INTRODUCTIONS

• This Terms of Use for Authors is effective from April 10, 2023.

• Please read these Terms of Use for Authors carefully before continuing and accepting it.

• Relebook is a website that allows authors to share their works and sell the rights to use their works to customers who wish to purchase access to design materials via the Service. The preceding design materials refer to computer files that can be used for design, including but not limited to 3D models, architectural drawings, textures, images, pictures, etc.

• This document is the official public offer addressed to Customers of Relebook for the purpose of entering into a contract under the terms and conditions stipulated below. If You wish to upload the design materials and sell the rights to use them, you need to read, understand and accept these Terms of Use for Authors.

• These Terms of Use for Authors create a legally binding agreement between Relebook and You. If You do not accept these Terms of Use for Authors, you shall refrain from uploading the design materials to our Website Database.

• By ticking the checkbox “I have read, understand and accept the Terms of Use for Authors” and uploading any design material to the Website Database You agree as follows:

 

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CONTRACT

• Pursuant to this Contract, the Customer for the purpose of personal gain, uploads the Self-created design materials to the Website Database and grants Relebook the License and the copyright to such design materials. Therefore the Customer is granted the “Author” Status in Relebook pursuant to this Contract.

• Relebook provides the Service to the Author, distributes its uploaded design materials and splits the Net Revenue with the Author.

• Clients may not upload design materials whose author is unknown, and may not upload design materials that are not created by themselves. We cannot retrieve whether the uploaded material infringes other people's intellectual property rights. 

 

ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER AND EFFECTIVE PERIOD OF THE CONTRACT

• By completing the uploading of its design materials to the Website Database and ticking the checkbox “I have read, understand and accept the Terms of Use for Authors” the Customer acknowledges that it is fully aware of the provisions of this Contract and accepts all of them in full without any exemptions or limitations whatsoever.

• Acceptance of these Terms of Use for Authors is equivalent to the conclusion of a bilateral written Contract between the Author and Relebook.

• This Contract between the Author and us shall be deemed concluded and effective from the moment of the first uploading of a design material to the Website Database by the Author and its acceptance of this Contract. This Contract is valid for the duration of Your use of the Service and for the period of availability of the uploaded design materials in the Website Database.

• This Contract may be amended by us unilaterally without the Author’s prior consent. We will notify You about the alteration of this Contract immediately thereafter. You have the right not to accept the amended Contract following our notification about such alteration, and such non-acceptance will result in immediate discontinuance of Your “Author” Status and Your rights and obligations hereunder. You therefore need to accept the amended Contract for further continuance of Your “Author” Status and Your rights and obligations hereunder.

• If you do not agree to our revised terms and conditions, your contractual relationship with us will be terminated. If you upload a design material before the termination of the contractual relationship, We will continue to distribute and pay you revenue in accordance with the terms, unless We receive a message from you requesting deletion of your design material.

 

 

GRANTING OF LICENSE TO RELEBOOK TO USE THE DESIGN MATERIALS

• When the Author uploads the design material or image to the Website Database, he grants Relebook a non-exclusive license with the right to enter into sublicense agreements with third parties for the entire duration of the exclusive right to the territory of the entire world for the following uses:

（1）reproduction, that is, the production of one or more copies of the design material or part of it in any material form, including production in three dimensions or in two dimensions, for example, by applying an image or design material to any medium (poster, T-shirt, etc.), as well as the recording of design materials on electronic media, for example, on a CD, DVD, flash drive, portable hard drive, including recording in the memory of a computer or mobile phone;

（2）distribution, that is, sale or other alienation of copies of the design material, for example, by applying an image or design material to any medium (poster, T-shirt, etc.), including electronic media;

（3）public display, that is, any demonstration of the original or a copy of the design material on a screen, in a place open to the public, or in a place where there is an indefinite number of people, for example, for advertising purposes;

（4）public performance, that is, the presentation of the design material in live performance or throughout technical means (radio, television, etc.), in a public place with an indefinite number of people, for example, to display the goods being sold in the sales area;

（5）rental of originals or copies of the design materials, that is, leasing or on loan (for free) of design materials made in any material form, including those made in three dimensions or two dimensions, as well as leasing or lending media with recorded design materials on them, including electronic media;

