1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
1.1 The Agreement means the agreement between on the one hand Kluwer Law International
bv ("Licensor") and on the other hand the customer ("Licensee") on the basis of
the Order Form as defined herein, the Acceptance as defined herein and the present
Terms and Conditions. The Terms and Conditions shall apply on any offer or agreement
with the exclusion of any terms and conditions used by the Licensee.
1.2 The following terms shall have the following meanings:
- Licensed Material: any content provided by Licensor to Licensee as per the Order
Form and any available optional service(s) the Licensee chooses to subscribe to;
- Network: any system allowing access to the Licensed Material via any communications
link except by remote access as defined herein.
- Local Area Network: a Network within a single site.
- Wide Area Network: a Network over more than one site.
- Site: the physical location(s) or address(es) at which the Licensed Material will
be used as per the Order Form, or in default thereof the Licensee's principal place
of business.
- Remote access: any system that allows access to the Licensed Material via any
form of remote telephone access via modem or similar device.
- Online Access: the access to the Licensed Material offered as the "Online" Licensed
Material by the Licensor on the Internet (www.KluwerLawOnline.com).
- Order Form: Licensor's standard order form, or if not used by Licensee, any document
detailing the order in combination with Licensor's Acceptance.
- Acceptance: Licensor's acceptance of the order by way of invoice or separate note.
- Start Date: the date indicated on the invoice on which this Agreement takes effect.
- Renewal Date: an anniversary of the Start Date.
- License Fee: the fee for using the Licensed Material.
- Renewal Fee: the fee to be paid annually prior to the Renewal Date.
2. GRANT OF LICENSE
2.1 The Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable License
to use the Licensed Material at the Site, in accordance with the terms and conditions
hereof.
2.2 Where the Licensed Material is supplied on a trial-basis for evaluation purposes,
Licensee may use the Licensed Material for evaluation during the period agreed,
in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof and shall at the Licensee's cost
cease use of the Licensed Material.
3. PERIOD OF LICENSE
3.1 This Agreement shall remain in force for 12 months from the Start Date.
3. 2 Upon termination of this Agreement Licensee will cease use of the Licensed
Material. Any special conditions regarding access or use of the Licensed Material
that may apply after termination of this Agreement must be previously discussed
between Licensor and Licensee and accepted by both parties in writing.
4. PRICES AND PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS
4.1 Licensee undertakes to pay Licensor the License Fee within 28 days of receipt
of the invoice and the Renewal Fee prior to each Renewal Date, increased with VAT
where applicable and dispatching and/or administration costs. Invoicing will take
place yearly.
4.2 Licensor reserves the right to change the License Fee and/or the Renewal Fee
with effect from the Start Date or Renewal Date subject to 30 days prior notice.
4.3 If payment of any Fee has not been received by Licensor within 28 days of the
invoice date, Licensee will be in default without any further notice being required.
4.4 Licensor reserves the right to withhold delivery of the Licensed Material and
any updates thereof until all outstanding fees and costs are paid.
5. TERMINATION ON BREACH
Licensor may terminate this License forthwith by written notice sent by courier,
first class post or fax or via e-mail to Licensee if:
- Licensee has committed an irredeemable breach of this Agreement; or
- after Licensee, in Licensor's reasonable opinion, has failed to remedy a remediable
breach of these terms and conditions within 14 days of being given notice to do
so, or
- Licensee is declared bankrupt or enters into liquidation or any arrangement with
creditors or has a receiver or administrative receiver appointed such termination
being prejudice to any other claim which Licensor may have.
6. OWNERSHIP AND PERMITTED COPYING
6.1 The Licensed Material is not sold to Licensee. Licensee shall not acquire any
right, title or interest in:
- the Licensed Material;
- any documentation or material made available to Licensee. This documentation or
material shall remain the property of Licensor.
6.2 All rights in the Licensed Material whether these exist or may come into existence
which are not specifically granted to Licensee by this Agreement are expressly reserved
to Licensor or to such other rights holders as stated on the Licensed Material.
6.3 Any copyrighted material is reproduced by Licensor with the permission of the
copyright holder.
