TERMS OF USE FOR SUBMITTED MATERIAL
By submitting material (including a picture, a video, other images, audio and/or text) ("Material") to Reuters, you agree to be legally bound by these terms and agree to Reuters using your data in accordance with Reuters Privacy / Data Protection Policy.
  1. If you are not at least 18 years of age, you must have permission from your parent or guardian in order to submit Material. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT SUBMIT ANY MATERIAL TO REUTERS. Reuters may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. You must review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by Reuters.
  2. By submitting your Material, you hereby
    • grant to Reuters and its affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable and non-revocable right and license to use, reproduce, display publicly, modify, adapt, edit, publish, translate, distribute, perform, play, create derivative works from, exercise and sub-license all associated and relevant rights (including intellectual property rights and publicity rights) with respect to your Material in any media whatsoever, whether now known, or developed in the future (the foregoing license is granted for the entire respective terms of the relevant rights); and
    • to the extent permitted by law, unconditionally and irrevocably waive all moral rights which you may have in your Material.
  3. By submitting your Material, you warrant that such Material:
    • is your own original work and you have the right to grant the rights described above to Reuters;
    • was not produced by you in the course of your employment;
    • does not infringe upon any statutory copyright or upon any common law right, proprietary right, or any other similar right of any third party;
    • does not violate any law, including by the manner in which it was obtained or created;
    • is not libelous, defamatory or obscene;
    • was not taken by any hidden, surreptitious or illegal means or any other method that violates another person's privacy or publicity rights;
    • is accurate, genuine and does not depict any event staged for the purpose of making the submission;
    • where it includes images of children under age 16, the images have been obtained with the consent of a relevant parent or responsible adult; and
    • is not subject to any other contract, agreement or license.
  4. You agree to indemnify and hold Reuters harmless against any costs, damages and expenses (including legal expenses) it may incur or suffer as a result of a breach of the above warranties
  5. You retain ownership of the copyright in the Material you submitted to Reuters. If your Material is accepted, Reuters will make efforts to attribute the Material to you. Please note that for technical or other reasons, this may not always be possible. Reuters cannot guarantee that any of your submitted Material will be used or published. In the event Reuters decides to publish your Material, Reuters reserves the right to edit, crop and/or alter the Material in any way it sees fit, consistent with the rights granted above. Reuters may delete your Material at any time and choose not keep any record of it. Reuters does not have any obligation to return any Material you submit.
  6. With regard to any personal data that you submit as part of, or in connection with, the Materials, you agree that Reuters may store, share and use such information in accordance with the Reuters Privacy / Data Protection Policy. Reuters may also publish any attribution information you submit as part of the Material including the first part of your email address (e.g., "jdoe@abc.com" would be "jdoe"), however, Reuters will never publish your full email or mobile phone number from which you made the submission. Additionally, you agree that Reuters may contact you and ask you questions regarding the Material or inquire about obtaining additional rights to the Material.
  7. Material and personal data you submit to Reuters may be posted on and shared with any third party site that Reuters uses to receive your submission or to host and display such Material in accordance with these terms. Such third party site may have additional terms for use of its services and will be governed by their own privacy notice.
  8. Reuters is registered with under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that any work displayed by Reuters infringes on your copyright, please notify Reuters as described in the "Copyright Infringement Notification" below.
  9. Reuters may be required under certain laws or regulations to disclose information to government agencies or individuals (including to those asserting rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), and you expressly authorize Reuters to comply with any and all lawful requests, notices, subpoenas, court orders or warrants without prior notice to you.
  10. While Reuters posts a copyright notice for users of its web site, Reuters is not responsible to you or to anyone else for the acts of third party users of the web site, including those who violate Reuters' copyright policy.
  11. If any part of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then that part shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
  12. These terms and performance under it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the principles thereof relating to conflicts of law.
Copyright Infringement Notification
To file a copyright infringement notification with us, you will need to send a written communication that includes substantially the following (please consult your legal counsel or see Section 512(c)(3) of the Copyright Act to confirm these requirements):
  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have 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.
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  5. A statement that the complaining party has 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.
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

DMCA Complaints
DMCA Agent: Alexandre A. Montagu
Reuters Limited
The Reuters Building
3 Times Square
17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Fax: 646-223-4133
Email: trademarks@lipper.reuters.com
Please also note that under Section 512(f) any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.
Counter-Notification
If you elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be a written communication provided to our designated agent that includes substantially the following (please consult your legal counsel or see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g)(3) to confirm these requirements):
  1. A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.
  2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  4. The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

DMCA Complaints
DMCA Agent: Alexandre A. Montagu
Reuters Limited
The Reuters Building
3 Times Square
17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Fax: 646-223-4133
Email: trademarks@lipper.reuters.com
Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability. Please also be advised that we enforce a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers who are repeat infringers.

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