（6）broadcasting and communication by cable, that is, communication of the design material to the public by radio or television, as well as communication of the design material to the public by cable, wire, optical fibre or similar means;

（7）retransmission, that is, the reception and simultaneous air communication (including via satellite) or by cable of a complete and unchanged radio or television transmission with the design material or its essential part, broadcast or by cable by an on-air or cable broadcasting organization;

（8）bringing the design material or image to the public in such a way that any person can access the design material or image from anywhere and at any time of his own free will, for example, uploading the design material or image to the Internet;

（9）processing, that is, the creation of a derivative work using the design material or image, for example, the creation of a room design project using the design material or image, as well as the use of a derivative work in all the ways mentioned of the Agreement, The copyright for the creation of derivative works belongs to Relebook.

（10）use of the design material or image as part of a complex object, for example, as part of an audiovisual work (film, advertising video, etc.), a theatrical performance, a multimedia product, but without the right to use it as part of a database;

（11）use of the design material or image as part of a computer game, a game for a game console, a game for a smartphone or any other game in conjunction with other uses mentioned of the Agreement.

（12）The author uploads additional material for the design material file, and the author grants the license and copyright to Relebook in accordance with these Terms. Relebook reserves the right to distribute such materials individually or in combination.

（13）The authors allow Relebook and its clients to design and build buildings based on the uploaded 3D design materials.

（14）Relebook reserves the right at any time at sole discretion to request the Author's documents and other information in order to verify its identity. We verify Author’s identities in order to prevent and detect improper use of the design materials. The documents and other information that We can request may include, but not limited to, identity documents, such as a national passport or a travel document issued by the authorities of the Author’s country of residence, Author’s portfolio or website, etc.

• The Author authorizes Relebook to make changes, abbreviations and additions to the design material or image, provide the design material with illustrations and otherwise affect the integrity of the design material. Relebook have copyright on the modified or assembled design materials.

• The Author authorizes Relebook to publish the design material or image for the first time, that is, to carry out actions that make the design material or image available to the public in various ways.

• Nothing in this Agreement affects the Author's right to use or sell the design materials created by the Author outside the Website.

• 100% of the elements of the design materials must be created personally by the Author.

• Design materials must not contain violations of intellectual property rights (exclusive rights, copyrights, related rights, rights to industrial property, rights to trade secrets, rights to trademarks and service marks, rights to trade names, etc.) and must not copy design materials of other copyright holders, or be derivative works of other works, created without the consent of the authors of other works.

• The Author grants Relebook the right to protect the Author's rights to the design materials uploaded to the Website Database in the following ways:

（1）communicate on behalf of the Author in any way with persons who violate/supposed to violate the rights of the Author to the design materials uploaded to the Website Database, request clarifications from such persons and require them to stop violating the rights of the Author;

（2）send official claims and demands to persons who violate the author's rights to the design materials uploaded to the Website Database;

（3）submit any kind of complaints against those who violate the author's rights to the design materials uploaded to the Website Database;

（4）file legal claims on its behalf to protect the rights of Relebook to the design materials uploaded by the Authors to the Website Database provided by the Author according to this Agreement.

（5）compensation is received on behalf of the author, and Relebook pays the compensation to the author in accordance with the percentage of the terms after deducting the cost of the legal claims.

 

UPLOADING OF THE DESIGN MATERIALS TO THE WEBSITE DATABASE

• When You upload a design material or image, we will moderate it before adding to the Website Database. We shall therefore decide whether this design material meets our requirements to be uploaded to the Website Database. It's up to you to choose what category to add Your design material to. If Your design material fails to pass the moderation, we will let You know about what should be corrected to meet our requirements. The time we need for the moderation depends on each particular design material. The Website has the right to request various information in relation to the design material during the moderation process.

