Intellectual Property+statement

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All parties to this agreement recognize and support the claims of Brandon Williamscraig Ph.D. upon his intellectual properties under the terms described here. For instance, but without limitation thereby, while there are practices in the public domain involving the extension of principles associated with martial arts, in particular jujutsu and aikido, into venues beyond physical training in "dojos" and other training situations, it is the original and singular contribution of Dr. Williamscraig to 1) combine physical martial movements and techniques with specific words, scripts, and phrases; 2) to call this innovation "Aikido Two Point Oh" or "Aikido 2.0"; 3) control use of the unique methods and names he originates to circulate his methods, including "Martial Nonviolence", which uses Aikido 2.0 to develop the ability to perform well, in the sense both of taking action and displaying or demonstrating for an audience, especially under pressure, through improvisation skills, and use these methods to become a skillful facilitator of teamwork and group decision-making; 3) apply this original method in curricular form under the unique title "Peace Practices", a curriculum, idea, and name which he may offer or license under terms he deems acceptable but is under no obligation to continue or extend beyond whatever is established by contract; 4) retain exclusive right to present his unique methods and names under the title and rubric "Conflict Done Well" for all intents and purposes.

By using this site you agree that All parties to this agreement agree that his websites, including Culturesmith.com and others, all code, configuration, and all original contents are intellectual property retained in all parts and for all uses by Brandon Williamscraig. All parties further agree to refrain from claiming credit for ideas originated by Brandon Williamscraig, a partial list of which may be found here, and will give credit to Brandon Williamscraig by name in any work, via any form of communication, should his ideas be mentioned or extrapolated into/from images or concepts originated or synthesized by him in any medium.

You understand that Brandon coined and reserves the right for everyone to share the term "Process Arts", which refers to the field of group process design and facilitation. When he teaches or facilitates, he often describe what happens using various names and phrases he originated. He owns the exclusive right to use following phrases, variations, and associated acronyms and URLs: Free Aiki and Free Aiki Dojo, People Green, Bluevolution (Bv), Associative Inquiry (AsIn) and Archetypal Resonance Imaging (ARI), Analogical System Knowledgebase (ASK), Associative Inclusion Dynamics (AID), Embody Nonviolence, The Myth of Peace, Healing Friction, Martial Nonviolence (MNv), Culturesmith, Arts of Peace, Flexibility In Adversity Training (FIAT), and variations of: "Conflict Done Well"(CDW), "peace is conflict done well", "doing conflict well", "Aiki anywhere", bdwc.net, and williamscraig.com. Also originated and reserved to the Commons are: culturopoiesis and culturopoesis, metashaman, and metashamanism, whereas he reserve the right to own the URLs that reflect these terms.