4. User Content & Conduct
4.1 Ownership of Your Content
You retain all ownership rights in the content you create and post on the Service (“User Content”), including but not limited to photos, videos, text, comments, match highlights, profile information, and live streams.
4.2 License Grant to WCourt
By posting or submitting User Content to the Service, you grant WCourt a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your User Content in connection with operating, promoting, and improving the Service. This license persists for as long as your User Content remains on the Service and for a reasonable period thereafter (not to exceed twelve (12) months following removal or account deletion) to allow for backup and archival purposes. You may revoke this license by deleting your User Content or your account, subject to the foregoing retention period and any legal obligations.
4.3 Content Representations
By posting User Content, you represent and warrant that:
- You are the creator and owner of the User Content, or you have obtained all necessary permissions, rights, licenses, consents, and releases to grant the license above.
- Your User Content does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party’s intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other personal or proprietary rights.
- Your User Content does not contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, unlawful, threatening, or otherwise objectionable.
4.4 Content Standards
You agree not to post, upload, or transmit any User Content that:
- Is harassing, abusive, threatening, intimidating, or constitutes bullying of any kind
- Contains hate speech, discrimination, or promotes violence against any individual or group based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic
- Is sexually explicit, pornographic, or exploitative in nature
- Constitutes spam, unsolicited advertising, or promotional material
- Contains malware, viruses, or any harmful or destructive code
- Is illegal or promotes illegal activities in any jurisdiction
- Impersonates any person or entity, or falsely states or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity
- Contains personal or private information about another individual without their express consent (doxxing)
- Infringes upon or violates any intellectual property rights, including copyrights, trademarks, or patents
- Involves the exploitation of minors in any way
4.5 Content Moderation
WCourt reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor, review, edit, remove, or disable access to any User Content at our sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including but not limited to User Content that we believe violates these Terms or our community guidelines. We may also suspend or terminate accounts associated with repeated or severe violations. We are not responsible for any failure to remove or delay in removing User Content. Content moderation decisions are final at WCourt’s sole discretion.
4.6 Copyright Infringement & DMCA Takedown Process
WCourt respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied or used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please submit a written notification to our designated copyright agent at hellowcourt@gmail.com containing the following information:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit WCourt to locate the material (e.g., a URL or screenshot)
- Your contact information, including name, address, telephone number, and email address
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf
Counter-Notification: If you believe your content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notification containing your contact information, identification of the removed content, a statement under penalty of perjury that the removal was a mistake, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located. Repeat infringers may have their accounts terminated.