Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement

A. In the capacity of an employee of Meredith India Services Private Limited (the “Company”) I have
executed a Letter of Appointment containing the terms of my employment with the Company (“Employment
Agreement”); I understand that by virtue of my employment with the Company, I will create intellectual property and
have access to information and technical data of the Company which is confidential in nature.

Therefore, in consideration for my employment with the Company, for the compensation and benefits provided to me
and for the Company’s agreement to provide me with access to experience, knowledge and Company Confidential
information (defined below) in the course of my employment, I hereby agree as follows:

1. Confidential Information
(a) Company Confidential Information. During my employment by the Company, I will acquire information about
theconfidential affairs of the Company including, trade secrets, "know-how", and other proprietary data of the
Company or of any of its partners, customers, clients, readers, suppliers, advertisers or vendors, (1) that is not
publicly known(other than public knowledge due to my disclosure in breach of this Agreement), (2) that the Company
designates as proprietary or confidential or otherwise seeks to keep confidential, or (3) that the Company is bound to
keep confidential. All such information, whether or not proprietary or a trade secret, is considered Company
Confidential Information. Company Confidential Information includes:
(i) information of a business nature, such as non-public financial information and results, business plans, finances,
operations, strategic plans, staffing plans, and other plans, ideas, research and other data regarding contractors,
employees, key personnel, sales, costs, marketing profits, prices, advertising, merchandising, suppliers, customers,
clients or readers;
(ii) information that is central to journalistic operations such as future editorial plans and unpublished editorial material
(including story ideas, files, research, and story drafts), the identity of anonymous sources, and “know how” about
operations that are unique to the Company;
(iii) sensitive information or information of a private nature, such as personnel files and other personnel information,
customer or client files and other information about current or prospective customers, clients or readers which may
include personally-identifiable information and/or sensitive personal information;
(iv) computer and technical data, such as software in various stages of development (source code, object code,
documentation, diagrams, flow charts), designs, techniques, drawings, specifications, models, data and customer,
client or reader information contained therein;
(v) business files and records, including paper files, electronic files, e-mail, and voicemail;
(vi) any legal, business, communications/public relations or financial advice sought by or received by Company;
(vii) any information of the type described above that Company obtained from another party that either designates or
treats as proprietary or confidential, whether or not owned or developed by Company; and
(viii) any notes, analyses, summaries, memoranda or other reports, compilations or other derivative materials
(regardless of the medium, form or format) prepared by me that contain, reflect or are based upon, in whole or in part,
any Company Confidential Information.
(b) Safeguarding Confidential Information. During and after my employment I agree that I (i) will keep the Company
Confidential Information secret, (ii) will use the Company Confidential only in furtherance of my duties as an
employee of the Company and for the benefit of the Company and will not in any event use the Company’s
Confidential Information for any other purpose including my own benefit, and (iii) will not intentionally disclose
Company Confidential Information to any third party, except with the Company’s prior written consent. If I am required
by applicable laws or governmental regulations or judicial or regulatory process to disclose Company Confidential
Information, I agree I will only do so after giving prior notice to the Company to the extent practicable under the
circumstances and subject to the requirements imposed by applicable law, government regulations or
judicial/regulatory process and shall restrict the disclosure to a minimum. The Company’s rights under this Agreement
are in addition to all rights the Company may have under the common law or applicable statutory laws. I undertake
not to make copies of such Confidential Information except as authorised by the Company.
(c)I agree that I shall not claim or represent I have any interest by way of ownership, assignment or otherwise in the
Confidential Information.
(d) I agree and undertake that I shall, upon request or upon the termination of my employment relationship with the
Company howsoever occurring, promptly return to the Company all materials, writings, equipment, models,
mechanisms, and the like created by me in the course of my employment and/or obtained from or through the

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Company, including, but not limited to all Confidential Information, all of which I acknowledge is the sole and
exclusive property of the Company.
(e) I agree and undertake that during my employment with the Company, I shall not use improperly or disclose any
confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of my former employers, principals, partners, co-ventures,
clients, customers or suppliers of the vendors or customers of such persons or entities or their vendor or customers
and I shall not bring onto the premises of the Company or introduce in the Company systems, any unpublished
document or any property belonging to any such persons or entities or their vendors or customers unless such
persons or entities have given their consent. I undertake that I shall not violate any non-disclosure or proprietary
rights agreement that I may have signed with any such person or entity.
(f) I undertake and agree that in the event, I am permitted by the Company to hold any office, whether for profit or
otherwise in any other organization, I shall maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential Information, Inventions and
other information pertaining to the Company.

2.Inventions
(a) Inventions Defined. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Inventions” means inventions, original works of
authorship, developments, concepts, improvements, designs, discoveries, ideas, know-how, trademarks, and trade
secrets, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, that I may solely or jointly conceive,
develop or reduce to practice in the course of my employment with the Company.
(b) Pre-Existing Intellectual Property.
(i) List of Prior Inventions. I will provide the Company with a list, describing all inventions that were made by me prior
to or independently of my employment with the Company, that relate to the Company’s proposed business, products,
or research and development, and that are not assigned to the Company under this Agreement (collectively, “Prior
Inventions”).

