Unless explicitly specified otherwise, site materials broadly include content, technology, code, branding, layout and compilations, owned, controlled or licensed by VICE, its affiliates or subsidiaries. Only rights expressly granted in these terms or in writing are given to users; remaining rights are reserved to VICE and the identified owners or licensors.
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Except as expressly set forth in these Terms or otherwise expressly granted to you in writing by VICE, no rights (either by implication, estoppel or otherwise) are granted to you. Any and all rights to use any Materials not expressly granted to you under these Terms are hereby reserved for VICE and/or its parent, members, managers, subsidiaries affiliates or its licensors.
Qualifications & exceptions
Subject to explicit exceptions and express grants in the terms or in writing.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Users agree not to challenge rights in materials
You agree not to challenge the validity or ownership of the materials, undermine VICE's rights, claim rights yourself or help others do so. This describes the contractual promise, without deciding its enforceability.
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You acknowledge and agree that you will not, directly or indirectly, contest, challenge, aid or abet in contesting or challenging the validity or ownership of the Materials, or take any action whatsoever in derogation of VICE’s rights therein. You acknowledge and agree that you will not acquire or claim any rights in the Materials, or aid or abet anyone else in doing so.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Reproduction requires an express permission
Copying, downloading, reproduction or distribution of materials requires VICE's prior written authorization unless these terms expressly allow it, including the limited personal-use license. The terms give USPrivacy@VICE.COM as the contact for reproduction authorization.
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The Materials may not be copied, reproduced, downloaded or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorization of VICE, unless and except as is expressly provided in these Terms.
To seek the written authorization of VICE for reproductions of Materials, please contact us at USPrivacy@VICE.COM
Vice grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable and non-transferable license to use, download, view and play the Materials.
Qualifications & exceptions
Express permissions in the terms, including the limited personal-use license, remain available.
VICE permits visits without further permission and grants a personal, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable, non-transferable license to use, download, view and play materials. Full compliance with the terms is required: preserve copyright notices, do not modify materials, and do not let or help others copy or adapt object code, reverse engineer, modify or discover site code.
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You may visit our Sites without further permission from Vice and Vice grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable and non-transferable license to use, download, view and play the Materials. This license is subject to your full compliance with these Terms. When you download or use Materials, you agree to and you must: (a) keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices; (b) make no modifications to the Materials; and (c) not allow or assist any third party (whether or not for your benefit) to copy or adapt any object code associated with the Sites or reverse engineer, modify or attempt to discover any code associated with the Sites.
Qualifications & exceptions
Requires full compliance, intact proprietary notices and no material modification or prohibited code activity.
Scraping and framing restrictions have stated exceptions
Users agree not to frame, mask, extract, copy or distribute materials, including through robots, scrapers or data-mining processes. The restriction excepts results of standard search-engine or Internet-browser use and activity VICE expressly authorizes.
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You also agree that you will not, including by use any robot, scraper, or other data mining technology or process, frame, mask, extract data from, copy or distribute the Materials (except as may be a result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage or as expressly authorized by Vice).
Qualifications & exceptions
Standard search-engine or browser usage and express VICE authorization are excepted.
Users cannot sell access or broadly redistribute materials
Except as expressly allowed elsewhere in the terms, no license is given to sublicense, redistribute, rent, sell, transfer, broadcast, upload or otherwise provide access to materials. Users also agree not to charge others for access or disseminate materials publicly, whether free or paid. Express sharing permissions elsewhere must be read with this general restriction.
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Except as expressly set forth elsewhere in these Terms, nothing in these Terms will be interpreted to grant you, any right or license to enter into sublicenses or redistribution agreements with respect to any portion of the Materials or to otherwise rent, sell, lease, loan, transfer, assign, broadcast, upload to any computer or wireless device, sublicense, distribute or allow access to the Materials. You agree that you will not charge any person or entity to view, listen, play or otherwise access any Materials, or disseminate any Materials in any manner to the public (for free or for a fee).
