Kindle Cloud Reader Legal Notices

A. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICES

1. Patent Notices

   The Kindle Cloud Reader application and/or methods used in association with the Kindle service and Kindle device may be covered by one or more patents or pending patent applications owned or controlled by Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

2. Trademark Notices

   Kindle and the Kindle Cloud Reader logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

3. Copyright Notices

   Kindle Cloud Reader software © 2012-2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

4. Other Notices

   All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks, and service marks are the properties of their respective owners.

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• An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
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• A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Amazon's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

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phone: (206) 266-4064

fax: (206) 266-7010

e-mail: copyright@amazon.com

Courier address:

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C. NOTICES FOR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITH THE APPLICATION

1. Components Licensed Under the MIT License.

   a. Names and Copyright Notices.

   - Gesture - © 2010 Matteo Spinelli, http://cubiq.org/.

   - Handlebars.js – © 2011 by Yehuda Katz

   - iScroll Lite base on iScroll v4.1.6 - © 2011 Matteo Spinelli, http://cubiq.org/.

   - JQuery JSONP Plugin - © 2011 Julian Aubourg

   - jQuery Mousewheel Plugin - © 2010 Brandon Aaron (http://brandonaaron.net/).

   Amazon elects to use the following software packages under the MIT license:

   - jQuery - © 2012 jQuery Foundation and other contributors http://jquery.com/.

   - jQuery Cookie Plugin - © 2010 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de).

   - jQuery DateFormat Plugin - © 2010 John Resig, http://jquery.com/.

   - jQuery Templates Plugin - © Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.

   - jQuery UI - © 2012 jQuery Foundation and other contributors, http://jqueryui.com/.

   - jScrollPane - © 2010 Kelvin Luck.

   b. MIT License.

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

2. js-sunspider.

   Copyright (C) 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2007 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>

   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

   
   

   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY APPLE COMPUTER, INC. ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE COMPUTER, INC. OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

3. YUI.

   Certain Mobi8 files used in conjunction with Kindle products include portions of the YUI Library, which is subject to the following license terms:

   © 2011, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

   Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

   • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
   • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
   • Neither the name of Yahoo! Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission of Yahoo! Inc.

   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

   Sources of Intellectual Property Included in the YUI Library

   YUI is issued by Yahoo! under the BSD license above. Below is a list of certain publicly available software that is the source of intellectual property in YUI, along with the licensing terms that pertain to those sources of IP. This list is for informational purposes only and is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of third party contributions to the YUI.

   • Douglas Crockford's JSON parsing and stringifying methods: In the JSON Utility, Douglas Crockford's JSON parsing and stringifying methods are adapted from work published at JSON.org. The adapted work is in the public domain.
   • Robert Penner's animation-easing algorithms: In the Animation Utility, YUI makes use of Robert Penner's algorithms for easing.
   • Geoff Stearns's SWFObject: In the Charts Control and the Uploader versions through 2.7.0, YUI makes use of Geoff Stearns's SWFObject v1.5 for Flash Player detection and embedding. More information on SWFObject can be found here (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/). SWFObject is (c) 2007 Geoff Stearns and is released under the MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
   • Diego Perini's IEContentLoaded technique: The Event Utility employs a technique developed by Diego Perini and licensed under GPL. YUI's use of this technique is included under our BSD license with the author's permission.

4. Components Licensed Under The Apache License, Version 2.0.

   a. Names and Copyright Notices. Google Closure Library. © 2006 The Closure Library Authors. All Rights Reserved.

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