PLAYSTATION ®
PORTABLE LICENSED PUBLISHER AGREEMENT
THIS
AGREEMENT RELATES TO THE PUBLISHING OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE FOR THE
PLAYSTATION PORTABLE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM. ALL TERMS USED HEREIN
ARE SPECIFIC TO THE PLAYSTATION PORTABLE SYSTEM AND NOT TO
SONY’S PREDECESSOR “PLAYSTATION” OR
“PLAYSTATION 2” VIDEO AND COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
SYSTEMS. PUBLISHING RIGHTS FOR SUCH PREDECESSOR SYSTEMS ARE SUBJECT
TO SEPARATE AGREEMENTS WITH SCEE, AND ANY LICENCE OF RIGHTS TO
PUBLISHER UNDER SUCH SEPARATE AGREEMENTS SHALL NOT CONFER ON
PUBLISHER ANY RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THE PLAYSTATION PORTABLE
SYSTEM, OR VICE VERSA.
This
Agreement is entered
into the 7 th day of August 2008 by and between
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
EUROPE LIMITED
of 10 Great Marlborough Street,
London W1F 7LP
(hereinafter referred to as
"SCEE")
- and -
ZOO DIGITAL PUBLISHING
LIMITED
of Arundel House, 177 Arundel
Street, Sheffield, S 1 2NU, United Kingdom
(hereinafter referred to as
"Publisher")
P
UBLISHER
A
UTHORISATION
#: 271
Recitals
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SCEE, its
parent company Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., and/or certain of
their affiliates and companies within the group of companies of
which any of them form part (hereinafter jointly and severally
referred to as "Sony") have developed, and are licensing core
components of, a computer entertainment system known and
hereinafter referred to as “PlayStation®
Portable” or “PSP ”,
and are the owners of, or have the right to grant licences of,
certain proprietary information and intellectual property rights
pertaining to PSP.
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Publisher
desires to be granted a non-exclusive licence, on a product by
product basis, to market, distribute and sell Licensed Products (as
defined below), and for such Licensed Products and associated
materials to be manufactured by an authorised manufacturing
facility licensed by SCEE, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
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SCEE is
willing, on the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement, to grant Publisher the desired non-exclusive
licences.
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In
consideration of the undertakings, representations and warranties
given herein, and of other good and valuable consideration the
receipt and sufficiency of which is acknowledged, Publisher and
SCEE agree as follows:
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“Licensed
Products” means the PSP format Software games listed in
Schedule 3, and such further PSP format Software games as shall,
from time to time, achieve unconditional pass status under
SCEE’s product assessment process, in unique UMD format
software discs and shells.
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“Licensed
Territory” means the countries specified in Schedule
1.
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“Sony
Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide current and
future rights in or in relation to the Licensed Trademarks, any
patents, inventions, designs, copyrights, rights in databases,
trademarks, service marks, trade names (including any goodwill
associated with any trademarks or names), semi-conductor topography
rights, Confidential Information of Sony, rights in technical
information and know-how, rights in the nature of unfair
competition rights and rights to sue for passing off and all other
proprietary or intellectual property rights (and the equivalents of
each of the foregoing under the laws of any jurisdiction) of Sony
pertaining to Sony Materials and/or PSP (including, without
limitation, all registrations, applications to register and rights
to apply for registration of the same) for their full term
including all renewals and extensions thereof.
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“Specifications” means such
specifications relating to the content and/or manufacture of
Licensed Products, Printed Materials, Advertising Materials and/or
related matters or materials as may from time to time be
promulgated by Sony, which specifications (and/or procedures
relating to the testing or verification of all such materials for
conformity to the Specifications and/or relating to the ordering
and manufacture of Licensed Products and associated materials) are
incorporated into and form part of this Agreement and may be
amended from time to time upon reasonable notice to
Publisher.
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“Licensed
Trademarks” means the “PS” family logo and
PlayStation Portable and “PSP” logotypes and such other
trademarks, service marks, trade dress, logos and other icons or
indicia as shall be specified in the Specifications or otherwise
designated by SCEE from time to time. SCEE may amend such Licensed
Trademarks upon reasonable notice to Publisher.
