DIGITAL RESOURCES LICENSE AGREEMENT

Your use of the Licensed Materials, as defined hereunder, is governed by this Digital Resources License Agreement (“Agreement”). This Agreement is between you (the “Licensee”) and ASM International, a corporation of Ohio and having its principal place of business at 9639 Kinsman Rd., Materials Park, Ohio 44073 (“ASM”) (collectively “the Parties”).

WHEREAS, Provider holds right, title and interest in and to certain publications more particularly described below;

WHEREAS Licensee desires to obtain access in electronic format to those publications; and

WHEREAS Provider consents to grant to Licensee a limited license to obtain such access subject to appropriate terms and conditions.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Provider and Licensee agree as follows:

1. KEY DEFINITIONS

1.1          In this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings: –

Application Program       (“API”) A set of rules and protocols that allow different software applications,

Interface                               servers and databases to communicate with each other, often providing consolidated and standardized access to the functionality, data and materials.

Artificial Intelligence        (“AI”) Any machine-based system, which may be designed to exhibit varying System                                       levels of autonomy and adaptability, which is able to infer, explicitly or    

implicitly, how to generate outputs from the input it receives in ways that can influence physical and/or virtual environments.

Authorized Users               The individual or individuals for whom License is purchasing access to the Licensed Materials. The number of Authorized Users varies based on how many individuals Licensee purchased access for during the Checkout Process.

Checkout Process              The process of the Licensee purchasing access to the Licensed Materials through the Provider’s website.

 Commercial Use                Use for the purposes of monetary gain, benefit or reward (whether by or for the Licensee or an Authorized User) by means of sale, resale, loan, reproduction, display, performance, distribution transfer, hire or any other form of exploitation of the Licensed Materials. For the avoidance of doubt, use by the Licensee or by an Authorized User of the Licensed Materials in the course of research, product development and related activity that results in no direct financial benefit to Licensee, undertaken in the normal course of business shall not constitute Commercial Use.

Fee                                         The Fee displayed and paid by the Licensee during the Checkout Process.

Input                                      In the context of AI, data provided to or acquired by an AI system, on the basis of which an Output is produced.

Licensed Materials            The electronic materials Licensee has selected for purchase during the Checkout Process.

Output                                   In the context of AI, a prediction, such as a prediction, recommendation, decision or piece of conduct produced by an AI using any number of inputs.

Server                                   The data server, either Provider’s server or a third-party server, designated by Provider, on which the Licensed Materials are stored and from which they may be accessed.

Subscription Period          The period displayed during the Checkout Process, in which Authorized Users can access the content, regardless of the actual date of print publication.

Third-Party AI                   Any AI system which is not developed, controlled, and provided solely by ASM to any end user, including the Licensee.

Third-Party API                Any API system which is not developed, controlled, and provided solely by ASM to any end user, including the Licensee.

2. GRANT
   • Provider grants to Licensee the non-exclusive, non-transferable right, without right of sublicense, throughout the world, to permit Authorized Users to access the Licensed Materials, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and Licensee agrees to pay the Fee. Licensee may not access, use, reproduce, display, perform or distribute any of the Licensed Materials except as expressly provided in Paragraph 3 of this Agreement.
   • The License granted by this Paragraph 2 shall commence at the beginning of the Subscription Period and shall be manually renewed by the Licensee through the Provider’s website.
   • Licensee grants to Provider the right to collect, store and maintain search history and usage data (“User Data”) collected from Authorized Users in an anonymized format for the internal usage of the Parties. Licensee acknowledges that Provider may choose to aggregate the User Data with data collected from other licensees.
   • Upon termination of this Agreement, Provider shall disable access for Authorized Users to all applicable Licensed Materials which was published and paid for within the Subscription Period from the Server, and Licensee shall take all reasonable steps to delete completely all of the Licensed Materials from all memory, storage, caching, archival and other systems and shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that such removal is accomplished as to all computers, systems and networks operated or used by Authorized Users.

