BoardLams Submission Policy
UHURU EMPIRE, LLC dba BoardLams
SUBMISSION POLICY AGREEMENT
This Submission Policy (this "Agreement") between you as either an individual artist or as the legal authorized representative of a group of artists ("Artist") and Uhuru Empire, LLC (DBA - "BoardLams") concerning the uploading of Artist's audio, visual, audiovisual and other materials (the "Artist Materials" defined below) to BoardLams (“BoardLams.com” or “website(s)” or any successor(s) websites and/or websites to which the contents in whole or in part of BoardLams.com are assigned (the "Uhuru Empire, LLC website(s)") and concerning BoardLams.com use of Artist Materials on BoardLams.com and/or the Uhuru Empire, LLC website(s). If Artist is agreeing on behalf of a group artist or a group of artists then each reference to "Artist" in this Agreement refers to each member of the group or the group as a whole, as the case may be. Artist and BoardLams.com acknowledge the exchange of mutual benefits and promises and other consideration and agree as follows with respect to new submissions of Artist Materials and any former submissions of Artist Materials:
1. Term. The term ("Term") of this Agreement starts on the date that the Artist Materials are initially uploaded to BoardLams.com and continues until either Artist or BoardLams.com terminates this Agreement in writing, with or without cause or by the removal of Artist Materials for the purpose of termination all subject to the survival of certain undertakings in this Agreement set out in paragraph 15 (f), below:
2. Ownership. Artist at all times retains all right, title and interest in and to the Artist Materials provided by Artist hereunder (including, without limitation, the copyrights in and to the Artist Materials), subject to the non-exclusive rights in the licenses granted to BoardLams.com under this Agreement. Artist is free to grant similar rights to others during and after the Term of this Agreement.
3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to BoardLams.com, Artist grants to BoardLams.com a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following during the Term:
a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented;
b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ;
c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3(b); and
d) the right to sublicense, for a fee or without charge, to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
e) Artist represents, warrants and covenants that Artist will not assert and/or have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated, including without limitation derivative works.
f) During the Term, BoardLams.com licenses under this Agreement include the right to use any part of the Artist Materials in the promotion, advertising or marketing of BoardLams.com.
g) As used in this Agreement, the term "Artist Materials" means any content uploaded to BoardLams.com which may include without limitation Artist's name(s) (including professional names), trademarks, trade names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials, audio-visual materials, artwork, liner notes, and other graphical, textual, video, film or audio materials and any and all "skins," computer-generated images or other artwork or images that Artist submits to BoardLams.com in any medium or format whatsoever.
4. Name and Likeness. Artist also grants to BoardLams.com:
a) a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use Artist's name(s), group name, photograph and/or likeness(es) and biographical materials in connection with the distribution, exploitation, promotion, marketing and advertising of the Artist Materials, and the BoardLams.com as described hereunder, during the Term;
b) Artist represents, warrants and covenants it shall not have and/or shall not assert against BoardLam.com any privacy, publicity, moral or similar rights held by Artist and on behalf any other person(s) whose name(s), photographs and/or likeness(es) and/or performances are embodied in the Artist Materials. Artist also represents, warrants and covenants that any persons other than Artist appearing recognizably or otherwise in Artist Materials will not have and/or assert of any privacy, publicity, moral or similar rights) under the laws of the United States and any other country in connection with the exploitation of the materials as described in this Agreement; and,
c) To the extent that the Artist Materials contain the name(s), group name, photograph and/or likeness(es) and biographical materials of any other person, Artist hereby grants to BoardLams.com a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use them in connection with the distribution, exploitation, promotion, marketing and advertising of the Artist Materials, as described in this Agreement, during the Term.
5. Limitation Of Rights. The rights and licenses granted to BoardLams.com under sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement require BoardLams.com to obtain Artist consent before BoardLams.com makes any commercial agreement with anyone else or entity to separately buy, license, re-sell or re-publish or commercially use any Artist Materials not in association with BoardLams.com but as an individual work of art or as a group of works from a single Artist in isolation from any other works. No additional consent is required for any other licensed uses under this Agreement of Artist Materials either as part of BoardLams.com or in connection with the distribution of content groups from BoardLams.com and/or for uses of the Artist Materials made at the discretion of a visitor to BoardLams.com or other users under agreements with BoardLams.com..
6. Payment. Unless otherwise mutually agreed between Artist and BoardLam.com in writing, the license granted to BoardLams.com under this Agreement is royalty-free.
