AUTHOR TERMS
Welcome
1. Hi, we’re learningplasticsurgery.com, the best peer learning plastic surgery video platform. We’re really glad you’re keen on becoming an author with us.
2. learningplasticsurgery.com is an online plastic surgery video sharing platform. Plastic surgeon or healthcare professionals can share your video to audience for free or charge tutoring fees on a pay-per-view basis. Our goal is to eliminate traditional communication barriers (linguistic, cultural and geographical) and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experience.
3. Becoming an author of learningplasticsurgery.com is easy. These terms for authors (‘Author Terms’) apply specifically to authors on the learningplasticsurgery.com. You’ll need to agree to them before you can become an author. These govern the relationships, rights and obligations of authors to us and viewers using learningplasticsurgery.com. You agree to put your items on learningplasticsurgery.com and make them available to viewers on the basis stated in these Author Terms.
4. As an author on the learningplasticsurgery.com, you have responsibilities to us and buyers of your items. Please take the time to review these Author Terms carefully.
5. When we say ‘you’ in these Author Terms we are referring to you, the author. Read on for details about your author responsibilities, the process of selling your items on the learningplasticsurgery.com and how you can earn money with us.
How to become an Author
6. Becoming an author is free: Becoming an author and putting your items up on learningplasticsurgery.com is free but there is a review process before your items go live. There are a few things you promise in exchange for the right to be an author, which are outlined in these Author Terms.
7. Process to become an author: There are few easy steps you follow to sign up as an author. There we will send you instructions and resources that will help you get started.
How selling your video works
8. What you’re providing:
License: When you ‘sell’ an video on learningplasticsurgery.com, you’re making your video available to buyers to watch (not download) the video on a pay-per-view basis; you’re not actually selling the video itself. What you’re selling is a license directly to the buyer to watch the video online without time limit.
9. Your earnings: When your item is sold on learningplasticsurgery.com, you will earn the list price less an author fee that we charge. The list price is the price paid by the buyer, which is also listed on every item. The author fee is what you are charged by learningplasticsurgery.com for use of our platform and services as an author, that we can use for maintaining our service, paying handling fee/taxes and so on. The author fee you pay to us is set out in the author fee page that we can change at our discretion, from time to time. Any changes to these rates will take effect on and from the date on which notice of the variation is posted by us on learningplasticsurgery.com.
10. Setting the prices of items: The author set the suggested list prices of video on learningplasticsurgery.com and you must make all pricing decisions independently. While we have the right to adjust the final list price if necessary. We know how valuable your creations are to you and so we endeavour to make the prices fair and in line with the going market rate. Even so, you acknowledge and agree that we have absolute control over the pricing of learningplasticsurgery.com items.
11. Quality Review: When you think you’ve created an item suitable for learningplasticsurgery.com, you can submit that item to us to check the quality and whether it contains adequate information for buyers. We have rules about what we accept and don’t accept and you can read up on these in our author-related information. Although we always like to provide constructive feedback we’re not obliged to give you any reasons for rejecting your item. We have the final say on whether items are accepted for learningplasticsurgery.com
12. No Variation: You are not permitted to vary these terms (or our User Terms) as they apply between you and buyers, or to offer your items on different terms or with additional terms (for example, through your video content). Any different or additional terms that you try to impose on learningplasticsurgery.com on your items will have no effect against buyers or learningplasticsurgery.com.
How do payments of your earning work
Earnings payment:
13. We will pay you the list price less the author fee (‘your earnings’ or ‘earnings’). In order for us to do this, you authorise us to collect payments, to credit your Paypal or bank account with your earnings, and to distribute your earnings to you. We may use another Paypal or bank account to do these things for us.
14. To avoid any confusion, only your earnings from the sale of your videos will be payable to you. You deposit as a buyer for our other services (like video editing services..etc) are not able to be withdrawn or refunded.
15. Earnings payment timing and methods:
a. We’ll sent monthly report to you if any of your videos been paid and watched by the buyer. If there’s no videos been paid, we’ll not send the report until the first paid event occurred. We will pay your earnings to you via Paypal or bank account (for those countries disallow Paypal) before the 10th day of each month. You will see your payments about 2-3 working days after the payments are made.
b. You must provide us with the correct details of Paypal or bank account (for those countries disallow Paypal) when you request your earnings the first time.
c. You may bear some or all expenses incurred by us in paying monies to you.
16. Potential deductions:
a. Payment methods available for buyers to buy your items involve payment agents that have their own standard terms and conditions regarding refunds, chargebacks, fees and unauthorised transactions (which we don’t control). If an learningplasticsurgery.com transaction on an item is subject to payment agents’ refunds, chargeback, fees or unauthorised transactions, we may automatically deduct those amounts from your earnings.
b. You or we may also decide to issue a credit or refund to a buyer in certain circumstances involving issues with your item or transactions that may be reversed for other reasons. If that happens, we reserve the right to deduct from your earnings any amount that would otherwise be payable to you.
17. Payment errors: We will continue to hold your earnings if we’re not able to pay your earnings to you for whatever reason, including if:
a. We do not have the correct payment details;
b. We can’t contact you using the contact details that you have supplied; or
c. You are asking for payment to be made to a person, an institution or a country that we’re legally prohibited from making payments to, or where there are limitations in the banking systems.