3. USAGE RIGHTS

• Subject to the restrictions of paragraph 4 of this Agreement, Licensee may:
  • make such temporary and locally cached electronic copies of portions of the Licensed Materials as are necessary solely to ensure efficient use by Authorized Users;
  • permit Authorized Users to have access to the Licensed Materials from the Server
  • provide single printed or electronic copies of single articles at the request of individual Authorized Users;
  • display, download or print the Licensed Materials for the purpose of internal testing or for training Authorized Users or groups thereof, and for internal corporate training programs (in respect of which appropriate acknowledgement of the source shall be made);
  • provide print or electronic copies of the Licensed Materials to state, national or international regulatory authorities for the purposes of, or in anticipation of, regulatory approval or patent or trademark applications or other legal or regulatory purposes in respect of Licensee’s products or services; and
  • provide printed copies of the Licensed Materials for product, marketing or professional information purposes. It is understood and agreed that electronic copies are strictly forbidden for the purpose of this Paragraph 3.
• Authorized Users may, subject to the copyright laws of the United States and other nations and subject to the restrictions described in Paragraph 4 of this Agreement:
  • search, view, retrieve and display the Licensed Materials;
  • electronically save portions of the Licensed Materials for personal use, but not for Commercial Use;
  • print a single copy of individual articles or items of the Licensed Materials; and
  • distribute a single copy of individual articles or items of the Licensed Materials in print or electronic form to other Authorized Users.

4. PROHIBITED USES

4.1          Neither Licensee nor any Authorized User may:

• remove or alter any author’s name or Provider’s copyright notices or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the Licensed Materials;
• make print or electronic copies of multiple extracts of the Licensed Materials for any purpose, or duplicate any portion of any content, organization, or functionality of any web site from which the Licensed Materials are made available;
• provide, by electronic means, to someone who is not an Authorized User, a retained electronic copy of any part of the Licensed Materials; or
• store or distribute any part of the Licensed Material on any electronic network including, without limitation, the Internet and the World Wide Web;
• train, fine-tune, evaluate, index, cache, embed, vectorize, transform, preprocess, analyse, or otherwise use the Licensed Materials, in whole or in part, for the purpose of developing, improving, operating, or supplying any artificial intelligence system, machine-learning model, automated decision system, data-processing workflow, retrieval-augmented generation system (RAG), embedding model, or any similar or successor technology;
• use the Licensed Materials in connection with any Third-Party API, model, training pipeline, inference workflow, data-processing service, plugin, extension, or platform;
• ingest, upload, stream, transmit, store, incorporate, combine, merge, or integrate the Licensed Materials, in whole or in part, into any dataset, knowledge base, index, corpus, software, application, model, or service that is not solely owned and operated by ASM.

4.2          Provider’s explicit written permission must be obtained in order to:

• use all or any part of the Licensed Materials for any Commercial Use;
• distribute the whole or any part of the Licensed Materials to anyone other than Authorized Users;
• publish, distribute, display or otherwise make available the Licensed Materials, works based on or derived from the Licensed Materials or works which combine them with any other material, other than as expressly permitted in this Agreement;
• alter, abridge, adapt or modify any of the Licensed Materials, except to the extent necessary to make them perceptible on a computer screen to Authorized Users; for the avoidance of doubt, no alteration of the words or their order is permitted.
• use the Licensed Materials as part of an integrated information service for Authorized Users that will include links between the Licensed Materials and Licensee’s own indexes, third party abstracting and indexing services and other information resources utilized by the Licensee;
• use any derivative, transformation, output, or metadata derived from the Licensed Materials in any manner prohibited under this Section, regardless of format, method of creation, or whether such derivative conceals or obscures its origin;
• Any other use which is not expressly addressed under this Agreement.

