Watermark Non-Interference Clause Samples
The Watermark Non-Interference clause ensures that any digital watermarks embedded in content do not disrupt or degrade the usability, quality, or intended function of that content. In practice, this means that while watermarks may be used for identification or copyright protection, they must not obscure important information, hinder the user experience, or interfere with the content’s normal operation. This clause is essential for balancing the rights of content owners to protect their work with the need for end users to access and use the content as intended, thereby preventing disputes over content accessibility or quality due to watermarking.
Watermark Non-Interference. The Licensed Products shall not remove or deliberately interfere with watermarking technologies and shall make reasonable efforts to avoid such
Watermark Non-Interference. Commencing eighteen months after the existence of a Consensus Watermark, Licensee shall, when selecting among technological implementations for product features for Licensed Products and Licensed Components designed after such date, take commercially reasonable care (taking into consideration the technical characteristics, costs of implementation, commercial terms and conditions, and impact on Controlled Content and the effectiveness or visibility of the Consensus Watermark) that Licensed Products and Licensed Components do not strip, obscure or interfere with such Consensus Watermark in Controlled Content that has been decrypted; (ii) shall not design or produce Licensed Products or Licensed Components the primary purpose of which is stripping, obscuring or interfering with such Consensus Watermark in Controlled Content that has been decrypted; and (iii) shall not knowingly market or distribute or knowingly cooperate in marketing or distributing Licensed Products or Licensed Components the primary purpose of which is stripping, obscuring or interfering with such Consensus Watermark in Controlled Content that has been decrypted.
2.5.1. Provided Licensee complies with the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.5, this Section 2.5 shall not prohibit a Licensed Product or Licensed Component from incorporating legitimate features (i.e., zooming, scaling, cropping, picture-in- picture, compression, recompression, image overlays, overlap of windows in a graphical user interface, audio mixing and equalization, video mixing and keying, downsampling, upsampling, and line doubling, or conversion between widely-used formats for the transport, processing and display of audiovisual signals or data, such as between analog and digital formats and between PAL and NTSC or RGB and Y,Pb,Pr formats, as well as other features as may be added to the foregoing list from time to time by CableLabs by amendment to these Compliance Rules) that are not prohibited by law, and such features shall not be deemed to strip, interfere with or obscure the Consensus Watermark in Controlled Content.
Watermark Non-Interference. During the period commencing on the Effective Date of the Content Protection License Agreement to which these Compliance Rules are attached and ending on the date Licensor designates the Watermark, Licensee shall not (a) knowingly design or knowingly develop Licensed Products or a component thereof for the primary purpose of stripping, obscuring, or changing the value of Presently Known Watermark Technologies in audiovisual content that is or may become SVR Data in such Licensed Products or such a component, or (b) knowingly promote, knowingly advertise or knowingly cooperate in the promotion or advertising of Licensed Products or a component thereof for the purpose of stripping, interfering or obscuring Presently Known Watermark in such audiovisual content.