The Legal Stuff:

Ownership and Licenses

1. By submitting a case or E-Poster to the Global Radiology CME website or online teaching file, authors of original work accepted for publication grant first publication rights to Global Radiology CME, but retain ownership of the copyright of their content.

2. In addition, the author(s) grant(s) Global Radiology CME the right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

3. Authors are responsible for obtaining the rights to use third party materials prior to submission.

4. Authors who post their articles or E-Poster on their personal or institutional websites or repositories should include a citation with a link to the original article, for example: Originally published on the Global Radiology CME website: http://www.globalradcme.com/single-post/2016/11/02/Hemangioma-of-the-Breast

5. All content on the Global Radiology CME teaching file and all E-Posters for our live meetings, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License(CC). Under this license, authors' work may be downloaded, redistributed, and new creations built upon it for non-commercial purposes. This can be done under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

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Medical Disclaimer

Medical content on the Global Radiology CME website is provided for educational purposes only, and is provided for use by medical professionals. It should not be used for self-diagnosis or self-treatment. It is not intended as, nor should it be, a substitute for independent professional medical care. We recommend that you consult your own physician regarding any diagnosis, imaging interpretation or course of treatment.

As content is submitted by individual users, Global Radiology CME and its associates (including licensors) (Associates) cannot guarantee its accuracy and assume no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information.

Medical practitioners must make their own independent assessment before suggesting a diagnosis or recommending or instituting a course of treatment. The Global Radiology CME website should not in any way be seen as a replacement for consultation with colleagues or other sources, or as a substitute for conventional training and study.

If you are not medically qualified and are accessing the site as a lay person, you further acknowledge that the content on the Global Radiology CME website is provided for educational purposes only, and is provided for use by medical professionals. You agree to use the information solely for your own private educational purposes and further agree not to rely on the information in any way.

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Warranty

In respect of all content (including image content and text content) which you contribute to Global Radiology CME website (Your Content), you warrant that you have the right to contribute such content to the Global Radiology CME website and to allow such content to be used in accordance with these Terms of Use, and you further warrant that such content:

• has been collected by you in a diligent and professional manner and in accordance with the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA);

• is de-identified such that the identity of each patient to whom Your Content relates is not identifiable or reasonably identifiable;

• comprises legitimate and original content such as, but not limited to radiographic images (CT, US, MRI, X-rays, angiography, nuclear medicine, etc.), photos, diagrams and illustrations and that these have not been in any way copied from any secondary source; and

• will not infringe any third party intellectual property rights when used on, or in connection with, any platform.

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Moral rights

Despite any provision to the contrary at law or under the CC Licence, you consent to Global Radiology CME making, and allowing third parties to make, any use of Your Content which would otherwise infringe any non-assignable personal rights which may subsist in Your Content.

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Modifications to CC Licence

You acknowledge that the Global Radiology CME website is a "Collection" as defined in the CC Licence. You further acknowledge that the CC Licence is amended as follows, in respect of Your Content (irrespective of when you posted Your Content). Despite any contrary provision in the CC Licence:

• Global Radiology CME will endeavour to ensure appropriate attribution is made or is not made (as the case may be), but will not be liable in any way for failing to make appropriate attribution or failing to comply with any request to remove any attribution;

• Global Radiology CME may:

  • accept commercial sponsorship;

  • charge Users for registering for, accessing or using any Platform and/or for access to certain modules of Image Content and Text Content on any Platform;

  • sub-license its rights under these Terms of Use to any third party chosen by Global Radiology CME for use by that company for providing commercial and non-commercial educational and training services and related events;

• if the CC License is terminated for any reason, Global Radiology CME will endeavour to comply with any written request from you to remove any content contributed by you, but is under no obligation to do so. You further agree that Global Radiology CME's licence under these Terms of Use is perpetual and irrevocable and that damages are your sole remedy for any breach of the license;

• the Governing Law, Venue and Jurisdiction provisions set out in these Terms of Use below also apply to the CC License; and

• should Global Radiology CME wish to use, or receive a request to use, Your Content outside the bounds of the license rights granted under these Terms of Use, you will not unreasonably withhold your consent to such use; and further, should Global Radiology CME, having used its reasonable efforts to contact you to seek such consent, be unable to contact you, Global Radiology CME may make a decision on your behalf at its discretion. Upon you consenting, or being deemed to have consented, to such use, you appoint Global Radiology CME to act for and on behalf of you in respect of any dealings with third parties in relation to such use, including doing all such things and executing all such documents (whether in the form of a deed or an agreement or otherwise) to enable such use, and to Global Radiology CME retaining any or all funds (at its discretion) received in connection with such use.