18. Currency conversions: Whenever we make a payment to you as an author, you are responsible for all costs of converting the amount of the payment from US dollars into your preferred currency. Your financial institution does the currency conversion and may charge you additional fees (we don’t control either the conversion rates or your financial institution’s fees).
19. Holding earnings: If we decide that an item of yours does not comply with an applicable law or any of our rules or guidelines, including these Author Terms, we can at our discretion disable the item or your membership. We may also hold any earnings on that item for up to two years, and may release those held earnings during that period if we are satisfied that any dispute or issue about your item has been resolved.
Special deals and promotions
20. Sometimes we might negotiate volume sales or other arrangements with buyers as part of creating business development opportunities for authors (special deals). In order for us to make this possible you give us permission to negotiate special deals. In some cases, if pricing promotions involve a change in the author fee or licensing terms, then it is a special promotion and the following sections are relevant.
21. Before your item is included in a special deal or special promotion, we’ll provide you with information about the special deal or special promotion, item pricing and author fee. You can opt out of participating in a special deal or special promotion if the deal involves a change to the author fee. We will let you know the time frame to opt out, and if you don’t do so, your item will be included in the special deal or special promotion.
Author house-keeping
22. Taxes: As an author on learningplasticsurgery.com, you are responsible for paying any taxes that apply.
Your promises and responsibilities:
23. As an author you promise to us and each buyer of your items that:
- the item is of acceptable quality and fit for the purpose for which it is ‘sold’;
- the item and its description do not violate any applicable law or regulation;
- the item matches the description given by you on the item preview page, as well as any item preview;
- the buyer’s use of that item in accordance with the terms of the applicable license does not infringe the intellectual property rights of someone else;
- the item does not contain viruses or other computer codes, files or programs which are designed to limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware.
- The videos provided by authors should be able to be reviewed by paying viewers. If the contents of the videos generate controversy or negative reviews, then learning plastic surgery has the right to cancel the broadcast of the video.
- The author has an obligation to use the email link below the learning plastic surgery video to reply to enquiries or messages from viewers.
24. If you make your items available on learningplasticsurgery.com for free, then the promises you make apply to anyone who watches your item from leanringplasticsurgery.com.
25. Paid videos by the author require educational purposes. Therefore the full-length video will be the main consideration for broadcast by learning plastic surgery. If the video has been overly edited or simplified, we will suggest that the authors submit it as free preview video instead.
26. Buyers’ use of your item:We can not guarantee that the buyer must be a physicians or a medical professional person. We are not liable for any loss suffered by you as a result of a buyer or any other person making use of your item contrary to the item’s license.
27. Our use of your item: We may use the whole or part of your items to promote learningplasticsurgery.com. This promotional use may include use in public relations, emails, on a features page, or on other sites (e.g. social networks). No compensation is payable for these uses.
28. Watermark: After the video is uploaded, the lower right corner will have a Learning Plastic Surgery logo watermark.
29. Item removal: We have the right to remove an item for any reason, using our reasonable discretion. For example, we may review the libraries to keep the learningplasticsurgery.com fresh and full of quality items that meet the latest technical standards and market trends. Also, issues about an item might be brought to our attention such as errors, representations, or violations. Our goal is always to address these situations with you constructively. We also aim to give you notice before an item is removed, but this is not always feasible or possible, so we can’t guarantee this. We will not be responsible for any loss that you may suffer as a result of your item being removed.
30. Similar video content: If there are duplicate videos or surgery items, learning plastic surgery has the right to decide whether to broadcast your video. In principle, previous contributors have priority for broadcasting, To avoid overly similar videos which will affect the broadcast, we suggest that authors go through the topics of existing videos to avoid duplication.
31. Free preview: Free preview videos are not limited by duplication of video contents or similar surgery items and can be successfully broadcast as long as the author fulfilled the terms.
Personal information of members
32. In order to facilitate a transaction on learningplasticsurgery.com, we may provide you with relevant buyer information and also may provide buyers with your relevant information (for example your business, services or clinic information). You agree that you will keep buyer information confidential and only use this information for learningplasticsurgery.com transaction.
Legal housekeeping
33. If the videos involve in any patient’s characteristics or privacy, make sure you have received the patient’s consent before publishing. By accepting this Author term, you agree that any dispute arising from the privacy of the patient is the legal liability of the author, and has nothing to do with learningplasticsurgery.com.
34. By accepting this Author term, you agree that you own legal copyright of all the videos you upload to learningplasticsurgery.com. Any dispute related to copyright is the legal liability of the author who upload the videos, and has nothing to do with learningplasticsurgery.com.
35. Relationship between us and you: Nothing in these terms is to be construed as constituting a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and us. Neither you nor us can act on behalf of the other in any way. However, you appoint us as your limited agent only for these specific purposes:
- for receiving Buy Now payments from buyers. The buyer’s obligation to pay you for an item will be met when they make a Buy Now payment to learningplasticsurgery.com;
Go forth and author!
We’re very glad you’ve made it to the end of this important document. We wish you all the very best in selling your items on learningplasticsurgery.com.