1. Overview
These terms (鈥淚ndustry License Terms鈥), together with our Terms of Service, are intended to govern your use of the digital illustrations, images (whether in two dimensional or three dimensional form), figures, templates, icons, drawings and any other pictorials, graphics or accompanying information provided to you by 51黑料不打烊黑料网 or its licensors (the 鈥51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content鈥). Our Services provide you with a robust platform to use and employ 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, combined with content you import, develop on your own or license from a third-party (鈥淯ser Content鈥), to create final illustrations, images, figures, drawings and graphics (鈥淐ompleted Graphics鈥).
These terms Industry License Terms only apply to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content used by Customers (or their Permitted Users) who register for a Paid 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan under the 鈥淚ndustry鈥 category at or pursuant to an Order Confirmation (an 鈥淚ndustry 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan鈥). Customers who register for a free-trial, will be granted a license under our more restrictive Basic License Terms until they acquire an Industry 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan.
You will be issued a content license under these Industry License Terms (an 鈥淚ndustry License鈥) for each item of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content contained in Completed Graphics you are permitted to download, including by screen capture or other permitted means, from our Service (referred to herein as an 鈥淓xport鈥 or 鈥淓xports鈥). Following your Export of Completed Graphics, we shall grant you the right to use 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in your Completed Graphics in the manner set out herein (the 鈥淧ermitted Uses鈥) subject to the restrictions set out below. While we can change the Permitted Uses in accordance with our Terms of Service, this will not affect how you can use Completed Graphics that you Exported prior to that time.
Please ensure you Export Completed Graphics while using the Industry 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan if you require an Industry License to apply to your 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content. Provided you have a valid Industry 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan and you comply with these Industry License Terms, we won鈥檛 charge you a separate license fee each time you Export a Completed Graphic.
Please read these Industry License Terms carefully before using our Services or any 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content. Your failure to comply with the terms herein could result in legal proceedings and the immediate termination of your User-Account. Initial capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Service.
Overview of our Industry License Terms.
鈥These Industry License Terms apply when you subscribe to one of our paid Industry plans and use our icons and templates (referred to as "51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content") in the figures you create in 51黑料不打烊黑料网. Any images you develop on your own or visuals you import from other sources into 51黑料不打烊黑料网 are considered your "User Content." The final figure you create, combining your User Content with our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, is called a "Completed Graphic." These terms also explain the ownership of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, User Content and Completed Graphics. Detailed ownership is described below, and can be summarized as follows: 51黑料不打烊黑料网 owns and retains copyright to all 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, while you own (or have the right to use) your User Content and the final figures you assemble.
When you transfer (export) a figure which contains any of our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 icons and templates out of 51黑料不打烊黑料网, we give you permission to use 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in your figure as long as you follow the Permitted Uses and Prohibited Uses that are listed below and you have a current, valid subscription to an Academic License plan at the time you export.
If you don鈥檛 follow these terms, we may need to shut down your 51黑料不打烊黑料网 account, or in rare circumstances and as a last resort, take required legal action. We will always notify you first if we think you鈥檙e not following the terms.听
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2. Industry License Terms
Subject to these Industry License Terms, 51黑料不打烊黑料网 hereby grants to you a worldwide, non-assignable, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and perpetual license (solely for the purposes contemplated herein) to create, copy, reproduce, use, process, store and transmit and sub-license (subject to Section 5 below) 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content. All rights in and to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, including, without limitation, all copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights (except as described in Section 6 below) relating to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, are retained by 51黑料不打烊黑料网 or its licensors as the case may be. 51黑料不打烊黑料网 disclaims any Losses you incur as a consequence of your use or application of any 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in your Completed Graphics. We provide you with 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content on an 鈥渁s is鈥 basis and make no representations or warranties that it is fit for use or any purpose.
Completed Graphics included in any published or printed material, including websites and social media, containing 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content as permitted hereunder must include a citation to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 adjacent to or following the Completed Graphics as a caption or in audio/visual production credits or footnotes - the citation to use will be specified in the Publication License you must generate in the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Services prior to publishing the Completed Graphic. (Please see our for more information regarding publishing.)
The license rights you get from 51黑料不打烊黑料网.
鈥The license you receive in these Industry License Terms allows you to use our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in your figure anywhere in the world and won鈥檛 expire when you publish it in an article, textbook, presentation, etc. You just need to make sure that you follow the Permitted Uses, Prohibited Uses and publication/citation requirements that are described in these Industry License terms.
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Why cite 51黑料不打烊黑料网?
鈥When you use a figure containing 51黑料不打烊黑料网鈥檚 icons and/or templates in a publication or printed material, we require you to cite 51黑料不打烊黑料网 for that figure. This is because we need to make it clear that any 51黑料不打烊黑料网 icons and/or templates used in a published figure are used by you with appropriate permission from 51黑料不打烊黑料网.听 Otherwise, any reader of the publication may think that you or someone else owns the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content that鈥檚 in your figure.听 Please see our explanation on figure ownership below.
