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User Content Representations and
Warranties. By placing
material on Chicagolive.com, including but not limited to posting content or
communications to any Chicagolive.com bulletin board, forum, blogspace, message
or chat area, or posting text, images, audio files or other audio-visual
content to the site ("User Content"), you represent and warrant: (1)
you own or otherwise have all necessary rights to the User Content you provide
and the rights to provide it under these Terms of Service; and, (2) the User
Content will not cause injury to any person or entity. Using a name other than
your own legal name in association with the submission of User Content is
prohibited (except in those specific areas of Chicagolive.com that specifically
ask for unique, fictitious names).
User Content License. For all User
Content you post, upload, or otherwise make available ("Provide") to Chicagolive.com,
you grant Tribune Interactive, Inc. ("TI"), its affiliates and
related entities, including Chicagolive.com and its affiliated newspapers, Web
sites, and broadcast stations, a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, non-exclusive right and fully sub-licensable license to use, copy,
reproduce, distribute, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, modify,
adapt, translate, archive, store, and create derivative works from such User
Content, in any form, format, or medium, of any kind now known or later developed.
Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, you authorize TI to
share the User Content across all Web sites, newspapers, and broadcast stations
affiliated with Tribune Company, to include the User Content in a searchable
format accessible by users of Chicagolive.com and other TI Web sites, to place
advertisements in close proximity to such User Content, and to use your name,
likeness and any other information in connection with its use of the material
you provide. You waive all moral rights
with respect to any User Content you provide to Chicagolive.com. You also grant TI the right to use any
material, information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any
communication you provide or otherwise submit to us for any purpose whatsoever,
including but not limited to, commercial purposes, and developing,
manufacturing and marketing commercial products using such information. All
rights in this paragraph are granted without the need for additional
compensation of any sort to you.
User Content Screening and Removal. You acknowledge that Chicagolive.com and/or
its designees may or may not pre-screen User Content, and shall have the right
(but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to move, remove, block, edit,
or refuse any User Content for any reason, including without limitation that
such User Content violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise
objectionable.
User Content Assumption of Risk. Chicagolive.com
cannot and does not monitor or manage all User Content, and does not guarantee
the accuracy, integrity, or quality of User Content. All User Content provided to Chicagolive.com is the sole
responsibility of the person who provided it.
This means that you are entirely responsible for all User
Content that you provide. To protect your safety, please use your
best judgment when using Chicagolive.com forums. We discourage divulging
personal phone numbers and addresses or other information that can be used to
identify or locate you. You acknowledge and agree that if you make such
disclosures either through posting on any bulletin board, forum, blogspace,
message or chat area, or uploading text, images, audio files or other
audio-visual content, in classified advertising you place or in other
interactive areas, or to third parties in any communication, you do so fully
understanding that such information could be used to identify you.
User Content Posting Rules. Any decisions
as to whether User Content violates any Posting Rule will be made by Chicagolive.com
in its sole discretion and after we have actual notice of such posting. When
you provide User Content, you agree to the following Posting Rules:
If the photo or video depicts any children under
the age of 13, you affirm that you have written permission from the child's
parent or guardian to provide the photo or video.
Do not provide User Content that:
contains copyrighted or other
proprietary material of any kind without the express permission of the owner of
that material.contains vulgar, profane, abusive, racist or
hateful language or expressions, epithets or slurs, text, photographs or
illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or
religious nature.is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly
inflammatory, false, misleading, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross
exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any
third party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or
community.violates any right of Chicagolive.com or any third
party.discriminates on the grounds of race, religion,
national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability,
or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.violates or encourages the violation of any
municipal, state, federal or international law, rule, regulation or
ordinance.interferes with any third party's uninterrupted
use of Chicagolive.com.advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods
or services, except in areas specifically designated for such
purpose.uses or attempt to use another's Registration
Account, password, service or system except as expressly permitted by the Terms
of Service.uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful,
disruptive or destructive files, material or code.disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or
violates the security of Chicagolive.com, or any services, system resources,
accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through Chicagolive.com
or affiliated or linked sites."flames" any individual or entity (e.g.,
sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or
offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the
same message under multiple threads or subjects.
WARNING: A VIOLATION OF THESE POSTING RULES MAY BE REFERRED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
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