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You may not take any Online Courses offered by National Geographic or use any Recognition as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from National Geographic. Such use of an Online Course or Recognition is a violation of these Terms of Use. - Intellectual Property Rights and License. All content or other material available through the Online Courses, including but not limited to online lectures, speeches, video lessons, quizzes, presentation materials, homework assignments, programming assignments, programs, code, and other images, text, layouts, arrangement, displays, illustrations, documents, materials, audio and video clips, HTML and files (collectively, the “Course Content”), are the property of National Geographic and/or its affiliates or licensors and are protected by copyright, patent and/or other proprietary intellectual rights under United States and foreign law. In consideration for your agreement to these Terms of Service, National Geographic grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Online Courses and Course Content. You may download Course Content identified as available for download only for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not otherwise copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any Course Content, nor may you modify or create derivatives works of the Course Content.
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- You are prohibited from embedding the Video Player into any hardware or software application, even for non-commercial purposes. National Geographic reserves the right to prevent embedding to any website or other location that National Geographic finds inappropriate or objectionable (as determined by National Geographic in its sole discretion); and
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