7. Representations and Warranties. Artist represents, warrants and covenants that:
a) Artist has the full right and power to enter into and perform this Agreement and to grant BoardLams.com all rights to use the Artist Materials as contemplated in this Agreement, including, without limitation, the license grants in Sections 3, 4 and 5,
b) Artist has obtained all necessary third-party consents, rights, licenses and permissions, if any, required for Artist to enter into and perform this Agreement and to grant BoardLams.com the rights to use the Artist Materials set out in this Agreement (including, without limitation, consents and permissions from owners of any elements that are used in the Artist Materials),
c) the Artist Materials (and BoardLams.com use of them under this Agreement) do not and will not infringe on any rights of any third party, including any trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, right of privacy or publicity or moral rights of any third party,
d) all information that Artist has provided or will provide to BoardLams.com is complete, true and accurate,
e) the Artist Materials do not and will not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation,
f) the Artist Materials do not and will not be defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, obscene, harmful to minors, violations of child pornography or child sexual exploitation laws,
g) the Artist Materials do not and will not contain any viruses or other programming routines that may detrimentally interfere with computer systems or data, whether those of BoardLams.com or any third party, and
h) if Artist or any member of Artist's group is a minor, Artist hereby represents, warrants and covenants that Artist has the legal right to execute this Agreement on behalf of the minor artist and guarantee such person's performance of the terms of this Agreement. These representations, warranties and covenants shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
8. Third Party Payments. Artist is responsible for all licensing, reporting and payment obligations of any kind to third parties in connection with the Artist Materials.
9. Indemnity. Artist agrees to defend, indemnify, reimburse and hold harmless BoardLams.com and its parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities, and its and their members, managers, officers, directors, representatives, employees, agents, successors, designees, licensees, sublicensees and assigns harmless from and against any and all alleged claims, claims, liability, loss, damages, judgments, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expenses and court costs) arising out of or related to:
a) Artist's use of BoardLams.com;
b) any breach or alleged breach of Artist's representations, warranties and covenants and/or any breach, alleged breach or violation of the notices, terms and conditions of this Agreement; and
c) Artist's violation or alleged or threatened violation of any rights of a third party, including, without limitation, any trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, right of privacy or publicity or moral rights of any third party, arising from the submission and/or use of Artist Materials as provided in this Agreement
10. BoardLams.com Performance. Artist acknowledges and agrees that the operation of BoardLams.com may from time to time encounter technical or other problems and may not necessarily continue uninterrupted or without technical or other errors and BoardLams.com will not be responsible to Artist or others for any interruptions, errors or problems or even for an outright discontinuance of the BoardLams.com service. There are no guarantees, warranties or assurances whatsoever that any of the Artist Materials or any part or element of Artist materials will actually be used on BoardLams.com or if used will continue to be available for any particular time. BoardLams.com has the right, in BoardLams.com sole and absolute discretion, to remove from BoardLams.com at any time the Artist Materials or any part of them and/or to revoke any sublicense granted by BoardLams.com to any affiliate or unaffiliated third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BoardLams.com does not control the content of the Artist Materials and does not have any obligation to monitor the content of the Artist materials for any purpose or reason. Artist acknowledges that Artist is solely responsible for all content submitted to the BoardLams.com by Artist. BoardLams.com may be discontinued at any time, with or without reason and all Artist materials uploaded to BoardLams.com may be removed and unavailable for recovery by any means. Artist and only Artist is responsible for maintaining at Artist's expense and in facilities owned or controlled only by Artist any and all original materials or so-called back-up copies of all or any part of the Artist Materials.
11. No Warranty. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BOARDLAMS.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
a) UNINTERRUPTED OR CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY OF THE UHURU EMPIRE SITE(S), AND
b) IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO BOARDLAMS.COM AND ANY SERVICES PROVIDED BY BOARDLAMS.COM HEREUNDER. IN ADDITION, ALTHOUGH BOARDLAMS.COM INTENDS TO TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF VIRUSES OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE MATERIALS TO THE BOARDLAMS.COM, AND WHETHER OR NOT BOARDLAMS.COM IMPLEMENTS THE AFOREMENTIONED REASONABLE PROTECTIONS, BOARDLAMS.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE BOARDLAMS.COMANY PART THEREOF, OR ANY INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE THROUGH BOARDLAMS.COM IS FREE OF VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
12. No Liability for Third Party Use. BOARDLAMS.COM DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY USE OF THE ARTIST MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE ON BOARDLAMS.COM BY THE ARTIST PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. ARTIST SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SEEKING RELIEF FOR ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIST MATERIALS BY A THIRD-PARTY, AND NOT FROM BOARDLAMS.COM. THIS MEANS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT IF ANOTHER PERSON OBTAINS ARTIST MATERIALS FROM BOARDLAMS.COM (WHETHER OR NOT WITH BOARDLAMS.COM PERMISSION), AND USES THOSE MATERIALS IN A WAY NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARTIST WILL SEEK REDRESS OR RECOVERY DIRECTLY FROM THE OTHER PERSON AND NOT FROM BOARDLAMS.COM, AND THAT ARTIST WILL NOT HOLD BOARDLAMS.COM RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR SUCH UNAUTHORIZED USE.
