Matterbase offers a library of amazing virtual material samples and content to use in your designs, including virtual samples, images, templates (Content) etc.. If you export a Matterbase design that contains Content*, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Content License Agreement, the Matterbase Privacy Policy and Matterbase’s Terms of Use. Defined terms used in this agreement have the meaning given in our Terms of Use.
Matterbase offers a library of amazing materials and content to use in your designs, including virtual samples, images, templates (Content) etc, By using a piece of Content in a Matterbase, you’re bound by this agreement. If you don’t agree to the terms of this agreement, please don’t use any Content. Matterbase reserves the right to cancel or change the licenses granted by this agreement. We reserve the right to replace the Content with an alternative. All Content on Matterbase is protected by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and international copyright. Matterbase and its contributors reserve all rights that aren’t explicitly given to you under this license. That includes all copyright and intellectual property rights.
Under the terms of this Agreement, we grant to you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable (subject to section 4A below) worldwide license to use the content on Matterbase in your designs.
A license is issued to you when you Export or share a Matterbase Design, for each piece of Content contained in your Design. Free Content licenses are issued at no cost.
You may transfer a Matterbase Design containing Content to a client for the client’s own use, subject to the following terms:You will enter into an agreement with your client that stipulates that the client’s use of the Matterbase Design must be only for their use and must be in accordance with these terms;You will remain solely responsible and liable for your client’s compliance with these terms
These are the things this Agreement permits you to do or make with Matterbase Designs that contain Content: Moodboards, material boards, Advertising and promotional projects, presentations, catalogues, brochures, newsletters, social media content, without any reproduction quantity limit;school or university projects;social media post or profile image;decorative background on a personal computer or mobile device;design templates solely for use on Matterbase; entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and video, broadcast and theatrical presentations of unlimited prints;online or electronic publications, including web pages, blogs,prints, posters (i.e. hardcopies) and other reproductions for personal or promotional purposes, resale, license or other distribution;any other uses approved in writing by Matterbase.
Use the Content in more than one Matterbase Design without obtaining an additional license; Download the Content on a standalone basis; andUse the Content in templates for websites, social networking websites, documents, projects or otherwise for distribution and/or sale to third parties;Use the Content in design template applications intended for resale, whether online or not, including, without limitation, templates, design templates.
You definitely can’t do these things with any Content on Matterbase: sub-license, re-sell, rent, lend, assign, gift or otherwise transfer or distribute the Content or the rights granted under this Content License Agreement (subject to section 4A);use any of the Content as part of a trade-mark, design-mark, trade-name, business name or service mark (excluding fonts);use Content identified as “Editorial Use Only”, for any commercial, promotional, endorsement, advertising or merchandising use. In this agreement, “Editorial Use Only” content means relating to events that are newsworthy or of general interest and expressly excludes any advertorial use (i.e. sections or supplements featuring brand and/or product names or sections or supplements in relation to which you receive a fee from a third-party advertiser or sponsor);remove any notice of copyright, trade-mark or other proprietary right from any Content or Matterbase Design; Use or display the Content on a standalone basis on websites or other venues designed to induce or involving the sale, license or other distribution of “on demand” products, including postcards, mugs, t-shirts, posters and other items;use the Content in a way that is pornographic, obscene, immoral, infringing, defamatory or libelous in nature, or that would be reasonably likely to bring any person or property reflected in the Content into disrepute;use the Content in a way that places any person depicted in the content in a bad light or in a way that they may find offensive – this includes, but is not limited to, the use of images: a) in pornography, “adult videos” or the like; b) in ads for tobacco products; c) in ads or promotional materials for adult entertainment clubs or similar venues, or for escort, dating or similar services; d) in connection with political endorsements; e) in advertisements or promotional materials for pharmaceutical or healthcare, herbal or medical products, including, but not limited to dietary supplements, digestive aids, herbal supplements, personal hygiene or birth control products; and f) uses that are defamatory, or contain otherwise unlawful, offensive or immoral content, or content in violation of any applicable industry codes or regulations. You may not use content containing the likeness of a person if such use implies that the model engages in any immoral or illegal activity or suffers from a physical or mental infirmity, ailment or condition;use Content in a manner that competes with Matterbase’s business including, but not limited to, displaying content in any format (including thumbnails) for download or export on a website, or offering content for sale;incorporate the Content in any product that results in a re-distribution or re-use of the content or is otherwise made available in a manner such that a person can extract or access or reproduce the content as an electronic file;to the extent that source code is contained within the Content, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of such source code;use or display the Content in an electronic format that enables it to be downloaded, exported or distributed via mobile devices or shared in any peer-to-peer or similar file sharing arrangement;use or display Content in a manner that gives the impression that the Content was created by you or a person other than the copyright holder of the Content (including without limitation, by claiming ownership of, or exclusive rights to, the Content);use Content for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, or for any technologies designed or intended for the identification of natural persons.
Matterbase will keep track of your designs and your account to make sure you’re not breaking this License or any of our Terms. This might include monitoring downloads and Exports, retaining details of your Matterbase Designs and tracking abuse of your username and password. If you *do* break this license, we may suspend or terminate your account without notice. If your account is terminated for violating this license or any abuse of a username or password, you will lose all rights to Content and Matterbase designs and must immediately delete all Content and Matterbase designs acquired from Matterbase, and forfeit all fees paid. You can terminate your Content license by destroying the Content and Matterbase Design, along with any copies or archives of it or accompanying materials (if applicable), and no longer using the Matterbase Design for any purpose. Matterbase can terminate these Content licenses without advance notice if you fail to comply with any of its terms. If that happens, you must immediately (i) cease using the Content and any Matterbase Designs containing the Content for any purpose; (ii) destroy or delete all copies and archives of the Content and any Matterbase Designs containing the Content or accompanying materials; and (iii) if requested, confirm to Matterbase in writing that you have complied with these requirements.
If you find out – from Matterbase or somewhere else – that there’s a claim of infringement of another’s right for which Matterbase might be liable, you have to stop using the Content immediately, at your own expense. This applies whether the claim is threatened, potential or actual. You also have to immediately delete or remove the Content from your premises, computer systems and storage (electronic or physical); ensure that your clients, printers or ISPs do likewise; and let Matterbase know as soon as possible by emailing Matterbase.
Releases are generally not obtained for Content, and some jurisdictions provide legal protection against a person’s image, likeness or property being used for commercial purposes when they have not provided a release. Matterbase doesn’t grant any right nor make any warranty for the use of names, people, trademarks, trade dress, logos, registered designs or works of art or architecture depicted in Free Content. You’re solely responsible for determining whether a release is required for any proposed use of Content, and obtaining any such release. While we’ve made reasonable efforts to correctly categorize, keyword, caption and title the content, Matterbase does not warrant the accuracy of that information or any metadata that may be provided with the Content. YOU AGREE THAT THE FONT SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED TO YOU WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR MERCHANTABILITY. You agree that the Font Software is supplied without any warranty that the Font Software is free of all bugs, errors, and omissions. YOU AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT WILL MATTERBASE OR ITS SUPPLIERS, , BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF YOU NOTIFIED THE PROVIDER OF THE PRODUCT AND THE SUPPLIERS OF THE FONT SOFTWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. This does not exclude any warranties that you may be entitled to that are not able to be excluded under applicable consumer laws.