6.4 Licensee shall not sublicense the Licensed Material to others and Licensee warrants
that access will not be given to the Licensed Material to any person not being an
employee, partner or student of Licensee's firm, company, organisation, university
or other entity. Any access to the Licensed Material given by Licensee must comply
with the terms and conditions stated in this agreement.
6.5 Except as permitted by law Licensee shall not itself nor allow any third party
to duplicate or otherwise reproduce the Licensed Material or any part thereof.
7. PERMITTED AND PROHIBITED USE
7.1 Licensee shall use the Licensed Material and shall take all reasonable steps
to ensure that its employees and partners shall use the Licensed Material only:
- for its own business purposes;
- by the user(s) specified on the Order Form;
- at the Site(s) specified on the Order Form;
- for the permitted purposes set out in the Agreement.
7.2 Licensee shall not use the Licensed Material, allow access to the Licensed Material,
or divulgue any extract of the Licensed Material or any such result thereof other
than for the purpose set out in Section 7.1 nor allow or authorise the Licensed
Material to be used for the purpose of operating a bureau or similar service or
any online service whatsoever.
7.3 Licensee, its employees or partners on its behalf, during the normal course
of Licensee's business, and, where Licensee's business is the provision of library
services, bona fide on-site users of those services, may for its own business purposes:
- view the Licensed Material on screen;
- print extracts from the Licensed Material;
- transmit by print, fax, e-mail, or other method, extracts from the Licensed Material
between employees, partners or agents of Licensee;
- transmit by print, fax, e-mail, or other method, extracts from the Licensed Material
to third parties only in connection with the provision of professional advice provided
that no additional fee is directly or indirectly charged for the transmission.
7.4 All extracts must clearly reproduce the copyright notice(s) and Licensee shall
not do or omit to do or authorise any other person to do or omit to do any act which:
- would or might invalidate or be inconsistent with any Intellectual Property Right
of Licensor in the Licensed Material
- would be in breach of or otherwise inconsistent with the moral rights of the authors
of the items comprising the Licensed Material.
7.5 Licensee shall not erase, remove, deface or cover any trademark, trade names,
numbers, copyright or other proprietary notices, guarantee, designation of origin,
means of identification, disclaimer or other statement used on any media containing
the Licensed Material or used in relation to it, nor shall Licensee authorise another
person to do so.
7.6 Licensee shall promptly inform Licensor if Licensee becomes aware of:
- any unauthorised use of the Licensed Material
- any actual, threatened, or suspected infringement of any intellectual property
right of Licensor in the Licensed Material, and
- any claim by any third party that the Licensed Material infringes the intellectual
property or other rights of any other person.
7.7 Licensee shall at the request and expense of Licensor do all such things as
may be reasonably required to assist Licensor in taking or resisting proceedings
in relation to any infringement or claim referred to in this Clause and in maintaining
the validity and enforceability of the intellectual property of Licensor in the
Licensed Material.
7.8 Except insofar as permitted by law, Licensee shall not modify, reverse assemble,
decompile or reverse engineer the Licensed Material or any part thereof, or permit
any third party to do so.
7.9 Licensee shall not, except to the extent necessary to exercise the rights granted
under this Agreement :
- make any alterations, additions or amendments to the Licensed Material;
- combine the whole or any part of the Licensed Material with any other software,
data or material
- create derivative works from the whole or any part of the Licensed Material
8. SUPPLY
8.1 Licensor will supply to Licensee the Licensed Material.
8.2 Licensor may at any time make modifications or improvements to the Licensed
Material.
8.3 Licensor may at any time withdraw from the Licensed Material any material included
in it:
- if Licensor ceases, for whatever reason, to publish the publication from which
such material is taken or otherwise no longer retains the right to publish such
material;
- if in Licensor's reasonable opinion such material contains any matter which infringes
copyright or is defamatory, obscene, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable.
8.4 During the period of the Agreement, Licensor will use all reasonable endeavours,
if and to the necessary extent, to make and supply updates to the Licensed Material.
