UNITED KINGDOM
NINETEENTWENTY LIMITED
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS – U.K
The following terms and conditions shall apply in relation to the supply of any services or goods by the nineteentwenty Limited (‘nineteentwenty’). They supersede all previous conditions and override any alternative conditions referred to by the Customer and constitute the entire agreement between nineteentwenty and the Customer.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Unless inconsistent with the context, in these terms and conditions: –
‘Booking’ means the booking period for which nineteentwenty has agreed to provide the Facilities to the Customer;
‘Customer’ means the person, firm or company using the services of nineteentwenty;
‘Customer’s Property’ means any of the Customer’s works, tapes, films or other materials, equipment or other property which is the subject of the Facilities and is provided to nineteentwenty;
‘Facilities’ means the pre/post-production equipment, personnel, creative and production facilities, and services which nineteentwenty is providing to the Customer in accordance with these terms and conditions;
‘Materials’ means all tapes, films or other materials provided by nineteentwenty pursuant to a booking.
2. RATES AND FEES AND CHARGES
2.1 The rates charged at nineteentwenty are those that are published from time to time in nineteentwenty rate card. The rates quoted do not include Value Added Tax, all media stock, courier and delivery charges, meals, and long-distance telecommunications expenses, and any such VAT or external expenses shall be paid by the Customer.
2.2 nineteentwenty reserves the right to change the rates quoted in the rate card at any time without prior notice.
3. ESTIMATES
3.1 Whilst all the time and prices estimates given by nineteentwenty are given in good faith and nineteentwenty will endeavour to adhere to such estimates, nineteentwenty will not be bound by such estimates where they are not met due to the Customer’s changes or other circumstances outside nineteentwenty’s control and nineteentwenty will not be liable for any failure to meet such estimates. nineteentwenty will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by the Customer as a result of such failure.
4. PAYMENT
4.1 Except where these terms and conditions provide otherwise, and subject to paragraph (4.3) below, payment of all fees and charges incurred shall be made to nineteentwenty within 30 days of the date of invoice and nineteentwenty reserves the right to charge interest on late payment.
4.2 All sums payable by the Customer shall be paid without any deduction whatsoever, whether by way of set-off, counterclaim or otherwise and for the avoidance of doubt the Customer shall not be entitled to the benefit of any such deduction to which it might otherwise be entitled in law or in equity. nineteentwenty shall be entitled in the event of non-payment in whole or in part to enforce any judgment obtained in relation thereto without any stay of execution pending the determination of any claim by the Customer against nineteentwenty.
4.3 nineteentwenty reserves the right to require payment of all fees and charges, in full or in part, in advance of the Booking period.
4.4 Any queries on the invoice must be raised within 14 days of the date of the invoice.
5.CANCELLATION
5.1 In its absolute discretion, nineteentwenty may at any time permit cancellation by the Customer of a booking or order and reserves the right to cancel any booking or order in the event of any breach of these terms and conditions by the customer.
5.2 In the event of any such cancellation being permitted or instigated by nineteentwenty less than one full 24-hour working day before the start of the Booking Period, the booking will be charged at the full rate under nineteentwenty’s rate card current at the date of cancellation.
5.3 In the event of such cancellation being permitted or instigated by nineteentwenty between three and one full 24-hour working days before the start of the Booking Period, the booking will be charged at 50% of the full rate under nineteentwenty’s rate card current at the date of cancellation.
5.4 In addition to the above-mentioned cancellation charges, nineteentwenty will be entitled to be reimbursed with any costs or expenses which it may have incurred with the knowledge and approval of the Customer.
6. LIEN AND DELIVERY
6.1 Until payment in cash or cleared funds of all monies due from the Customer to nineteentwenty pursuant to a particular booking:-
6.1.1 the physical property in all Materials shall, notwithstanding delivery, remain vested in nineteentwenty;
6.1.2 nineteentwenty shall have a general lien over any property of the Customer in nineteentwenty/s possession for such monies due: and
6.1.3 the licence granted by nineteentwenty to the Customer pursuant to clause (8.2) shall not take effect.
