According to Copyright.gov copyright is as follows:

"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 This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.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 right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
- To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
- To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
- To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
- To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
- To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work..."

Please take special note that Copyright.gov specifically says:
"Copyright protection is available for all unpublished works, regardless of the nationality or domicile of the author."

As TFO is not "published" in book sense this is to prove that it IS protected under all aspects of the copyright law (discluding the aspects of it which are copyright to JK Rowling exclusively.)

Copyright.gov also says:
"Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. ... If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date."

Please note; no copyright infringement is intended with the use, mention, or hint towards JK Rowling's Harry Potter themes, characters, or ideas. Fafiction is written with the permission of JK Rowling herself. Please respect her characters, and our ideas and plot. As said by a representative of JK Rowling:
"Her concern would be to make sure that it remains a non-commercial activity to ensure fans are not exploited and it is not being published in the strict sense of traditional print publishing."

For any parties worried about JK Rowling's "X rated" policy we wish to remind you that this story is not "X Rated" and if any parts of it go against the idea that "If young children were to stumble on Harry Potter in a an x-rated story, that would be a problem" we claim no responsibility for the ages of our readers and remind you that we do not manipulate JK Rowling's characters in these situations, but our own.

With all of this new information in your head, please note:

Infringement of any content found on this site (http://tfo.anti-sleep.net) or the sites of its owners (http://broken.anti-slee.net) and (http://reawakening.anti-sleep.net) will not be tolerated.

By reading this story you take responsibility for your own age. We have deemed it appropriate for ages seventeen and up. If you are younger than seventeen it is your responsibility to read at your own descretion and we have no desire to know your age.

All content found on ‘The Forsaken Ones’ official website is the property of CelticKisses and MajiKat unless otherwise specified. We have done everything we can to assure all the proper credits have been giving but it must be understood that all creative efforts made on the TFO site were done so in public view without copyright protection. There were over a hundred members of the original site and it must be understood that though about 75% of those members were writers only about 40% actually contributed to the plot actively and NOT ONE PIECE OF THE CURRENT STORY CONTAINS ANY WORK OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN MAJIKAT AND CELITCKISSES No selections, paragraphs, highlights, or "RP"s were taken from any other work on the site. This is not the TFO from the RPG, but a new beast entirely. DO NOT TRY TO CLAIM THAT ANY PIECE OF THIS WORK BELONGS TO ANYONE OTHER THAN CELTICKISSES OR MAJIKAT as that would be copyright infringement and punishable to the full extent of the law.

All original story content found in ‘The Forsaken Ones’ is copyrighted to CelticKisses and MajiKat and will not be copied in any way, electronic or otherwise. Any infringement of this policy will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.

‘The Forsaken Ones’ layout coding is the property of CelticKisses and will not be altered or redistributed in any form by any person or group without the express written consent of CelticKisses.

If you choose to download the "TFO ADD PACK" you agree to display the information contained within the package on your personal website, and you agree not to claim ownership of any ‘The Forsaken Ones’ related content. Redistribution of the advertising package is allowed as long as the graphic content is not altered and the package remains intact in its original file format. You are thereby not authorized to remove any advertising content from the package.

Any infringement of these terms and conditions will not be tolerated.