Terms and Conditions

Agreement between User and openindustrystudios.com

Welcome to openindustrystudios.com. The openindustrystudios.com website (the "Site") is comprised of various web pages operated by Open Industry Studios ("OIS"). openindustrystudios.com is offered to you ("you" or "your") conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of openindustrystudios.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

openindustrystudios.com is an online creative collaboration platform.

Open Industry Studios is an online platform where creators can build profiles, post projects in development, form creative teams, log contributions and credits, document the creation process, and collaborate on AI-driven film and media projects. The platform does not generate content itself; users upload and control their own work. The Site may also include curated opportunities, educational resources, commissioned projects, optional paid features or subscriptions, and, in the future, optional crowdfunding or studio partnership features.

Privacy

Your use of openindustrystudios.com is subject to OIS's Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting openindustrystudios.com or sending emails to OIS constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Your Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that OIS is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. OIS and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

Children Under Thirteen

OIS does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use openindustrystudios.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

You may cancel your account at any time. All sales are final and you will not be charged for the next billing period if your account is canceled before the next cycle begins.

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

openindustrystudios.com may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of OIS and OIS is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. OIS is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by OIS of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via openindustrystudios.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the openindustrystudios.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that OIS may share such information and data with any third party with whom OIS has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of openindustrystudios.com users and customers.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and use openindustrystudios.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to OIS that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of OIS or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. OIS content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of OIS and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of OIS or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Use of Communication Services

The Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.

OIS has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, OIS reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. OIS reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

OIS reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in OIS's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. OIS does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, OIS specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized OIS spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of OIS.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.

Project Collaboration, Provenance, and AI-Assisted Workflows

Open Industry Studios provides structured workspaces and documentation tools designed to help users collaborate on projects and record project development history, including contributions, credits, timestamps, approvals, asset versions, and other provenance-related information. These tools are intended to support transparency and recordkeeping only. Open Industry Studios does not determine, verify, or guarantee copyright ownership, authorship, chain of title, or legal enforceability of any project record, contribution log, credit allocation, or asset history.

When you create or join a project, you acknowledge and agree that: (i) you are solely responsible for the content you upload, generate, submit, or contribute, including any text, prompts, images, audio, video, metadata, reference materials, and AI-generated or AI-assisted content; (ii) you have all necessary rights, permissions, licenses, and authority to use, upload, share, and contribute such materials; (iii) you will accurately disclose, where requested by the platform, relevant information regarding AI tools used, prompt authorship, human editing, third-party inputs, and other material creation details; and (iv) copyright law and ownership treatment of AI-assisted works are evolving, and OIS does not determine, guarantee, or represent that any project, asset, or output qualifies for copyright protection.

Any collaboration, revenue share, credit allocation, ownership discussion, approval structure, or other arrangement among project participants is solely between those participants. Open Industry Studios is not a party to any such arrangement, does not act as an agent, representative, escrow holder, fiduciary, or guarantor for project participants, and is not responsible for resolving disputes among collaborators. Any templates, documentation tools, prompts, suggested ownership structures, or organizational materials provided through the Site are for workflow and organizational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice or legally binding agreements unless separately executed by the relevant parties.

You further acknowledge that Open Industry Studios may display project-related contribution history, credits, acknowledgments, timestamps, and similar provenance records within project workspaces and, subject to your account settings and the platform's sharing functionality, in connection with public-facing project pages or featured content. You will not knowingly falsify, obscure, remove, or misrepresent material provenance, authorship, attribution, or other project documentation maintained through the Site.

User Content; Ownership; License to OIS

OIS does not claim ownership of the materials, files, prompts, images, audio, video, text, metadata, feedback, suggestions, project documentation, and other content that you post, upload, input, submit, or otherwise make available through the Site or associated services (collectively, "User Content"). As between you and OIS, you retain all right, title, and interest in and to your User Content, subject to the rights you grant in these Terms.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting User Content, you grant OIS and its affiliates, service providers, and necessary sublicensees a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up license to host, store, reproduce, process, reformat, adapt, transmit, display, perform, distribute, and create technical derivative works of your User Content solely as necessary to operate, provide, maintain, secure, improve, and support the Site and its features, including collaboration, documentation, project display, asset rendering, moderation, and customer support.

If you choose to publish a project or otherwise make User Content publicly available through the Site, you also grant OIS a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display, feature, promote, and distribute that public User Content on the Site, including on any "Explore" or similar showcase pages, and in OIS's marketing, social media, and promotional materials, solely in connection with promoting the platform and the relevant public project or creator activity.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of User Content as provided herein. OIS is under no obligation to post, feature, or continue to make available any User Content and may remove or restrict access to any User Content at any time in its sole discretion in accordance with these Terms.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all rights necessary to provide such User Content and to grant the rights described in this section, and that your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any intellectual property, publicity, privacy, contractual, or other rights of any third party.

