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End User License
Agreement
IMPORTANT:
BEFORE USING THE
SOFTWARE OR YOUR
PRODUCT, PLEASE READ THIS
END USER LICENSE
AGREEMENT ("EULA")
CAREFULLY. BY USING THE
SOFTWARE OR YOUR
PRODUCT, YOU ARE
ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF
THIS EULA. IF YOU DO NOT
ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS
EULA, YOU MAY NOT USE THE
SOFTWARE OR THE
PRODUCT.
This EULA is a legal
agreement between you
and, in the case of users in
the United States, Sony
Electronics Inc. ( "SONY").
This EULA governs your
rights and obligations
regarding your PRODUCT
and all software of SONY, its
affiliates or its third party
licensors ("THIRD-PARTY
SUPPLIERS") within or used
in conjunction with your
hardware device sold by
SONY or its affiliate
("PRODUCT"), and software
that you download from
websites designated by
SONY in connection with
your PRODUCT, together with
any updates/upgrades
provided by SONY, any
printed, on-line or other
electronic documentation for
such software (the
"DOCUMENTATION"), and any
data files created by
operation of such software
(collectively, the
''SOFTWARE").
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any software in
your PRODUCT having a
separate end user license
agreement shall be covered
by such a separate end user
license agreement and shall
be expressly excluded from
SOFTWARE ("EXCLUDED
SOFTWARE") .
SOFTWARE LICENSE
The SOFTWARE is licensed,
not sold. The SOFTWARE is
protected by copyright and
other intellectual property
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laws and international
treaties.
COPYRIGHT
All right and title in and to
the SOFTWARE (including,
but not limited to, any
images, photographs,
animation, video, audio,
music, text and "applets"
incorporated into the
SOFTWARE) is owned by
SONY, its affiliates or one or
more of the THIRD-PARTY
SUPPLIERS.
GRANT OF LICENSE
SONY grants you a limited
license to use the SOFTWARE
solely in connection with
your PRODUCT and only for
your individual use. You may
make one back-up copy of
the SOFTWARE solely for
recovery purposes. SONY
and its THIRD-PARTY
SUPPLIERS expressly reserve
all rights in the SOFTWARE
and the PRODUCT that this
EULA does not specifically
grant to you.
REQUIREMENTS AND
LIMITATIONS
Except as specifically
described in the
DOCUMENTATION, you may
not (a) use the SOFTWARE
over a network or (b)
distribute the SOFTWARE to
other devices or users over a
network. Except as expressly
permitted by this EULA, and
except to the extent that
applicable laws prevent
SONY restraining you from
doing so, you may not copy,
publish, adapt, redistribute,
attempt to derive source
code, modify, reverse
engineer, decompile, or
disassemble any of the
SOFTWARE, whether in
whole or in part, or create
any derivative works from or
of the SOFTWARE unless
such derivative works are
intentionally facilitated by
the SOFTWARE. You may not
modify or tamper with any of
the digital rights
management functionality of
the SOFTWARE or the
PRODUCT. You may not
bypass, modify, defeat or
circumvent any of the
functions or protections of
the SOFTWARE or any
mechanisms operatively
linked to the SOFTWARE. You
may not separate any
individual component of the
SOFTWARE for use on more
than one computer or device
unless expressly authorized
to do so by SONY. You may
not remove, alter, cover or
deface any trademarks or
notices on the SOFTWARE.
You may not share,
distribute, rent, lease,
sublicense, assign or sell the
SOFTWARE. You may
permanently transfer all of
your rights under this EULA,
provided you: (i) retain no
copies, sell or transfer the
PRODUCT and all of the
SOFTWARE (including all
copies, component parts, the
media and printed materials,
all versions and any
upgrades of the SOFTWARE
and this EULA); (ii) comply
with the requirements in the
section below entitled
"De-registering your
Product", and (iii) the
recipient agrees to the terms
of this EULA. The software,
network services or other
products other than
SOFTWARE upon which the
SOFTWARE'S performance
depends might be
interrupted or discontinued
at the discretion of the
suppliers (software suppliers,
service suppliers, or SONY).
SONY and its suppliers do
not warrant that the
software, network services or
other products will continue
to be available, or will
operate without interruption
or modification.
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE
Notwithstanding the
foregoing limited license
grant, you acknowledge that
the PRODUCT may include
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE.
Certain EXCLUDED
SOFTWARE may be covered
by open source software
licenses ("Open Source
Components"), which means
any software licenses
approved as open source
licenses by the Open Source
Initiative or any substantially
similar licenses, including but
not limited to any license
that, as a condition of
distribution of the software
licensed under such license,
requires that the distributor
make the software available
in source code format.
Please visit http://www.
sony.net/Products/Linux/ for
a list of applicable EXCLUDED
SOFTWARE included in this
PRODUCT from time to time,
and the applicable terms and
conditions governing its use.
Such terms and conditions
may be changed by the
applicable third party at any
time without liability to you.
To the extent required by the
licenses covering Open
Source Components, the
terms of such licenses will
apply in lieu of the terms of
this EULA. To the extent the
terms of the licenses
applicable to Open Source
Components prohibit any of
the restrictions in this EULA
with respect to such Open
Source Components, such
restrictions will not apply to
such Open Source
Component. To the extent
the terms of the licenses
applicable to Open Source
Components require SONY to
make an offer to provide
source code in connection
with the SOFTWARE, such
offer is hereby made.
USE OF SOFTWARE WITH
COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
The SOFTWARE is capable of
being used by you to store,
process and use content
created by you and third
parties. Such content may be
protected by copyright, other
intellectual property laws,
and/or agreements. You
agree to use the SOFTWARE
only in compliance with all
such laws and agreements
that apply to such content.
You agree that SONY may
take appropriate measures to
protect the copyright of
content stored, processed or
used by the SOFTWARE. Such
measures include, but are
not limited to, counting the
frequency of your backup
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