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(i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize BACVA to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such content to enable inclusion and use of the content in the manner contemplated by the Site and this Agreement; and
(ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the content to use his/her name or likeness to enable inclusion on the Site.

While you retain all of your ownership rights in the content that you submit, by submitting such content to the Site, you hereby grant BACVA a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content that you submit, in connection with the Site and BACVA's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the content (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Site a non-exclusive license to access content submitted by you through the Site, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such content as permitted through the functionality of the Site and under this Agreement. The foregoing license to other users terminates once you remove or delete the licensed content from the Site.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, you must provide our copyright agent, designated below, with the following information:

(a) a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest that is allegedly infringed;
(b) a description of the copyrighted work that you allege has been infringed;
(c) a description of the allegedly infringing material that is to be removed or disabled and the location of such material on our Site;
(d) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email address;
(e) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(f) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner whose exclusive right allegedly is infringed.

Such notice should be sent to Antoinette Walters, Copyright Agent for Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association:
(a) by mail, to, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P., Seven Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202; or
(b) by email, to copyright@wtplaw.com.

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