This agreement is between you, Protagonist Labs, Inc. (“Protagonist”), the other participants in this Game, and other users of the Storium service and the public at large. You agree to the terms of this agreement by participating in a game using this agreement. This agreement applies to the specific Game (“Game”) for which it is selected and does not apply to other games or other areas of the Storium website.

Participation in the game

The person who creates and manages the Game is the “host”. The person who is running the Game at any given moment is the “narrator”. The people in the Game who control characters are the “players”. The same person can hold any or all of these roles at the same time, and these roles can be transferred between people. Any person currently holding at least one of these roles is a “participant”, regardless of their role.

If you are a player, you may leave the Game by using the “retire” or “hand-off” features on the Storium site. If you hand-off your character, the host may assign your character to a new or current participant. If you are the host, you may leave the Game by using the hand-off feature on the Storium site. If you are the narrator, the host must reassign your role in order for you to leave the game.

If you are a player, the host may remove you from the game, at any time and for any reason, by retiring your character. If you are the narrator, the host may remove you from the game, at any time and for any reason, by reassigning the narrator role to a new or existing participant. Regardless of your role, Protagonist may remove you from the game at any time for violation of Storium’s Terms of Service, Code of Conduct, or other site policies.

Your rights under this agreement terminate when you leave or are removed from the Game except as otherwise stated in this agreement, such as your continuing ownership of your content.

Ownership and Use of Game Content

You agree that all original content posted by you to this Game is jointly owned by all participants in the Game at the time the content is posted. As an owner of the content, you may use it outside Storium for any purpose without license from the other participants. Likewise, other participants may use the content outside Storium for any purpose without license from you. When using the content outside Storium, you must give attribution to all other participants and may use their Storium username for that purpose.

You continue to own the content even if you leave the Game. However, you have no ownership interest in any content posted to the Game when you are not a participant.

You have a general right to delete content from the Game that was posted by you, subject to limitations arising from the design of the Storium platform. You agree that Protagonist may design the Storium platform to expand or limit your ability to delete content. The ownership rights of other participants do not impair your right to delete your content. Likewise, to the extent that your ownership rights in any content might impair another participant’s right to delete content, you grant that participant an absolute license to delete that content. Your ability to delete content does not impair the ownership rights of other participants or preclude them from using the content outside Storium.

If you are a player, you may edit or delete your character and any content you post associated with your role, subject to the functionality of the site. If you are a host or narrator, you may edit any content you post associated with your role, subject to the functionality of the site.

The Game may be deleted in its entirety at the host’s request and only with the agreement of all current participants.

The Game may be based upon a “World,” which is a pre-made collection of content, separate from the Game, that can be re-used in the course of playing the Game. The person who created the World in which the Game takes place is the “creator”. The World you use, if any, may affect your rights under this agreement.

If the Game is based upon a World, you acknowledge that you have no ownership interest in the World content unless you yourself are the creator. You acknowledge that the creator might continue to create works related to the World content and that some of these works might bear similarities to material created on Storium. You release Protagonist and the creator for any injury, loss, or damage arising out of your use of Storium, including but not limited to any claim of copyright infringement or other theft of intellectual property. You waive your right to sue Protagonist and the creator in any venue for any reason arising out of the use of Storium and the World content. You agree to indemnify Protagonist and creator for all costs associated with any such lawsuit, including but not limited to court costs, attorneys’ fees, and appellate fees. You agree not to harm, misuse, or bring the World content into disrepute. You agree that the creator may use content from the Game outside of the Game and for commercial purposes, provided that attribution is given to the participants.

If the Game World is a “starter” World or if you are the creator, you may use the World content in any way you choose as limited by any other agreement and the site functionality. If the Game World is an “open” World, you may use content from the Game outside of the Game for non-commercial reasons and with attribution given to the Game’s participants as well as to Storium, the creator, and the World name. If the Game World is a “closed” World, you may not publish any content from the Game outside of the Game for any reason, even for non-commercial reasons or for reasons that might otherwise constitute “fair use” of the content.

Licensing of Game Content to Third-Parties

You agree that all content posted by you to this Game is subject to the Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (“CC License”), a complete copy of which appears below.

For purposes of the CC License as it applies to this Game:

• You are the “Licensor”, and licensees of the content are referred to as “You”.
• All content posted by you to this Game is the “Licensed Material”.
• Because all of the content in this Game is jointly owned by all participants, you agree that content may be jointly attributed to all participants regardless of who posted the specific content.
• You agree that content may be attributed to you as your username as it appears in the Game or in such other way as may be designated by Protagonist in future iterations of the site.

A “human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license” is available on the Creative Commons website at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License

By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License ("Public License"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.

Section 1 – Definitions.

1. Adapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.
2. Adapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.
3. Copyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.
4. Effective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.
5. Exceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.
6. Licensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.
7. Licensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.
8. Licensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.
9. NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. For purposes of this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Material for other material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights by digital file-sharing or similar means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment of monetary compensation in connection with the exchange.
10. Share means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
11. Sui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.
12. You means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.

Section 2 – Scope.

1. License grant.
   1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:
      1. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, for NonCommercial purposes only; and
      2. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material for NonCommercial purposes only.
   2. Exceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.
   3. Term. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).
   4. Media and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You from making technical modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights, including technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective Technological Measures. For purposes of this Public License, simply making modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted Material.
   5. Downstream recipients.
      1. Offer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.
      2. No downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material.
   6. No endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor or others designated to receive attribution as provided in Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).

2. Other rights.

   1. Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.
   2. Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.
   3. To the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether directly or through a collecting society under any voluntary or waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties, including when the Licensed Material is used other than for NonCommercial purposes.

Section 3 – License Conditions.

Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.

1. Attribution.

   1. If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:

      1. retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:
         1. identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);
         2. a copyright notice;
         3. a notice that refers to this Public License;
         4. a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;
         5. a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;
      2. indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications; and
      3. indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.
   2. You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.
   3. If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.
   4. If You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public License.

Section 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.

Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:

1. for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database for NonCommercial purposes only;
2. if You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents in a database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual contents) is Adapted Material; and
3. You must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.

Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.

1. Unless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.
2. To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.

3. The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.

Section 6 – Term and Termination.

1. This Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.

2. Where Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:

   1. automatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or
   2. upon express reinstatement by the Licensor.
   For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.
3. For the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.
4. Sections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.

Section 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.

1. The Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.
2. Any arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.

Section 8 – Interpretation.

1. For the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.
2. To the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.
3. No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.
4. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.

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Other Terms

Protagonist reserves the right to modify the terms of this agreement at any time upon notice to you, which becomes effective as of the date of the notice to you.

This agreement represents the entire agreement between the parties. Any ambiguity in this agreement will be construed in a manner that best fosters the openness and sharing of the content. This agreement will not be construed for or against any party based on who drafted it.

This agreement is subject to the terms of any other agreement that covers your use of the Storium service, such as the Terms of Service and Code of Conduct. In the event of a conflict between this agreement and the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct, the Terms of Service and Code of Conduct supersede this agreement.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you waive any reference to law that would render any term of this agreement invalid. In the event that a provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, it will be interpreted to fulfill its intended purpose as much as permitted by applicable law, and the remaining terms will remain in full effect.