Terms of Submission

1. By submitting this content, you provide appropriate licenses for its use.

When you submit this content (the “Content”), you grant the American Institute of Building Design (“AIBD”) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to confirm it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Services are available), and create derivative works of the Content.

2. You have all necessary licenses and permissions to submit this content and have it posted.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to grant the above licenses and that the Content submitted by you, and the submission of such Content, do not and will not violate any intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyrights and trademark rights) of any third party. You agree that you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless AIBD, its affiliates, members, vendors, hosts, officers, and employees from any liability, damage, or cost (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) from any claim or demand made by any third party due to violation of these representations and warranties, or otherwise arising out of any submitted Content.

3. You agree to provide some information about yourself to AIBD.

By submitting any Content, you agree to provide to the AIBD, and to allow the AIBD to store, your name and your e-mail address. This information will be used by AIBD for the limited purpose of giving you credit for your work, as well as contacting you, should the need arise, in relation to any Content you submit and otherwise in accordance with AIBD’s Privacy Policy (located at https://aibd.org/privacy-policy/).

4. Payment

By submitting any content, you acknowledge that you shall only receive payment from AIBD if AIBD publishes the work and the amount of such payment has been negotiated in good faith and agreed upon prior to submission.

5. Unsuitable Material

AIBD reserves the right not to publish or to withdraw from publication (to the extent already published by AIBD) any material submitted which in its absolute discretion AIBD believes to be unsuitable for publication or irrelevant to the mission of the publication.

6. Law

These Terms and Conditions will be governed by the laws of the District of Columbia. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions will be dealt with non-exclusively by the District of Columbia courts.