13. Exclusion of Damages. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) SHALL BOARDLAMS.COM, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, LICENSEES, SUBLICENSEES, ASSIGNS, SUCCESSORS, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, EMPLOYEES OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF AN ACTION UNDER CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER THEORY AND DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS, INCIDENTIAL DAMAGES, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EXEMPLARY DAMAGES), WHETHER OR NOT BOARDLAMS.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF BOARDLAMS.COM. IN NO EVENT SHALL BOARDLAMS.COM TOTAL LIABILITY TO ARTIST UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FROM ALL CAUSES OF ACTION AND UNDER ALL THEORIES OF LIABILITY EXCEED FIFTY DOLLARS. THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT BOARDLAMS.COM HAS ENTERED INTO THIS AGREEMENT IN RELIANCE ON THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SPECIFIED IN THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH ALLOCATE THE RISK BETWEEN ARTIST AND BOARDLAMS.COM, AND FORM THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND ARTIST HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL PRIOR TO ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT
14. Copyright and Trademark Notices. BOARDLAMS.COM, the BOARDLAMS.COM logos and mascots, and the layout and design of BOARDLAMS.COM, among other marks that may appear on BORDLAMS.COM are trademarks of BOARDLAMS.COM (the "Uhuru Empire, LLC Marks"). Other trademarks and service marks on BOARDLAMS.COM may be the property of the advertisers, content partners and/or providers, or other third parties. Artist may not use any of the Uhuru Empire, LLC Marks without prior written permission, and Artist may not use any third-party marks without the third party's prior written permission.
15. Miscellaneous.
a) Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED IN ALL RESPECTS BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION'S CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES. THE SOLE VENUE AND JURISDICTION FOR DISPUTES ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE THE APPROPRIATE STATE OR FEDERAL COURT LOCATED IN COUNTY OF ORANGE, CALIFORNIA, AND ARTIST AND BOARDLAMS.COM BOTH IRREVOCABLY AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
b) Assignment. BOARDLAMS.COM shall have the right to assign this Agreement in whole or in part to any person or business entity. Artist may not assign Artist's rights or delegate Artist's obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of BOARDLAMS.COM.
c) Notice. All notices, requests and other communications ("Communications") under this Agreement must be in writing and sent to Uhuru Empire, LLC - 1648 Newport Blvd Unit A, Costa Mesa, CA 92627. Communications shall be deemed received:
1. for Communications sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested or by Federal Express or other reputable overnight courier service, on the date of receipt or refusal as indicated on the return receipt;
2. for Communications sent by personal delivery, on the date of personal delivery; and
3. No other form of notice shall be accepted under this Agreement, other than the electronic notification for individual works under the circumstances specifically described in 1(b).
d) Entire Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement of Artist and BoardLams.com as to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior proposals, discussions or agreements (oral and written) with respect to such subject matter.
e) Modification. BoardLams.com reserves the right to amend the terms of this Agreement from time to time in its sole discretion. BoardLams.com will notify Artist of any material changes to this Agreement by posting on BoardLams.com. If Artist continues to upload Artist Materials after posting of the changes to the Agreement, Artist will be deemed to have accepted those changes and the new terms of the Agreement will govern all prior and future submissions of Artist Materials. If Artist does not accept the new terms of the Agreement, Artist's only and exclusive remedy will be to terminate this Agreement. Otherwise, this Agreement may be changed only by a writing signed by both parties that specifically refers to the parties' intent to amend this Agreement.
f) Survival. The provisions of Sections 1, 3(e), 4(b) 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 shall survive any termination of this Agreement. In addition, any sublicenses granted to third parties for the display of Artist Materials on electronic or other devices pursuant to Section 3 shall survive any termination of this Agreement for such reasonable time as may be necessary to withdraw Artist Materials from the particular license; any use of Artist Materials pursuant to Section 3 with respect to the making of so-called backup copies or caching of BoardLams.com or any equivalent activity or function for general site maintenance and protection shall survive any termination of this Agreement; and, Artist Materials consisting of comments posted to BoardLams.com will remain as part of the BoardLams.com database and available to all users of BoardLams.com following termination of this Agreement.