IMPORTANT:
If I do not provide the Company with a list of Prior Inventions and identify the same as being out of the scope of this
Agreement, it will be deemed that I have represented to the Company, that I have no Prior Inventions.
(ii)License of My Prior Inventions. I agree and undertake that I will not incorporate any Prior Inventions into any
Inventions or Company project, process or machine without the prior written consent of the Company. If, in the course
of my employment with the Company, I incorporate into a Company product, process, or machine any Prior
Inventions created independently of my employment with the Company, I hereby grant to the Company a
nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use and sell the
Prior Invention(s) without restriction of any kind.
(c) Third Party Inventions. I agree not to incorporate any invention, original work of authorship, development, concept,
I represent and warrant that I have not violated and will not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party,
and covenant that I shall not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party in the course of my employment
with the Company. In the event any constituent of intellectual property of a third party is integrated in the Inventions or
any part thereof created by me, I agree to procure for the Company, at my cost and expense, a non-exclusive,
irrevocable, fully transferable, perpetual, fully paid-up license to use, and modify, such third party intellectual property.
(d) Company Inventions. All right, title and interest, (including all patent, copyright, trademarks, design rights,
database rights, trade names, service marks related intellectual property rights or any other proprietary
rights)anywhere in the world in any Inventions that I create while employed by the Company that relate to the
Company’s business, proposed business, products, or research and development, or are created using Company
funds, equipment, supplies, property, facilities, or Company Confidential Information shall vest with and belong to the
Company immediately upon creation on account of my employment with the Company.
(i) Disclosure. I agree to promptly make a full written disclosure to the Company of any Inventions.
(ii) Assignment of Rights to Inventions. To the extent that the ownership of the Inventions do not vest with the
Company automatically as per the terms above or through operation of law, I hereby irrevocably, unconditionally and
in perpetuity assign to the Company, or its designee, all of my right, title, and interest anywhere in the world (including
all patent, copyright, trademarks, moral rights, design rights, database rights, trade names, service marks, related
intellectual property rights available anywhere in the world) in all Inventions, that I solely or jointly may conceive,
express, write, encode, develop, or reduce to practice during my employment with the Company. I further agree to
hold in trust for the benefit of the Company any rights in any Invention to the extent not otherwise assigned or
transferred to the Company. Further, all records, documents, papers (including copies and summaries thereof), and
other copyrightable works created, developed or acquired by me in the course of employment shall, together with all
the worldwide copyright and design rights in all such works, be and at all times remain the absolute property of the

Meredith India Services Pvt. Ltd. (A Dotdash Meredith company)

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Company. I acknowledge that my employment with the Company and payment of salary as per the Employment
Agreement constitute sufficient consideration for these undertakings.
(iii )Subject to Clause 2(d)(ii) above, I acknowledge and agree that this Agreement constitutes a valid, binding and on-
going agreement for assignment of rights including, as applicable, all intellectual property rights in the Inventions in
the manner prescribed under the Trademarks Act 1999, the Patents Act 1970, the Indian Copyright Act 1957 and the
Designs Act, 2000 and such other statutes and/or rules that are applicable in this respect, as may be amended,
supplemented, replaced or introduced from time to time. Should any applicable statutes and/or rules prescribe any
other action to be taken for the assignment of any rights including any intellectual property rights in the Inventions in
favour of the Company to be effective, I undertake and complete all such actions in a timely manner as and when
required. The Parties further agree, that the failure of the Company to exercise any rights over the Inventions as
contemplated herein within a period of one year from the date of the assignment as referred to under this Clause 2
shall not cause the assignment of any rights, as applicable, to lapse and the Parties expressly waive the application
of Section 19(4) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.
(iv) Marketing of Inventions. I acknowledge that the decision whether or not to commercialize or market any Invention
developed by me solely or jointly with others is within the Company’s sole discretion and for the Company’s sole
benefit.
(i) No Right to Additional Compensation. Neither the Company nor any other entity shall be obligated to pay me
additional fees or royalty related to any Invention and the salary paid under the Employment Agreement is sufficient
considerations for my undertakings, obligations and covenants in this Agreement.
(vi)Maintenance of Records. I agree to maintain and retain adequate and current written records of all Inventions in
the form of notes, sketches, drawings, laboratory notebooks, and/or any other form that may be specified by the
Company. I agree that these are Company records that are the sole property Company and must remain available to
the Company.
(vii)Further Assurances. I agree to assist the Company, or its designee, at the Company’s expense, in every proper
way to secure and protect the Company’s rights in Inventions and any related copyrights, patents, mask work rights,
or other intellectual property rights in any and all countries. The requirements under this paragraph include an
obligation to:
(A)Disclose to the Company all pertinent information and data related to an Invention;
(B)all times during employment with the Company and thereafter fully cooperate with the Company to register, perfect
and/or enforce intellectual property rights in the Inventions or other work performed by me as an employee of the
Company including the execution of all documents, papers, applications, specifications, oaths, assignments, and all
other instruments that the Company deems necessary to create, establish, apply for, publish and obtain and secure
its rights to the Inventions.
(viii)Survival. My obligation to execute or cause to be executed, when it is in my power to do so, any instrument or
papers in respect of any Inventions will continue after the termination of this Agreement.