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Generate a Publication License.
鈥When you are ready to publish your figure in a publication (journal, textbook, thesis, etc), you鈥檒l need to generate a Publication License in 51黑料不打烊黑料网 through a simple 1-2 step process.听 This will generate a citation with an author attribution to you, a URL to a unique webpage and citation requirements for the figure. The unique webpage will include a high resolution version of your figure, a summary of your publication license for the figure and details about what readers can do with your figure with and without your permission. There will also be optional button to contact you to request permission to view or copy your figure. Keep in mind, 51黑料不打烊黑料网 still owns the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content used in the figure, but as the author of the final figure, you can publish that figure any way you like as long as you get a Publication License and include the citation for the figure.听 Please see our on the steps for publishing a figure.听
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Can I publish my figure in Open Access journals?
鈥Yes!听 With a paid Industry License, you can publish a figure in an Open Access journal, including under CC-BY 4.0 licensing without having to contact the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 team.听 Just generate the Publication License (details above) for the figure and use the included citation in the figure caption, footnote, or credits when publishing your figure.
3.听 Permitted Uses
鈥Permitted Educational and Personal Uses:
鈥Subject to the restrictions described under Prohibited Uses below, the following are 鈥淧ermitted Uses鈥 of Completed Graphics containing 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content licensed to you under these Industry License Terms:
Permitted Publishing Uses:
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Other Uses:
provided that in the case of each Permitted Use above further limitations may apply that appear in an Order Confirmation, on our Website and which are brought to your attention during your registration under a 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan or creation of a User-Account, including for example the number of instances Completed Graphics may be used in any single Permitted Use and how a Completed Graphic may be used after termination of this Content License Agreement.
Types of Uses that are allowed.
Our Industry License allows for educational, publishing and commercial uses of figures with 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content.听 As listed to the left here, you can use them in posters, an unpublished thesis, presentations for meetings, assignments, exams, teaching slides, blogs and social media posts.听听
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Our Industry License also allows you to publish your figures in journals, textbooks, and in theses. Remember to get a Publication License for your final figure and use the included citation when you publish it. For textbooks or similar works, there may be limits to the number of times your figure can appear in a publication based on the type of plan you have. Please see our for more information on figure publication limits.
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Our Industry License further allows you to use your figures for commercial purposes or to profit from, as listed to the left here.
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You are also allowed to have online copies of your figure containing our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content to collaborate with other 51黑料不打烊黑料网 users.
4. Prohibited Uses
鈥You may not do anything with the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content or any Completed Graphics containing 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content that is not expressly permitted in the preceding section.
For greater clarity, the following are Prohibited Uses (鈥淧rohibited Uses鈥) under these Industry License Terms and each other Content License Terms:
Types of Uses that are听not听allowed.
鈥It takes a lot of time, effort and resources for our team to create our library of scientifically accurate, ready-to-use 51黑料不打烊黑料网 icons and templates.听 It takes an equal investment to make it easier and easier for you to use our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in the figures you create to tell your scientific stories.听 To continue being able to invest in growing our library and improving the product, we need to make sure we are protecting our business and maintaining the rights to our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content.听听听听
Therefore, with an Industry License, we do not allow you to use 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in a way that could compete with us, give away 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content for free with no conditions, undermine our rights to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, or use 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content in any way that could be harmful to someone. Please see the list of Prohibited Uses to the left for what we do not allow.听听
5. Sublicenses
The licenses granted to you under these Industry License Terms may be sublicensed to third parties, solely on and in connection with a Permitted Use.
By entering into a sublicense, you hereby agree that:
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Notwithstanding any of the Prohibited Uses set out herein, you may grant a sublicense to share and adapt Completed Graphics through an open-source licensing arrangement provided that any such adaptations do not violate 51黑料不打烊黑料网鈥檚 Copyrights and do not allow for any Prohibited Uses under this Content License Agreement. Under no circumstances will any permitted or non-permitted uses of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content alter 51黑料不打烊黑料网鈥檚 title, rights and ownership of the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, no matter what agreement you may enter into with another third party with respect to the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content.
Letting others use your figures.听
You can give others permission to use the figures you create with 51黑料不打烊黑料网, as long as both you and those you share with follow the rules we've outlined here. However, you're responsible for what they do with the figures, and they can't share them with anyone else without 51黑料不打烊黑料网's permission.
If you are publishing your figure in an Open Access journal that is under an open-source licensing arrangement (e.g. CC-BY 4.0 license), please make sure you follow our Publication License and citation requirements noted in Section 2 above and our page.