6.2 Furthermore, such property shall not give pass to the Customer until nineteentwenty has also received payment in cash or cleared funds of all monies due from the Customer to nineteentwenty under any other bookings or business transaction.
6.3 The Customer hereby grants an irrevocable licence to nineteentwenty so that it may enter upon any premises where any material is stored or where they are reasonably thought to be stored, during normal business hours, and repossess the same.
6.4 If the Customer fails to make payment within 14 days of such monies becoming due, nineteentwenty at its discretion shall be entitled to exploit or dispose of such property and apply any proceeds towards the monies due and any expenses in respect of such exploitation or disposal and shall, upon accounting to the Customer for the balance (if any) remaining, be discharged from all liability in respect of any such property.
6.5 nineteentwenty will endeavour to deliver any Materials as soon as practicable after receipt of all sums due to nineteentwenty from the Customer but nineteentwenty shall not be responsible for any loss suffered by the Customer due to delay in delivery unless such loss shall have been caused by the gross negligence of nineteentwenty.
7. INSURANCE
7.1 Risk of damage to or loss of the Materials shall pass to the Customer on delivery, or if the Customer fails to take delivery, when nineteentwenty tenders delivery.
7.2 The customer acknowledges that it is not possible for nineteentwenty to obtain insurance against any lost costs of production arising from loss or damage to the customer’s property.
7.3 Accordingly, the customer shall take out and maintain such insurance cover against all risks as is necessary or usual in connection with production (including pre/postproduction), including lost production costs caused on loss or damage to the customer’s property (and its content) whilst under the custody or control of nineteentwenty.
8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN MATERIALS
8.1 All Copyright in any recordings or other works resulting from the provision of the Facilities and/or embodied in any materials shall vested in, and be exclusive property of, nineteentwenty.
8.2 Subject to nineteentwenty having received payment in cash or cleared funds of all monies due from the customer to nineteentwenty pursuant to a particular booking. nineteentwenty grants the customer an exclusive licence to publish and transmit the finished product of the provision of the facilities as a whole in its final form as supplied by nineteentwenty for the purpose originally contemplated.
8.3 The customer shall have no rights whatsoever (and undertakes not) to use any Material or intellectual property rights of any type whatsoever contained in them separately from the finished product of the provision of the facilities as a whole or for any other purpose whatsoever.
8.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Contractor shall retain ownership and possession of, and shall not be required to deliver to Producer, any mechanical devices, processes, contractors know how, source or object code or application software which are used as tools to create the Work (“Contractor Technology”). Contractor Technology shall not include any visual images or photography from or relating to the Picture and, for the avoidance of doubt, Contractor shall have no right, title or interest in any such images or photography. Contractor shall own the Contractor Technology, as well as all intellectual property rights related to the Contractor Technology, including but not limited to, any copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets or patents in connection therewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Contractor hereby grants to Producer a non-exclusive licence in and to the Contractor Technology in perpetuity, to the extent only that the same is necessary for the full exploitation of the Picture and all ancillary and allied rights therein and thereto by Producer as envisaged by the parties hereunder.
9. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
9.1 The customer shall take proper steps to keep confidential all confidential information relating to nineteentwenty or its business or financial affairs or the Facilities or other services provided by it, including any computer programs, production techniques, databases and any original ideas and concepts, know-how, designs and processes incorporated in or inherent in the materials, which information is disclosed to or obtained by the customer pursuant to or as a result of the provision of the facilities (other than information in the public domain other than by reason of a breach by the customer of this provision) (‘Confidential Information’)
9.2 The customer will not use or divulge any confidential information to any person (other than its professional advisers) and upon the termination of the booking period, the customer will return to nineteentwenty any confidential information (without retaining copies thereof) and any equipment or other provided by nineteentwenty (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the Materials).
