License Agreement and Legal Notices

License Agreement

The following sets out for your reference the terms of the license which have been accepted:

License Agreement ("AGREEMENT")

By installing and/or using vanBasco's Karaoke Player (the "SOFTWARE") you agree to the following license agreement. If you do not agree to all of the terms of this license agreement do not install and/or use the SOFTWARE. The SOFTWARE is protected by German national laws and international treaties. Any misuse is a criminal offense and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.

1. What This License Agreement Covers
You are granted a non-exclusive license to use the SOFTWARE on a single computer free of charge for your personal, non-commercial and private use subject to the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT; any kind of commercial use of the SOFTWARE is prohibited.  You are further allowed to make as many backup copies as are reasonably necessary for your lawful use of the SOFTWARE.

2. Ownership and Restrictions
  1. Daniel Pustka and Bastian Tugemann ("VANBASCO") retain all ownership and intellectual property rights relating to the SOFTWARE.
  2. You may not:
    1. modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble the SOFTWARE or create derivative works based on the SOFTWARE except in cases allowed by § 69 a ff UrhG (German Copyright Act);
    2. modify or remove any copyright or proprietary notices on the SOFTWARE and you must reproduce such notices on any copies or part-copies of the SOFTWARE in the form in which they appear on the original;
    3. re-license, sub-license, rent, lease, timeshare, or act as a service bureau or provide subscription services for the SOFTWARE;
    4. assign this AGREEMENT or give the SOFTWARE or an interest in the SOFTWARE to another individual or entity;
    5. redistribute the SOFTWARE (i.e. give copies of the SOFTWARE to third parties) in any form and under any circumstances whatsoever, unless you have obtained prior written consent from VANBASCO.
  3. You agree that you shall comply with all relevant import and export laws, rules and regulations affecting the SOFTWARE or any portion of it.
3. Disclaimer of Warranty
The SOFTWARE is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, including - but not limited to - the warranties that the SOFTWARE is free of defects, merchantable, fit for a particular purpose or non-infringing. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the SOFTWARE is borne by you. Should the SOFTWARE prove defective in any respect, you and not VANBASCO assume the entire cost of any service and repair.

4. Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstance and under no legal theory, tort, contract, or otherwise, shall VANBASCO or its suppliers or distributors be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character including - but not limited to - damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other damages or losses. Since you are allowed to use the software free of charge, subject to the terms of this AGREEMENT, in no event will VANBASCO be liable for anything at all, even if VANBASCO shall have been informed of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any third party except in cases of intent (Vorsatz) or gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit).

5. Miscellaneous
This AGREEMENT represents the complete agreement concerning the license granted hereunder and may not be amended by others than VANBASCO. The AGREEMENT and the license granted hereunder will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with the limitations described herein.  If any provision of this AGREEMENT is declared or found to be illegal, unenforceable or void, such provision shall be modified only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and each provision not so affected shall be enforced to the full extent permitted by law.  This AGREEMENT shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, German law excluding the German international law.  If you have merchant status (Kaufmann i.S.d. § 1 Handelsgesetzbuch), the exclusive place of jurisdiction will be Munich.  In any cases of necessary statutory interpretation only German rules will be applicable.

Copyright © 2004 Daniel Pustka and Bastian Tugemann. All rights reserved.


Trademarks

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to within this software or documentation or any accompanying part(s) are the property of their respective owners.

Misc

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.