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Publisher is
not authorised to use the PlayStation, PSone, PlayStation 2,
“PS2”, playstation.com or psp.com logos and/or
logotypes or the PlayStation Shapes devices, other than as
expressly permitted by separate agreement. Nothing contained in
this Agreement shall in any way grant Publisher the right to use
the trademark "Sony" in any manner as (or as part of) a trademark,
trade name, service mark or logo or otherwise howsoever.
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“Advertising Materials” means all
advertising, merchandising, promotional and display materials of or
concerning the Licensed Products.
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“Printed
Materials” means all artwork and mechanicals to be set forth
on the Licensed Product itself, and on the box (or other) packaging
for the Licensed Product and all instruction manuals, inlays,
inserts, stickers and other user information and/or materials to be
inserted in or affixed to such box and/or packaging.
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“Manufactured Materials” means all
units of the Licensed Products, of the Printed Materials to be set
forth on the Licensed Products themselves and of the boxes for such
Licensed Products (which expression shall include any alternative
form of container for Licensed Products subsequently introduced by
SCEE).
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“Licensed
Developer Software” means Licensed Developer's application
source code and data (including audio and visual material)
developed by Licensed Developer in accordance with its LDAP which,
when integrated with any software (whether in object code or source
code form) provided by SCEE, creates PSP format
Software.
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“Licensed
Developer” means Publisher or such other third party as shall
have developed Licensed Developer Software and PSP format Software
pursuant to a then current LDAP.
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“LDAP” means the PSP Licensed
Developer Agreement between Licensed Developer of the applicable
PSP format Software and SCEE (or an equivalent such agreement
between Licensed Developer and an Affiliate of SCEE).
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“Article
6” means Article 6 of Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May
1991 on the legal protection of computer programs.
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“Affiliate of SCEE” means, as
applicable, either Sony Computer Entertainment Inc in Japan, Sony
Computer Entertainment America Inc in the USA, Sony Computer
Entertainment Korea or such other Sony Computer Entertainment
entity as may be established by Sony from time to time.
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“PSP
format Software” means Publisher's object code software,
which includes Licensed Developer Software and any software
(whether in object code or source code form) which is provided by
SCEE and intended to be combined with Licensed Developer Software
for execution on PSP and has the ability to communicate with the
software resident in PSP.
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“Sony
Materials” means any hardware, data, object code, source
code, documentation (or any part(s) of any of the foregoing) and
related peripheral items provided to the Licensed Developer of any
PSP format Software pursuant to the LDAP applicable for such PSP
format Software.
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“Confidential Information of Sony”
means the content and/or substance of this Agreement (including the
Schedules hereto and the Specifications) and any and all
confidential and/or proprietary information, documents and related
materials of whatever nature (including, without limitation, all
information made available to Publisher on www.publisher.scee.net or other Sony
websites or otherwise and all processes, hardware, software,
inventions, trade secrets, ideas, designs, research, know-how,
business methods, production plans and marketing plans) concerning
PSP and related products, developed or owned by, licensed to or
under the control of Sony and, without limitation, information
otherwise related to Sony's technology, know-how, products,
potential products, research projects, trials, promotional
advertising and marketing plans, schedules and budgets, licensing
terms and pricing, customer lists and details, commercial
relationships or negotiations, services, financial models and other
business information, whether relating to PSP or otherwise
including relating to Sony’s “PlayStation” and
“PlayStation 2” predecessor video and computer
entertainment system(s), disclosed by whatever means, whether
directly or indirectly, by or on behalf of Sony to Publisher at any
time, whether disclosed orally, in writing or in machine-readable
or other form, or otherwise discovered by Publisher (or any parent
company, subsidiary or affiliate of Publisher) as a result of any
information or materials provided (whether directly or indirectly)
by or on behalf of Sony to Publisher (or any parent company,
subsidiary or affiliate of Publisher).
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“UMD” means Universal Media Disc, a
proprietary disc format developed by or on behalf of
Sony.
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“Third
Party Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide
current and future rights in or in relation to any patents,
inventions, designs, copyrights, rights in databases, trademarks,
service marks, trade names (including any goodwill associated with
any trademarks or names), semiconductor topography rights, trade
secret rights, technical information and know-how, rights in the
nature of unfair competition rights and rights to sue for passing
off and all other proprietary or intellectual property rights (and
the equivalents of each of the foregoing under the laws of any
jurisdiction) of any third party other than Publisher or Sony
(including, without limitation, all registrations, applications to
register and rights to apply for registrations of the same) for
their full term including all renewals and extensions
thereof.
