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Cooperation Agreement
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This Cooperation Agreement
(“ Agreement ”) is enter into by and
among the following parties on this 29th day of May, 2008: |
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China Youth Ne
t Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
, a limited liability company duly established and existing under
the laws of the People's Republic of China (“
PRC ” or “ China
”) with its domicile at 16th and 17th Floors, Changbao Plaza,
1 An Hua Bei Li, Guangqumennei Street, Chongwen District, Beijing,
China (hereinafter, “ CYN ”);
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(2) |
China Youth Interactive Cultural Media
(Beijing) Co., Ltd. , a limited liability company duly
established and existing under the laws of the PRC with its
domicile at 5th Floor, Huaxia Bank Building, 22 Jianguomennei
Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China (hereinafter, “
CYI ”);
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(3) |
China Youth Net Advertising Co.
Ltd. , a limited liability company duly established and
existing under the laws of the PRC with its domicile at Room 705,
38, Chaowai Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China (hereinafter,
“ CYN Ads ”); and
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Youth Media (Hong Kong)
Limited , a company duly organized and existing under the
laws of Hong Kong, with its registered address at Level 28, Three
Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong (“
YMHK ”).
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(Each a “ Party ”, and
two or more collectively the “ Parties
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Whereas, |
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CYN is a business entity controlled by China
Youth League and is entrusted by China Youth League to be
responsible for, operate and hold investments in various businesses
with respect to computer networks under China Youth
League. Related to that, the Movie and Television
Network Center of China Youth League(the “
Center ”), which is a related entity of CYN
and is also controlled by China Youth League, has been approved by
the PRC State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (“
SARFT ”) and issued an Online Video-Audio
License (as defined here below) by the same authority for
dissemination of video and audio contents through information
network. CYN is one of the shareholders of CYI,
presently owning and holding 51% of the total equity interest of
CYI;
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CYI has obtained an exclusive authorization
from the Center to set up comprehensive network platform with
on-campus students as targeted users and to provide information and
related value-added services through such network. CYN is in
total support to CYI in this respect and is willing to provide
various resources to CYI;
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CYN Ads, in which CYN also owns and is holding
41% of the total equity interest, has been granted by CYN with
certain advertising rights to place advertisements through networks
under the auspices of CYN;
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(D) |
YMHK owns or has access to technologies, media
contents and other desired resources that are valuable to the
network operated or to be operated by CYI; and
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CYN, CYI and YMHK are willing to cooperate
with each other with respect to the aforesaid network and any other
business opportunities in related areas, and CYN Ads is in total
support of such cooperation;
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Now, Therefore, after
friendly discussions and based on the principles of equality and
mutual benefit, the Parties agree on the following terms and
conditions:
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1. |
Definition and Interpretation |
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1.1 |
Definition |
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Unless otherwise defined or interpreted in the
contexts of this Agreement capitalized terms used herein shall have
the following meanings:
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“ Affiliate ”
means, in terms of any Party, any company, corporation,
partnership, joint venture or other entity that directly or
indirectly Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control
with that Party.
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“ Control ”,
“ Controls ”, “
Controlled ” (or any correlative term) means
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management of a Person, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract, credit arrangement
or proxy, as trustee, executor, agent or otherwise. For
the purpose of this definition, a Person shall be deemed to Control
another Person if such first Person, directly or indirectly, owns
or holds more than 50% of the voting equity interests in such other
Person.
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“ Effective Date ”
means the execution date of this Agreement. |
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" Intellectual Property
Rights ” means patents, trade marks, service marks,
trade names, design rights (whether registrable or not), any
applications for the foregoing, copyright and other assignable
intellectual property rights (whether registrable or not) in any
country, including but not limited to the format, layout, and the
look and feel of any of the Content.
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“ Campus Network
” means video and audio distribution network based on,
including but not limited to, the China Education and Research
Network (“ CERN ”), the broadband
network infrastructure built in schools, universities and other
education institutions. After the Mobile Campus Network (as
defined below in Clause 2.1.2) is launched, any reference of
“Campus Network” under this Agreement shall also
include the reference of the Mobile Campus Network as well, to the
extent possible.
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“ Person ” means
any natural person, corporation, company, association, partnership,
organization, business, firm, joint venture, trust, unincorporated
organization or any other entity or organization, and shall include
any governmental authority.
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“ Territory ” means
the People's Republic of China (which, for the purpose of this
Agreement, shall not include Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). |
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1.2 |
Interpretation |
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References to an “Exhibit” or a
“Schedule” are, unless otherwise specified, to an
exhibit or a schedule attached to this Agreement and references to
an “Article” or a “Clause” are, unless
otherwise specified, to one of the articles or clauses of this
Agreement.
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References to any word in the singular form,
if applicable, include the references to such a word in the plural
form, and vice versa.
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Words importing any particular gender shall
include all other genders.
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The headings in this Agreement are for
purposes of easy reference only and shall not be considered in
construing this Agreement.
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2. |
Cooperation and Grant of
Rights |
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2.1 |
The Campus Network |
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2.1.1 |
CYN and CYI on the one side and YMHK on the
other side agree to cooperate with each other to develop, build and
operate a fully managed Campus Network under the auspices of
CYN. The Center is holding the Information Network
Video-Audio Content Dissemination License issued by SARFT with the
series no. 0105108 (the “ Online Video-Audio
License ”) and CYI is holding the Telecommunication
and Information Service Business License issued by the
Telecommunication Administrative Bureau of Beijing, China with the
series no. 070249 (the “ ICP License
”), both of which licenses are required for the setup,
development and operation of the Campus Network. The Center
has granted an exclusive authorization to CYI (“ the
Center's Authorization ”) to entrust CYI to setup,
develop and operate the Campus Network.
