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Submitted Content
www.tonesreview.com (this Website) is a collection of opinions and comments, from persons around the globe. Contributors are solely responsible for the content of opinions, reviews and comments that they post here.
As a website discussing politics, news, and policy, opinions, critique and comments are welcomed and encouraged. Critique can be defined as a detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, or political theory. However, there are instances where opinions, criticisms and comments, when raised to administrator attention, be edited or deleted as follows:
- Opinions, criticisms and comments deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic.
- Opinions, criticisms and comments including profanity will be deleted.
- Opinions, criticisms and comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive will be deleted. Note this may include abusive, threatening, pornographic, offensive, misleading or libelous language
- Opinions, criticisms and comments that attack an individual directly will be deleted. This includes phrases that we determine are abusive, defamatory, derogatory, threatening, inflammatory, trolling, rude or culturally insensitive.
- Opinions, criticisms and comments that discriminate or attack based on gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, physical attributes and similar may be deleted. We also ask that references to minors be made with due care.
- Opinions, criticisms and comments that harass other posters will be deleted. Please be respectful toward other contributors. We require all contributors to limit opinions, criticism and comments to thoughtful discussion on relevant matter. Note that critique can and often is robust in nature.
- Kindly respect copyright law, and note that we will delete comments that endorse piracy.
- Anonymous opinions, criticisms and comments will be deleted. We only accept written comment from contributors who identify themselves. Inappropriate avatars, IDs, or impersonation may prevent publication. Please use one identity per IP address.
As detailed above, We (Tony Hooper, Melbourne Production Pty Ltd, and the Tones Review team) reserve the right to decline or edit any comment on this website. We further reserve the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to the blog without notice. As an Australian based company, we are subject to the laws of Victoria, Australia, and thus will where required, exercise our discretion when it comes to adhering to these laws.
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Comments considered which simply reiterate points already made or off topic may not be published. Please make initial arguments in a single-reply.
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Disclaimer
Be aware that the reviews, comments and opinions expressed by contributors to this website are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Melbourne Production Pty Ltd. Melbourne Production Pty Ltd is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by contributors or in relation to any comments that are posted. You should also remember that circumstances, as well as tastes, change and that something that may have been accurate at the time of posting will not necessarily remain so. After all, many of us liked The Last Jedi when we walked out of the cinema, only for days later to say, hang on – was that a good film?
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We cannot accept responsibility for any false, inaccurate or incomplete information on this website, damages arising from technical issues or this website being temporarily unavailable, damages arising from clicking on third-party links, and damages that may arise from using this website.
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Fair Use
Under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) allows people to use copyright material without the copyright owner’s permission in certain situations. These include making a “fair dealing” for certain purposes. For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Fair use is a doctrine in Australian copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author’s work under a four-factor balancing test.
As an opinions website, www.tonesreview.com is engaged in News Reporting.
Melbourne Production Pty Ltd, and/or its directors, reserves the right to amend this policy.