5. PROVIDER’S UNDERTAKINGS

• Provider warrants to Licensee that, to its knowledge, the Licensed Materials used as contemplated by this Agreement do not infringe the copyright or any other similar proprietary or intellectual property rights of any person. Provider shall indemnify and hold Licensee harmless from and against any loss, damage, cost, liability and expenses (including reasonable legal and professional fees) arising out of any breach of this warranty. This indemnity shall not apply if the Licensee has altered the Licensed Materials in any way not permitted by this Agreement.
• Provider shall:
  • make the Licensed Materials available to Licensee from the Server during the Subscription Period and notify Licensee at least ten (10) days in advance of any anticipated change of specification in respect of access method, display or any other feature that may substantially affect the manner in which Authorized Users access and make use of the Licensed Materials;
  • use reasonable means to make the Licensed Materials available to Licensee and to Authorized Users at all times and on a twenty-four-hour basis, save for scheduled routine maintenance and a Force Majeure Event as defined in paragraph 9.8;
  • use reasonable means to restore access to the Licensed Materials in the event of an unscheduled interruption or suspension of the service;
  • provide technical support and assistance to enable Licensee to make proper use of the Licensed Materials, including the provision of Help Desk facilities between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, with the exception of U.S. holidays.
• Provider reserves the right at any time to withdraw from the Licensed Materials any item or part of an item for which it no longer retains the right to publish, or which it has reasonable grounds to believe infringes copyright or is defamatory, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable.
• Provider reserves the right to make changes to the method of access, search engine, interface or retrieval options. Provider shall notify the Licensee at least ten (10) days in advance of such change. Licensee shall have thirty (30) days from the date notice was received to review the changes.
• Provider reserves the right to revoke Licensee’s access to all or part of the Licensed Materials if it has reason to believe that continuing to allow Licensee to access the Licensed Materials as normal will cause the Provider significant harm, including but not limited to the leakage of Licensed Materials. Provider will notify the Licensee of the reason for the revocation within forty-eight (48) hours of the revocation occurring. Provider will then have the option to (A) provide Licensee with the opportunity to remedy the issue within thirty (30) days and, if they fail to do so, terminate the Agreement in accordance with Section 8 (“Termination Clause”), or (B) immediately terminate the Agreement, in accordance with the Termination Clause, if (I) Provider has had to revoke access before, or (II) if Provider determines that the risk of continuing to allow Licensee to access the Licensed Materials is substantial enough such that that Provider cannot be reasonably expected to continue the contractual relationship.
• Provider shall, upon Licensee’s request, provide to the Licensee or facilitate the collection and provision to Licensee of User Data, in a format to be determined based on which Licensed Materials Licensee has access to. Such usage data shall be compiled in a manner consistent with applicable privacy and data protection laws and as may be further agreed between the parties from time to time, and the anonymity of individual users and the confidentiality of their searches shall be protected. In the case that Provider assigns its rights to another party under paragraph 9.3 of this Agreement, Licensee may at its discretion require the assignee either to keep such usage information confidential or to destroy it.
• Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, Provider makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied including, but not limited to, warranties of design, accuracy of the information contained in the Licensed Materials, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Licensed Materials are supplied “as is.”
• Except as provided in paragraph 5.1 of this Agreement, under no circumstances shall Provider be liable to Licensee or any other person, including but not limited to Authorized Users, for any special, punitive, exemplary, incidental or consequential damages of any character arising out of the inability to use, or the use of, the Licensed Materials. Irrespective of the cause or form of action, Provider’s aggregate liability for any claims, losses or damages arising out of or relating to any breach of this Agreement shall in no circumstances exceed the Fee actually paid by Licensee to Provider under this Agreement in respect of the Subscription Period during which such claim, loss or damage occurred. The foregoing limitation of liability and exclusion of certain damages shall apply regardless of the success or effectiveness of other remedies. Regardless of the cause or form of action, Licensee may bring no action arising from this Agreement more than twelve (12) months after the cause of action arises.

6. LICENSEE’S UNDERTAKINGS

6.1          Licensee shall:

• ensure that only Authorized Users are permitted access to the Licensed Materials;
• ensure that all Authorized Users are appropriately notified of the importance of respecting the intellectual property rights in the Licensed Materials and that they are made aware of and undertake to abide by the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
• Use reasonable means to appropriately notify all Authorized Users of the importance of not using all or significant portions of the Licensed Materials as an input for any Third-Party AI. Displaying notice outlining this restriction whenever an authorized user accesses the content is sufficient to be deemed compliant with this this clause.
• immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorized use or other breach, inform Provider and take all steps, including but not limited to disciplinary action, both to ensure that such activity ceases and to prevent any recurrence;

• Licensee hereby acknowledges that the business of Provider is dependent upon Provider’s intellectual property rights in the Licensed Materials, and that any infringement thereof constitutes a fundamental breach of this Agreement, in which event this Provider shall have the incontestable right to immediately terminate this Agreement, without having to provide Licensee with prior notice or a chance to remedy the issue. In such event Provider shall be entitled to immediate injunctive relief and the immediate removal of all electronic copies of the Licensed Materials held by the Licensee without any rebate of the Fee and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies to which it may be entitled.
• Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Provider harmless from and against any loss, damage, cost, liability and expense (including reasonable legal and professional fees) arising out of or relating to any claim or legal action taken against Provider related to or in any way connected with any use, regardless of whether it constitutes an Authorized Use, of the Licensed Materials by Licensee or Authorized Users, or any failure by Licensee to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