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“Term” means, the period from the
date hereof to 31 March 2011, and continuing thereafter unless and
until terminated by not less than 1 (one) month's notice on either
side given to expire on such date or any subsequent 31
March.
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“CNDA
(PSP)” means the Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure (or
similar) Agreement between Publisher and SCEE or an Affiliate of
SCEE relating to PSP and to Confidential Information of Sony and/or
of Publisher thereunder.
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“Confidential Information of
Publisher” means any and all confidential and/or proprietary
information, documents and related materials of whatever nature
(including, without limitation, all processes, hardware, software,
inventions, trade secrets, ideas, designs, research, know-how,
business methods, production plans and marketing plans) concerning
PSP format Software developed or owned by, licensed to or under the
control of Publisher and, without limitation, information otherwise
related to Publisher's technology, know-how, products, potential
products, research projects, trials, promotional advertising and
marketing plans, schedules and budgets, licensing terms and
pricing, customer lists and details, commercial relationships or
negotiations, services, financial models and other business
information, whether relating to PSP format Software or otherwise,
disclosed by whatever means, whether directly or indirectly, by or
on behalf of Publisher to SCEE at any time, whether disclosed
orally, in writing or in machine-readable or other form, or
otherwise discovered by SCEE as a result of any information or
materials provided (whether directly or indirectly) by or on behalf
of Publisher to SCEE, which information is designated by Publisher
as, or becomes known to SCEE under circumstances indicating that
such information is, confidential or proprietary.
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SCEE hereby
grants to Publisher, and Publisher hereby accepts, within the
Licensed Territory only and under the Sony Intellectual Property
Rights, a non-exclusive non-transferable licence, without the right
to sub-license (except as specifically provided herein), to publish
Licensed Products in such genres or categories as SCEE shall from
time to time designate in the Specifications, and the right and
obligation to use the Licensed Trademarks, in the form and manner
prescribed in the Specifications, strictly, only and directly in
connection with such publication.
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For these
purposes, to "publish" shall mean any or all of the following: (i)
produce Advertising Materials and Printed Materials; (ii) to issue
to SCEE purchase orders for Manufactured Materials as prescribed in
Clause 6; (iii) to market and advertise Licensed Products; (iv) to
distribute and sell Licensed Products (and to authorise others so
to do); and (iv) to sub-license to end users the right to use
Licensed Products for non-commercial purposes only and not for
public performance.
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Publisher shall
publish Licensed Products only if based on Licensed Developer
Software developed by a Licensed Developer strictly in accordance
with all the terms and conditions of such Licensed Developer's LDAP
and shall not, subject to Article 6, publish or attempt to publish
any other software whatsoever intended for or capable of execution
on PSP. The onus of evidencing that each Licensed Product satisfies
the foregoing criteria shall rest on Publisher and SCEE reserves
the right to require Publisher to furnish evidence satisfactory to
SCEE that the foregoing criteria are satisfied.
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Publisher shall
not publish PSP format Software or Licensed Products outside the
Licensed Territory unless and until Publisher shall be authorised
and licensed so to do pursuant to a current licence agreement with
the applicable Affiliate of SCEE. Further, Publisher shall not
sub-publish PSP format Software or Licensed Products through a
third party either within or outside the Licensed Territory unless
and until such sub-publisher shall be authorised and licensed so to
do either pursuant to a current PSP Licensed Publisher Agreement
with SCEE or a current PSP licence agreement with the applicable
Affiliate of SCEE.
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The licence
granted in this Agreement extends only to the publication,
marketing, distribution and sale of Licensed Products in such
formats as may be designated by SCEE. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing and except as otherwise provided
herein, Publisher and, if applicable, its sub-publishers shall at
all times and in all territories be strictly prohibited from
undertaking or authorising the distribution or transmission of PSP
format Software or Licensed Products through electronic means or
any other means now known or hereafter devised, including without
limitation, via wireless, cable, fiber optic means, telephone
lines, microwave and/or radio waves, or over a network of
interconnected computers or other devices. Notwithstanding this
limitation, Publisher may (i) authorise the sharing of
insubstantial parts of PSP format Software between PSPs (so called
“game sharing”) and ad hoc playing of a PSP format
Software game between PSPs and, in each case by the use of the
wireless features of the PSP and not via the internet or other
publicly available network; (ii) undertake or authorise the
distribution or transmission of PSP format Software, or
user-contributed content for use with PSP format Software, over the
internet or other publicly available network, and the playing of
PSP format Software games between players via the internet or other
publicly available network strictly for non-commercial purposes (so
that no rights are granted under this Agreement where Publisher
receives any direct or indirect income from such downloads or
services including, without limitation, one-off payments,
subscriptions, revenue sharing, advertising revenue or a
combination of all or any of the same); and (iii) electronically
transmit PSP format Software from site to site, or from machine to
machine over a computer network, for the sole purpose of
facilitating development; provided that no right of retransmission
shall attach to any such transmission, and provided further that
Publisher shall use reasonable security measures customary within
the high technology industry to reduce the risk of unauthorized
interception or retransmission of such transmissions.
