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Publishing Agreement

1. Introduction.

This agreement is a legally binding agreement between ("you") and Material Jam regarding use of this site to publish resources (textures, shaders or others) for downloading. "you" refers to the publishing entity, which can be a person who must be at least 18 years of age or a corporate entity. This agreement incorporates by reference, the Material Jam Royalty Free License and the Terms of Use.

The words that appear in quotations, such as "you" in this agreement have specific meanings. Their meanings are described right after their usage or are defined here below:

"Intellectual Property" means patent, trademark, copyright, right of publicity, or any other proprietary right.
"Material Jam" includes Material Jam website and all licensed affiliates and partners that distribute resources on behalf of Material Jam.
"Approved" refers to the uploaded resource and means that it has passed the Material Jam standards for quality.
"Customers" means site users who have registration in MaterialJam.com.

2. Ownership.

You retain all ownership, rights and "Intellectual Property" on the resources you upload on this site. Anyway once published and "approved" on the site "Material Jam" preserves the right to disable the uploaded resource deletion as well as to refuse to delete the uploaded resource even if the owner of this resource affirms or asks for deleting the resource.

3. License grants.

License Grant to "Material Jam"

By uploading resources on this site you authorize "Material Jam" in all media now in existance or that may in future be introduced, to do the following:

to distribute and grant worldwide, irrevocable, and perpetual license rights in your uploaded resources to "Customers", according to the Material Jam Royalty Free License
to license your uploaded resources without any cost to be owed to you to software and hardware companies for internal testing and development of their personal, educational or commercial products, and for the promotion of such software and hardware products.
to bundle, sample or reorganize your uploads in the site for better appearance.
to delete and remove your uploads in any time without any warning because of their fraud or unlicensed uses.
introduce paid or free services on MaterialJam.com which involve the usage of your uploaded resources. By uploading your content you agree that in such cases "Material Jam" doesn't owe you any kind of compensation.

4. Warranties.

You covenant, represent, and warrant that:

your uploaded resources do not and will not infringe on any third party’s copyright, trademark, patent, right of publicity, right of privacy, moral right, or any other proprietary right, and that you will not remove any notice of any such right.
you have authority to enter into and perform this agreement, to distribute your uploaded resource under this agreement. You also warrant that all resources uploaded by you are your original work and contain no intellectual property or other rights of any kind that you are not the exclusive owner of. You agree that you are liable for all resources you upload on this site.
your uploaded resources do not and will not violate any statute, law or regulation.
your uploaded resources are free of defamatory, pornographic, obscene and racial hatred content.
your uploaded resources do not contain any computer viruses or malicious software.
you will provide accurate and complete member information, including your personal contact information.
you will execute and provide written or electronic documents to Material Jam, upon our reasonable request.

Additional notes:

If you upload resources on this site you agree that your uploads are bound to the Material Jam Royalty Free License.
In order to get your uploaded texture approved you have to upload also the original photography used to make that texture as a proof of origin and ownership. This will give confidence to others to download your upload and use it in their commercial projects.
If you upload resources on this site you agree that they can be editted, modified or used in their original form by other users free of charge for personal, educational or commercial projects.
By using this site for uploading your content you agree that Material Jam doesn't owe you any kind of compensation for your contributions to the site even if Material Jam offers paid services involving usage of your uploaded content.
Material Jam monitors all uploads to the site and makes selection for what to be published based only on our quality standards. We do not monitor and do not inspect if the resources you upload are original and genuine. We do not monitor if the resources you upload are your intellectual property. It's your responsibility to upload only original and genuine resources. If you are in breach of any copyrights of third parties you will be liable for that.
Rejected uploads will be deleted and cleaned regularly.
Once your uploads are approved you are not permitted to delete your uploads. In addition to that the uploads deletion is disabled when the upload gets approved. If for some reason you want your uploads to be deleted permanently please contact us with the reason. Material Jam has the right to refuse to delete your uploads and you agree with this at the time you upload resources.
Material Jam has the right to delete any of your uploads at any time without a reason.

5. Limitation of Liability.

"Material Jam" shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages (including loss of business, revenue, profits, interruption, use, data, electronically transmitted orders, or other economic advantage) arising out of or in connection with your uploaded resources, even if "Material Jam" have previously been advised of or reasonably could have foreseen, the possibility of such damages however they arise, whether in breach of contract or in tort.

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND DEFEND MATERIAL JAM AND ITS LICENSORS FROM AND AGAINST ALL CLAIMS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, COSTS AND EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT BY YOU.

5. Termination.

This agreement may be terminated by closing your account on MaterialJam.com by the site support team, and removing your uploads from the site. "Material Jam" has the right to terminate this agreement and your account for a violation of this agreement or any other agreement incorporated by reference, including the site's Terms of Use.

6. Last modified.

This Publishing Agreement is in effect as of September 25, 2019.