Terms and conditions for content network sharing agreements

Definitions | Rights and Licence to Use | Logos and Credits | Display and Removal of Content | Status of Contributors and Suppliers as Independent Contractors | Confidentiality | Warranties and Exclusions | Exclusion of Liability | Termination | General |

These terms and conditions for content network sharing agreements set out the terms under which you, as a Partner of GNM’s Content Networks, agree to share content with GNM. They should be read in conjunction with the Term Sheet issued to Partner by GNM and together these form Partner’s Agreement with GNM.

Please read these terms carefully. Partner shall be legally bound by these terms when Partner a countersigned Term Sheet. Partner are advised to print off and keep a paper copy of these terms.

1.1 The words and phrases defined in bold on the Term Sheet shall bear those meanings when they are used in this Agreement.

2.1 The Licensor shall retain all copyright and all other right, title and interest in and to its Content. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide licence for the Contract Period to load the Licensor Content on to its server and use, reproduce, transmit and publicly display the Content on the Licensee Platform in accordance with this Agreement and the Publication Limits.

2.2 Licensor grants an irrevocable and permanent worldwide licence subject to Clause 4 to:

2.2.1 store the Content in internal archives; and

2.2.2 publish and transmit the Content on the Licensee Platform

after the Contract Period only in the same form and context, and to the extent, that such Content has been reproduced on the Licensee Platform during the Contract Period in accordance with this Agreement.

2.3 Partner grants to GNM the perpetual right to authorise the Newspaper Licensing Agency and similar reprographic rights organisations in other jurisdictions (“RROs”) to distribute or license the distribution of the Partner Content for the RROs’ licensed acts and purposes as amended from time to time.

2.4 The Partner shall email rights@theguardian.com with the title, author and date of all items of GNM Content it wishes to publish on the Partner Website. The parties shall discuss in good faith the procedure for the supply of the Partner Content from Partner to GNM. The Licensee agrees not to publish any Content until it has confirmation that the Licensor has sufficient rights in the Content.

2.5 End users of the Licensed Platforms may view, print and download the Content for their own personal use only (and not in a systematic or regular manner so as to create a database of the contents) and may not reproduce the Content or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate it in any other form. Each party shall ensure that the terms of use of material on the Licensed Platforms include restrictions of equivalent or greater affect to those set out in this Clause.

2.6 The Licensee shall not edit, modify, use, copy, transmit, display or redistribute the Licensor Content in any way except as set out in Clauses 2.1-2.3. The Licensee may not copy any other material which appears on the Licensor Platform without its prior written approval.

2.7 GNM may change the headline, standfirst and add pictures and captions to the Partner Content but shall not make any changes to the body of the Partner Content. If the Partner objects to the changes made, GNM shall remove them with immediate effect. The Partner may not make any changes to the GNM Content unless GNM agrees to the specific change required.

3.1 GNM may display the Partner Logo on the GNM Platforms. The Partner shall display the logo of the GNM Content Network as defined in the Term Sheet on the front page or other prominent position on the Partner Website.

3.2 The Partner shall publish a credit alongside each item of GNM Content with the name of the author and the name of the GNM Content Network as defined in the Term Sheet hyperlinked back to the relevant home page on GNM’s network of websites.

3.3 GNM shall publish a credit alongside each item of the Partner Content as follows:

[Author] for [Partner], part of the [GNM Content Network]

3.4 The Licensor shall retain all right, title and interest in and to its name, logo and trade marks worldwide.

4.1 The Licensee acknowledges that on occasion the Licensor may need to remove certain parts of the Content for legal reasons and accordingly the Licensee shall, on receipt of a notice from the Licensor, immediately remove from the Licensee Platform any part of the Content identified in such notice.

4.2 In the event that such Content is not removed from the Licensee Platform within 24 hours, the Licensee agrees to indemnify the Licensor from and against all costs, claims and expenses attributable to and/or resulting from such non-removal. The Licensee shall have the right to control any proceedings in relation to which this indemnity applies.

Status of Contributors and Suppliers as Independent Contractors

Partner undertakes both during and after the expiring or termination of this Agreement:

a) to protect and treat confidentially all confidential, trade secret or proprietary information regarding GNM, including technical, commercial, financial and other information which is obtained from GNM in connection with this Agreement or with the negotiations leading up to it; and

b) not to disclose to any person or company, publish, or use for Partner’s own purpose, without the previous written consent of GNM, any of GNM’s confidential information, the existence of any term of this Agreement (other than terms already set out in the public domain by GNM), or the existence of any information about any dispute or disagreement between the parties; and

c) to disclose such documents and information to third parties only so far as it is necessary:

i) for the performance of this Agreement; and/or

ii) to Partner’s professional advisers; and/or

iii) as required by law.

The obligations of confidentiality set out above shall not apply to any documents or information which Partner can show:

a) at the time of their acquisition were in, or at a later date have come into, the public domain, other than following a breach of this Clause; or

b) Partner knew prior to first disclosure to Partner by GNM; or

c) Partner received independently from a third party with the full right to disclose.

The provisions of the Confidentiality section shall survive any termination or expiration of the Agreement (for whatever cause or reason).

If Partner is in the US, pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, Partner shall not be held criminally, or civilly, liable under any Federal or State Trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in confidence either directly or indirectly to a Federal, State, or local government official, or an attorney, for the sole purpose of reporting, or investigating, a violation of law.

Moreover, Partner may disclose trade secrets in a complaint, or other document, filed in a lawsuit, or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Finally, if Partner files a lawsuit alleging retaliation by GNM for reporting a suspected violation of the law, Partner may disclose the trade secret to Partner’s attorney and use the trade secret in the court proceeding, if Partner files any document containing the trade secret under seal and do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

Partner further understands that no sections in this Agreement, is intended to or shall limit, prevent, impede or interfere with Partner’s right, without prior notice to GNM, to provide information to the government, participate in investigations, testify in proceedings regarding GNM’s past or future conduct, or engage in any activities protected under whistleblower statutes, or to receive and fully retain a monetary award from a government-administered whistleblower award program for providing information directly to a government agency.

