Well, the terms of service for this site are as follows:
(Sorry about the legal-speak.)
- You may post, edit or restore any bit of poetry or prose you wish, as permissible by the law of your locale. The Venus Poetry Project provides no warranties and has no responsibility to maintain this site or any of the poetry maintained herein. We reserve the right to edit or delete any text we find objectionable or distasteful or bad or for any reason at all by Zeus, and we may do so at any time without warning or communication of any kind.
- By posting on this website, you agree to waive any copyright you may have previously claimed, and you submit to allowing any other user of this website to alter your post as they so choose. You also guarantee that any material posted here is your original work and is not copyrighted or published in any other book, journal, magazine, website, billboard, mural, graffiti, tattoo or any other medium.
- Participation in this project is free and open to anyone age 13 or older. However, you may be banned from this website and have your IP address blocked at any time without prior warning for any reason (but especially for things like vandalism, spamming, mockery, hacking or engaging in any activity that would prevent normal use by others). Just be nice, and everything should be okay.
- Any works resulting from this project may be published down the road in print without any royalty or credit to the original writers and editors. This website is intended to be the work of many, many writers and editors; all contributors are intended to remain anonymous and should not expect any compensation or credit for their participation, other than the joy of being involved with the project.
- These terms of use may be ammended at any time without warning, so please check back from time to time to see if anything has changed.
This is our logo, sort of. Our wordmark sits over Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, an early Renaissance painting that I love. Among most other Renaissance paintings, this painting is interesting in its subject matter (Greek mythology) and style -- you have to see it in person ... it's amazing.
Anyway, we don't claim any copyright to the image, as it's part of the public commons. Sorry, Mr. Botticelli, your copyright expired at least a few minutes ago.
Like all terms of use, I'll remind you that these terms are subject to change without notice, and you should check back here now and then to see if anything has changed.
