TRECVID 2005 License Agreement for Non-Commercial Use 


In the remainder of this document the term User refers to:

_____________________________________________ (Individual name) 

and the term User's research group refers to:

______________________________________________________________
(University, Institute or Company name) 

______________________________________________________________
(Specific department or area, if appropriate). 

This letter describes the terms of an agreement between User and the
Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), in which User will receive material
as specified below.

Under this agreement, User will receive one copy, named below under
"Names of Corpora," containing video data, keyframes, and transcripts.
User agrees to use the material received under this agreement only for
linguistic, information retrieval, or pattern recognition research and
technology development. User agrees that the material received under
this agreement may only be used for non-commercial purposes. User
agrees not to disclose, copy or redistribute the material to others
outside of the User's research group.  The video data, keyframes, and
transcripts will be distributed by the LDC on loaner harddisk drive;
User agrees to return the loaner harddisk drive to the LDC within 3
weeks after it has been loaded onto the User's system unless LDC has
granted an exemption in advance. User can retain received copy. Shot
boundary test data may be distributed by NIST on DVD+R; User may
retain the received copy.

User agrees that neither the Linguistic Data Consortium nor the
University of Pennsylvania warrant the accuracy, completeness,
currentness, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of
the information. In no event will the Linguistic Data Consortium or
the University of Pennsylvania be liable to any authorized user, or
anyone else for any loss or injury caused in whole or in part by its
negligence or contingencies beyond its control in procuring,
compiling, interpreting, editing, writing, reporting or delivering the
information, or any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the
information, regardless of how caused. In no event will the Linguistic
Data Consortium or the University of Pennsylvania be liable to the
organization, any authorized user or anyone else for any decision made
or action taken by the organization or any authorized user in reliance
upon any part of the information or for any consequential, direct,
special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such
damages.

Organization: ________________________________________________________

User Name: ___________________________________________________________


Signature: ___________________________________________________________

Date: ______________________________

Names of Corpora:   TREC VIDEO 2005

For LDC:  Christopher Cieri  
          Executive Director