Qualifications & exceptions
Express permissions elsewhere in these terms limit the general restriction.
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has exception (model-proposed): Sharing materials requires express written permission — Express written permission for personal viral sharing is a stated route around the general redistribution restriction; it remains revocable and subject to posted sharing terms.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Only owners or authorized representatives may report IP infringement
Use of the sites must not infringe third-party rights. VICE invites good-faith reports of copyright, trademark or other intellectual-property infringement, but only the rights owner or someone authorized to act for them may report potentially infringing content.
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You may not use the Sites for any purpose or in any manner that infringes the rights of any third party. Vice encourages you to report any content on the Sites that you believe infringes your rights. Only the intellectual property rights owner or person authorized to act on behalf of the owner can report potentially infringing content. If you have a good faith belief that content on the Sites infringe your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, please follow the procedures set forth below.
Qualifications & exceptions
Reports require a good-faith belief and an owner or authorized representative.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Copyright notices require six specified elements
VICE says it follows DMCA notice-and-takedown procedures. A copyright notice must include an authorized signature; the copyrighted work or representative list; identification and location of allegedly infringing material; contact information; a good-faith statement that use is unauthorized by the owner, agent or law; and a statement of accuracy and, under penalty of perjury, authority to act for the owner. The cited law itself is not supplied here.
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If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Vice’s copyright agent the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. 512: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyright 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; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party; (e) 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; and (f) 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.
Qualifications & exceptions
The perjury statement concerns authority to act for the owner of the allegedly infringed exclusive right.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Other rights complaints need an explanation of the right and infringement
For claims concerning rights other than copyright, VICE asks for at least an authorized signature, enough information to locate the material, an explanation of the rights held and alleged infringement sufficient to evaluate the complaint, and accurate contact details.
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If you believe that any content on the Sites violate your rights other than copyrights, please provide Vice with at least the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (c) an explanation of what rights you own/have and why you believe the content infringes your rights sufficient for us to evaluate your complaint; and (d) accurate contact information for you.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Send infringement notices to VICE's licensing team
The terms direct copyright and other IP notices to licensing@vice.com or the Copyright/Trademark Licensing Team at 49 S. 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249. This procedure is exclusively for claimed infringement of your copyrighted material or other intellectual property.
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Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement must be sent to VICE’s licensing team:
Email: licensing@vice.com
Mailing Address:
49 S. 2nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Attention: Copyright/Trademark Licensing Team
Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying VICE of claims that your copyrighted material or other intellectual property has been infringed.
Qualifications & exceptions
This channel is exclusively for intellectual-property infringement notices.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
VICE may seek more evidence or remove both parties' content
VICE may request additional information before removing infringing material. If ownership is disputed, it reserves the right to remove both your content and the alleged infringer's content while the dispute is resolved.
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We may request additional information before we remove any infringing material. If a dispute develops as to the correct owner of the rights in question, we reserve the right to remove your content along with that of the alleged infringer pending resolution of the matter.
Qualifications & exceptions
Removal of both parties' content is reserved for an ownership dispute pending resolution.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
VICE promises notice of removal following an IP complaint
VICE says it will notify you when your materials are removed based on a third-party complaint alleging infringement of that third party's intellectual-property rights. This promise concerns that specific removal trigger.
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Vice will provide you with notice if your materials have been removed based on a third party complaint of alleged infringement of the third party’s intellectual property rights.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when removal is based on a third-party intellectual-property complaint.
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contrast (model-proposed): VICE has broad discretion to edit or delete submissions — The general content clause permits deletion without notice, while the specific third-party IP complaint clause promises removal notice. The deletion card preserves that narrower promise.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Sharing materials requires express written permission
VICE may allow personal sharing, such as sending materials to friends or displaying them on another site, only through express written permission. It may revoke that permission at any time for any reason, and you must comply with posted sharing terms. This is a specific permission route alongside the general redistribution restriction.
