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LEGAL NOTICE, COPYRIGHT & COLLABORATION

This website presents historical, educational, and scholarly material and is part history, part
investigative research, and part interpretive narrative, created in good faith.

Copyright & Ownership

All original content on this website — including text, essays, research, design, compilations, digital restorations, and original artwork (primarily created under the name ManoyTKO Digisigns) — is protected under applicable copyright law, including the United States Copyright Act (Title 17, U.S. Code), the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (RA 8293, as amended), the Copyright Act 1968 (Australia), and international conventions including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

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This website may include materials believed to be in the public domain or used under applicable Fair Use / Fair Dealing provisions for criticism, commentary, scholarship, research, education, and historical documentation. Such use is transformative and non substitutive. All other works, whether commissioned or used with permission, are attributed accordingly. No claim of ownership is made over public-domain materials.

Collaboration, Licensing & Lending

We welcome good-faith scholarly, educational, cultural, and institutional collaboration. Materials may be licensed, loaned, or shared for exhibitions, publications, or related projects by advance written agreement and notice, subject to mutually agreed terms.

Uses involving films, documentaries, dramatizations, adaptations, or other derivative works are not covered by general access to this website and require separate written permission.

Inquiries & Resolution

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