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EULA), and the recipient agrees to the terms of this EULA. Sony and its Third Party Licensors retain all rights that this
EULA does not expressly grant to you. You shall not (a) bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent any of the functions or
protections of the Sony Software or any mechanisms operatively linked to the Sony Software; or (b) remove, alter,
cover, or deface any trademarks or notices on the Sony Software. You understand, acknowledge, and agree that
the software, network services, or other products other than the Sony Software upon which the Sony Software's
performance may depend might be interrupted or discontinued at the discretion of the suppliers (software
suppliers, service providers, Third Party Providers, etc.) or Sony.
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE
Notwithstanding the foregoing limited license grant, you acknowledge that the Sony Product includes software
subject to other terms and conditions governing the use of such software other than this EULA ("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. Terms and conditions applicable to Open Source Components are provided to you together with this
EULA and/or stored in your Device which may include but are not limited to the "Help" or "About· menus. Please
visit http://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux for a list of applicable Excluded Software included in this Sony 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 sour~e code in connection with the Software, such offer is hereby made.
USER ACCOUNT
As part of the agreement to allow you to access, browse, or use the Services and the Content, Third Party Providers
and/or other third parties may require that you establish a user account ("Account") for which you must provide
them with true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself and maintain/promptly update such
information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any and all of your passwords associated
with any such Account.
DATA COLLECTION
Any Services provided by Third Party Providers that you access may also allow Third Party Providers to collect data
about you and/or about the use of that Service. Sony does not control and is not in any way liable for such data
collection and you should consult the relevant privacy policy for each such Service before using it.
SONY'S RIGHTS TO USER'S MATERIAL
If you send any communications or materials to Sony by electronic mail or otherwise including any selections,
comments, data, questions, suggestions, or the like ("Materials"), all such Materials are, and will be treated as, non-
confidential
and non-proprietary (except as expressly provided for in the applicable privacy policy). Thus, you give
up any claim that use of such Materials violates any of your rights including moral rights, privacy rights, proprietary
or
other property rights, rights of publicity, rights to credit for material or ideas, or any other right, including the right
to approve the way Sony uses such Materials. Any Material may be adapted, broadcast, changed, copied, disclosed,
licensed, performed, posted, published, sold, transmitted, or used by Sony anywhere in the world, in any medium,
forever and without attribution or compensation to you. Furthermore, you hereby assign all right, title, and interest
in, and Sony is free to use, without any compensation to you, any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques, or other
intellectual property rights contained in the Materials, whether or not patentable, for any purpose whatsoever,
including but not limited to developing, manufacturing, having manufactured, licensing, marketing, and selling
products using such Materials. However, you agree and understand that Sony is not obligated to use any such ideas,
know-how, concepts, or techniques or Materials, and you have no right to compel such use.
TRANSMITTED MATERIAL
Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you
send to Sony may be read or intercepted by others, unless there is a special notice that a particular message (for
example, credit card information) is encrypted (sent in code). Sending a message to Sony does not cause Sony to
have any special responsibility to you.
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Content owners use Microsoft PlayReady™ content access technology ("PlayReady") to protect their intellectual
property, including copyrighted content. This Sony Product uses PlayReady technology to access PlayReady-
protected Content and/or WMDRM-protected Content ("WMDRM" means Microsoft Windows Media digital rights
management
technology).
If this Sony Product fails to properly enforce restrictions on the Content usage, Content
owners may require Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") to revoke this Sony Product's ability to consume
PlayReady-
protected Content. Revocation should not affect unprotected Content or Content protected by other content access
technologies. Content owners may require you to upgrade PlayReady to access their Content. If you decline an
upgrade, you will not be able to access Content that requires the
upgrade.
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