10. NINETEENTWENTY’S LIABILITY
10.1 Save as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions and to the fullest extent permitted by law:
10.1.1 The supply to any customer of Materials and facilities are entirely at the customer’s risk and nineteentwenty shall be under no liability to the customer or any other person for any direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage arising from any defect in the facilities and the materials, or any equipment or tapes used in relation thereto;
10.1.2 If the use of the facilities for the booking is delayed, postponed, curtailed, or cancelled for any reason affecting nineteentwenty, then unless such delay, postponement, curtailment or cancelled for any reason affecting nineteentwenty, then unless such delay, postponement, curtailment, or cancellation shall have been caused by the gross negligence of nineteentwenty, nineteentwenty shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by the customer by reason thereof;
10.1.3 nineteentwenty shall not in any event be liable for economic loss (including loss of profit or goodwill) or any indirect or consequential loss or damage; and
10.1.4 All warranties, conditions, terms, and representations relating to goods or services supplied by nineteentwenty (whether expressly or implied by statute, common law, use or otherwise) are hereby excluded.
Nothing herein shall be construed as excluding or limiting (or seeking to do so) any liability on the part of nineteentwenty by reason of death or bodily injury caused by nineteentwenty’s negligence.
10.2
10.2.1 Save as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions and to the fullest extent permitted by law, nineteentwenty will not be responsible for any damage to or loss of any customer’s property held by nineteentwenty nor any loss (consequential or otherwise) arising in respect thereof, unless caused by nineteentwenty’s negligence in which case paragraphs (10.2.2) and (10.2.3) shall apply;
10.2.2 In the event of loss or damage to the customer’s property caused by nineteentwenty ‘s negligence during the booking period nineteentwenty’s liability shall be limited to the cost expended by the customer in fees and charges charged by nineteentwenty and shall not exceed £50,000 in respect of any one job subject to a paragraph.
10.2.3 If the customer shall notify nineteentwenty during the Booking period is valued by the customer at a stated sum which exceeds the figure seated in paragraph (10.2.2) and shall agree to reimburse nineteentwenty with the cost of effecting special insurance cover for such recording during such period in the sum stated by the customer in such notice ,the limitation of liability shall be the sum by the customer and the figure in paragraph (10.2.2) shall not apply.
10.2.4 Subject to the above provisions of this paragraph (10.2), all of the customer’s property and all Materials held by nineteentwenty will be held by nineteentwenty entirely at the risk of the customer, irrespective of the cause of any loss or damage and the customer should ensure the customer’s property to its full value against all risks and take and retain copies of all customer’s property before providing them to nineteentwenty.
10.3 nineteentwenty shall make available its equipment and the personnel it deems necessary to operate such equipment but the customer shall satisfy itself that the facilities are suitable for its purpose and while nineteentwenty will use its best endeavours to ensure that all equipment and facilities perform in accordance with the specification for such equipment and facilities unless expressly agreed in writing at the time of the acceptance of the booking, nineteentwenty shall not be responsible for ensuring that its equipment and the facilities provided by it are suitable for the customer’s purpose.
10.4 nineteentwenty shall not be liable for any reduction in the quality of its services that may be caused by the quality of the customer’s property or nineteentwenty’s adherence to the customer’s instructions.
10.5 The customer shall indemnify nineteentwenty, its directors, and employees, servants, sub-contractors and agents all liabilities, actions and losses, claim, proceedings, judgement, damages, obligations, costs and expenses of any nature what- so ever (including, but not limited to, legal fees, costs and expenses) arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with the customer’s property or the acts or omissions of the customer, its servants, agents or representatives, or any breach by the customer of any of its representations, warranties or other obligations in these terms and conditions (including, but not limited to, claims by any third party for breach of copyright or defamation relating to any materials or customer’s property or any failure by the customer to observe the provisions and requirements of any applicable agreements).
