Content Submission Agreement

Last Updated: July 14th, 2026

 

This Content Submission Agreement (this “Agreement”) is a binding legal agreement between you (“Submitter,” “you,” or “your”) and HARDCORE ITALIANS INC., an Illinois limited liability company (“Hardcore Italians,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), the owner and operator of the Hardcore Italians brand, the website located at hardcoreitalians.com, and the Hardcore Italians social media accounts.

By checking the acknowledgment boxes on the submission form, providing your electronic signature, and clicking “Submit,” you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not submit content.

1. Definitions

(a) “Content” means the video file(s) and any accompanying audio, images, text, captions, descriptions, or other materials that you upload, link to, or otherwise provide through the submission form, together with the information you provide in the form.

(b) “HCI Channels” means any website, blog, social media account, application, email or SMS communication, or other digital or physical media owned, operated, or controlled by Hardcore Italians now or in the future, including without limitation its accounts on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X (Twitter), and Pinterest, and the websites hardcoreitalians.com and hardcoreitalians.blog.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to submit Content. By submitting, you represent that you are 18 or older. We do not knowingly accept submissions from minors, and any submission made by a minor is void.

3. Your Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that:

(a) Original creation. You personally created and recorded the Content;

(b) Ownership. You own all rights, title, and interest in and to the Content, including all copyrights, and you have the full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to grant the license in Section 4;

(c) No conflicting agreements. You have not granted, and will not grant, exclusive rights in the Content to any other person or entity, including any viral content licensing agency, media company, or website, and the Content is not subject to any agreement that conflicts with this Agreement;

(d) Appearance consent. Every identifiable person appearing in the Content has consented to being recorded and to the public distribution of the Content. If any identifiable person appearing in the Content is under 18, you are that person’s parent or legal guardian, or you have obtained written consent from that person’s parent or legal guardian;

(e) Non-infringement. The Content, and Hardcore Italians’ use of the Content as permitted by this Agreement, does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or any other rights of any third party;

(f) Music and third-party material. To the extent the Content contains music, clips, or other material you did not create, you have identified that material in the submission form, and you understand Hardcore Italians may remove, replace, or mute such material in its discretion;

(g) Lawful content. The Content is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or harassing, and was not obtained or recorded in violation of any law;

(h) Accurate information. All information you provide in the submission form, including your name, contact information, and social media handle, is true and accurate.

4. License Grant

You hereby grant Hardcore Italians a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, host, store, reproduce, display, perform, distribute, publish, communicate to the public, and create derivative works of the Content, in whole or in part, in any and all media, formats, and channels now known or later developed, including without limitation:

(a) on and through the HCI Channels;

(b) in Hardcore Italians’ marketing, advertising, and promotional materials, whether or not such materials promote products for sale; and

(c) in compilations, montages, reaction content, and other works that combine the Content with other material.

This license includes the right to edit, crop, resize, reformat, compress, caption, subtitle, translate, add music, commentary, watermarks, or branding to, and otherwise modify or adapt the Content for publication, provided such modifications do not materially misrepresent the substance of the Content or place you in a false light.

5. You Keep Ownership of Your Content

This Agreement grants a license; it is not a transfer or assignment of ownership. As between you and Hardcore Italians, you retain all ownership of the Content. Because the license in Section 4 is non-exclusive, you remain free to post, share, sell, or license the Content to others on a non-exclusive basis, subject to Section 3(c).

6. Credit

Hardcore Italians will make commercially reasonable efforts to credit you using the social media handle you provide in the submission form, by tag, caption, or on-screen text, when the Content is published on the HCI Channels. The placement, format, and manner of credit are at Hardcore Italians’ sole discretion. An inadvertent failure to provide credit is not a breach of this Agreement; your sole remedy for a missed credit is to notify us at contact@hardcoreitalians.com, and we will use reasonable efforts to add the credit or, at our option, remove the post.

7. No Compensation; No Obligation to Publish

You acknowledge and agree that: (a) you will not receive, and are not entitled to, any monetary compensation, royalty, or other consideration for the Content or the license granted in this Agreement, the sufficiency of the mutual promises in this Agreement being acknowledged; (b) Hardcore Italians has no obligation to publish, use, or retain the Content; and (c) Hardcore Italians may remove or cease using the Content at any time for any reason without notice or liability.

8. Moral Rights

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you irrevocably waive, and agree not to assert against Hardcore Italians or its licensees, any moral rights, rights of attribution or integrity, or similar rights that you may have in the Content, in connection with any use of the Content permitted by this Agreement. Where such a waiver is not permitted by law, you agree not to enforce those rights against Hardcore Italians.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Hardcore Italians and its owners, members, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) any breach or alleged breach of your representations and warranties in Section 3; or (b) any claim by a person appearing in the Content relating to its recording, submission, or use as permitted by this Agreement.

10. Removal Requests

Although the license in Section 4 is perpetual and irrevocable, if you would like a published post featuring your Content taken down, you may email contact@hardcoreitalians.com. Hardcore Italians will consider such requests in good faith but is not obligated to grant them, except where required by law.

11. Electronic Agreement and Signature

You agree that your checkbox acknowledgments and typed or drawn electronic signature on the submission form constitute your valid, binding electronic signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) and applicable state law, and that this Agreement, together with the submission record generated by the form (including timestamp and IP address), constitutes a written agreement signed by you.

12. General Terms

(a) Governing law; venue. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in DuPage County, Illinois, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts;

(b) Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with your completed submission form, is the entire agreement between you and Hardcore Italians concerning the Content and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, including any statements made in direct messages, comments, or emails;

(c) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable;

(d) No waiver. Hardcore Italians’ failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of its right to do so later;

(e) Assignment. Hardcore Italians may assign this Agreement and the license granted herein in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. You may not assign this Agreement;

(f) Survival. Sections 3 through 12 survive any termination of this Agreement;

(g) No partnership. Nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, employment, agency, or joint venture between you and Hardcore Italians.

HARDCORE ITALIANS INC

contact@hardcoreitalians.com