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Subject only to
Article 6, Publisher and, if applicable, its sub-publishers shall
at all times be strictly prohibited from disassembling or
decompiling software, peeling semiconductor components or otherwise
reverse engineering or attempting to reverse engineer or derive
source code or create derivative works from PSP format Software,
from permitting or encouraging any third party so to do, and from
acquiring or using any materials from any third party who does so.
Publisher shall in all cases be primarily liable for the payment of
Platform Charge to the applicable authorised manufacturing facility
licensed by SCEE in accordance with Clause 7 hereof in respect of
any product published by Publisher, or, if applicable, any of its
sub-publishers, which utilizes Sony Materials and/or Sony
Intellectual Property Rights and/or, subject to Council Directive
91/250/EEC, Confidential Information of Sony. The onus of
evidencing that any such product is not so published shall rest on
Publisher and SCEE reserves the right to require Publisher to
furnish evidence satisfactory to SCEE that the applicable of the
foregoing criteria are satisfied.
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Publisher shall
inform all such sub-publishers of the obligations imposed by this
Agreement and shall obtain their commitment to abide by the
same.
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Publisher
acknowledges and agrees that: (i) no rights are granted under this
Agreement in respect of non-game products or products which contain
significant elements of, or are a hybrid with, audio or video
profile products for UMDs; (ii) no Licensed Product shall, except
as specifically authorised in advance writing by SCEE in each case,
incorporate (in whole or in part) more than 1 (one) game product;
and (iii) it may publish, market, distribute, sell or otherwise
dispose of Licensed Products only on a standalone basis, and may
not do the same in conjunction or bundled with any other goods,
products or services except as specifically authorised in advance
in writing by SCEE in each case.
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Any breach of
the provisions of this Clause 3 shall be a material breach of this
Agreement not capable of remedy.
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This Agreement
does not grant any right or licence, under any Sony Intellectual
Property Rights or otherwise, except as expressly provided herein,
and no other right or licence is to be implied by or inferred from
any provision of this Agreement or the conduct of the parties
hereunder. Subject only to the rights of Publisher under this
Agreement, all right, title and interest in and to the Sony
Materials and the Sony Intellectual Property Rights are and shall
be the exclusive property of Sony, and Publisher shall not make use
of, or do or cause to be done any act or thing contesting or in any
way impairing or tending to impair any of Sony's right, title or
interest in or to, any of the Sony Materials, Sony Intellectual
Property Rights and PSP except as authorised by and in compliance
with the provisions of this Agreement or as may otherwise expressly
be authorised in writing by Sony; provided however that the
foregoing shall not be taken to preclude Publisher from challenging
the validity of any Sony Intellectual Property Rights. No right,
licence or privilege has been granted to Publisher hereunder
concerning the development of any collateral product or other use
or purpose of any kind whatsoever which displays or depicts any of
the Licensed Trademarks. No promotional or novelty items or premium
products (including, by way of illustration but without limitation,
T-shirts, posters, stickers, etc) displaying or depicting any of
the Licensed Trademarks shall be developed, manufactured, marketed,
sold and/or distributed by, with the authority of or on behalf of,
Publisher without the prior written consent and authorization of
SCEE in each case.
