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other than 18) and, if You are uploading User Content to Scribd on behalf
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agreement between Scribd and Yourself, or engage in any action or
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host, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, compress or
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view, restrict access to download, advertise against, and otherwise exploit
Your User Content, in any media formats and through any media
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will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter
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to download your content (for example, without limitation, to paying users)
and to charge users for access to your content, subject to certain
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limitations set forth herein, you may terminate this grant of license to
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that piece of User Content from the Scribd Platform; provided, however,
that it is understood and agreed that Scribd may retain a copy of any User
content as necessary to make it available to any other user who has paid
for that access, and provided further that Scribd may, but is not required
to, retain indefinitely a copy of any User Content for archival purposes.
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exclusive license to access and use Your User Content under the terms
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to each such User at least a limited, non-exclusive, license to view,
download (including, without limitation, download to a portable device, but
subject to download restrictions either made by Scribd or by you), print
and have printed such User Content for personal use in the manner
contemplated by this Agreement and the Scribd Platform. If your content
is uploaded under a paid access model, you additionally grant to all Users
(including Users not authorized to access the content), a license to view a
limited Preview of your content, as specified by your document preview
settings.The foregoing license granted by You terminates as to a specific
piece of User Content once You remove or delete such User Content
from the Scribd Platform provided, however, that User rights to such User
Content arising out of distributions occurring on or prior to deletion of
such User Content from the Scribd Platform survive any termination or
expiration of the license granted in this section 7.
8. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
Subject to the licenses granted herein, You retain all of Your ownership
rights in User Content uploaded and owned by You.
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Platform; and (c) any other information designated by Scribd as
"confidential" or an equivalent designation, whether orally or in
writing. You may accurately disclose the amount of Scribd’s gross
payments to You.
10.1 Term. The term of this Agreement will begin on the date You upload
Your User Content and will continue until terminated in accordance with
the provisions set forth in this Section 10 (the “Term”).
(i) all of the information that You provide to Scribd under this Agreement
is current and accurate;
(ii) You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses,
rights, consents, releases and permissions to use and to authorize Scribd
and Scribd’s Users to use Your User Content in the manner permitted
herein;
(iii) Your User Content does not and will not slander, defame, or libel any
other party, violate any other party’s publicity rights or trade secret rights,
be obscene, or otherwise unlawful;
(iv) You have not entered into any other agreement that is in conflict with
the terms of this Agreement;
(v) Your User Content does not contain any viruses, adware, spyware,
worms, or other malicious code;
(vii) no claim has been asserted nor have any proceedings been instituted
by any third party against You or Your predecessors in title for the
infringement of intellectual property rights in Your User Content; and
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regulations include but are not limited to the State
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appropriate Government agency. It is your responsibility to ensure that
you comply with these laws and do not post any item on Scribd.com that
is not authorized for public release under the applicable laws, regulations
and restrictions. Your rights under these Terms are contingent on Your
compliance with this provision.
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option to make it available for free to Scribd Users or to make it available
for sale. If you choose to make it available for sale via the Scribd Platform
you may set the price you would like to receive from Scribd Users to
access Your User Content via the Scribd Platform as described herein.
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Your account information is not valid or up-to-date, or based on a result of
any breach of this Agreement by You.
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from Scribd of $600 or more in a tax year, Scribd will issue You an
Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form 1099 reporting such payments. If
requested by Scribd, You will need to complete and return via fax or mail
an IRS Form W-9 (Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and
Certification). If You receive payments from Scribd of less than $600 in a
tax year, it is Your responsibility to report such payments to the IRS.