| TERMS OF USE FOR PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH'S WEBSITES By reading, linking to, quoting, printing out, or in any way making use of the content of any of my weblogs by any means, you agree to this recitation of terms (hereinafter referred to as "Terms of Use"): A. All original content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Home Page, PejmanPundit, Pejman Yousefzadeh's Biography Page, Pejmanesque and/or Pejman's News and Political Posts, with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) being "http://www.pejmanyousefzadeh.com," "http://pejmanpundit.blogspot.com," "http://pejmanbio.blogspot.com," "http://www.pejmanesque.com" and "http://pejmansarticles.blogspot.com" respectively (all of which are hereinafter referred to as "Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites") is copyrighted by the owner of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites, presently Pejman Yousefzadeh, and is not to be used without permission except as provided herein. All rights are reserved by Pejman Yousefzadeh B. 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Permission is granted to quote, link to, print, or otherwise use the content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites, so long as you comply with the following terms: 1. All quotations from Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites shall include credit to whichever individual website owned by Pejman Yousefzadeh is in question, and/or to Pejman Yousefzadeh, and, wherever practicable, a hyperlink to whichever individual website owned by Pejman Yousefzadeh is in question. 2. In exchange for the access to the content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites, described above, you agree not to sue Pejman Yousefzadeh for the contents of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites, whether original, or linked, or quoted from any source, in any court, on any grounds whatsoever in law or in equity. Should you violate this agreement by filing such a lawsuit, you agree to pay the owner or owners of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as liquidated damages, in addition to all court costs, attorney's fees, and other expenses associated with this litigation, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites and its owner or owners from any damage award made against them in such an action. Should this agreement not to sue be held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to binding arbitration, with all arbitration expenses to be paid by you. The arbitration panel shall be composed of three (3) weblog operators selected by the owner or owners of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites from those in the links on Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites. The award to you, if any, in such arbitration, shall be limited to (1) a monetary sum not to exceed one dollar ($1); and (2) the publication of a retraction on the pertinent individual site that is part of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites. Should this arbitration provision be held unenforceable in a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to accept as liquidated damages in any lawsuit against the owner or owner of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites a monetary sum not to exceed one dollar ($1), and that you will be entitled to no other relief of any kind, either in law or in equity. You agree that all disputes concerning the content of these Terms of Use or the content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites are to be resolved in the courts of Orange County, California, under the laws of California and the United States of America. 3. You agree that any and all efforts to obtain the content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites in violation or circumvention of these terms of use constitute a violation of the copyright of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites and you understand and agree that (1) by virtue of this agreement you are estopped from arguing otherwise; and (2) such violations may lead to civil and/or criminal penalties. 4. If you are a corporation, you agree to provide, upon the filing of any lawsuit or the mailing of any letter threatening legal action, a bond in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as a security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph D(2) above. If you are an attorney or law firm representing a party filing such a lawsuit, or causing such a letter to be sent, you agree to provide a bond in the same amount as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph D(2) above. E. The content of these Terms of Use may change at any time, without notice, at the sole discretion of the owner or owners of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites. F. If you are found, or find yourself to be in violation of any of the provisions of these Terms of Use, whether in whole or in part, you agree to take immediate steps to unconditionally, categorically, and unequivocally correct such violations in full. Additionally, you agree that any claim by you that you were not aware of the existence or content of these Terms of Use prior to any violation, whether such violation was deliberate or inadvertent, shall not be availing in any arbitration action, or in any proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction. G. If you do not agree to any or all of these Terms of Use, exit Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites immediately, destroy all copies of content from Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites remaining on your computer, any other computer or network device under your control, in print form, or on any information storage or retrieval device under your control. Then execute the following affidavit and send it by certified mail to: Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites Legal Department 20 Via Lucca Suite C116 Irvine, CA 92612 AFFIDAVIT I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that I possess no copies of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites in any form whatsoever; that neither I nor any employee or associate of mine will access those sites in any form whatsoever; and that I will immediately destroy any content of Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites that come into my possession. I understand that action contrary to these statements constitutes perjury and a violation of the Terms of Use for Pejman Yousefzadeh's Websites, subjecting me to possible civil and criminal liability. ________________________________ Signed (include date) ________________________________ Witness (notary) Notary Seal: My commission expires: ________________________________ |