3. Amendments, Waivers
This Agreement may be amended, modified, superseded, canceled, renewed or extended and the terms or
covenants hereof may be waived only by written instrument executed by both of the parties hereto, or in the case of a
waiver, by the party waiving compliance. The failure of either party at any time or times to require performance of any
provisions hereof shall in no manner affect such party’s right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver by either
party of the breach of any term or covenant contained in this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one
or moreinstances, shall be deemed to be, or construed as, a further or continuing waiver of any such breach, or a
waiver of the breach of any other term or covenant contained in this Agreement.

4. Disputes, Miscellaneous
(a) Choice of Law; Severability. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with
the laws of the Republic of India. The competent courts at Bangalore, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all
disputes arising from or relating to this Agreement and the parties waive any jurisdictional or venue defenses
otherwise available provided however that the Company shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief under this
Agreement in any court of competent jurisdiction. If any provision of this Agreement is, for any reason, held to be
invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of this Agreement will be deemed modified so that it is valid and
enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this
Agreement, whether in whole or in part, shall not in any way affect the validity and/or enforceability of any of the other
provisions of this Agreement. Any invalid or unenforceable provision or portion thereof shall be deemed severable to
the extent of any such invalidity or unenforceability.

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(b) Specific Remedy. In addition to such other rights and remedies as the Company may have at equity or in law with
respect to any breach of this Agreement, if I commit a breach of any of the provisions herein or threaten to breach
any such provisions, the Company will have the right and remedy to have such provisions specifically enforced by
any court having equity jurisdiction, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such breach or threatened breach will
cause irreparable injury to the Company and that money damages will not provide an adequate remedy to the
Company. I understand and agree that breach or threatened breach by me of the terms of this Agreement shall
constitute and be deemed to be a material breach of the Employment Agreement and shall constitute grounds for
termination of my employment with the Company.
(c) Entire Agreement. This Agreement, along with the Employment Agreement and Letter of Appointment executed
with the Company, constitutes the entire Agreement with regard to the subject matter of this Agreement, and
supersedes all other previous agreements. This Agreement shall be binding on and shall inure to the benefit of the
Parties hereto, and their heirs, administrators, successors, and assigns. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby
clarified that the termination of the Employment Agreement shall not result in the termination of this Agreement. This
Agreement does not provide any employment rights to me and I understand that all employment related terms shall
be solely as per my Employment Agreement executed with the Company.
(d)Notice. All notices, agreements and consents under this Agreement shall be in writing. Any such notices,
agreements and consents shall be sent to the address of the each as set out in this Agreement or to such other
address as the party in question shall notify to the other.
(e) Assignment: I agree and acknowledge that this Agreement and the rights and obligations thereunder are personal
with respect to me and that I may not assign it nor may it be assigned vide the operation of law. The Company shall,
however, have the absolute, unfettered right to assign this Agreement.
(f) Legal costs: I agree that the Company may initiate appropriate legal action against me for the breach of any of the
terms of this Agreement, and recover the costs of such legal action, including all damages and lawyers’ fees from me.
(g) No Conflict: I represent and covenant that performance of this Agreement does not and will not breach any
agreement I have entered into or will enter into, with any third party, including without limitation, any agreement to
keep in confidence proprietary or confidential information acquired by me in confidence or in trust prior to my
employment with the Company. I agree not to enter into any written or oral agreement that conflicts with the
provisions of this Agreement or affects in any way my ability to fulfill my obligations under this Agreement.

5.Applicability of this Agreement After Employment Terminates

(a)Survival. Clause 1,2, 3, 4 and this Clause 5 shall survive after my employment terminates.
(b)The Company may notify any future or prospective employer or third party of the existence of this Agreement and
the details of my obligations hereunder.

Agreed and Accepted

________________________

Name: SADU KRISHNA CHAITANYA

Date: 29/05/2023

Meredith India Services Pvt. Ltd. (A Dotdash Meredith company)

Regd. Office: RMZ Eco World | Plot C1, Campus 8A, 5th Floor | Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru | Karnataka – 560103, India
p. 080-71057100, 080-7105 7199. e: hr.connect@dotdashmdp.com w: www.dotdashmeredith.com
CIN: U72900KA2011FTC061339