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The Licensed
Trademarks and the goodwill associated therewith are and shall be
the exclusive property of Sony. Nothing herein shall give Publisher
any right, title or interest in or to any of the Licensed
Trademarks, other than the non-exclusive licence and privilege to
display and use the Licensed Trademarks solely in accordance with
the provisions of this Agreement. Publisher shall not do or cause
to be done any act or thing contesting or in any way impairing or
tending to impair any of Sony's right, title or interest in or to
any of the Licensed Trademarks, nor shall Publisher register or
apply to register any trademark in its own name or in the name of
any other person or entity, or obtain or seek to obtain rights to
employ internet domain name(s) or address(es), which is or are
similar to or is or are likely to be confused with any of the
Licensed Trademarks; provided however that the foregoing shall not
be taken to preclude Publisher from challenging the validity of any
Licensed Trademarks.
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Publisher or
Licensed Developer (as applicable) retains all right, title and
interest in and to Licensed Developer Software, including Licensed
Developer's intellectual property rights therein and any names or
other designations used as titles therefor, and nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to restrict the right of Licensed
Developer to develop and/or the right of Publisher to publish
products incorporating Licensed Developer Software alone (which do
not contain or rely on Sony Materials and/or Sony Intellectual
Property Rights and/or, subject to Council Directive 91/250/EEC,
Confidential Information of Sony), and/or under such names or other
designations, for any hardware platform or service other than
PSP.
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Subject to the
proviso to Clauses 4.1 and 4.2 above, Publisher shall, at the
expense of SCEE, take all such steps as SCEE may reasonably
require, including the execution of licences and obtaining
registrations, to assist SCEE in maintaining the validity and
enforceability of Sony Intellectual Property Rights.
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Without
prejudice to Clause 11, Publisher or SCEE (as applicable) shall
promptly and fully notify the other in writing in the event that it
discovers or otherwise becomes aware of any actual, threatened or
suspected infringement of, or challenge to, any of the
intellectual property or trademark rights of the other
embodied in any of the Licensed Products, and of any claim of
infringement or alleged infringement by the other of any Third
Party Intellectual Property Rights, and shall at the request and
expense of the other do all such things as may reasonably be
required to assist the other in taking or resisting any proceedings
in relation to any such infringement or claim.
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Each Licensed
Product, including without limitation the title and content
thereof, and/or Publisher's use of any of the Licensed Trademarks,
shall be required to conform to the Specifications. Testing or
verification for conformity to the Specifications shall be
conducted by SCEE or, at Publisher’s election, by an
independent external testing service (if and when such service
becomes available).
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Publisher shall
submit for testing for conformity to the Specifications such
information and materials relating to the PSP format Software for
each Licensed Product as shall be specified in the Specifications.
Such Specifications shall be comparable with the specifications
applied by Sony with respect to its own PSP format software
products. SCEE acknowledges and agrees that such Specifications
shall be of prospective application only and shall not be applied
to any inventory units of the Licensed Products manufactured prior
to, or in the active process of manufacture at the date of, the
promulgation thereof by SCEE.
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For each
Licensed Product, Publisher shall be responsible, at Publisher's
expense, for the origination of all Printed Materials, and for the
manufacture and delivery to the manufacturer of such Licensed
Product of all Printed Materials other than those to be set forth
on the Licensed Product itself, all of which Printed Materials
shall conform in all material respects to the Specifications. The
Specifications referred to above shall be comparable with the
specifications applied by Sony with respect to its own PSP format
software products. SCEE acknowledges and agrees that such
Specifications shall be of prospective application only and shall
not be applied to any inventory units of the Licensed Products
manufactured prior to, or in the active process of manufacture at
the date of, the promulgation thereof. All materials to be
submitted pursuant to this Clause 5.3 shall be delivered by such
means and in such form as shall be prescribed in the Specifications
and at Publisher's sole risk and expense. Publisher undertakes that
the quality of such Printed Materials shall be of the same quality
as that associated with high quality consumer products.
