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General Description
The CMLP may change the Terms from time to time, at CMLP's sole discretion. Your continued use of this website following the posting of such changes will constitute your assent to all such changes. Please periodically visit this section of the site to review the current version of the Terms.
The CMLP is an information starting point. The CMLP does not provide or replace individualized legal advice. This website may include information which is out of date, jurisdiction specific, or applicable only based on a specific set of facts. Use of the Services does not create an attorney-client relationship between the user and the CMLP. If you are in need of legal advice, seek individual attorney advice and DO NOT rely on the CMLP. THE CMLP IS NOT YOUR LAWYER.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY and LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES
Account
Password and Security
As a registered user of the CMLP Services, you may receive or establish one or more passwords. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password(s) and CMLP Account(s). You understand and agree that you a fully responsible for all actions and postings made from your CMLP Account(s). Any accounts you are create are not transferrable. You agree to notify the CMLP immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your CMLP Account(s).
Termination
The CMLP reserves the right to terminate your CMLP Account or restrict access to your CMLP Account, or to delete any content posted through your CMLP Account, with or without notice, for any or for no reason, and without any liability to you.
Community Participation
Linking
You understand that the CMLP has not and cannot review all material made available through websites linked or linking to any part of this site. You also understand that no such linking implies in any way that the CMLP endorses or is affiliated with any third-party website. You agree that the CMLP bears no responsibility or liability for any content accessed or harm caused from any third-party website.
Attribution-ShareAlike License
Except where otherwise noted, any and all content contributed by you to the Services or this website is submitted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
CMLP License
By posting or contributing content using these Services, you are granting the CMLP a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
Content
Contributed content should be relevant to the subject scope of the CMLP. Content may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.
The CMLP does not pre-screen or regularly review any contributed content, but the CMLP has the right (though not the obligation) to remove, without notice, any content posted which the CMLP considers, for any reason, to violate these Terms or to be outside the subject scope of the Services. The CMLP may terminate any account, with or without notice, for posting such content.
User Representations and Warranties
By posting any content, you represent and warrant that you have all right, title, and interest to such posted content, including but not limited to any consent, authorization, release, clearance or license from any third party (such as, but not limited to, any release related to rights of privacy or publicity) necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, and that posting such content does not violate or constitute the infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of privacy, right of publicity, moral rights, or other intellectual property right recognized by any applicable jurisdiction of any person or entity, or otherwise constitute the breach of any agreement with any other person or entity. You further represent and warrant that you are who you say you are, that you have not submitted fictitious, false or inaccurate information about yourself, and that all information contained in the posted content is true and your own work or work you are authorized to submit, and that the posted content does not contain any threatening, harassing, libelous, false, defamatory, offensive, obscene, or pornographic, material, or other material that would violate any other applicable law or regulation. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading information. You represent and warrant that the content you supply does not violate the Terms.
Indemnities
You acknowledge and agree to indemnify and hold the CMLP and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, their affiliates, officers, employees and agents, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site or Services, your violation of these Terms, or the infringement by you or made under your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
Copyright Complaints
If you are a copyright owner and you believe that your copyrighted materials have been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please see our DMCA Notice Policy.
Privacy
Please read our Privacy Notice, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Commenting Guidelines
Please read our Community and Commenting Guidelines, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Other Terms
Modifications
The CMLP reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.Termination of Service
The CMLP disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any software provided through the Services. The CMLP reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services or access to the Services without any notice at any time and without any liability to you.
Extent of Terms
The Terms apply to use of and contribution to the CMLP website and any account provided therefore. The CMLP may operate additional projects or services which require separate or additional terms. Such different terms are made available through the individual project or service and are not addressed further herein.
No Waiver of Terms
Failure of the CMLP to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance.
Governing Law and Entire Agreement
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to the rules of conflict of law that may cause the laws of another jurisdiction to apply. You agree to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the event of any dispute of any kind arising from or relating to the Site, or your use or review of it. The Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of these Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.
