Copyright & Intellectual Property Notice

Effective Date: July 17, 2025

Last Updated: September 8, 2025

1) Ownership of Site Content

Unless otherwise stated, all text, copy, photographs, graphics, logos, icons, videos, design elements, and other materials on this website (the “Content”) are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. This Smoky Mountain cabin copyright notice affirms that © 2025–present Oak & Ember Group LLC retains full ownership of all original materials appearing on this site. All rights reserved.

Oak & Ember Group LLC is a Tennessee limited liability company in good standing.
Business names Oak & Ember Group™, Dancing Embers™, and Nestled Oaks™ are unregistered common-law trademarks used in commerce by Oak & Ember Group LLC. While not federally registered, we assert rights through continuous use; unauthorized use may constitute unfair competition or false association.
Third-party trademarks (Airbnb®, Vrbo®, Dollywood®, etc.) remain the property of their owners. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.

2) Limited License to Use Our Content

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to access this site for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use—including reproduction, modification, distribution, or public display—requires prior written permission.

Prohibited uses include:

Republishing our cabin photos, amenity icons, or property descriptions.
Automated scraping, data harvesting, or use in AI/ML training datasets.
Hotlinking our images (embedding our file URLs on another site).

3) Fair Use & Public Domain

Nothing here limits your rights under fair use (commentary, teaching, news, or research). Public-domain materials are not claimed by us.

4) User-Generated Content (UGC)

Guests retain ownership of their submitted photos or reviews, but grant Oak & Ember Group LLC a worldwide, royalty-free license to use them in marketing and site operations. You warrant your submission does not violate others’ copyright, privacy, or publicity rights.

5) DMCA / Copyright Infringement Policy

If you believe content here infringes your copyright, send a DMCA Notice with:

Identification of the copyrighted work;
Identification of the material and its URL;
Your contact information;
A statement of good-faith belief that use is unauthorized;
A statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorized;
Your signature.

Designated Agent:
Oak & Ember Group LLC – DMCA Agent
Email: info@oakandembergroup.com

We will also accept valid counter-notices under 17 U.S.C. §512. If user submissions are enabled, we may register a DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office to preserve safe-harbor protections.

6) Third-Party Materials & Licenses

Licensed assets (e.g., stock photography, icons) remain the property of their licensors. You may not extract or reuse them.

7) Linking & Embedding Policy

You may link to our public pages provided the link: (a) does not misrepresent your relationship to us; (b) does not frame/embed our content; and (c) does not imply sponsorship without consent.

8) Hotlinking & Bandwidth Theft

You may not hotlink our photos, videos, or files. Such use may trigger DMCA takedowns and bandwidth blocking.

9) Technological Protection Measures (TPMs)

You may not bypass any access control, watermark, metadata, or other protection applied to our content.

10) Copyright Management Information (CMI)

Removing or altering metadata (e.g., IPTC, EXIF, C2PA provenance) from our images or files is prohibited under 17 U.S.C. §1202.

11) Content Credentials & Provenance

We may embed C2PA/Content Credentials or IPTC metadata in images to establish authorship and AI-use disclosures. Do not strip or alter these markers.

12) Right of Publicity & Property Rights

Our imagery may include identifiable people or private property. You may not reuse such images in ways that suggest endorsement without written consent or valid model/property releases.

13) Common-Law Trademark Notice

We use “™” for Oak & Ember Group™, Dancing Embers™, and Nestled Oaks™ to denote common-law trademark claims. Use of these names in a misleading or commercial way may violate unfair-competition law.

14) No AI Training or Automated Access

You may not use our content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI systems. Automated scraping/crawling is forbidden. Technical signals (robots.txt, HTTP headers, meta tags) will reflect our opt-out intent.

15) Remedies & Enforcement

We reserve all remedies, including takedowns, DMCA claims, Lanham Act remedies, injunctive relief, and recovery of damages/attorneys’ fees where permitted.

16) Press Kit

We may provide a small press kit (approved photos, logo files) for journalists, bloggers, and editors. Use is under a revocable, non-exclusive license with required attribution and link-back.

17) Repeat Infringers

We may remove or restrict access for repeat infringers, consistent with 17 U.S.C. §512.

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