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SCEE (or, where
applicable, an independent external testing service as aforesaid)
will test or verify for conformity to the Specifications (as the
case may be) all materials submitted by Publisher pursuant to
Clause 5.2 and Clause 5.3. Where such testing or verification is
conducted by SCEE, SCEE shall advise Publisher of the results of
such testing or verification within the applicable of the
timeframes specified in the Specifications. Where such testing or
verification is conducted by such independent external testing
service, such service shall advise Publisher of the results of such
testing or verification within timeframes agreed between such
service and Publisher (and SCEE shall have no responsibility or
liability whatsoever arising from a failure by such service to meet
such timeframes). If any of such materials (or any element(s)
thereof) fail to conform to the Specifications, SCEE (or, where
applicable, such independent external testing service) shall
specify the reasons for such failure and state what revisions are
required. After making the required revisions, Publisher may
resubmit such materials in such revised form for re-testing or
re-verification by SCEE (or, where applicable, such independent
external testing service). The procedures described in this Clause
5.4 shall if necessary be repeated until all such materials for
each Licensed Product shall expressly have been certified as
conforming to the Specifications, such certification to be validly
given only if in writing and signed by the duly authorized
representative(s) of SCEE as specified in the Specifications (or,
where applicable, by the duly authorised representative(s) of such
independent external testing service). SCEE shall have no liability
to Publisher for the accuracy or content (including translations
and localizations) of Printed Materials (except only items required
to be included in accordance with the Specifications) or in respect
of costs incurred or irrevocably committed by Publisher as a result
of any failure to conform to Specifications (even where certified
for conformity) or in relation to, or to the use of, Printed
Materials which shall not have been given a certificate of
conformity by SCEE (or, where applicable, by such independent
external testing service). No production units of any Licensed
Product shall be manufactured, marketed, distributed or sold by,
with the authority of or on behalf of, Publisher unless and until
such a certificate of conformity of such Licensed Product shall
first have been given by SCEE (or, where applicable, by such
independent external testing service). No certificate of conformity
from SCEE (or, where applicable, from such independent external
testing service) of any element of the materials so submitted or
resubmitted shall be deemed a certificate of conformity of any
other element of such materials, nor shall any such certificate of
conformity be deemed to constitute a waiver of any of SCEE's rights
under this Agreement.
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The generality
of the foregoing notwithstanding, in the event that Publisher
wishes to contest a finding by SCEE of non-conformity to the
Specifications as an alternate to making required revisions and
resubmissions as above, or in the event that Publisher wishes to
contest the outcome of SCEE’s product assessment process in
relation to any specific product, Publisher may have recourse to
the appeals process specified in the Specifications.
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Publisher shall
not change in any material respect any of the materials for which a
certificate of conformity shall have been given by SCEE (or, where
applicable, by an independent external testing service) pursuant to
Clause 5.4 (or, if applicable, pursuant to Clause 5.6) (or,
alternately, which shall have been held to conform to the
Specifications following recourse by Publisher to the appeals
process specified in the Specifications). If any of the Licensed
Products and/or related materials published by, with the authority
of or on behalf of, Publisher fail to conform to the Specifications
and the materials for which SCEE (or, where applicable, such
independent external testing service) shall from time to time have
given a certificate of conformity, then the provisions of Clause
14.2 shall apply.
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SCEE reserves
the right to require that pre-production samples of all Advertising
Materials shall be submitted by Publisher to SCEE or, at
Publisher’s election, to an independent external testing
service (if and when such service becomes available), free of
charge and in accordance with the procedure specified in the
Specifications, for verification for conformity to the
Specifications (including specifically, but without limitation, in
relation to the usage of any of the Licensed Trademarks), prior to
any actual production, use or distribution of any such items by,
with the authority or on behalf of, Publisher. No such proposed
Advertising Materials shall be produced, used or distributed
directly or indirectly by Publisher without first obtaining a
certificate of conformity to the Specifications. Where such
verification is conducted by SCEE, SCEE shall advise Publisher of
the results of such verification within the applicable of the
timeframes specified in the Specifications. Where such verification
is conducted by such independent external testing service, such
service shall advise Publisher of the results of such verification
within timeframes agreed between such service and Publisher (and
SCEE shall have no responsibility or liability whatsoever arising
from a failure by such service to meet such timeframes). If any
such Advertising Materials (or any element(s) thereof) fail to
conform to the Specifications, SCEE (or, where applicable, such
independent external testing service) shall specify the reasons for
such failure and state what revisions are required. After making
the required revisions, Publisher may resubmit such materials in
such revised form for re-verification by SCEE (or, where
applicable, by such independent external testing service). The
procedures described in this Clause 5.6 shall if necessary be
repeated until all such Advertising Materials for each Licensed
Product shall expressly have been certified as conforming to the
Specifications, such certification to be validly given only if in
writing and signed by the duly authorised representative(s) of SCEE
as specified in the Specifications (or, where applicable, by the
duly authorised representative(s) of such independent external
testing service). SCEE shall have no liability to Publisher in
respect of costs incurred or irrevocably committed by Publisher in
relation to, or to the use of, Advertising Materials which shall
not have been given a certificate of conformity by SCEE (or, where
applicable, by such independent external testing service). No
certificate of conformity from SCEE (or, where applicable, from
such independent external testing service) of any element of
Advertising Materials so submitted or resubmitted shall be deemed a
certificate of conformity of any other element of such Advertising
Materials, nor shall any such certificate of conformity be deemed
to constitute a waiver of any of SCEE's rights under this
Agreement.