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Vice may allow you – but only through express written permission -to engage in certain personal uses of Materials that include the ability to share Materials with others (” Viral Distribution“). For example, the Site may allow you to send Materials to friends, display Materials on your personal web site or post Materials on a third party web site. We reserve the right to revoke our permission for Viral Distribution at any time and for any reason and you agree to comply with any terms we post in connection the Viral Distribution of Materials.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only through express written permission, subject to posted conditions and revocation.
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exception to (model-proposed): Users cannot sell access or broadly redistribute materials — Express written permission for personal viral sharing is a stated route around the general redistribution restriction; it remains revocable and subject to posted sharing terms.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Embedded widgets use the limited license and may be disabled
VICE may supply embed code for personal pages, third-party sites or social-network pages. Widgets remain Materials under the personal, non-commercial, revocable, non-transferable license and its compliance conditions. VICE may disable them or discontinue supporting services at any time for any reason without liability. Embedding gives no ownership rights in widgets or their materials.
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Similarly, the Site may provide content that you may choose to embed on your personal web page, third party web site or social networking site by pasting the HTML or other code provided by us (typically labeled as an embed code) (” Widgets“). Widgets are Materials and subject to the limited, revocable license described above for Materials. We may discontinue providing the services necessary for the Widgets to operate or we may disable Widgets you have embedded at any time for any reason without any liability to you. You agree that our permission to you to use Widgets on your personal web page does not provide you (or any third party) with any intellectual property rights in or to the Widget or any Materials made available via any Widget.
Vice grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable and non-transferable license to use, download, view and play the Materials. This license is subject to your full compliance with these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Subject to the limited Materials license and full compliance with the terms.
Cross-references
exception to (model-proposed): Scraping and framing restrictions have stated exceptions — VICE-provided widget embedding is an express, limited permission alongside the general framing and copying restrictions, not unrestricted reuse.
Widget placement and operation have content and security restrictions
You must not place widgets on pages with threatening, abusive, harassing, hateful or otherwise objectionable content in VICE's sole opinion. VICE gives no specific widget warranties. You must not circumvent or try to circumvent copying, manipulation or retention safeguards, or use or try to use widgets to display content other than what VICE provides or intends for them.
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You agree that you will not embed or otherwise make available a Widget on a web page or web site containing content that (i) is threatening, abusive, harassing, , hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable (in Vice’s sole opinion). Vice makes no specific warranties about Widgets. You agree not to circumvent (or in any way attempt to circumvent) the security or rights management features in the Widget or any component of the Widget (including any video player) that are designed to prevent users from copying, manipulating or retaining the Materials made available via the Widget. You also agree to not use (or attempt to use) the Widget or any component of the Widget to display content other than the Materials provided or intended by Vice to be displayed via a particular Widget.
Qualifications & exceptions
Objectionable host-page content is judged in VICE's sole opinion.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Third-party sites must stop using materials on VICE's demand
The notice to third-party sites asserts VICE's exclusive property in materials delivered by its widgets, third-party widgets or otherwise, gives no IP ownership rights, and reserves the right to demand that use stop upon notice. The separately stated, revocable widget permission remains a limited use license.
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NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY SITES: Any Materials made available in connection with your site, or otherwise, by our Widgets, third party widgets or otherwise is our exclusive property and no grant of any intellectual property rights is made by us. We retain the right to demand that you cease any use of our Materials upon notice.
Qualifications & exceptions
The stop-use demand is upon notice; any widget-use permission is revocable.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Contributors must own rights or secure required permissions
The community rules apply when you contribute, upload or otherwise provide User Content. Content must be original and fully owned by you, or everyone who contributed, holds rights or appears in it must permit upload and distribution on the site and elsewhere. This alternative does not remove the separate restrictions on third-party materials or images.