AI Outputs and Documentation Limitations

Any AI-assisted outputs, provenance records, credit logs, contribution histories, or similar documentation made available through the Site may be incomplete, inaccurate, non-exclusive, or dependent on user-provided information. Such materials are not verified by OIS and do not constitute legal determinations of authorship, ownership, chain of title, or copyrightability. You are solely responsible for reviewing such materials and obtaining any rights clearances, licenses, or legal advice you may require.

Third Party Accounts

You will be able to connect your OIS account to third party accounts. By connecting your OIS account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with your privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by OIS from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the OIS Content accessed through openindustrystudios.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless OIS, its officers, directors, employees, members, contractors, affiliates, agents, and third parties from and against any losses, costs, liabilities, damages, claims, demands, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (i) your use of or inability to use the Site or services; (ii) your User Content or project contributions, including any AI-generated or AI-assisted content, prompts, inputs, uploads, or disclosures; (iii) any alleged infringement, misappropriation, or violation of any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights arising from your User Content or conduct; (iv) any dispute between you and any other project participant, collaborator, or user, including disputes regarding ownership, credit, authorship, approvals, payments, or revenue sharing; (v) your misrepresentation regarding your rights, permissions, authority, ownership, or contributions; or (vi) your violation of these Terms or applicable law. OIS reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with OIS in asserting any available defenses.

Arbitration

In the event that you and OIS are unable to resolve a dispute directly, you and OIS agree that any claim, dispute, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, or any provision hereof, whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise, shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, or by a similar arbitration service mutually agreed by the parties. The arbitration shall be conducted before a single neutral arbitrator in English in Los Angeles County, California, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"). By agreeing to mandatory arbitration as set forth herein, you and OIS knowingly and irrevocably waive any right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding, or counterclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law. The arbitral award shall be final and binding on the parties, and each party shall bear its own attorneys' fees, experts' fees, and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with the arbitration. Nothing in this arbitration provision shall prevent either party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief as necessary to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of that party's intellectual property, confidential information, data security, or other proprietary rights. You and OIS agree that any action brought in court in connection with this arbitration provision, including any action to compel arbitration, enforce an arbitral award, or seek injunctive or other equitable relief as expressly permitted herein, shall be filed exclusively in the United States District Court for the Central District of California or the state courts located in Los Angeles County, California. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN EACH'S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless both you and OIS agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. OPEN INDUSTRY STUDIOS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

OPEN INDUSTRY STUDIOS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. OPEN INDUSTRY STUDIOS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL OPEN INDUSTRY STUDIOS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF OPEN INDUSTRY STUDIOS OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Submitting an Infringement Notice to OIS

OIS respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Site to do the same. OIS will respond to alleged copyright infringement notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") and trademark infringement notices that comply with the Terms. If you believe that any content on the Site infringes your copyright and/or your registered trademark, you may submit a notice to contact@openindustrystudios.com, which notice must include: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright or trademark owner or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner; (ii) identification of the work that you claim has been infringed, including if applicable, the registration number and jurisdiction; (iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Site (e.g., URL); (iv) your address, telephone number and email address; (v) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright and/or trademark owner, its agent or law; and (vi) a statement, made under the penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright and/or trademark owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the rights of the owner. OIS does not accept infringement notices in relation to unregistered trademark rights.

UNDER UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY AND CIVIL PENALTIES, INCLUDING MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND ATTORNEYS' FEES.

Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying OIS that your copyright or trademark material has been infringed. The above requirements are intended to comply with OIS's rights and obligations under law, but do not constitute legal advice. OIS may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing materials and may terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers. OIS may also provide affected users with an opportunity to submit a counter-notification where permitted by law.

Termination/Access Restriction

OIS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. Without limiting the foregoing, OIS may suspend, remove, restrict access to, or disable any account, project, asset, User Content, or collaboration feature if OIS believes, in its sole discretion, that such material or activity may violate these Terms, infringe third-party rights, create legal risk, or interfere with the integrity, safety, or operation of the Site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Subject to the arbitration provisions above, you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California for any action to compel arbitration, enforce an arbitral award, or otherwise brought in connection with matters not subject to arbitration. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and OIS as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. OIS's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of OIS's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by OIS with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and OIS with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and OIS with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

OIS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which openindustrystudios.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. OIS encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Contact Us

OIS welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:

Open Industry Studios

Email: contact@openindustrystudios.com