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Hârn, HârnWorld, HârnMaster, HârnPlayer and Keléstia are all registered trademarks of Columbia Games Inc. (CGI) and Keléstia Productions (KP). Encyclopedia Hârnica is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by CGI.

Official HârnWorld Publications[edit source]

Created by N. Robin Crossby over many years, HârnWorld was first published in 1983 by Columbia Games. Please visit their websites for more details about official HârnWorld publications. At present (May 2024), the legal standing between the two parties is unknown. Crossby, who passed away in July 2008 terminated the royalty contract in 2003 and that stance is continued by his estate, but CGI disputes the termination was valid. Since there has been no official resolution to the issue, Encyclopedia Hârnica has chosen to remain neutral.

Encyclopedia Hârnica[edit source]

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Content licensed under the Creative Commons [Attribution-Share Alike 4.0] License.

Encyclopedia Hârnica provides both official and unofficial content about Hârn. It hosts hundreds of fanon articles on HârnWorld, all of which can be adapted for use in any fantasy gaming setting. We have no commercial purpose and we don’t have any agenda other than gathering and integrating curated and original content based in HârnWorld. Encyclopedia Hârnica is intended for personal and non-profit use only. Content posted on Encyclopedia Hârnica is licensed under the Creative Commons [Attribution-Share Alike 4.0] License. As Encyclopedia Hârnica is a community on ShoutWiki, content is also covered by the terms and conditions of the Terms of use policy, including the Commercial Use Waiver (see "Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)" at Creative Commons). For the purposes of Encyclopedia Hârnica, the Commercial Use Waiver only applies to advertisements, and no other purpose.

This copyright page is based on that used by the Fandom wiki Memory Alpha.

Encyclopedia Hârnica content[edit source]

Important: The content of this website does NOT apply to the original works and trademarked names. The HârnWorld titles and associated names are the sole property of Paramount Pictures and CBS Corporation. The administrators of Encyclopedia Hârnica believe that the operation of this website falls under the definition of "fair use" under United States copyright laws.

Images and other media[edit source]

Files that are used on Encyclopedia Hârnica remain the property of their original creators, and are only included on this website for purposes of illustration under fair use guidelines. Unless the original author of the files expressly grants permission, files do not fall under the scope of the Creative Commons License. Please refer to the listen claimed when uploaded on that files information page.

See: File use policy

Using copyrighted work from others[edit source]

If you use part of a copyrighted work under "fair use," or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). It is our goal to be able to freely redistribute as much of Encyclopedia Hârnica’s material as possible (within the limits of copyright law), so original images and sound files licensed under the Creative Commons License or in the public domain are greatly preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use.

If you find a copyright infringement[edit source]

It is not the job of rank-and-file members of Encyclopedia Hârnica to police every article for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue in that page's comments section. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.

Some cases will be false alarms. For example, if the contributor was in fact the author of the text that is published elsewhere under different terms, that does not affect their right to post it here under the Creative Commons License. Also, sometimes you will find text elsewhere on the Web that was copied from Encyclopedia Hârnica. In both of these cases, it is a good idea to make a note in the talk page to discourage such false alarms in the future.

If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the comments page, along with the original source. If the author's permission is obtained later, the text can be restored.

If all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be discussed on the possible copyright infringements page. If, after a 4 weeks from the date on which the discussion was started, the page still appears to be a copyright infringement, then it may be deleted from the database.

In extreme cases of contributors continuing to post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings, such users may be blocked from editing to protect the project.

Belief of copyright infringement[edit source]

Encyclopedia Hârnica requests that in the case that the owner or owners of a copyrighted work feel that their work is being illegally infringed upon, they provide a full list of all items which they believe are infringing, along with the reasoning behind the belief that those items are infringing to Encyclopedia Hârnica’s designated agent. In addition, please provide the name of a person, along with their mailing address and e-mail address, for a reply or follow-up letters.

About Privacy[edit source]

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