Card Service' and copyrights, as well as constituting unfair
competition and diluting or tarnishing our name.
Additional citations, etc.
ICANN is responsible for the global coordination
of the Internet's system of unique identifiers (Domain Names
/ URL) . http://www.icann.org/
Domain disputes (Cybersquatter) complaints
can be filed at:
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies
The following policies apply to various types of disputes
between registrants and third parties over the registration
and use of domain names. Disputes under these policies may
be filed with one of the approved dispute-resolution service
providers for the given policy. See: http://www.icann.org/udrp/
International Trademark Association:
Dilution
is an injury that differs materially from that arising
out of the orthodox confusion. Even in the absence of confusion,
the potency of a mark may be debilitated by another's use.
This is the essence of dilution. Confusion leads to immediate
injury, while dilution is an infection, which if allowed to
spread, will inevitably destroy the advertising value of the
mark.
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