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The generality
of the foregoing notwithstanding, in the event that Publisher
wishes to contest a finding of non-conformity to the Specifications
by SCEE, and as an alternate to making required revisions and
resubmissions as above, Publisher may have recourse to the appeals
process specified in the Specifications.
Subject in each
instance to the prior written consent of SCEE, Publisher may use
such textual and/or pictorial advertising matter (if any) as may be
created by, with the authority or on behalf of, Sony pertaining to
the Sony Materials and/or to the Licensed Trademarks on such
Advertising Materials as may, in Publisher's judgment, promote the
sale of Licensed Products within the Licensed Territory. Sony shall
have the right to use Licensed Products and/or other materials
relating to Publisher's PSP format Software games in any
advertising or promotion for PSP at Sony's expense, subject to
giving Publisher reasonable prior notice of such advertisement or
promotion. Sony shall confer with Publisher regarding the text of
any such advertisement.
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No Licensed
Product may be published in any country of the Licensed Territory
unless the Licensed Product itself and associated Printed Materials
bear a consumer advisory age rating either: (i) as required by
local law; or (ii) where no such local law obtains, as prescribed
under the Pan European Games Information age rating system
(“PEGI”) promulgated by the Interactive Software
Federation of Europe. Each such rating shall be displayed as
prescribed by local law or under PEGI as the case may be. Publisher
shall also conform to local law or to the requirements of PEGI as
the case may be in relation to the display of consumer advisory age
ratings in Advertising Materials. No Licensed Product, nor any
Printed Materials or Advertising Materials, may bear more than one
consumer advisory age rating.
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Manufacture of Licensed Products &
Associated Materials
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Subject only to
Article 6, Publisher acknowledges and agrees that it shall purchase
Manufactured Materials only from an authorised manufacturing
facility licensed by SCEE. SCEE shall have the right, but no
obligation, to subcontract the whole or any part or phase of the
production of any or all of the Manufactured Materials or any
part(s) thereof.
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Promptly
following the giving by SCEE (or, where applicable, by an
independent external testing service as aforesaid) of a certificate
of conformity to the Specifications (or, alternately, a holding of
conformity to the Specifications following recourse by Publisher to
the appeals process specified in the Specifications) for each
Licensed Product pursuant to Clause 5.4, SCEE shall create (from
one of the copies of the finally tested version of the PSP format
Software as submitted by Publisher pursuant to Clause 5.2) an
encrypted copy of such PSP format Software for transmission to the
authorised manufacturing facility licensed by SCEE for the creation
of the master UMD Disc ("Master UMD Disc") from which all other
copies of the Licensed Product are to be replicated in compliance
with the Specifications effective at the time of replication. Where
such certificate of conformity shall have been given by such an
independent external testing service, then the copy of the finally
tested version of the PSP format Software as submitted by Publisher
pursuant to Clause 5.2 from which the Master UMD Disc is to be
created shall be furnished to SCEE by such service. Publisher will
retain duplicates of all such PSP format Software. SCEE shall not
be liable for loss of or damage to any copies of the PSP format
Software furnished to SCEE hereunder. There will be no technology
exchange between Sony and Publisher under this Agreement. The
encryption and mastering process being of a proprietary and
commercially confidential nature, neither SCEE nor any
manufacturing subcontractor of SCEE will under any circumstances
release any Master UMD Discs or other in-process materials to
Publisher. All such physical materials shall be and remain the sole
property of Sony.
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Publisher shall
be solely responsible for the delivery, direct to an authorised
manufacturing facility licensed by SCEE and in accordance with
Clause 6.4, of 110% (one hundred and ten percent) of the number of
sets of the Printed Materials (other than those set forth on the
applicable Licensed Product itself) required to fulfill Publisher's
purchase order for Manufactured Materials of each PSP format
Software game, which Printed Materials shall be in strict
compliance with the Specifications. S
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