Terms and Conditions
-Hotline
If you are under 18 years of age, please have your Parent or Guardian’s permission before calling the MyLifeIsAverage Hotline.
By leaving a voice mail or submitting content, in any way shape or form, to the MyLifeIsAverage Hotline, you hereby grant mylifeisaverage.com a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the website and under the Terms of Service.
In addition, you further agree that you will not submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant mylifeisaverage.com all of the license rights granted herein.
-Design Submission
By submitting your design to MyLifeIsAverage.com and in consideration of MyLifeIsAverage.com evaluating your Design (hereinafter the “Design”) for its possible use on clothing and wall graphics (the “Items”), you agree to the following terms and conditions (“Design Submission Terms and Conditions”):
If your Design is selected for use by MyLifeIsAverage.com, you acknowledge that you assign to Corniche and its subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter collectively “MyLifeIsAverage.com”) the entire right, title, and interest in and to the copyright in your Design including the right to sue for past infringement and the right to further sublicense the Design, for its sole and exclusive use on and in connection with the Items. You also acknowledge that you waive all “moral” rights that you may have in and to your Design.
If your Design is selected, MyLifeIsAverage.com may use your Design in any manner on or in connection with the Items, including but not limited to: reproducing the Design on the Items, selling Items bearing the Design, changing or reworking the Design by making color or size changes, making derivative works of the Design, using the Design on the MyLifeIsAverage.com website and on promotional material for MyLifeIsAverage.com, and registering the Design with the US Copyright Office in the name of Corniche as the Claimant, and you as the Author. You agree to provide MyLifeIsAverage.com with minimal information as may be required in order to register the copyright in the Design if MyLifeIsAverage.com so requests, at no cost.
You may use or continue to use the Design for any other purposes, except those described below.
If your Design is selected, you may not use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) or allow others to use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) on any Items, as described above. In addition, by submitting your Design, you may not reproduce, sell, or submit the Design to others for any commercial purpose for ninety (90) days after the date of submission while the Design is being evaluated by MyLifeIsAverage.com. Once the ninety (90) days have passed, if your Design is not chosen for print by MyLifeIsAverage.com, you are free to use the Design for any commercial or non-commercial purpose. However if your Design is used elsewhere, you must notify MyLifeIsAverage.com by email design@mylifeisaverage.com about where and when the Design will be used, so that it can be removed from the MyLifeIsAverage.com website at that time. In addition, if the Design is used or reproduced for commercial purposes elsewhere, you cannot use the MyLifeIsAverage.com blogs to promote the Design or the company using the Design. You further agree not to use the MyLifeIsAverage.com blogs to promote the products and services of any company that operates in competition with MyLifeIsAverage.com. MyLifeIsAverage.com reserves the right to choose your design after the (90) days have passed, on the condition that the design has not been used for commercial purposes on any Items, as described above.
You acknowledge that the Design you are assigning to MyLifeIsAverage.com is your own original work, has not been previously published, and does not contain any trademarks, logos, copyrighted material, or any other intellectual property belonging to any third party, or any material, which MyLifeIsAverage.com in its sole discretion, deems to be profane or offensive.
You acknowledge that MyLifeIsAverage.com reserves the right to decline to select a Design for consideration for any reason.
Participants, who in the opinion of MyLifeIsAverage.com, do not comply with these Design Submission Legal Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason at MyLifeIsAverage.com’s sole discretion, can at any time be excluded from consideration without notice.
The decisions of MyLifeIsAverage.com are final and binding.
