LittleBigWorkshop.com

Welcome to the LittleBIGWorkshop.com (“Site” or “our Site”), the official community-building website for LittleBIGPlanet. This Site is where you can tell us and each other about your work and inspirations for your level-building and content creation efforts for LittleBIGPlanet. In addition, here is where you can tell the LittleBIGPlanet community what you think about everything and anything LittleBIGPlanet within comments, forums, and blog! Our goal is to make this the best LittleBIGPlanet site on this planet, but to do that we need you. We want to hear what you have to say and show! So take a good look around, and enjoy your time on our site.

Don’t forget that you are legally obligated to the Terms of Service noted below as well as to any other agreements, terms and rules that we tell you apply to your use of our Site.

Please don’t use our Site if you don’t agree to these Terms of Service because once you are on our Site, you have to follow the rules. Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. and its affiliates, representatives and agents that assist in operating our Site (collectively, "SCEA," "our," "we" or "us") reserve the right to temporarily or permanently disable access to the Site for anyone who violates these Terms of Service. Because of the importance of these Terms of Service, we will disable access to the Site at our discretion and may do so without notice.

Because we reserve the right to change the terms of service at any time, we recommend visiting this page periodically to make sure that the rules have not changed since your last visit. By using this site, you agree to be bound by all of the current terms of service.

Here are the Terms of Service we expect you to follow:

These Terms of Service form a legally binding contract between you and us. By using our Site, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age, an emancipated minor or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, representations and responsibilities set forth in these Terms of Service, and to abide and comply with these Terms of Service.

You do not need to create a PlayStation®Network ("PSN") account with us in order to view the Site or to use the Site’s "Sticker Room" or "Blueprint Room." However, if you already have a PSN account or if you create one, you will have access to more of the fun features on our Site, as well as access to the PSN online community – which allows you to play games online and buy content and services, like new levels for your favorite games, movies, television shows or original programs such as Qore™. If you do not already have a PSN account, you can create one here: https://store.playstation.com/accounts/register/beginNewAccountRegistrationFlow.action. Note that if you do choose to create a PSN account, you will need to agree to a separate Terms of Service and User Agreement ("ToSUA") that governs PSN. The PSN ToSUA also applies to your activities on this Site to the extent it does not conflict with these Terms of Service. Creating a PSN account is free, so we encourage you to do so.

We respect your information and privacy and will not publicly disclose your personal information to non-affiliated third parties other than as stated in our Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you acknowledge that we are not responsible for any personal information that you publicly disclose (intentionally or unintentionally) using the Site's services such as through discussion forums or message boards. You should avoid saying anything personally identifying in these areas of our Site.

If you use the Site, you agree that we may collect information regarding your activities on and access to the Site ("User Information"). You acknowledge that we may use, distribute, copy, display and publish your User Information without payment to you for purposes related to the Site and for marketing and gaming-related purposes.

If you use our Site you also agree that through your use of the Site, you may be provided with information about SCEA’s or a third party’s products or services, including promotions, advertisements, product placements or marketing materials within the Site. You acknowledge that SCEA does not endorse any of the products or services advertised, promoted or marketed by third parties.

Everything on or used in connection with our Site, including text, images, graphics, logos, audio and video content and software (collectively, “Content”) – with the exception of User Generated Content as defined below – is owned by us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors or suppliers. For example, we own the Content in the Sticker Room and all of the elements in the Blue Print Room. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works or in any way exploit any of the Content (including Content that the Site enables you to download or save) without our express permission.

Here’s what permission we do give you to use the Content. First, we give you permission to use the Content to surf and view our Site, which means displaying or loading the Content on your computer in connection with typical web browsing activity. Second, we give you permission to use the Content for your personal, non-commercial uses. For example, the Site allows you to use Content in the Sticker Room and Blue Print Room and to save your use of the Content to a new file. We give you permission to engage in these activities as long as you use the Content for your own, non-commercial use. This means, for example, that you do not have our permission to distribute the Content you assemble in these rooms, to publicly display the content, charge any fee for it, use the Content to create your own website, construct a database with the Content or replicate our Site or any parts of it elsewhere. (We intend these only as examples and are not an exhaustive list of things you can’t do with our Content).

Regardless of the permissions we give you to use the Content, we remain the sole owner of all the Content, and you do not acquire any ownership rights in the Content by assembling, creating files, downloading or saving any of it. If we have included an author attribution, a trademark or copyright notice or other legal notices on the Content, you should not remove or alter them.

The Site has tools that allow you to communicate with other users and to create, post, upload, share and distribute various forms of content for and in connection with the Site, including pictures, photographs, videos and other information or materials (collectively, “User Generated Content”).

