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RIGHTS-AND-OWNERSHIP.md
Back Office · office.temerarii.xyz
Who owns what, what the company takes, and what you get. Read once; it does not change
mid-season.
**This is the plain-language summary. The signed release, IP assignment and contract are
the operative documents, and where they differ from this page, they govern.** This page
exists so nobody has to interpret a legal document to know where they stand — not to
replace it.
Not yet legal advice and not yet final. This is in counsel review. You will be given
the final documents to read before you are asked to sign anything.
The company owns it. Everything you make for a brand during the program — copy,
calendars, renders, code, edits, campaign plans — is work-for-hire and assigned to the
company. That is what you are being paid for.
This is standard and it is not negotiable, because the whole point is that the work ships
under a client's name.
What that does not include: anything you made before the program, and anything you make
on your own time unrelated to it. Bring your own tools and libraries; you keep them. If you
build something general-purpose during the program and want to keep it, ask before you
build it, not after.
The company owns the footage. Every episode, every take, the multitrack, the archive.
You grant the company the right to use your name, likeness, voice and performance in
the program and in things made from it. In practice that means:
| Use | Covered |
|---|---|
| Live broadcast and VOD | Yes |
| Clips — vertical, shorts, social | Yes |
| The podcast and audio-only cuts | Yes |
| Promotional material for the show and the studio | Yes |
| Compilations, recaps, "best of", future-season callbacks | Yes |
| Third-party licensing of episodes | Yes |
| Sponsor integrations within the program | Yes |
This is worldwide, and it does not expire — because a show that has to delete an episode
when someone changes their mind is a show nobody can license or keep online.
What you should understand before signing: if you are eliminated, or you leave, or it
ends badly, the episodes stay up. That is the deal, and it is the single most important
sentence on this page. If you are not comfortable with that, this is the moment to say so,
and saying so now costs you nothing.
**The company will not create synthetic or AI-generated versions of your voice, face or
performance**, and will not use your material to train likeness or voice models, without a
separate written agreement and separate payment.
The general appearance rights above cover editing real footage — cutting, captioning,
clipping, dubbing for accessibility. They do not cover *generating new performances you
never gave*.
We are an AI studio. That is exactly why this line is drawn explicitly rather than left to
inference, and why it is a carve-out rather than a promise: a promise can be quietly
dropped, a carve-out has to be renegotiated in writing.
All program revenue. Advertising, sponsorship, platform payouts, subscriptions,
licensing, and any business the show brings to the studio.
You are paid your contracted rate. There is no revenue share, and none is implied.
If a revenue-share arrangement is ever offered, it will be a separate signed agreement with
its own numbers. Nothing said on air, in a meeting, or in a message creates one.
That is stated bluntly on purpose. "We'll take care of you" is how these things go wrong.
Pay. Your contracted rate, on the published calendar, for work delivered against
criteria written in advance. Elimination is not a payment event — work delivered is paid.
Credit. Named in the episodes you appear in and in the season credits.
The right to show your own work. You may use clips of yourself, and the work you
produced, in your portfolio, reel, CV and job applications, indefinitely, including
after you leave. You do not need to ask. Two limits: you may not present it as your own
independent property or a client engagement of yours, and you may not use it to sell a
competing service.
This is deliberately generous. You are giving up ownership of the work; you should not also
lose the ability to prove you did it.
The public kit. The operator kit stays open. Whatever happens, you keep what you
learned and the code stays available to you.
Confidential things you may not disclose: client names not already public, unpublished
financials, credentials, and anything shown to you as confidential. Everything on the
broadcast is by definition public — you may talk about it freely.
after. It does not prevent you working in the industry, taking any job, or working for
competitors.
There is no non-compete. You may work anywhere, during and after, including for
competitors. What you may not do is take our clients with you.
| Work you delivered | Paid. Always. |
| Episodes you are in | Stay up. Permanently. |
| Your portfolio rights | Survive. You keep them. |
| Confidentiality and non-solicit | Survive for their stated term. |
| Anything further owed to you | Nothing, beyond the above. |
"Can I stream/post about my experience?" Yes — anything already broadcast. Not
unpublished client material.
"Can I use this on my portfolio if I'm eliminated in week 4?" Yes. Permanently.
"Do I get paid if the show gets cancelled?" For work delivered and accepted, yes. Not
for weeks that never happened.
"What if I want an episode taken down later?" We are not obligated to, and generally
will not. Ask before you sign, not after.
"Who owns something I invent that isn't for a brand?" Ask before you build it. Asked
in advance, this is usually easy. Asked afterwards, it is a dispute.
"Is there a rev-share?" No.
These are in counsel review and will be resolved in the final documents:
assigned sprint scope, which cuts against independent-contractor status even though pay
is fixed-price. This is the single largest legal exposure in the program and it is a
question for counsel, not for us.
W-8BEN for non-US) and who carries the compliance burden.
varies by the participant's home state and country.