Important Terms of Service Changes and Contest Changes
We are working very hard to listen to the valuable feedback of our members and we have heard a lot of suggestions and frankly complaints regarding our TOS and new developer CONTEST.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologize for using a boiler plate cut and paste TOS. Lesson learned! We want to let you know we have made significant changes to our Terms of Service to clearly protect developers ownership and intellectual property rights over their own work. We trust these changes will set their minds at ease and hopefully convince a few devs that were on the fence to give our new CONTEST a shot!
Below please find a recap of all the changes made to our TOS and after that news and changes to our dev CONTEST.
Original:
User Provided Content, License. You are solely responsible for all content or materials that you post, submit to, or transmit through the Service. By submitting materials or content to PSX-Scene.com, you grant PSX-Scene.com a license to copy, use, display and create derivative works of the material or content submitted for any purpose, including, without limitation, the promotion and marketing of the Service and the operation of the PSX-Scene.com system.
Changed to:
User Provided Content, License. You are solely responsible for all content or materials that you post, submit to, or transmit through the Service. By submitting materials or content to PSX-Scene.com, you grant PSX-Scene.com a license to use and display content submitted.
Original:
By submitting materials or content, you automatically agree (or, to the extent you do not own all rights to such materials or content, you represent and warrant that the owner of the content or materials has expressly agreed) that without any particular time limit, and without the payment of any fees, PSX-Scene.com and anyone it permits may reproduce, display, distribute and create new works of authorship based on and including the content or materials. You may not submit content or materials trademarked or
copyrighted by anyone other than yourself.
Changed to:
By submitting materials or content, you automatically agree (or, to the extent you do not own all rights to such materials or content, you represent and warrant that the owner of the content or materials has expressly agreed) that without any particular time limit, and without the payment of any fees, PSX-Scene.com has the final decision whether to remove content posted, edit content posted, or move content posted. You may not submit content or materials trademarked or copyrighted by anyone other than yourself. Files and projects submitted by original owners of said files to PSX-Scene.com maintain their ownership and intellectual property of those files indefinitely and PSX-Scene.com in no way, shape, or form will have ownership over those files or projects submitted to PSX-Scene.com however PSX-Scene.com retains sole discretion as to whether files or posts shall be deleted, altered, moved, or edited in any way so as to guarantee the continuity of the forum and site itself.
Original:
Ownership, Reservation of Rights. The Service and all content and materials found within the Service, including but not limited to articles, graphical images, interactive applications, software, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyright and are owned by PSX-Scene.com or its licensors.
Changed to:
Ownership, Reservation of Rights. The Service and all content and materials found within the Service, including but not limited to articles, graphical images, interactive applications, software, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyright and are owned by PSX-Scene.com or its licensors save for projects and files uploaded by original developers which maintain ownership and intellectual property rights over said files and projects - exception: PSX-Scene.com retains sole discretion as to whether files or
posts shall be deleted, altered, moved, or edited in any way so as to guarantee the continuity of the forum and site itself.
Original:
You may not modify these materials or re-publish, re-transmit or otherwise distribute directly or via links any of these materials to any third person except for your personal, non-commercial use, as permitted under the license granted to you by PSX.Scene.com in these TOS
Changed to:
Developer projects are free to be re-posted and/or distributed to other forums/websites/etc. Forum threads and posts may not be reproduced verbatim elsewhere, without the express permission of PSX-SCENE.com.
Original:
PSX-Scene.com , Caputo Media and their respective logos are trademarks of PSX-Scene.com and Caputo Media.
Changed to:
PSX-Scene.com , Caputo Media and their respective logos are trademarks of PSX-Scene.com and Caputo Media. All other trademarks on the Service are the property of their respective holders.
As far as our developer contest is concerned we have received a lot of interest from devs across the world but one suggestion was persistent. Can we make the contest more about quality over quantity? The answer is yes we can. We have changed the rules of the contest so that while a dev may submit as many projects as they like as frequently as they like - the winner will ultimately be determined by the TOTAL number of LIKES received by the community for all of the projects submitted by the dev for the contest month. We hope this will address the quality over quantity concern and we look forward to seeing those releases on PSX! Here is the down and dirty about the CONTEST.
Sorry for the interruption. We hope this clears up a lot of confusion and we appreciate all of the constructive feedback we have received. Thanks and see you in the forums.