9. ONLINE ACCESS
9.1 The Licensee will be issued with a unique user name and a unique password (or
any other means of personal identification), which the Licensee shall only use or
allow to be used for the permitted use at the Site. The Licensee shall keep the
identification information confidential and not disclose, disseminate or pass it
on to employees, partners, group companies, branch offices, business relations or
others for use from other locations than the Site or by other than the permitted
users.
9.2 Licensor has the right to replace or block Licensee's unique user name and/or
password (or any other means of personal identification) immediately and without
prior notice if and when illegal access to the Licensed Material through this user
name has been ascertained, or when there are reasonable grounds to suspect that
such illegal access will occur or has occurred through this user name. Licensor
has the right to limit access Online to a restricted range or specific IP addresses
or to block a range of or specific IP addresses, either in conjunction with Licensee's
user name or regardless of the user name.
9.3 Although reasonable care is given to ensure uninterrupted use of the Licensed
Material, Licensor shall not be liable for any temporary difficulties Licensee may
encounter in Online accessing the Licensed Material whether due to telephone connections,
down time of the internet server at the provider, maintenance, virus detection or
elimination or any other reason whatsoever.
9.4 Without prejudice to any other remedy Licensor may have by law in the event
of breach of the obligation in this clause, Licensee shall become due and owing
without any further notice being required to Licensor by way of penalty a sum equal
to the yearly fee for worldwide unlimited access applicable at the time of such
breach.
10. LICENSOR WARRANTIES
10.1 Licensor warrants that it has obtained all necessary rights to grant this License.
10.2 Whilst reasonable care is taken to ensure the accuracy and completeness of
the Licensed Material supplied, Licensor makes no representations or warranties
whatsoever, express or implied, that the Licensed Material is free from errors or
omissions.
10.3 Whilst reasonable care has been taken to exclude computer viruses, no representation
or warranty is made that the Licensed Material is virus free. Licensee shall be
responsible to ensure that no virus is introduced to any computer or network.
10.4 Licensee has satisfied itself prior to entering the Agreement that the Licensed
Material meets Licensee's individual requirements and is compatible with Licensee's
hardware/software configuration and no failure of any part or the whole of the Licensed
Material to be suitable for those requirements will give rise to any right or claim
against Licensor.
10.5 The warranties set out in this clause are exclusive of and in lieu of all other
warranties, conditions, terms, undertakings, and obligations whether implied or
expressed by law.
10.6 Licensor shall not be liable for any loss of whatsoever kind or for any indirect
or consequential loss whatsoever, howsoever suffered by Licensee or for any liability
of Licensee to any third party in connection with the Licensed Material (whether
or not caused by the negligence of Licensor).
10.7 The aggregate maximum liability of Licensor in respect of any direct or other
loss (to the extent that such loss is not excluded by this Agreement or otherwise)
whether such a claim arises in contract, tort or delict shall not exceed a sum equal
to that paid as the last annual License Fee for the Licensed Material.
10.8 Licensor shall not be liable for the use of the Licensed Material by Licensee,
its agents and employees and Licensee shall keep Licensor fully indemnified against
any claims, costs, damages, loss and liabilities arising out of any such use.
11. MISCELLANEOUS
11.1 Where two or more legal entities constitute Licensor and/or Licensee their
liability shall be joint and several.
11.2 These terms and conditions together with the Order Form constitute the entire
Agreement between the parties and may only be varied in writing signed by both parties.
11.3 Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights and obligations of Licensee hereunder
may be assigned, transferred, charged, delegated, sublicensed, or otherwise disposed
of in whole or in part on a temporary or permanent basis unless Licensee has obtained
the prior written consent of Licensor.
11.4 No delay or forbearance by Licensor in enforcing any provisions of this Agreement
shall be construed as a waiver of such provision or an agreement thereafter not
to enforce the said provision on that or any other occasion or another provision
on another occasion.
11.5 These Terms and Conditions are governed and construed in accordance with the
laws of The Netherlands. The sole jurisdiction and venue for any action that may
arise under or in relation to the sbject matter hereof shall be the courts of The
Netherlands.
