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Stories, photographs, audio, and video by The Pickens County Chronicle are intellectual property protected by copyright law (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and may not legally be copied from The Pickens County Chronicle‘s website or used elsewhere, in print or online, without prior written permission from the Publisher. All rights are reserved.

Stories, or portions of stories, written by The Pickens County Chronicle may not be published elsewhere without the author’s byline and may not be plagiarized, published on another website or anywhere else with another name as author, or rewritten in part or whole, including being rewritten by use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Any part of a story written by The Pickens County Chronicle should be attributed to The Pickens County Chronicle and to the story’s author, after written permission for use is granted. Screenshots may not be taken of a story or part of a story written by The Pickens County Chronicle and published elsewhere, including on social media

Photographs by The Pickens County Chronicle are published for viewing in The Pickens County Chronicle and may not be published elsewhere, in print or online, without prior written authorization from the photographer and crediting the photographer. Photographs by The Pickens County Chronicle may not be altered, including by use of AI. Screenshots may not be taken of a photo by The Pickens County Chronicle and published elsewhere, including on social media.

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