11. NON-COLLECTION
11.1 nineteentwenty shall be entitled to destroy, erase or otherwise dispose of as it thinks fit any materials or customer’s property in its possession and uncollected by the customer after the expiration of six months from the end of the booking period, and while uncollected by the customer, such materials or customer’s property shall be held by nineteentwenty at the customer’s risk as stated above.
12. TRANSFER OF OBLIGATIONS
12.1 nineteentwenty reserves the right to assign or sub-contract all or any part of its obligations to the customer.
12.2 Any contract which is made between nineteentwenty, and the customer is personal to the customer, who shall not assign or charge the benefit thereof without the express prior written consent of nineteentwenty.
13. CREDITS
13.1 The Customer shall ensure that nineteentwenty is given screen credits in respect of the facilities supplied by nineteentwenty in a form approved in advance by nineteentwenty. The customer hereby grants nineteentwenty the right to refer in its advertising or promotional material to the customer and to use the material or the title of any project or any work completed by nineteentwenty for the customer in any such advertising or promotional material.
14. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The customer represents and warrants to nineteentwenty that: –
14.1 Before the commencement of the booking period it will obtain all consents licences and clearances required from the performers, copyright owners and any other person having any right or interest in connection with any of the customer’s property; and
14.2 Nothing contained in the Customer’s property will be defamatory, offensive, obscene or otherwise unlawful or in breach of any intellectual property or any other right of any third party.
15. FORCE MAJEURE
15.1 nineteentwenty shall not be under any liability to the customer as a result of nineteentwenty being unable to perform any of its obligations or comply with any of the customer’s instructions due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to, industrial action taken by any person or persons, and if nineteentwenty is so unable, it shall at its option either be entitled to perform such obligations or comply with such instructions as and when it is reasonably able to do so or to treat itself as wholly or partly released from all such obligations or instructions liability.
16. TERMINATION BY NINETEENTWENTY
nineteentwenty shall, without prejudice to any other right or remedy which it may have, be entitled to terminate all of its obligations to the customer upon the happening of any of the following events: –
16.1 If the customer is at any time in breach of any obligation or representation or warranty to nineteentwenty, or any sum owing to nineteentwenty by the customer is overdue by more 14 days: or
16.2 If the customer makes or offers to make any compensation with creditors or enters a voluntary arrangement or if a bankruptcy petition is served on the customer or (if the customer is a limited company) any resolution or petition to wind up the customer’s business is presented or if a receiver or administrative receiver is appointed to deal with any part of the customer’s assets. Upon any such termination, the customer will pay to nineteentwenty on demand all sums owing in respect of services already performed by nineteentwenty, together with relating to instructions given by the customer before termination. To fully indemnify nineteentwenty in respect of all liabilities incurred in consequence of compliance with the customer’s instructions.
17. GENERAL
17.1 All notices given in accordance with these terms and conditions shall be in writing and may be delivered personally or sent by pre-paid first-class post to the usual or last known address of nineteentwenty or the Customer. A notice shall be deemed to have been properly served if personally delivered, at the time of delivery, and if posted, forty-eight hours after posting. In providing service it shall be sufficient to show that the notice was delivered to the correct address or that the envelope containing the notice was properly addressed, pre-paid and posted.
17.2 No variation of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by a duly authorised director of nineteentwenty and the Customer.
17.3 The invalidity of any of these terms and conditions shall not affect the continuing enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.
17.4 Any failure or delay by nineteentwenty in exercising or enforcing any rights conferred by these terms and conditions shall not be deemed to be a waiver thereof or operate to bar the exercise or enforcement of such rights at any time.
17.5 The contract between nineteentwenty and the Customer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and nineteentwenty and the Customer agrees for the exclusive benefit of the nineteentwenty that the English Courts shall have jurisdiction to settle any dispute relating thereto.