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NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
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- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit HSW to locate the material;
- Your address, telephone number, and, if available, your e–mail address;
- A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
- Send the written communication to our Designated Agent as set forth below:
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USER-GENERATED VIDEO
In submitting user-generated video to the HSW Sites, you agree to the following terms and conditions: For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, you grant InfoSpace Holdings LLC ("HSW"), HSW's joint venture partners, vendors, production companies, and programming and content distributors, and the parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors and assigns of all of the foregoing (collectively, the "HSW Parties") a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid up license to make use of and distribute your user-generated video submitted hereunder, as well your name, voice, likeness and appearance therein (if any) and the personally identifying information you provide on or in connection therewith (collectively, the "Video Submission"), as further described below. You acknowledge and agree that you shall not be entitled to share in any revenue that the HSW Parties may or may not earn or generate through its use of your Video Submission.
HSW Parties' Right to Use Your Video Submission. You grant the HSW Parties the non-exclusive right to edit in any manner, and to use and distribute and license others to use and distribute, your Video Submission, or any portions, reproductions or versions thereof, on the websites, products and/or services (in any and all media, now known or hereafter invented, including without limitation television, home video/DVD products, and mobile services) of the HSW Parties, an unlimited number of times, in perpetuity, throughout the world, with or without charge or cost to end-users or other third parties. You also grant the HSW Parties the right to use and distribute, and license others to use and distribute, your Video Submission in the promotion of such websites, products and/or services, to the same extent permitted for use and distribution of your Video Submission hereunder.
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Waiver of Right of Approval. You hereby waive any right of inspection or approval of your Video Submission as used and distributed by the HSW Parties, including without limitation any approval of your appearance and/or use of your name therewith or the uses to which either may be put.
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COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND BLOGS
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By using the HSW Sites, you agree not to submit, post or transmit through the HSW Sites any material or otherwise engage in any conduct that:
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· Results in the posting or transmission of any message anonymously or under a false name;
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· Results in a single message being posted to more than five areas of any HSW Site, results in any message being posted to any area of the HSW Sites if that message is, in our view, off-topic or in violation of this Visitor Agreement; or
· Violates these Terms of Use, guidelines or any policy posted on the HSW Sites, or interferes with the use of the HSW Sites by others.
Although HSW cannot monitor all content on HSW's community and social media sites, or postings in the chat rooms, forums, blogs and other public posting areas, you understand that HSW shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the HSW Sites to determine compliance with this Visitor Agreement and any other operating rules that may be established by HSW from time to time. HSW shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, move, delete, or refuse to post any material, including but not limited to Video Submissions, submitted to or posted on the HSW Sites for any reason, including violation of these Terms of Use, whether for legal or other reasons, or because the material is objectionable or stale. Notwithstanding this right of ours, users shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages and Video Submissions. You acknowledge and agree that neither HSW nor any of its affiliates shall assume or have any liability for any action or inaction by HSW with respect to any conduct within the HSW Sites or any communication or posting on the HSW Sites. HSW also reserves the right to disclose any information that HSW believes necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part.
HSW requires you not to use the HSW Sites to violate anyone's copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights. By posting or submitting any material (including, without limitation, photographs and videos) to the HSW Sites, you are warranting and representing that you own or have the right to post or make such submission of the material, or are making your submission or posting with the express consent of the owner, and that no other party has any right, claim, or interest in the material that you have submitted or posted. You also warrant that all moral rights in any material that you submit to us or post have been waived. Submitting or posting material that is the property of another, without the consent of its owner, is not only a violation of this Visitor Agreement, but may also subject you to legal liability for infringement of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights.
USE OF MATERIALS
With the exception of any and all Video Submissions (HSW's permitted use of which is discussed above) and any material posted on HSW's community and social media sites, all other material you submit to any of our chat rooms, forums, blogs and other public posting areas, whether text or images, becomes the property of HSW and may be reproduced, modified and distributed as we see fit, in any medium, for any purpose and in perpetuity. Further, you understand that by posting material on HSW's community and social media sites, you are granting to HSW, and to anyone authorized by HSW, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to display, use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, exploit, create derivative works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform such materials posted on HSW's community and social media sites, in whole or in part, in any manner or medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose. The foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such posting or submission, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. Also, in connection with the exercise of such rights, you grant HSW, and anyone authorized by HSW, the right to identify you as the author of any of your postings or submissions by name, email address or screen name, as HSW deems appropriate. Please also note the last paragraph in the "COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND BLOGS" section above. Click here for the terms and conditions that govern the submission of user-generated video to the HSW Sites.
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LINKING
We welcome links to the HSW Sites. You are usually free to establish a hypertext link to any of the HSW Sites so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by any of the HSW Sites or by HSW. However, you should check the copyright notice on the page to which you wish to link to make sure that one of our content providers does not have its own policies regarding direct links to their content on the HSW Sites.
NO SOLICITING
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NO SPAMMING OR SPIMMING
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NO FRAMING
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TRADEMARKS
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
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The HSW staff works hard to ensure that information we post to the HSW Sites is both timely and accurate. But the news changes over time and reports that were accurate when posted may quickly become old news. Though we may post follow-up reports, and may continue to provide access to the original report, as in an archive of news stories, for example, we don't go back and change the original report to reflect new developments. If you're looking for the most recent information on a given subject, and not the history of how the story unfolded, be sure you're not looking at an out-of-date report.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS CONTENT
The HSW Sites include certain content owned by the Associated Press. Without limiting the generality of any of the foregoing provisions of this Visitor Agreement, you specifically acknowledge and agree that (a) Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium; (b) no Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use; (c) the Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing; (d) the Associated Press is an intended third-party beneficiary of this Visitor Agreement and may exercise all rights and remedies available to it; and (e) the Associated Press reserves the right to audit possible unauthorized commercial use of Associated Press materials or any portion thereof at any time.
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Last updated July 13, 2021
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