Please Complete the Unshaded Sections and Email the Sheet to the BBC Legal & Business
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Information Sheet For Issue Of Trade Mark Licence To Licensee Of Independent Producer For Use Of BBC Trade Mark
Please complete the unshaded sections and email the sheet to the BBC Legal & Business Affairs Manager who signed the Programme Production Agreement. NB The “Main Agreement “is the agreement under which the licensee is acquiring exploitation rights (eg to produce videos)
Name of Independent producer
Name of Programme
Date of Programme Production Agreement
Details of Licensee [insert full name of Licensee]
[a company incorporated under the laws of [insert country – or State if a US licensee - of incorporation] with registered number [insert registered number] whose [registered/principal] office is at [insert registered/principal address] ] OR [of [insert address]]
Rights granted to the [please insert here the grant clause in the Main Agreement] Licensee under the Main Agreement
Name of person granting the The independent producer as stated above exploitation rights to the Licensee in the Main OR Agreement [ ] [and please explain how they acquired the rights from the independent producer]
Associated Material The tml provides that the BBC logo must appear not only on the product but also on “Associated Material”. This is defined as “packaging material (including if appropriate stickers inlays and sleeves) and paper-based, on-line, non-interactive TV, cinema and in-flight promotional material, which are produced for the purpose of advertising and marketing the Products”. If use on other types of material is required, please list them here:
If additional types of Associated Material are agreed, a special condition should be added to the tml as follows:
“The following additional words shall be added to the definition of “Associated Material” in General Term 1: [ ]”
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Term of right to use the BBC The tml provides that the right to use the BBC logo: logo - starts on the start date of the grant of the licensee’s exploitation rights and - ends either (1) when the licensee’s exploitation rights (plus any sell-off period under the Main Agreement) end or (2) when the BBC’s rights in the programme (plus any sell-off period under the trade mark licence*) end – whichever happens first.
* General Term 7.6 sets out the conditions which must be fulfilled if there is to be a sell-off period under the trade mark licence. Note that no new products may be created during that period.
If a different period of use is requested, please state it here:
If a different period is agreed, a special condition should be added to the tml as follows:
“The definition of “Term” in General Term 1 shall read: [ ]”
Territory in which the BBC The tml provides that the BBC logo may be used in the UK only. If logo may be used use in other countries is requested, please list them here:
If use in ex-UK countries is agreed, a special condition should be added to the tml as follows:
The definition of “Territory” in General Term1 shall read: “The UK and [ ]”
Address for copies of notices to the BBC (General Term 10):
Attention: [ BBC Business Affairs Manager ]
[Note that the original notice should be sent to the address given in General Term 10.1]
Time limits for submitting For use On-line : [ ] days before using the Trade Marks live On- samples (General Term 4.2): line
In any other case: [ ] days before manufacturing the Licensed Product
Time limits relating to For use On-line : [ ] days after receipt of the Samples approval (General Term 4.2): In any other case: [ ] days after receipt of the Samples
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BBC’s address for samples Name: (insert details of person in BBC Group doing sample approval) (General Term 4.2 and/or 4.4): Position:
Address:
Tel: Fax: Email:
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