7.1 The Licensor warrants that it has full right, title and authority to license the Content to the extent set out in this Agreement and that the Content shall not be an infringement of any third party intellectual property rights.

7.2 Save the warranty as set out in Clause 6.1, the Licensor excludes any and all warranties, conditions or other terms implied by statute, common law or otherwise to the fullest extent permitted by law.

7.3 The Licensor shall not be liable (and hereby excludes liability) for the consequences of any inaccuracy, interruptions or errors in the Content.

7.4 Each party shall be solely responsible for virus detection and the development, operation and maintenance of their respective websites and for imposing disclaimers on end users of the Website equivalent to those set out in this Clause 6.

7.5 The Licensor does not provide the Content for any specific purpose or persons. Accordingly, it is not intended to be relied upon in making any particular decisions and appropriate independent advice should be obtained before doing so.

7.6 Some of the Content may contain links to websites provided by independent third parties. The Licensor is not responsible for the availability or content of such sites and shall not be responsible for any transaction concerning goods or services available from those sites.

7.7 The Licensee shall promptly inform the Licensor in the event of any claim by a third party in relation to the Content and the Licensee shall comply with the reasonable requests of the Licensor in relation to such claim.

8.1 Neither party shall be liable to the other for indirect, special or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Content, even if one party has advised the other of the possibility of such damages.

9.1 Either party may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice to the other in any of the following events:

9.1.1 if the other party commits any breach of any of the terms of this Agreement and fails to remedy that breach (if capable of remedy) within 7 days after notice from the other party giving full particulars of breach and requiring it to be remedied; or

9.1.2 if any step, action, application or proceeding is taken in relation to the whole or any material part of the other party for a voluntary arrangement or composition or reconstruction of its debts, or winding up, dissolution, administration or receivership (administrative or otherwise) or a threat of the same.

9.2 The Agreement may be terminated by either party, on giving the other 30 days written notice.

9.3 On termination of this Agreement the rights and obligations of the parties shall terminate except that the provisions of Clauses 2.2, 2.3, 2.5 and Clauses 3-7 shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.

“Force Majeure Event” means any circumstance not within GNM’s reasonable control including, but not limited to:

a) power outage, interruption or failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone, utility service or other interconnect problems;

b) unauthorised access, theft, malicious damage or operator errors;

c) ransomware attack, computer virus, malicious code, cyber-attack, cyber-crime or other form of attack on GNM’s, or GNM’s service provider’s, systems or computer systems (including, without limitation, any equipment, software, hardware or firmware, database, file or email system);

d) severe weather, flood, drought, earthquake, fire, lightning or other natural disaster;

e) epidemic or pandemic;

f) terrorist attack, civil war, civil commotion or riots, war, threat of or preparation for war, armed conflict, imposition of sanctions, embargo, or breaking off of diplomatic relations;

g) nuclear, chemical or biological contamination or sonic boom;

h) any law or any action taken by a government or public authority, including without limitation imposing export or import restriction, quota or prohibition;

i) collapse of buildings, fire, explosion or accident;

j) any labour or trade dispute, strikes, industrial action or lockouts; or

k) non-performance or delay by third parties, including, but not limited to, GNM’s bank.

If GNM is (whether directly or indirectly and whether wholly or partly) prevented, hindered or delayed in or from performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by a Force Majeure Event, GNM shall not be in breach of this Agreement or otherwise liable for any such failure or delay in the performance of such obligations. The time for performance of such obligations shall be extended accordingly to take into account the effect of the Force Majeure Event and any necessary remedial actions required to be taken by or on behalf of GNM.

GNM shall: (i) as soon as reasonably practicable after the start of the Force Majeure Event promptly notify you of the Force Majeure Event, the date on which it started, its likely or potential duration, and the effect of the Force Majeure Event on its ability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement; and (ii) use reasonable endeavours to mitigate the effect of the Force Majeure Event on the performance of its obligations.

11.1 Any notice given under this Agreement shall be in writing to the Contact specified on the Term Sheet or such other Contact as the parties may notify from time to time and may be delivered to the other party or sent by pre-paid post or email to the address of that party specified in this Agreement or such other address as may be notified under this Agreement by that party from time to time for this purpose.

11.2 The parties do not intend for any third party to have any rights under this Agreement by virtue of the Contracts (Rights or Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.

11.3 A party shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing its obligations under this Agreement to the extent that this failure or delay is the result of any cause or circumstance beyond the reasonable control of that party and that failure could not have been prevented or overcome by that party acting reasonably and prudently. If by reason of force majeure a party is unable to perform all or any part of its obligations under this Agreement for a continuous period of 20 working days, the other party may terminate this Agreement immediately by written notice.

11.4 Neither party shall assign or transfer its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the other party’s prior written consent.

11.5 This Agreement represents the entire terms agreed between the parties in relation to its subject matter. Any variation to this Agreement must be agreed in writing by the parties.

11.6 Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a partnership or joint venture between the parties. No party shall have the authority to bind the other party or to contract in the name of or create a liability against the other party in any way for any purpose.

11.7 No failure or delay by any party in exercising its rights under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of that right nor shall any single or partial exercise by either party of any right preclude any further exercise of any other right.

11.8 Each party shall comply with all applicable law including, without limitation, the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.

11.9 If any provision of this Agreement (or part of any provision) is found by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions shall remain unaffected and in force.

11.10 This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales over any claim or matter arising under or in connection with this Agreement.

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