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When you contribute, upload or otherwise provide User Content to a Site, you agree to comply with the following Community Usage Rules
User Content must be yours please. All User Content must be original with you, not copied from someone else’s work, and you must have all rights in the User Content; OR, all persons who contributed in any way or have any rights to your User Content or otherwise appear in the User Content have given you permission to upload and distribute the User Content on the Site and elsewhere.
Qualifications & exceptions
Permissions must cover site and off-site distribution; separate content restrictions also apply.
Images of real people are limited and require permission
The rule's heading permits pictures of you, friends and family; its operative wording says uploaded photos, embedded videos and other images of real people must show you, or you with someone you know who expressly permits posting. The body is narrower than a general permission to post any friend's image.
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No pictures or images of anyone but you and your friends and family.If you choose to upload photos to the Site, link to embedded videos, or include other images of real people, make sure they are of you or of you and someone you know but only with their express permission to post it.
Qualifications & exceptions
The body specifies you or you with someone you know, with their express permission.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not include third-party materials or pass others' work off as yours
The community rules say User Content should not contain visible logos, phrases, trademarks or other third-party materials. They separately prohibit presenting someone else's content as your own, including material found elsewhere online. The general permissions alternative does not expressly waive this specific restriction.
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Don’t upload third party materials. Your User Content should not contain any visible logos, phrases or trademarks or other third party materials. Do not use any User Content that belongs to other people and pass it off as your own. This includes any content that you might have found elsewhere on the Internet.
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qualifies (model-proposed): Contributors must own rights or secure required permissions — Having contribution permissions does not expressly waive the separate rule against third-party materials or passing others' work off as one's own.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Music requires original work and performance or all relevant rights
User Content may contain music only where the work and performance are original with you and/or you hold all rights, including performance rights. The rule also says 'No jingles, sampling or otherwise'; it does not spell out how that final prohibition relates to the rights-based exception, so permission for sampling is not inferred.
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No music please.Your User Content may not contain any music unless the work and performance is original with you and/or you have all rights to the musical work (including any performances). No jingles, sampling or otherwise.
Qualifications & exceptions
Rights must include performances; the separate no-jingles-or-sampling wording remains.
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The final no-jingles-or-sampling sentence does not explain its relationship to the music-rights exception.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Links to VICE sites are permitted subject to detailed conditions
VICE grants revocable linking permission. Your site must not frame, border or mirror VICE content except as expressly allowed for widgets; imply endorsement or sponsorship without prior written consent; present false information or disparage or otherwise harm VICE in its opinion; use its trademarks without prior written permission; or contain content VICE regards as objectionable, including controversial content. You or the link placer must own and control the site or otherwise have permission to enable the link. Compliance must continue while linking.
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Vice grants you the revocable permission to link to the Sites; provided, however, that your web site: (a) must not frame or create a browser or border environment around any of the content on the Sites or otherwise mirror any part of the Sites (except as explicitly permitted as described in the “WIDGET” section above); (b) must not imply that Vice or any Site is endorsing or sponsoring it or its products, unless Vice has given it prior written consent; (c) must not present false information about, or disparage, tarnish, or otherwise, in Vice’s sole opinion, harm Vice or its products or services; (d) must not use any Vice trademarks without the prior written permission from Vice; (e) must not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial or otherwise objectionable (in Vice’s sole opinion), and (f) must be owned and controlled by you or the person or entity placing the link, or otherwise permit you to enable such link subject to these Terms. By linking to a Site, you agree that you do and will continue to comply with the above linking requirements.
Qualifications & exceptions
Express widget permissions except the framing restriction; endorsement and trademark use require prior written consent or permission.
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narrowed by (model-proposed): VICE can prohibit linking for any reason — Compliance with linking conditions does not secure permanent permission: VICE reserves overriding discretion to prohibit linking for any reason.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
VICE can prohibit linking for any reason
Despite anything else in the terms, VICE reserves sole and absolute discretion to prohibit links to the sites for any reason. Meeting the stated linking conditions therefore does not guarantee continued permission.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Terms, Vice reserves the right to prohibit linking to the Sites for any reason in our sole and absolute discretion.