7. UNDERTAKINGS BY BOTH PARTIES

• Each party shall use its best efforts to safeguard the intellectual property, confidential information and proprietary rights of the other party.
• Neither party (“Receiving Party”) shall disclose the terms and conditions or the subject matter of this Agreement, User Data, or any other information about the other party’s (“Disclosing Party”) business (“Confidential Information”) to any third-party without the prior written consent of the Disclosing Party. Disclosing Party may choose to make their consent contingent on the Receiving Party sharing the Confidential Information in a de-identified form. The Disclosing Party must approve the deidentification before it is shared with any third party. This provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement, and any information obtained or received which comes within these restrictions shall remain confidential, except that this obligation of confidentiality shall not apply to any information that at the time of disclosure is in the public domain or is made available at any time by an independent third party which has not obtained it directly or indirectly in breach of any confidentiality agreement with either of the parties hereto. This clause shall not prevent either party from disclosing Confidential Information when required to do so by an applicable law or at the direction of a court or government agency. In which case, Disclosing Party shall only disclose the minimum amount of Confidential Information necessary to comply with the request or requirement, they shall de-identify or anonymize the Confidential Information when allowed, and they shall notify the Disclosing Party and provide them a chance to challenge the requirement or request to disclose the Confidential Information when appropriate. Failure to give the Disclosing Party sufficient time to challenge the disclosure shall constitute a material breach of the Agreement.

8. TERM AND TERMINATION

• In addition to the termination or expiration pursuant to paragraph 2.2, the Non-Breaching Party shall have the right to terminate this Agreement and all rights granted hereunder shall terminate in the event:
  • Licensee initiates a chargeback, or otherwise receives a refund, of the Fee;
  • either party (“Breaching Party”) commits a material or persistent breach of any term of this Agreement, in which case the other party (“Non-Breaching Party”) shall have the right, but not the obligation, to provide the breaching party with the opportunity to remedy the breach within thirty (30) days or an otherwise reasonable time period before Non-Breaching Party goes through with the termination.
  • either party commits multiple material and/or a persistent breach of one or more terms of this Agreement, in which case the Non-Breaching Party is not required to provide the Breaching Party with notice or a chance to remedy.
  • either party becomes insolvent or becomes subject to bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation or similar external administration.

8.2          Upon termination of this Agreement all rights and obligations of the parties automatically terminate except as specifically provided in this Agreement.

8.3          On termination of this Agreement for cause pursuant to its paragraphs 8.1.1 through 8.1.4, Licensee shall immediately cease to distribute or make available the Licensed Materials to Authorized Users.

8.4          On termination of this Agreement by Licensee for cause, as specified in paragraphs 8.1.1 through 8.1.4 above, Provider shall forthwith refund the proportion of the Fee that represents the paid but unexpired portion of the Subscription Period, prorated to the month.

9. GENERAL

• This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with regard to its subject and supersedes all prior communications, representations, understandings and agreements relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, whether oral or written.
• Provider has the right to update this Agreement from time to time. Provider shall have the right, but not the obligation, to notify Licensee of the changes to the Agreement. While Provider will take all reasonable steps to update the Licensee of these changes, it is ultimately the sole responsibility of the Licensee to make sure their use of the Licensed Materials remains in compliance with this Agreement.
• This Agreement may not be assigned by either party to any other person or entity, nor may either party sub-contract any of its obligations, without the prior written consent of the other party – not to be unreasonably withheld – except as provided in this License in respect and the management and operation of the Server.
• If rights in all or any part of the Licensed Materials are assigned to another publisher, Provider shall use reasonable means to ensure that the terms and conditions of this Agreement are maintained.
• In the event Licensee shall come under the control of any third party other than that by which it is controlled at the date of this Agreement, Provider shall have the right to terminate this Agreement without fault or liability to either party. Control shall mean either the ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the ownership interest carrying the right to vote at general meetings or the power to nominate a majority of the board of directors.
• The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement.
• Wherever the singular version of a defined word is used in the Agreement, the same shall be construed as meaning the plural version, and vice versa, if the context requires unless otherwise specifically stated.
• Either party’s waiver, or failure to require performance by the other, of any provision of this Agreement will not affect its full right to require such performance at any subsequent time or be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
• Neither Party shall be liable for any harm or breach of this Agreement, including non-availability of services, arising out of causes beyond their control, without their negligence or fault, including but not limited to, acts of God, acts of any government, war, natural disasters, strikes, a pandemic, civil disturbance, Internet or electrical outages, or fire (“Force Majeure Event”).
• This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, without reference to its choice of law principals. Any action to enforce or defend any right or obligation under this Agreement, or otherwise relating to its subject matter, may be brought only in state or federal court located within the State of Ohio, and the parties’ consent to the exercise of jurisdiction by and venue in such courts.
• Provider not offering a certain product, such as an AI add-on, at the time of the Parties executing this Agreement does not affect any obligations or prohibited uses under this Agreement.

Last updated on 9/17/2026