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CONTENT LICENSE AGREEMENT
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THIS
AGREEMENT is made as of this 2nd day of June, 2008 by and
among Digicorp, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware, United States of America with offices at 4143
Glencoe Avenue, Unit B, Marina Del Rey, California 90291,
U.S.A. (" COMPANY ") and New China Media
LLC, a Florida limited liability company (a/k/a New China Media
Limited) with offices at 400 Alton Road, Penthouse 7, Miami Beach,
Florida 33139 (" NCM "); YGP, LLC, a Florida
limited liability company with offices at 4000 Hollywood Blvd,
Suite 485 South, Hollywood, Florida, 33021 ( "
YGP ") and TWK Holdings, LLC with offices at Room
4301, 43/F, Jardine House , One Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong
(" TWK ") (NCM, YGP and TWK shall be individually
and collectively referred to as " CONTENT PROVIDER
") (COMPANY and CONTENT PROVIDER are hereinafter sometimes
collectively referred to as the " Parties
").
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W I T N E S S E T H:
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WHEREAS,
COMPANY intends to build and maintain web sites based in the
People’s Republic of China which will include content
provided to COMPANY by third parties for the purpose of providing
information to users of the web site, and providing access to the
products and/or services of such third parties;
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WHEREAS,
CONTENT PROVIDER has acquired from one or more third parties
(individually a " Licensor " and collectively the
" Licensors ") the right to distribute by means of
the internet certain content described more fully in the attached
Exhibit A (the " Current Content ") and intends to
acquire from Licensors in the future the right to distribute by
means of the internet additional content (the " Future
Content ") (the Current Content and the Future Content are
hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the "
Content "); and,
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WHEREAS,
COMPANY and CONTENT PROVIDER wish to distribute the Content through
the web sites referred to above.
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NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual
covenants of this Agreement, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
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1. |
LICENSE |
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A. |
Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, CONTENT PROVIDER hereby grants and assigns by means of
present assignment to COMPANY and COMPANY hereby assumes for the
Term of this Agreement (as set forth in paragraph 8, below),
CONTENT PROVIDER’S rights and obligations regarding the
Content from Licensors as set forth in Exhibit A with respect to
the right and license for the territory of the People Republic of
China to use, reproduce, distribute, transmit and publicly display
the Current Content and the Future Content by means of the internet
in accordance with Exhibit A and this Agreement. In this
regard, it is specifically understood and agreed that CONTENT
PROVIDER will not during the Term of this Agreement take any action
to exploit or otherwise use, reproduce, distribute, transmit and
publicly display any of the Content via the internet to
Universities and College students in the People’s Republic of
China except for the benefit of the COMPANY.
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CONTENT PROVIDER further grants to COMPANY (i)
the right to sublicense the Content to COMPANY’S wholly-owned
subsidiaries or to joint ventures in which COMPANY participates for
the sole purpose of using, reproducing, distributing, transmitting
and publicly displaying the Content in accordance with this
Agreement; and, (ii) the right, in COMPANY’S discretion, to
use and exploit the Content at one or more other web sites in
addition to or in lieu of the web sites referred to in the recital
above (the web sites referred to above and any other web sites in
addition to or in lieu thereof where COMPANY, its subsidiaries or
joint ventures in which it might participate might use or exploit
the Content are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "
Web site ").
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2. |
CONSIDERATION |
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In consideration for the license of rights
granted hereunder in the Current Content, COMPANY hereby agrees to
issue to YGP 16,200 shares of its Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock for which YGP will pay COMPANY the sum of $1.00 per share or
$16,200 in the aggregate; NCM 3,000 of its Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock for which NCM will pay COMPANY the sum of $1.00 per
share or $3,000 in the aggregate and TWK 12,000 of its Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock for which TWK will pay COMPANY the sum
of $1.00 per share or $12,000 in the aggregate. Prior to the
execution hereof, CONTENT PROVIDER has been furnished with a copy
of the Certificate of Designation for the Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock and is fully familiar with the terms and conditions
thereof.
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In addition to the foregoing, and subject to
the terms and conditions of the applicable content agreement with
such Licensor, COMPANY agrees to pay directly to each Licensor from
whom CONTENT PROVIDER might obtain Content which CONTENT PROVIDER
licenses to COMPANY pursuant hereto a royalty equal to that royalty
which CONTENT PROVIDER might be obligated to pay to that Licensor
with respect to the use and exploitation of that Content in the
manner licensed to and actually used by COMPANY pursuant hereto
provided, however, unless the Parties might agree in writing to the
contrary, in no event will COMPANY be obligated to pay such
Licensor for the use of such Content more than fifty percent
(50.0%) of all revenues generated during the Term of this Agreement
from banner advertising that appears on Web site pages that display
that Content or any portion thereof and with respect to which at
least a majority of the content (excluding advertisements) on such
pages is composed of the Content (the " Net Advertising
Revenue ").
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Subject to the terms and conditions of the
applicable content agreement with such Licensor, the Net
Advertising Revenue shall be calculated on a quarterly calendar
basis (the " Net Advertising Revenue Period ") and
shall be payable no later than sixty (60) days after the
termination of the preceding full quarter-annual period, i.e.,
commencing on the first (1st) day of January, April, July and
October except that the first and last calendar periods may be
"short," depending on the effective date of this Agreement.
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For each Net Advertising Revenue Period,
COMPANY shall provide the Licensor of such Content with a written
statement of account setting out the actual number of visits to the
Web Site during the applicable Net Advertising Revenue Period. Such
statement shall be furnished to the Licensor of such Content
regardless of whether any visits to the Web site were made during
the applicable period.
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COMPANY’S obligation for the payment of
the Net Advertising Revenue shall survive expiration or termination
of this Agreement and will continue for as long as COMPANY
continues to use the Content.
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For the avoidance of doubt or confusion, the
sole consideration paid or payable to CONTENT PROVIDER pursuant to
this Agreement is that provided for in paragraph 2A hereof and in
no event will CONTENT PROVIDER be entitled to receive any
participation in any of the revenues which COMPANY might derive
from the Content.
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3. |
CONTENT PROVIDER’S
RESPONSIBILITIES |
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CONTENT PROVIDER will provide to COMPANY the
Content, which will comply with the description attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
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CONTENT PROVIDER will have sole responsibility
for providing, at its expense, the Content to COMPANY. CONTENT
PROVIDER and COMPANY will determine mutually agreeable methods for
the transmission and incorporation of updates to the Content.
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4. |
RIGHTS OF COMPANY |
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Subject to the terms and conditions of the
applicable content agreement with such Licensor, COMPANY may
incorporate the Content into certain pages in the Web Site (the "
Content Pages ") and reasonable excerpts or
portions of the Content may be incorporated into the Web site at
COMPANY’S discretion.
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COMPANY shall have sole control over the
content, composition, and "look and feel" of the Web site, and will
have sole responsibility for providing, hosting and maintaining, at
its own expense, the Web site.
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5. |
RIGHTS OF CONTENT
PROVIDER |
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Subject to the terms and conditions of the
applicable c
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