Terms & Conditions

1. In submitting your contribution to the Canadian Museum of Civilization, you hereby grant the Canadian Museum of Civilization and its subsidiaries an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual and worldwide licence to reproduce your contribution in any medium and to publish such reproductions in Museum publications including but not limited to catalogues, visitor brochures, exhibition-related materials, exhibition advertising, in-gallery displays (including electronic and screen-based displays), internal management systems, on the Museum website and on other websites to which the Museum contributes material where the items are made available on a non-commercial basis and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Privacy Policy.

2. In submitting your contribution you hereby warrant and undertake to the Museum that:

1. your contribution is your own original work and that you are fully  entitled to grant to the Canadian Museum of Civilization the rights under Clause 1 and that by doing so you do not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights;
2. you are not aware of any third parties who might be entitled to prevent the Canadian Museum of Civilization from exploiting the Copyright or from reproducing any of the items in your contribution or distributing copies thereof to the public;
3. You will not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio;
4. you agree to indemnify the Canadian Museum of Civilization against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the Canadian Museum of Civilization as a result of your breach of the above warranties.

3. You agree to waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Canadian Museum of Civilization website and the purposes specified above.

4. The Canadian Museum of Civilization reserves the sole right to remove any content that it deems unsuitable. This might include but not be limited to content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable.

5. The Canadian Museum of Civilization reserves the right to use none, part or all of your submission and may delete any contribution published onto its website at any time.

If you do not want to grant to the Canadian Museum of Civilization the above rights or cannot provide the warranties set out above, please do not submit your contribution.