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POSTING MATERIALS TO THE SITE
As used in these Terms of Use, "Your Posted Material" means any information, messages, e-mails postings, on-line discussions, literary works, or other text, drawings, illustrations or images, films, graphics, images, photographs, animation, audiovisual works, recordings, digital content designs, logos, or other copyrightable work or non-copyrightable idea, expression, or communication, regardless of whether you authored or created such work or communication, which you cause to be posted to, submitted to, or in any way transmitted via, the Site. You agree that none of Your Posted Material will contain information or content that (a) infringes any intellectual property right or other proprietary right of any third party; (b) reveals trade secrets or any information which you have agreed, expressly or impliedly, to keep confidential; (c) is obscene, indecent, defamatory, abusive, or otherwise objectionable; (d) contains a virus, Trojan horse, time bomb, cancelbot, or any other computer programming or materials that are intended to intercept information or damage or detrimentally interfere with the Site or its security; or (e) violates any applicable law. Additionally, you agree that none of Your Posted Material will contain information or content that: (i) contains or constitutes commercial advertising, solicitation, informational announcements, or political tracts; (ii) constitutes, contains, or encourages "make-money fast" type messages, "chain letters" or "pyramid schemes" of any type; (iii) contains false or misleading information; (iv) is purportedly sent from a person other than yourself (e.g., impersonation of another person or user); (v) with respect to "chat rooms" or other mechanism for real time dialogue between users, disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, or posts comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear that the discussion is free-form), or (vi) otherwise interferes with other users' enjoyment of the Site.
LICENSE TO YOUR POSTED MATERIAL
You hereby grant to merilocal.com the royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, creative derivative works of, publish, translate, distribute, sell, perform, display, and otherwise exploit Your Posted Material alone or as part of other works, throughout the universe, in all forms of media or technology whether now known or later developed. You represent and warrant to merilocal.com that: (a) you have the full and unrestricted right to grant such rights to Your Posted Material, and (b) merilocal.com's exercise of its rights granted by you hereunder shall not infringe upon any copyright or other intellectual property right or any proprietary right of any third party. merilocal.com assumes no liability for any of Your Posted Material or any other Content posted to the Site by a third party. merilocal.com shall have the right, but not the obligation to remove any of Your Posted Material from the Site that fails to comply with these Terms of Use.
SUBMISSIONS
You agree that any submissions, including but not limited to ideas, comments, suggestions, plans, notes, questions, drawings, original or creative materials or other information, provided by you to merilocal.com in the form of e-mail or submissions are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of merilocal.com.
RIGHTS
merilocal.com shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use of these materials for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. The submission of any materials to merilocal.com will irrevocably waive any and all "moral rights" in such materials, including the rights of paternity and integrity. |
