eBook License

When you purchase an e-book, you necessarily purchase a license to use that e-book in a very specific way.  It is important that you understand the things that you can and cannot do with your e-book.

This license is made between: (1) Games Workshop Limited t/a Black Library, Willow Road, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2WS, United Kingdom ("Black Library"); and (2) the purchaser of an e-book product from Black Library website ("You/you/Your/your") (jointly, "the parties")

These are the terms and conditions that apply when you purchase an e-book ("e-book") from Black Library.  The parties agree that in consideration of the fee paid by you, Black Library grants you a license to use the e-book on the following terms:

  1. 1. Black Library grants to you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the e-book in the following ways:
    1. 1.1 to store the e-book on any number of electronic devices and/or storage media (including, by way of example only, personal computers, e-book readers, mobile phones, portable hard drives, USB flash drives, CDs or DVDs) which are personally owned by you;
    2. 1.2 to access the e-book using an appropriate electronic device and/or through any appropriate storage media; and
    3. 1.3 to print one (1) hard copy of the e-book for your personal use only. If you accidentally destroy or damage this hard copy, you shall be entitled to create a further copy provided that you obliterate any remaining elements of the previous copy.
  2. 2. For the avoidance of doubt, you are ONLY licensed to use the e-book as described in paragraph 1 above.  You may NOT use or store the e-book in any other way.  If you do, Black Library shall be entitled to terminate this license.
  3. 3. Further to the general restriction at paragraph 2, Black Library shall be entitled to terminate this license in the event that you use or store the e-book (or any part of it) in any way not expressly licensed.  This includes (but is by no means limited to) the following circumstances:
    1. 3.1 you provide the e-book to any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;
    2. 3.2 you make the e-book available on bit-torrent sites, or are otherwise complicit in 'seeding' or sharing the e-book with any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;
    3. 3.3 you print and distribute hard copies of the e-book to any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;
    4. 3.4 You attempt to reverse engineer, bypass, alter, amend, remove or otherwise make any change to any copy protection technology which may be applied to the e-book.
  4. 4. By purchasing an e-book, you agree for the purposes of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 that Black Library may commence the service (of provision of the e-book to you) prior to your ordinary cancellation period coming to an end, and that by purchasing an e-book, your cancellation rights shall end immediately upon receipt of the e-book.
  5. 5. You acknowledge that all copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights in the e-book are, shall remain, the sole property of Black Library.
  6. 6. On termination of this license, howsoever effected, you shall immediately and permanently delete all copies of the e-book from your computers and storage media, and shall destroy all hard copies of the e-book which you have derived from the e-book.
  7. 7. Black Library shall be entitled to amend these terms and conditions from time to time by written notice to you.
  8. 8. These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law, and shall be subject only to the jurisdiction of the Courts in England and Wales.
  9. 9. If any part of this license is illegal, or becomes illegal as a result of any change in the law, then that part shall be deleted, and replaced with wording that is as close to the original meaning as possible without being illegal.
  10. 10. Any failure by Black Library to exercise its rights under this license for whatever reason shall not be in any way deemed to be a waiver of itsrights, and in particular, Black Library reserves the right at all times to terminate this license in the event that you breach clause 2 or clause 3.