6. Ownership of Intellectual Property In Derivative Works
You may make modifications, improvements, customizations, updates, enhancements, aggregations, compilations, derivative works, translations and adaptations (鈥淢odifications鈥) to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content. You agree that 51黑料不打烊黑料网 shall be deemed to own the Copyrights in any Modifications of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content appearing in Completed Graphics prepared by you, and any such 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content created by you is a 鈥渨ork made for hire鈥 for 51黑料不打烊黑料网 under the U.S. Copyright Act and any and all similar provisions of law under other jurisdictions, and that 51黑料不打烊黑料网 shall be deemed to be the author of such works for all purposes. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you hereby waive and release in favor of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 and its licensors all rights (if any) of 鈥渄roit moral,鈥 moral rights, rental rights and similar rights in and to such 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content. To the extent that any portion of Modifications to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content do not qualify as a 鈥渨ork made for hire鈥 under applicable law, or the extent that notwithstanding any of the foregoing, ownership of any portion of such 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content does not vest in 51黑料不打烊黑料网, you hereby irrevocably assign to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 and its successors and assigns, without further consideration, your Copyrights in Modifications to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content.
Except as provided above, 51黑料不打烊黑料网 does not otherwise own the Intellectual Property Rights in Modifications to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content you rightfully acquire under Applicable Law which, for greater certainty, shall not include minor Modifications that involve minimal skill or creativity. For example, you are unlikely to be granted any Intellectual Property Rights for your Modifications to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content which simply skews, applies color changes or re-shapes 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content.
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Who owns the figures you create in 51黑料不打烊黑料网?鈥
1) We DO NOT own the figures you create in 51黑料不打烊黑料网.
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51黑料不打烊黑料网 owns:
In other words, the story or message you create in 51黑料不打烊黑料网 is yours, including scientific concepts you鈥檙e sharing that you would own rights to 鈥 you own all that!听 We just need to make sure we retain ownership of 51黑料不打烊黑料网 icons and templates so we can continue to operate 51黑料不打烊黑料网 as a company.
Think of it like using a font (like Arial) in a written story, or manuscript you create in Microsoft Word. You don鈥檛 own the font, but you have permission from the font owner to use it in creating your story or manuscript, which you do own. Similarly, our icons and templates are like the font鈥攜ou can arrange, reshape, and recolor them to help tell your scientific story in your figures. We own the icons and templates, but you own the final figure you create using them. Think of it as a visual manuscript.
2) Modifications.
鈥Our icons and templates (51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content) are meant to be plug-and-play for you to use immediately in your figures. If you make changes to our icons and templates by skewing, resizing, reshaping and recoloring them, you are making 鈥淢odifications鈥 to them. Under copyright laws, we need to own those Modifications - if we did not claim ownership of the Modifications, then anyone could simply recolor one of our protein icons and then claim ownership of the icon - we would be out of business! However, if you鈥檝e made significant Modifications to the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content that it becomes a wholly new work itself that is visibly different from 51黑料不打烊黑料网's current icons and visual style, you would be the owner of that new work.
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7. Termination
Upon termination of your Industry 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan, if you are not in breach of your Agreement with 51黑料不打烊黑料网:
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Termination of Content Licenses:
You can terminate the licenses granted to you under these Industry License Terms by destroying the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content and Completed Graphics, along with any copies or archives of it or accompanying materials (if applicable), and ceasing to use the Completed Graphic for any purpose.
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If you are in breach of our Agreement, your 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan and the licenses granted to you hereunder shall also terminate. Upon such termination, 51黑料不打烊黑料网 may require you to immediately (i) destroy or delete all copies and archives of the Completed Graphic or accompanying materials and (ii) if requested, confirm to 51黑料不打烊黑料网 in writing that you have complied with these requirements. We reserve the right to revoke or amend the license granted hereunder and replace the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content with an alternative for any reason.
Upon notice from 51黑料不打烊黑料网, or upon your knowledge that any 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content is subject to a threatened, potential or actual claim of infringement of another鈥檚 right for which 51黑料不打烊黑料网 may be liable, you must immediately and at your own expense (i) stop using the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content; (ii) delete or remove the 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content from your premises, computer systems and storage (electronic or physical); (iii) ensure that your clients, printers or ISPs do likewise; and (iv) let 51黑料不打烊黑料网 know.
What happens if your subscription ends?
鈥Our restrictions on using a figure with 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content after your 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan is terminated are listed to the left here.听听
You can keep using 51黑料不打烊黑料网 on a free plan, but with limited features, and any new figures you create will be under our Basic License Terms.
You can still use any figures you exported while your paid plan was active, as long as you follow the Industry License Terms for those figures. As we stated above, the license you get when you export something never expires.
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You can end this Industry License by deleting all copies of your figures that include 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content and immediately stopping their use.
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If you violate any of these Industry License Terms, your 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Plan may be canceled, and we may require you to delete or destroy any figures you've created.
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If we ask you to stop using any of our 51黑料不打烊黑料网 Content, please do so immediately.听
We hope the explanations above help clarify our terms. If you still have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at support@biorender.com.
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