Contributors And Royalties

Making a Contribution

By submitting downloadable or physical products to twelvebaskets Ltd to be included on the Website you are declaring that

1. it is your own work or you have obtained copyright permission and that you have read and agree with the Terms and Conditions of the Website.
2. You give permission for your work to be used by Twelvebaskets customers for non-commercial use.

If a twelvebaskets customers wishes to purchase an item for commercial use, Twelvebaskets will contact the contributor to request permission and to agree terms and conditions of sale.

Downloadable Products

When uploading electronic Content to the Website (ie images, word & PDF documents, movie & MP3 files, PowerPoints) please follow the instructions as detailed on "How to Contribute" page of the website.

By uploading content to the site you agree that Twelvebaskets Ltd may have non-exclusive rights to use the content in another product. If the uploaded contribution is used without forming part of a composition (i.e. used as is), then the created product will appear under a new twelvebaskets/contributor(s) name account whereby the contributor(s) royalties will be credited. If the uploaded contribution is not used 'as is' or does not represent 25% of a final product then the new product will appear under the Twelvebaskets name with accreditation only to the original contributor. This term of condition and non-exclusive right is only available and permissible by Twelvebaskets Ltd.

Due to limited upload speed of non-commercial Internet users you may find that this impedes sending content. If you experience lengthy uploads then content can be sent to Twelvebaskets on appropriate data storage media. Please contact products@twelvebaskets.co.uk for further information.

Twelvebaskets Ltd and its Directors are not liable for any works submitted for inclusion on the Website that infringe copyright laws.

If you have any problems uploading you items onto the website, please contact service@twelvebaskets.co.uk.

Physical Products

Submitting physical items of work (i.e. books, CDs, DVDs etc), please contact Twelvebaskets to agree Terms and Conditions of sale and stock control.

Royalties

In the spirit of building a community of contributors who are prepared to share their work for the benefit of others and to promote the sharing of resources, Twelvebaskets Ltd have built into the website a Royalty payment system.

Royalties are accrued by a contributor when the subscriber downloads the Content for the first time only.

Calculating Royalties - Downloadable Products

Royalties are accrued differently depending on whether Content has been purchased (movies, PowerPoints, MP3s) or downloaded as part of user's subscription (images, written or hymn words).

Unless otherwise agreed with Twelvebaskets Ltd, payments are calculated as follows.

Purchased items:

VAT is deducted from the selling price, the balance will be split between the contributor and Twelvebaskets Ltd on a 50/50 basis.

Joint Purchased Items - (twelvebaskets/contributors):

VAT and any associated third party costs (i.e. printers, musicians, recording etc) is deducted, the balance will be split between the contributor(s) and Twelvebaskets Ltd upon negotiation. All of these items with be available to any site visitor on a buy now basis.

Subscription Items:

Although any visitor to the site will be able to search and view thumbnails of all of the images and written pieces, only subscribers will be able to download and use them.

When a new subscriber joins the Website, 1/3 of their annual subscription fee (excl. VAT) is divided between the next 4 quarters contributor's royalty holding fund.

At the end of each trading quarter, all the money in that quarter's fund will be divided by the number of downloads in that trading period and split between the contributors who have had work downloaded in that quarter (One download equals one share of that quarter's royalty holding fund).

Only one download per file, per subscriber will be counted.

Royalty Payments

At the end of each quarter the contributor's royalty will appear in their twelvebaskets.co.uk website account. The balance can be used in one of the following ways:

• It can be spent purchasing products or a subscription to the site.
• You can choose in advance to donate all or a % of your royalties to be paid to one of the sponsored charities.
• When the unpaid royalty balance totals more than ?20, contributors can request payment by cheque or direct into their bank account.
• Or a combination of the above.

Requests for payments must be submitted to finance@twelvebaskets.co.uk by the 15th of the month. Payments will be made at the end of the calendar month in which the request was made.