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Content Release

User-Generated Content Agreement

Before we accept your user-generated photos, audio, or video, please review this page.

By clicking the box on our content submission form, you certify that:

  1. You produced the content yourself and have the right to share it
  2. You have permission from anyone appearing in the photos or video to share the content
  3. You give Johns Hopkins University the right to use your content
  4. You have read and agree to the legal language below which contains more detailed information about this release.

Photography, Audio, and Video Release

I, the individual identified in the form linking to this site (“Creator/Donor”), hereby releases all rights to, and gives, donates, assigns, conveys, transfers and delivers to Johns Hopkins, irrevocably, unconditionally and without any restriction of any kind, all right, title and interest, including copyright in the submitted photograph(s), audio recording(s), and/or video recording(s) to allow Johns Hopkins to use such photographs, video recordings and/or audio recordings (the “Works”) by any method or device now known or devised in any media throughout the world. This grant is perpetual. I agree that I shall have no right of approval and no claim to compensation hereunder.

Creator/Donor represents and warrants that prior to this release Creator/Donor had good and merchantable title to the Works, that the Works are being transferred free and clear of all debts, liens, claims, charges, restrictions, and any other encumbrances or liabilities whatsoever, and that Creator/Donor has the authority to transfer the Works as set forth in this Release. Creator/Donor waives all rights to compensation, royalties, or attribution, and understands that the Works may be used by Johns Hopkins by any method or device now known or devised in any media throughout the world. Creator/Donor acknowledges that they received permission, from all individuals in the Works, to allow Johns Hopkins to use the Works.

By submitting content using Johns Hopkins University content submission forms, the Creator/Donor acknowledges they have read and agree to this Release.