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NVIDIA Asset License Agreement
IMPORTANT NOTICE – PLEASE READ AND AGREE BEFORE USING THE ASSETS.
This asset license agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you, whether an individual or entity ("you") and NVIDIA Corporation ("NVIDIA") and governs the use of the NVIDIA sample data provided under this Agreement ("Assets").
This Agreement can be accepted only by an adult of legal age of majority in the country in which the Assets is used. If you are under the legal age of majority, you must ask your parent or legal guardian to consent to this Agreement.
If you don’t have the required age or authority to accept this Agreement, or if you don't accept all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not use the Assets.
You agree to use the Assets only for purposes that are permitted by this Agreement and any applicable law or regulation in the relevant jurisdictions.
1. License Grant. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, NVIDIA grants you a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable (except as expressly granted in this Agreement), license to use the Assets, reproduce the Assets and prepare derivative works based on the Assets ("Derivative Works"), in each case solely for non-commercial scientific research or evaluation purposes, without use in production.
If Assets provided under this Agreement are subject to additional use terms or limitations ("Other Terms"), as described in accompanying notices, the Other Terms will govern to the extent they conflict with the terms in this Agreement.
2. Limitations. Your license to use the Assets and Derivative Works is restricted as follows: (i) you may not change or remove copyright or other proprietary notices in the Assets and Derivative Works; (ii) you may not tag or otherwise process the Assets to reveal race/ethnicity of the data subjects or use or otherwise process the Assets to create biometric data or develop identity recognition technologies including without limitation facial recognition or voice recognition technologies; (iii) except as described in Section 1 above, you may not sell, rent, sublicense, transfer, distribute, or otherwise make the Assets and Derivative Works available to others. For clarity, the Assets and Derivative Works cannot be distributed, publicly disclosed or shared on a stand-alone basis under any circumstances.
3. Authorized Users. You may allow employees and contractors of your entity or of your subsidiary(ies) to access and use the Assets from your secure network to perform the work authorized by this Agreement on your behalf. If you are an academic institution, you may allow users enrolled or employed by the academic institution to access and use the Assets as authorized by this Agreement from your secure network. You are responsible for the compliance with the terms of this Agreement by your authorized users. Any act or omission that if committed by you would constitute a breach of this Agreement will be deemed to constitute a breach of this Agreement if committed by your authorized users.
4. Ownership. The Assets, including all intellectual property rights, is and will remain the sole and exclusive property of NVIDIA or its licensors. Except as expressly granted in this Agreement, (i) NVIDIA reserves all rights, interests and remedies in connection with the Assets and Derivative Works, and (ii) no other license or right is granted to you by implication, estoppel or otherwise.
5. Feedback. You may, but are not obligated to, provide suggestions, requests, fixes, modifications, enhancements or other feedback regarding the Assets (collectively, "Feedback"). Feedback, even if designated as confidential by you, will not create any confidentiality obligation for NVIDIA or its affiliates. If you provide Feedback, you hereby grant NVIDIA, its affiliates and its designees a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up and transferable license, under your intellectual property rights, to publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, use, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, distribute (through multiple tiers of distribution), import, create derivative works of and otherwise commercialize and exploit the Feedback at NVIDIA's discretion.
6. Termination. This Agreement will automatically terminate without notice from NVIDIA if you fail to comply with any of the terms in this Agreement or if you commence or participate in any legal proceeding against NVIDIA with respect to the Assets. Additionally, either party may terminate this Agreement at any time with prior written notice to the other party. Upon any termination, you must stop using and destroy all copies of the Assets and Derivative Works. Upon written request, you will certify in writing that you have complied with your commitments under this section. All provisions will survive termination, except for the licenses granted to you.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties. THE ASSETS ARE PROVIDED BY NVIDIA AS-IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, RELATING TO OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, USAGE OF TRADE AND COURSE OF DEALING.