• The design materials shall meet at least the following requirements to be uploaded to the Website Database:

（1）the design materials shall comply with the Applicable law (i.e. it shall not breach the prohibitions and limitations set in the Applicable law, e.g. not to comprise any rabble-rousing and etc.);

（2）the design materials shall not display violence, obscenities, insults, harm, threats, slander, false information or pornography;

（3）the design materials or images can not contain non-compliant elements such as military weapons, or armed personnel, or involve political figures etc;

（4）the design materials shall not undermine other persons’ honour, dignity or reputation;

（5）the design materials shall not stoke racial, religious, national, ethniс or social tensions;

（6）the design materials shall not infringe upon any intellectual property rights (copyrights, related rights, patent rights, know-how rights, trademark rights, etc.) and shall not copy any other Authors’ works;

（7）the design materials shall not contain any information that may be deemed confidential pursuant to the Applicable law and/or any contractual obligations;

（8）the design materials shall not contain any viruses or malware;

（9）100% of all the elements of the design materials shall be created by You personally,or you're authorized to use the material in the design materials;

（10）image format requirements: png,jpg or jpeg; Width or height≥1000px; 50M or less;

（11）hdr file format requirements: between 1M and 1000M;

（12）3D model requirements: high definition, no watermark, no border, with lighting and texture rendering of the original image, the effect is exactly the same as the 3D model, including the texture of light.

（13）the design materials shall be furnished with a proper and detailed description, Fill in information such as name, category, label, etc. Please use English only;

（14）you need to provide the design materials with relevant tags.

• If the design material is pirated, it is not allowed to be uploaded to the website database. Relebook may determine if the design material is pirated based on the following rules:

（1）Except as otherwise provided for by any law regarding the rights related to the work, Relebook does not allow authors to upload pirated models and pirated design materials, including design materials that have been second-time modified, spliced, and rendered after piracy；

（2）No overall rendering: that is, the uploaded design material and the scene model of the previous design material, including the structural modeling of ceiling, wall, ground and other scene design elements, and the main furniture, lamps, ornaments and other models, shall not reach higher than 70% of the similarity through picture identification; 

（3）No single model rendering: that is, in the uploaded monomer model of the design material and the previous design material, it is not allowed to only increase or decrease the number of monomer models, or switch the model Angle and adjust the material and other simple modifications or combinations.  The author can learn from the monomer model to redesign, but should carry out the original scene atmosphere collocation.

（4）No overall modeling: that is, compared with any previous design of the overall model, more than 70% of similarity in expression forms of the work is not allowed.

（5）No monomer model assembling: the uploaded monomer model shall not directly use any of the previously designed monomer models or carry out simple quantitative recombination, model fine-tuning, material fine-tuning.

（6）Relebook has the final say as to whether the design elements on this website are pirated.
If the design material uploaded by the author causes a piracy dispute on the dispute handling platform, Relebook will remove the disputed work, and the author can modify the disputed part and upload it.  Relebook will impose penalties on accounts that repeatedly upload pirated works: restricting model uploading, limiting income withdrawals, reducing the priority of model list exposure, and banning accounts.

 

NET REVENUE SHARE AND PAYMENTS

• Relebook sets all of the fees payable for the access to the design materials. Relebook reserves the right to adjust the price of design material distribution according to the sales strategy.

• “ Net Revenue ” is the revenue generated by Relebook from providing (selling) the access to the design materialss, uploaded by You to the Website Database, to Customers under the Terms of Use for Customers during the relevant agreement Period.

• The Author has the right to receive a share of the Net Revenue in the amount of 50 (fifty) percent.

• Shall pay the share of the Net Revenue to the Author according to the procedures, that depend on the payment solutions used by the Author:

（1）Payments to the Authors that use PayPal, are made upon their applications for payment, filed through their accounts, within 5 (five) banking days. The minimum payout amount for PayPal is 50 (fifty) USD. Payments upon applications will be made only after the amount of the share payable to the Author reaches the specified thresholds;

（2）The moment of such payouts can be postponed, but not more than for the period of 1 (one) calendar month.

• Upon termination of this Contract, Relebook shall within 15 (fifteen) banking days pay the Author a share of the Net Revenue earned by the Author before the Contract termination date.

• The Author must submit the data necessary to identify it for payment purposes. If the Author fails to submit such data, the payment will be delayed until the Author provides it.

• The Author shall bear all the costs in connection with currency conversion of its earnings.