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2.1.2 |
At the initial stage, the Campus Network is a
network that is only accessible on the campuses of universities and
colleges in the Territory. CYN will, by itself or through CYI
or any other Affiliate, launch a network (“ Mobile
Campus Network ”) for distribution of
student-targeted video-audio contents via mobile network as soon as
practicable after the signing of this Agreement, and upon the
launch of such Mobile Campus Network, CYN, CYI, and YMHK will
expand their cooperation under this Agreement to such Mobile Campus
Network. It is the intention of CYN, CYI and YMHK that later
on, upon their mutual agreement, they may expand the Campus Network
in manner permitted and appropriate in law so that it is accessible
by the public via Internet.
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2.1.3 |
The Campus Network will be deployed across a
centrally controlled and protected system and will make use both of
proprietary software systems and technologies controlled by YMHK
and its Affiliates and software systems and technologies controlled
by others (the “ Technology ”).
YMHK will license to CYI and will cause its relevant Affiliates to
license to CYI for use by the Campus Network in the Territory any
Technology YMHK or its relevant Affiliate might control and has the
right to license. Further, as soon as practicable after the
Effective Date, YMHK is to establish a wholly-foreign-owned company
100% invested by and owned by YMHK in Beijing, China (“
YMHK WFOE ”) to provide to CYI with relevant
business, commercial, operational and technical supports,
assistances and services with respect to the setup, operation,
maintenance and expansion of the Campus Network according to
separate agreement to be entered into by CYI and YMHK WFOE (the
“ Commercial and Technical Services
Agreement ”).
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It is the Parties' agreement that the board of
directors of YMHK WFOE shall be composed of five (5) directors, of
which three (3) shall be nominated by YMHK (and one of them shall
be the chairman and legal representative of YMHK WFOE) and the
other two (2) nominated by CYN and CYI. Further, the articles
of association of YMHK WFOE shall contain appropriate provisions
that certain significant business matters of YMHK WFOE shall
require unanimous approval of all five directors or with
substantially the same effect.
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2.1.4 |
The Campus Network will deliver a range of
content (the “ Content ”) from premium
international and domestic entertainment providers that is to be
sourced by YMHK and/or its Affiliates or by CYI, CYN or their
Affiliates independently or with the help of YMHK and/or its
Affiliates, and it is also anticipated by the Parties that to the
extent permitted by applicable law and beneficial to the Campus
Network and the cooperation contemplated in this Agreements, the
Campus Network may also deliver Content by the end users of the
Campus Network, provided that the Content to be delivered
via the Campus Network shall be subject to review and approval by
the Center and relevant authorities of China that are required by
applicable laws, rules and media control policies of China or are
otherwise reasonably believed as necessary or beneficial to the
smooth operation of the Campus Network. All Intellectual
Property Rights and other proprietary rights in any translated,
amended, revised or updated Content independent created by YMHK or
any of its Affiliates shall automatically vest in YMHK or its
relevant Affiliate.
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2.1.5 |
It is the intention of the Parties that at the
initial stage of the Cooperation, the Content of the Campus Network
(excluding Mobile Campus Network) shall be advertiser supported and
provided free to end users, while the Parties may explore and
discuss in the future to introduce a business model of the Campus
Network under which the end users shall pay fees to view or
download the Content from the Campus Network or access to other
services provided by the Campus Network. The Technology will
permit the Campus Network to process the Content enabling the
Content to be served with advertisements. CYN, CYI and YMHK
contemplate that a business based on the Campus Network will be
established whereby advertisers will be procured who will pay
advertising fees to have their advertisements placed in or around
the Content on the Campus Network. Whereever possible,
advertising on all Content delivered through the Campus Network
will be tracked.
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2.2 |
Cooperation |
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2.2.1 |
In addition to other responsibilities provided
in this Agreement, CYN and CYI will and will cause all their
Affiliates to:
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provide all reasonable assistance to assure
the legal and smooth operation of the Campus Network, especially
that the Center shall provide all reasonable assistance to ensure
the legal distribution of video-audio contents which can be
accessed via the Campus Network;
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make all efforts to expand the user base of
the Campus Network by entering into cooperation agreements with
universities and colleges for setting up servers in such
universities or colleges;
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marketing the Campus Network on all current
internet sites owned or controlled by CYN or its Affiliates and
provide linked banners and/or menu access of the Campus Network
from the home page for internet sites owned or controlled by CYN or
its Affiliates;
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make the Campus Network available via CERN,
and after the launch of the Mobile Campus Network, via China
Mobile, every day and week of every year, subject, however, to
system-wide downtime, and provide the Campus Network with access to
and use of data centers, bandwidth rates, service code, and channel
owned or controlled by CYI;
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fully assist YMHK and YMHK Affiliates in
protecting its Intellectual Property Rights and other rights to the
full extent permitted in law;
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be responsible and ensure that all information
(including, but not limited to, the Content) to be disseminated
through the Campus Network shall be in compliant with all
applicable legal requirements; and
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source or create Content for the Campus
Network. |
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2.2.2 |
In addition to other responsibilities provided
in this Agreement, YMHK will and/or cause its relevant Affiliates
to, to the extent permitted by applicable laws:
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license to CYI for use by the Campus Network
in China any Technology they currently control and have the right
to license, according to this Agreement and any other relevant
agreement(s) relating to the cooperation contemplated in this
Agreement;
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