8. Indemnity and Limitations of Liability.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless NVIDIA and its affiliates, and their respective employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, fines, restitutions and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees and costs incident to establishing the right of indemnification) arising out of or related to your use of the Assets outside of the scope of this Agreement, or not in compliance with its terms
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL NVIDIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY (I) INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR (II) DAMAGES FOR THE (A) COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR (B) LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, USE, DATA OR GOODWILL ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF NVIDIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A PARTY’S REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. ADDITIONALLY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS OR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED FIVE U.S. DOLLARS (US$5).
9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. This Agreement will be governed in all respects by the laws of the United States and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles or the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The state and federal courts residing in Santa Clara County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute or claim arising out of or related to this Agreement, and the parties irrevocably consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts; except that either party may apply for injunctive remedies or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief in any jurisdiction.
10. General.
10.1 No Assignment. NVIDIA may assign, delegate or transfer its rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law. You may not, without NVIDIA's prior written consent, assign, delegate or transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law, and any attempt to do so is null and void.
10.2 No Waiver. No waiver of any term of the Agreement will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and NVIDIA's failure to assert any right or provision under the Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
10.3 Trade and Compliance. You agree to comply with all applicable export, import, trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including U.S. Export Administration Regulations and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations. You confirm that you will not export or reexport any products or technology, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining any required license or other approval from appropriate authorities, (i) to any countries that are subject to any U.S. or local export restrictions (currently including, but not necessarily limited to, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Region of Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic Region and Luhansk People's Republic Region); (ii) to any end user who you know or have reason to know will utilize them in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, missiles, rocket systems, unmanned air vehicles, or any weapons of mass destruction; (iii) to any end-user who has been prohibited from participating in the U.S. or local export transactions by any governing authority; or (iv) to any known military or military-intelligence end-user or for any known military or military-intelligence end-use in accordance with U.S. trade compliance laws and regulations. Use of the Assets under this Agreement must be consistent with NVIDIA's HumanRightsPolicy.pdf (nvidia.com).
10.4 Government Rights. The Assets, documentation and technology ("Protected Items") are "Commercial products" as this term is defined at 48 C.F.R. 2.101, consisting of (as applicable) "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer documentation" as such terms are used in, respectively, 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202 & 252.227-7014(a)(1). Before any Protected Items are supplied to the U.S. Government, you will (i) inform the U.S. Government in writing that the Protected Items are and must be treated as commercial computer software and commercial computer documentation developed at private expense; (ii) inform the U.S. Government that the Protected Items are provided subject to the terms of the Agreement; and (iii) mark the Protected Items as commercial computer software and commercial computer documentation developed at private expense. In no event will you permit the U.S. Government to acquire rights in Protected Items beyond those specified in 48 C.F.R. 52.227-19(b)(1)-(2) or 252.227-7013(c) except as expressly approved by NVIDIA in writing.
10.5 Notices. Please direct your legal notices or other correspondence to NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, United States of America, Attention: Legal Department, with a copy emailed to [email protected]. If NVIDIA needs to contact you about the Assets, you consent to receive the notices by email and agree that such notices will satisfy any legal communication requirements.
10.6 Force Majeure. Neither party will be liable during any period where an event or circumstance prevents or delays that party from performing its obligations under this Agreement and that event or circumstance: (i) is not within the reasonable control of that party and is not the result of that party’s negligence, and (ii) cannot be overcome or avoided by that party using reasonably diligent efforts.
10.7 Severability and Amendment. If a court of competent jurisdiction rules that a provision of this Agreement is unenforceable, that provision will be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect. Any amendment to this Agreement must be in writing and signed by authorized representatives of both parties.
10.8 Construction. The headings in the Agreement are included solely for convenience and are not intended to affect the meaning or interpretation of the Agreement. As required by the context of the Agreement, the singular of a term includes the plural and vice versa.
10.9 Entire Agreement. Regarding the subject matter of this Agreement, the parties agree that (i) this Agreement constitutes the entire and exclusive agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous communications and (ii) any additional or different terms or conditions, whether contained in purchase orders, order acknowledgments, invoices or otherwise, will not be binding and are null and void.
(November 8, 2023)