• If Relebook receives information about an infringement of the author's design material, Relebook reserves the right to withhold all revenue sharing from the author until the alleged infringement is resolved.

 

TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT

• This Contract may be terminated entirely or partially by each of the Parties unilaterally at any time. The Party that wishes to terminate the Contract should notify the other Party about it via email. Therefore, the Contract may be terminated only upon receipt of such a notice by one of the Parties.

• If the Author want to deletes all or some of its design materials from the Website Database, we can be contacted by e-mail, the licenses to use the deleted design materials shall be terminated upon the completion of the performance of the obligations under the Terms of Use which Relebook has concluded with other Customers before such deletion of the design materials occurs. The deletition of the design materials from the un-free categories, access to which was obtained by Customers on a paid basis, does not result in the revocation of licenses for such design materials provided to such Customers. If the Author wishes to revoke such a license granted to the Customer, then it should contact the relevant Customer itself and refund the amounts received by the Author for granting Customer access to this design material (Net Revenue share).

• The termination of this Contract shall result in revocation of Your Author Status and You will therefore be free of the obligations and rights under this Contract. However, termination of this Contract shall not result in termination of the Terms of Use, which You have entered into, and forfeiting of Your Customer Status.

• Termination of the Terms of Use, which You have entered into, shall result in the termination of this Contract.

 

PARTIES’ LIABILITY

• Our Services, the Website and the design materials are made available to You on an “AS IS” basis. We therefore disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

• The developers of the Website Software and Relebook are not liable for any consequences of the Website and the Service operation and for their meeting of the Authors’ expectations and requirements.

• We shall not be liable for any misrepresentation, modification and distortion of the design materials’ displays on the Website even though it may cause a negative impact on the Author’s reputation.

• We shall not be liable for non-performance or improper performance of our obligations due to failures in the telecommunications and energy networks, actions of malicious programs, removal and/or failure of the software/hardware systems of Relebook, as well as unfair actions of third persons to obtain unauthorized access, and other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

• We are totally separated from the Content and design materialss, we therefore shall not be liable for the nature, authentication and safety of such Content and design materialss or their components as well as for their compliance with the requirements of the Applicable law and the Customers’ and/or Authors` rights for the distribution and/or use thereof.

• The Author warrants and represents that:

（1）the information provided to Relebook at our request to perform our obligations is correct;

（2）the Author is the only owner of the design materials which it uploads to the Website Database or otherwise entitled to grant the rights to use the design materials under to this Contract;

（3）its execution of this Contract does not contravene the requirements of the Applicable law, does not infringe any intellectual property rights of third persons including, but not limited to, copyright and related rights, rights to trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods, patent rights to inventions, utility models and industrial samples, right to use images of people both living and deceased; If the file uploaded by the author infringes other’s intellectual property rights resulting in the Relebook being claimed by the right holder, the author shall compensate Relebook, including but not limited to compensation, attorney's fees, litigation costs, arbitration fees, travel expenses, lost work expenses, investigation fees, and evidence collection fees.

（4）the Author obtained all the necessary permits.

（5）Save the source file of the uploaded design material on Author‘s local computer.

• If we are found liable for the Author’s violation of the rights and/or interests of third persons, the Author’s warranties and representations, as well as other provisions of law, the Author shall fully reimburse the losses suffered by Relebook in connection with such violation.

• The Author acknowledges that any breach of this Agreement will result in irreparable harm to us. Therefore, in addition to our rights and remedies otherwise available at law, we will be entitled to additional financial compensation, if such a breach occurs.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

• The Author warrants and represents that all the provisions of this Contract are clear to it and accepts them unconditionally and to the full extent.

• This Contract constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the Author and Relebook relating to the Author’s use of our Website and Services.

• If, for whatever reason, one or more provisions of this Contract are invalid or unenforceable, such circumstance shall have no effect on the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Contract.

• Relebook is entitled to transfer its rights and obligations under this agreement to a third party as part of an acquisition of Relebook or the associated business activities.

• Questions, discord or claims not regulated by this Contract are governed by the Applicable law.

 

CONTACT US

• If you have any questions regarding our website or your interactions with it, please do not hesitate to contact us at: www.relebook@gmail.com.