Downloads may have extra terms and redistribution restrictions
Downloadable Items are copyrighted works of VICE, its licensors or suppliers and may include Additional Terms that users should read. Copying them to another server or location for further reproduction or distribution is prohibited unless the applicable Additional Terms expressly permit it. This does not itself authorize other uses beyond the site's limited Materials license.
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Any items that we make available for download or use from the Sites and/or our servers (the “Downloadable Items”) are the copyrighted work of Vice or its licensors or suppliers. Your use of the Downloadable Items may be governed by Additional Terms, which may be included with the Downloadable Items. Please carefully read any Additional Terms to determine the full extent of conditions governing the use of such Downloadable Items. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCING THE DOWNLOADABLE ITEMS TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO SUCH DOWNLOADABLE ITEMS.
Qualifications & exceptions
Express permission in applicable Additional Terms can allow the specified reproduction or distribution.
Content & IP Rights · Context
User Content includes submissions beyond public forums
The sites may offer public message boards and chats, but User Content also covers comments, ideas, reviews, suggestions and other content submitted or communicated to VICE or a site through those features or otherwise. It is not limited to public forum posts.
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The Sites may provide you and others with the opportunity to participate in message boards, chat rooms and other public areas (“Community Forums”) and may provide you with the opportunity, through such features or otherwise, to submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute or broadcast content and materials to Vice or a Site, including, without limitation, comments, ideas, review, suggestions and other content (collectively, “User Content”).
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Submissions generally receive no confidentiality or return promise
You agree that User Content is non-confidential, non-proprietary and will not be returned, except as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy or applicable Additional Terms. Those exceptions are acknowledged here; their separate text is outside this assigned document.
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Except as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy, or applicable Additional Terms, you agree that your User Content will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will not be returned.
Qualifications & exceptions
The Privacy Policy and applicable Additional Terms may provide exceptions.
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Separate Privacy Policy and applicable Additional Terms are not supplied in this analysis.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You retain ownership but grant VICE a lasting, broad content license
You remain the owner of your User Content, while granting VICE an unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license. It covers using, copying, selling, sublicensing, distributing, modifying, making derivative works, translating, archiving and otherwise exploiting any portion for any purpose in present or future media and technology, including promotion.
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You remain the owner of your User Content, but you acknowledge that Vice must have a license from you in order to accept your User Content. You grant to Vice the unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right and license to host, use, copy, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, sub-license, display, perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, modify and create derivative works of, reformat, translate, archive, store, cache or otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of your User Content for any purpose whatsoever in all formats; on or through any media, software, formula or medium now known or later developed; and with any technology or devices now known or later developed and to advertise, market and promote the same.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to User Content submitted to VICE or a site; ownership remains with you.
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contrast (model-proposed): VICE has broad discretion to edit or delete submissions — VICE's perpetual license to exploit submitted content does not require it to retain or display that content. The license and hosting discretion operate in different directions.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
VICE can use submitted ideas and your associated name or likeness
VICE may use ideas, concepts, know-how and techniques in submissions for any purpose, including products, services, articles and advertising, without payment or attribution. You also grant perpetual, irrevocable, unconditional rights to exploit your name, persona and likeness included in or connected with User Content, without payment or attribution.
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You further agree that Vice is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any User Content you send to the Sites or Vice, for any purposes whatsoever, including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and or services using such User Content; or creating informational articles based on or advertising our products and services, and without obligation, remuneration or attribution of any kind to you or anyone else. You further perpetually and irrevocably grant Vice the unconditional right to use and exploit your name, persona and likeness included in any User Content and in connection with any User Content, without any obligation, remuneration or attribution of any kind to you or anyone else.
Qualifications & exceptions
Idea rights concern submitted User Content; name, persona and likeness rights concern content inclusion or connection.
