Here is the text of the AWS License Agreement, as revised on November 5, 2003:
Amazon.com (as defined below) provides Amazon.com Web Services (as defined below) to you subject to the following conditions. This is a legal agreement between you and Amazon.com. In consideration of Amazon.com allowing you to use Amazon.com Web Services and by receiving Amazon.com Properties (as defined below) or accessing Amazon.com Web Services you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement ("Agreement"). If you do not agree, click on your browser's back button to decline this Agreement.
Amazon.com Web Services is a platform which enables the creation of websites and applications that perform various functions, such as enabling and completing transactions, retrieving information about Amazon.com products or adding a product to an Amazon.com shopping cart, wish list, or registry (such websites and applications collectively, "Applications"). Amazon.com Web Services can be accessed through two interfaces: XML over HTTP or SOAP. Both of these methods return "structured data" (product name, manufacturer, price, etc.) about products available at www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr and/or www.amazon.co.uk (together, the "Amazon.com Website") based on parameters such as keyword search terms and browse tree nodes. All information you receive from Amazon.com, and your use of it, is subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 1. LICENSE GRANT
You are granted a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to use any data, images, text, content, tools or other information (collectively referred to as the "Amazon.com Properties") received via Amazon.com Web Services in accordance with the terms and conditions described herein. By signing up to use Amazon.com Web Services you agree that you will provide accurate information during the registration process. Amazon.com retains all rights not expressly granted by this Agreement. "Amazon.com" and "we" means Amazon.com, Inc., if you are accessing data about products available at www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.jp, or www.amazon.fr, and Amazon.com.ca, Inc. if you are accessing data about products available at www.amazon.ca.
How you may use Amazon.com Web Services and what you can and cannot do with the Amazon.com Properties:
A. General
1) You may write an application that interfaces with Amazon.com Web Services;
2) You may make calls by ASIN, browse ID, Listmania(r) ID or keyword (or by any other method Amazon.com may permit in the future) to Amazon.com Web Services 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, provided you do not exceed 1 call per second or send files greater than 40K. If you build and release an Application, the 1 call per second limitation applies to each installed copy of the Application;
3) You may not sell, redistribute, sublicense or transfer all or any portion of the Amazon.com Properties;
4) You are responsible for complying with all applicable laws or regulations of any country or other jurisdiction and may not use Amazon.com Web Service or the Amazon.com Properties in a manner that violates any proprietary rights or any jurisdiction's laws, nor may you use the Amazon.com Properties in a way that would be libelous or defamatory or otherwise malicious or harmful to any person;
5) You may not interfere or attempt to interfere in any manner with the proper working of the Amazon.com Web Service;
6) You may not use or allow to be used the Amazon.com Properties on or within any Application if the Application violates any of the following restrictions:
- promotes sexually explicit materials - promotes violence - promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age - promotes illegal activities - otherwise violates intellectual property rights
By utilizing Amazon.com Web Services you agree that you will not engage in any such activities using your Application. If we issue you a developer token and your Application is thereafter determined (in our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for Amazon.com Web Services, we may terminate this Agreement.
You acknowledge that we (and our corporate affiliates, such as Alexa Internet, Inc.) may crawl or otherwise monitor your Application for the purpose of ensuring the quality and reliability of links on or within your Application (for example, to detect links that are broken or non-functional, links to products that are out of stock or otherwise unavailable, etc.). Therefore, you agree that we and our corporate affiliates may take such actions and that you will not seek to block or otherwise interfere with such crawling or monitoring (and that we and our corporate affiliates may use technical means to overcome any methods used on your Application to block or interfere with such crawling or monitoring).
Further, you acknowledge and agree that you will: (a) not, in connection with this Agreement, display or reference on or within your Application, any trademark or logo of any third party seller on the Amazon.com Website; (b) use any of the Amazon.com Properties or other information obtained by you from us or the Amazon.com Website in connection with this Agreement only in a lawful manner and only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (c) not modify or alter the Amazon.com Properties that consists of a graphic image, other than to resize it; and (d) not sell, redistribute, sublicense or transfer the Amazon.com Properties.
7) You may create, obtain and provide content to us in accordance with Section 5, "Providing Content To Amazon.com", below; and
8) You may not obtain pricing information through Amazon.com Web Services unless you are either (a) a seller on the Amazon.com Website and are using that data for the purposes of competitively pricing your products to be sold via the Amazon.com Website, or (b) an Amazon.com Associate and are using that data for the purposes of merchandising Amazon.com products on or within your Application. B. Display
1) You may display the Amazon.com Properties in any format you choose, subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement;
2) You may edit the Amazon.com Properties that consist of text content only to shorten their length. You cannot add additional information to the Amazon.com Properties, for instance by inserting words into a customer review or supplementing a wish list or Listmania(r) list with new items;
3) You may not remove, obscure, or alter any notice of patent, copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right appearing on or contained within Amazon.com Web Service or within any Amazon.com Properties; and
4) If you choose to display the Amazon.com Property known as "Amazon.com Quick-Click™", you may not misrepresent the applicable product or its price, or alter the Quick-Click window or the code or the messaging being served by Amazon.com.
C. Linking and Diversion
1) You must either: 1) link each of the Amazon.com Properties that is displayed on or within your Application to (a) a product detail page of the Amazon.com Website, or (b) any other page
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