A. YOUR USE OF USER GENERATED CONTENT

It’s great that users on our Site can upload or share content with each other, but we do not authorize you to upload or share on our Site certain items and content. Do not create, transfer, share, send, submit, post or upload any User Generated Content that:

Is protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret or subject to third-party proprietary rights, including rights of privacy and publicity - unless you are or have permission from the rightful owner;
Contains fraudulent statements or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;
Contains any statements or materials that disparage, ridicule or scorn us or any third party;
Is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, predatory, pornographic, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would violate any law or is otherwise inappropriate;
Is an advertisement, solicitation of business or engages in any commercial activity on the Site;
Is an impersonation of another person;
Produces SPAM on or throughout the Site publicizing a product or event; or
Violates any of the rules of Code of Conduct (described below), these Terms of Service, the PSN ToSUA or other agreements that we incorporate into these Terms of Service by reference.

B. LICENSE FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT

If you post, upload or make available any User Generated Content on our Site, you will still own the User Generated Content (assuming you have rights to own it) but you are giving us the right to use your User Generated Content. If you create, transfer, share, send, submit, post or upload any User Generated Content to our Site, you grant us certain rights to use it (described below) without getting your further permission or having to pay you for it.

In legal terms, by transferring, sharing, sending, submitting, posting, uploading or making available User Generated Content on this Site, you grant SCEA a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and fully sub-licensable license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, adapt, translate, archive, store, and create derivative works from your User Generated Content, in any form, format or medium of any kind now known or later developed, both on this Site and other online locations, and in other forms or media off the Internet. You waive any moral rights you might have with respect to any User Generated Content you provide to us.

In addition, by transferring, sharing, sending, submitting, posting, uploading or making available User Generated Content on this Site, you acknowledge that other Site users may use your User Generated Content. SCEA is not responsible for enforcing any rights you may have with respect to your User Generated Content against other Site users. If you have a dispute with another Site user, you are responsible for contacting other Site users directly; do not contact SCEA.

C. SCREENING AND REMOVAL OF USER GENERATED CONTENT

SCEA may or may not pre-screen User Generated Content. SCEA has the right (but not the obligation) to move, remove, block, edit, or refuse to post any User Generated Content for any reason, including that User Generated Content violates these Terms of Service or other applicable terms, rules or agreements between you and us.

D. RISK FROM USER GENERATED CONTENT

We cannot and do not monitor or manage all User Generated Content. We therefore do not make any promises about the accuracy, integrity or quality of User Generated Content and do not endorse it in any manner. In other words, enjoy what other members post or share, but do it at your own risk.

All User Generated Content provided on the Site is the sole responsibility of the person who provided it. This means that you are entirely responsible for all User Generated Content that you provide.

Just as SCEA requires Site users to respect our copyrights and those of our affiliates and partners, we respect the copyrights of others. If you believe in good faith that your copyrighted work has been reproduced on our Site without authorization in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please visit our Copyright Policy for details on how to notify our designated agent that you would like to have the infringing content removed.

Our Site gives you a chance to tell us (and each other) about your work and inspirations regarding LittleBIGPlanet. To allow this LittleBIGPlanet community to develop and grow in a healthy and respectful fashion, we have some rules that everyone needs to follow. Unfortunately, anyone who can't follow these rules may be banned from using the Site or even the PlayStation®Network. If someone presses “Good Grief!” good grief! on an image, video or comment, it will be reviewed. If the review determines that the image, video or comment breaks any of the rules of conduct listed below, we will remove that content. Please note that the PSN ToSUA as well as this Site’s Privacy Policy also apply.

You are not allowed to provide anyone with your real name or any other personally identifying information or the name, phone number, address, password or any other personally identifying information of any other person or business through any means on our Site, including messaging, chat or any other forms of communication available through the Site.

You are also prohibited from engaging in any of the following:

Deceptive or misleading practices;
Abusing, intimidating or harassing others and stalking behavior;
Taking any action, uploading, posting, streaming or transmitting any content, language, images or sounds in any forum, communication, public profile or other publicly viewable areas that SCEA, in its sole discretion, finds offensive, hateful or vulgar. This includes any content or communication that SCEA in its sole discretion deems to be racially, ethnically, religiously, or sexually offensive, libelous, defaming, threatening, bullying or stalking;
Organizing hate groups;
Uploading, posting streaming or transmitting any content that contains any viruses, worms, spyware, time bombs or other computer programs that may damage, interfere with or disrupt the Site or computers or other Site users;
Causing disruption to the Site or any system, hardware, software or network connected to the Site;
Attempting to hack or reverse engineer any code or equipment in connection with the Site;
Making a false report of user abuse to SCEA Consumer Services;
Violating any local, state or national law;
Taking any action that we consider to be disruptive to the normal flow of chat or other activities on the Site, including uploading, posting, streaming or transmitting any unsolicited or unauthorized material, including junk mails, SPAM, excessive mails or chain letters;
Distributing commercial content such as advertisements, solicitations, promotions and links to websites;
Uploading, posting, streaming, accessing or otherwise transmitting any content that you know or should have known infringes or violates any third-party rights, any law or regulation or contractual or fiduciary obligations;
Impersonating any person, including an employee of Sony Corporation, SCEA or any third-party;
Using, making or distributing unauthorized software or hardware in conjunction with the Site, or taking or using any data from the Site to design, develop or update unauthorized software or hardware.

To report violations of these Terms of Service call SCEA Consumer Services at 1-800-345-7669 or use our “Good Grief!” function to report concerns with any content.