Submissions may be searchable and carry a moral-rights waiver
You authorize searchable publication accessible to site and Internet users. Except where prohibited by law, you waive moral rights in submitted User Content, including when alterations are not agreeable to you.
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You further authorize Vice to publish your User Content in a searchable format that may be accessed by users of the Sites and the Internet. Except as prohibited by law, you waive any moral rights you may have in any User Content you submit, even if such User Content is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
The moral-rights waiver excludes what law prohibits.
You must have the rights needed for the content licenses
You promise either to own the content rights and ability to grant these licenses, or to have all necessary rights and licenses from their owners. At VICE's request, you must provide documentation, substantiation or releases needed to verify compliance.
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You agree that you either: (i) own the rights to the User Content you submit and the right to grant all of the rights and licenses in these Terms; or (ii) you have all necessary rights and licenses from the owner(s) of these rights to enter into these Terms and grant Vice these licenses. Upon Vice’s request, you will furnish Vice any documentation, substantiation or releases necessary to verify your compliance with these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Supporting documentation is required upon VICE's request.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
VICE may enforce content rights in your name without a duty to protect yours
VICE has no obligation to monitor or enforce your IP rights in User Content. The clause nevertheless authorizes it to protect and enforce rights in that content, including bringing and controlling actions in your name and on your behalf at its cost. You agree to consent and irrevocably appoint VICE attorney-in-fact with substitution and delegation powers. The repeated wording 'its and its rights' is not corrected here or treated as an additional defined right.
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You agree that Vice has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your User Content but has the right to protect and enforce its and its rights to your User Content including, without limitation, by bringing and controlling actions in your name and on your behalf (at Vice’s cost and expense, to which you agree to consent and irrevocably appoint Vice as your attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution and delegations, which appointment is coupled with an interest).
Qualifications & exceptions
Actions in your name are at VICE's cost; the clause disclaims a duty to enforce your rights.
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The repeated phrase 'its and its rights' does not identify a distinct additional right.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
VICE has broad discretion to edit or delete submissions
VICE disclaims any obligation to review, monitor, display, accept or exploit User Content, and reserves discretion to edit, distort, move, remove or refuse it at any time without notice or liability. It promises no minimum retention period. The separate infringement provision does promise notice when removal follows a third-party IP complaint, so the general no-notice language must be read with that specific promise.
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You further acknowledge and agree that Vice does not and will not have any obligation to review, monitor, display, accept or exploit any User Content and Vice may, in its sole discretion, delete, move, re-format, edit, alter, distort, remove or refuse to exploit User Content at any time without notice or liability to you or any other party. You understand that User Content need not be maintained on the Site by us for any period of time and we reserve the right to delete it at any time.
Vice will provide you with notice if your materials have been removed based on a third party complaint of alleged infringement of the third party’s intellectual property rights.
Qualifications & exceptions
The IP complaint provision specifically promises notice for removals based on a third-party infringement complaint.
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contrast (model-proposed): VICE promises notice of removal following an IP complaint — The general content clause permits deletion without notice, while the specific third-party IP complaint clause promises removal notice. The deletion card preserves that narrower promise.
contrast (model-proposed): You retain ownership but grant VICE a lasting, broad content license — VICE's perpetual license to exploit submitted content does not require it to retain or display that content. The license and hosting discretion operate in different directions.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Users bear responsibility for submissions and public contact exposure
You are solely responsible for User Content you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available. Publicly posting personal information can lead to unsolicited third-party messages. The separate liability cards explain VICE’s User Content disclaimer and its stated state-law qualification.
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All of your User Content is your sole responsibility. This means that you, and not Vice, are entirely responsible for all User Content that you upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available via the Sites. If you post personal information to publicly available areas of the Sites then you may receive unsolicited messages from third parties. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any of User Content including, without limitation, any errors or omissions in User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of User Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The unsolicited-message warning concerns personal information posted in publicly accessible areas.