SCEA is not associated with any Internet service providers, including hotspot operators (collectively, “ISPs”). SCEA is not responsible for any damages or injury arising from or related to your use of ISP services. When you access the Internet, you are providing information directly to the ISP and not to SCEA. This information is collected by the ISP and is not shared with SCEA. Before accessing the Internet, you should carefully read the ISP’s user agreement, terms and conditions and privacy policy carefully.

If you link to this Site from another web site: (i) the link must not damage, dilute or tarnish the goodwill associated with any SCEA name or entity; (2) the link must not create the false appearance that the other website is sponsored by, endorsed by, affiliated with or associated with SCEA; (3) the website may not “frame” or alter this Site in any way; and (4) the linked website may not be unlawful, abusive, indecent or obscene, promote violence or illegal acts, be libelous, defamatory or otherwise deemed inappropriate, as determined by us in our sole discretion; and (iv) the linked website may not display our Content, including any of our logos, to create a link, without our prior written consent.

Our Site may allow you to link to third-party websites. Just because a third-party website link exists on our Site does not mean that we have thoroughly evaluated the third-party website. Those third-party websites do not belong to us, and we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, accuracy, usefulness, safety, privacy policies or practices of these websites. By using our Site, you expressly relieve SCEA of any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party websites linked to our Site. Enjoy the links, but do so at your own risk.

From time to time, this Site may provide information about sweepstakes, contests or promotions that may be governed by a separate set of rules and may also have eligibility requirements. You must read those rules to determine whether or not your participation, registration or entry will be valid and to determine all other applicable requirements.

We really hope you enjoy the Site, and we also hope the Site will function properly. Your use of the Site, however, is at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SCEA, its officers, directors, shareholders, employees representatives, and agents disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, in connection with the Site and your use of it. SCEA makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the Site, and assumes to the maximum extent permitted by law no liability or responsibility for any (a) errors, mistakes or inaccuracies on the Site; (b) personal injury or property damage of any nature whatsoever resulting from your access to and use of the Site; (c) unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers or any and all Personal Information that is not submitted using a secured transmission; (d) interruption or the cessation of transmission to or from our Site; (e) bugs, viruses, trojan horses or the like that may be transmitted to or through our Site by any third-party; or (f) errors or omissions on our Site or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content available via the Site. SCEA does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third-party through the SCEA or any hyperlinked website or feature in any banner or other advertising, and SCEA will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services. As with the purchase of a product or service through any medium or in any environment, you should use your best judgment and exercise caution where appropriate.

We have to throw in some more legal language we need to protect us so that we can provide you the benefits of the Site. In no event will SCEA, its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, representatives or agents be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages whatsoever resulting from any (a) mistakes or inaccuracies of content on the Site, (b) personal injury or property damage of any nature whatsoever resulting from your access to and use of the Site, (c) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers or any and all non-secured personal information (d) any interruption or the cessation of transmission to or from the Site, (e) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses or the like that may be transmitted to or through the Site; or (f) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted or made available via the Site, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not the company is advised of the possibility of such damages. This limitation of liability applies to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless SCEA, its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers and directors, shareholders, agents, employees and partners, and any other parties with whom SCEA may contract to provide the Site, from and against any and all claims, actions, suits, costs, liabilities, judgments, obligations, losses, penalties, fines or forfeitures, expenses or damages (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of whatsoever kind and nature imposed on, incurred by or asserted against SCEA arising out of (i) your User Generated Content; or (ii) your breach or alleged breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or obligation pursuant to these Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy or the PSN ToSUA. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification from you. In such event, you shall provide us with cooperation reasonably requested by us.

SCEA at its sole discretion may modify the provisions of these Terms of Service at any time. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms of Service each time you use this Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by all current Terms of Service. To print out a current copy of these Terms of Service using your computer, go to http://www.littlebigworkshop.com/en-us/TermsOfServicePrint.

You and SCEA are independent parties, and nothing in these Terms of Service constitutes a partnership between or joint venture of you and SCEA or to make either party the agent of the other. You are not allowed to hold yourself out contrary to the terms of this paragraph (so please don’t), and SCEA is not liable for any representation, act or omission by you contrary to the provisions of these Terms of Service.

SCEA has the right to terminate your access to use the Site for any reason, including for violation of these Terms of Service. If we ever terminate your access to the Site, sections 3-9, 12, 13, 15 – 19, 21 and 22 of these Terms of Service will still apply to you.

You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to your use of the Site or these Terms of Service must be filed within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

These Terms of Service and all questions relating to the performance, interpretation, breach or enforcement of these Terms of Service, or the rights, obligations and liabilities of you and us under them are governed by the laws of the State of California. You agree that all disputes, claims or litigation arising from or related in any way to these Terms of Service and our relationship with you will be litigated only in a court of competent jurisdiction located in San Mateo County, State of California. You agree to be subject to personal jurisdiction and venue in that location.

THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ ALL THAT LEGAL LANGUAGE. NOW GO ENJOY OUR SITE!