DRAFT FOR LAWYER REVIEW — NOT LEGAL ADVICE. This document has not been approved by a lawyer and does not by itself protect the operator or anyone else.

Creator Agreement

This agreement applies when you submit a game version for publication on RIFTYARD. You are asked to accept it, and to make a separate rights declaration, at your first publication and again whenever its terms materially change. It adds to the Terms of Service. Text marked [LEGAL REVIEW] must be confirmed by the operator's lawyer.

The operator is [OPERATOR LEGAL ENTITY NOT CONFIGURED], [OPERATOR ADDRESS NOT CONFIGURED]. Legal contact: [LEGAL CONTACT NOT CONFIGURED].

1. What you are publishing

A RIFTYARD game is a project made of structured data (a RiftSpec) together with references to assets from the platform's approved asset registry. In this beta there are no user uploads of files, models, images, audio or code. "Your content" means the project, its title, summary, descriptors and any text you supplied, including your prompts to the extent they are reproduced in the project.

Each submission creates a version. Once published, a version is immutable: you cannot edit it, and neither can we. To change a game you publish a new version.

2. You keep your rights

You keep whatever rights you have in your content. This agreement does not transfer ownership to the operator.

The operator does not claim copyright in AI output and does not tell you that you own it. Whether an AI-assisted work is protected by copyright, and who (if anyone) owns it, depends on the law of each country and on the nature of your own contribution. You should not assume your game is protected, and you should not represent to others that it is unless you have a basis to do so.

[LEGAL REVIEW] Position on subsistence and ownership of copyright in AI-assisted works under Australian law and, separately, United States law; wording of any statement to creators about it.

3. The licence you give the operator

So that RIFTYARD can function, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, for as long as the version remains on the service and for a reasonable wind-down period afterwards, to:

1. host your content: store it, copy it, back it up and process it technically (for example validating it, generating thumbnails and caching it);
2. deliver it: transmit and display it to players and run it on the platform's game servers;
3. promote it on RIFTYARD: show its title, summary, screenshots taken from the actual version and your handle in discovery, search, share cards and editorial selections.

This licence does not allow the operator to sell your content, to license it to third parties for unrelated purposes, or to use it off the platform in paid advertising without your further agreement.

We also keep records of removed content where needed to handle complaints, appeals and legal obligations, under the retention policy in the Privacy Policy.

[LEGAL REVIEW] Scope and duration of the licence; the wind-down period; whether the licence should be sub-licensable to infrastructure providers (hosting, CDN); moral rights consents under Australian law; whether using creator content to improve the platform's generation system is permitted (this draft does not grant that).

4. Permissions you give other users

There are four separate permissions. They are deliberately not bundled.

You are asked explicitly about remixing each time you submit a version. Nothing is switched on unless you switch it on.

A remix is only permitted if every dependency of the source permits it, not just the top-level game. A remix always records its ancestor and displays attribution; your original is never modified by someone else's remix.

Changing your mind

You can publish a later version with different permissions, and that will apply to future remixes. It does not rewrite permissions already granted. When someone forks your version, the platform records a snapshot of the permissions in force at that moment, and that snapshot continues to govern their remix.

[LEGAL REVIEW — LICENCE SEMANTICS] This non-retroactive behaviour is a product decision that needs legal confirmation. Questions for counsel are set out in docs/LICENCE_SEMANTICS.md, including: whether a grant should be expressed as irrevocable or as revocable for breach; what happens to grants when you delete your account; and how a rights takedown of the source affects existing remixes.

"Monetise derivatives" and "Export assets" are recorded in the data model, but commercial revenue sharing between original creators and remixers is not implemented and no such payment is promised. Export tooling may not be available in the beta.

5. What you promise

When you submit a version you declare that, to the best of your knowledge:

• you have the rights or permissions needed for everything in the submission, including anything you typed, described or selected;
• the submission does not copy the protected characters, maps, artwork, music, dialogue, logos, names or distinctive interfaces of someone else's game or brand without permission;
• the provenance information recorded for the submission is truthful, including whether it was AI-generated, the origin of any remix, and the source and licence of each asset;
• the content descriptors you selected are accurate;
• the submission complies with the Community Standards and with the law that applies to you;
• you are 18 or over and are entitled to enter this agreement.

The exact statements you affirm, and a hash of their text, are stored with the version.

You are responsible for your own conduct and for what you choose to publish. A prompt that asks for "a game like" a well-known title is a common way to infringe; use your own names, settings and designs.

6. Indemnity

[LEGAL REVIEW — TO BE DRAFTED BY COUNSEL] The intended position, to be drafted and scoped by the operator's lawyer, is:

To the extent enforceable under applicable law, you agree to compensate the operator for losses it reasonably incurs as a result of a third-party claim arising from your breach of section 5, excluding losses to the extent caused or contributed to by the operator.

This draft clause is a placeholder. It must be reviewed for fairness and enforceability, including under the Australian Consumer Law unfair contract terms regime, and should be proportionate, capped or otherwise limited as counsel advises.

To be clear about what this agreement does not do:

• it does not transfer all legal liability to you because you ticked a box;
• it cannot bind a rightsholder or anyone else who has not agreed to it;
• it does not remove any statutory right you have, including non-excludable consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law where they apply;
• it does not give the operator automatic safe-harbour protection or immunity in any country. Whether any such protection exists must be assessed separately for Australia and for the United States.

7. Review, removal and appeals

• Every version is reviewed by a human moderator before it is public. Automated checks may prioritise the queue; they do not make the final decision.
• A version may be rejected, or later suspended, for breaching the Community Standards or following a rights complaint.
• When a version is removed we stop listing it, stop issuing new launch authorisations for it, purge caches we control and, where policy requires, close active rooms. We cannot erase copies that have already been downloaded to a player's device.
• You will be notified of a rejection, suspension or complaint and told how to appeal or, for rights complaints, how to submit a counter-notice.
• Repeated, substantiated infringement may lead to loss of publishing privileges or account termination under the repeat-infringer policy.

8. Operator-generated and promoted content

Seed games published under a platform demo creator account are the operator's own content. Editorial picks are selections made by the operator.

[LEGAL REVIEW] The operator's responsibility for content it generates, curates, features or promotes requires separate analysis. Nothing in this agreement assumes that protections for hosts of third-party content extend to those activities, and the AI generation pipeline itself (operator-run software producing content at a user's request) needs specific advice.

9. Earning money

Creator earnings are governed by the Monetisation Terms. Monetisation is a proposed feature, disabled by default, and nothing in this agreement promises that you will be able to earn money, or how much.

10. Ending this agreement

You may archive a published version at any time; it will stop being listed and launchable. Archiving does not cancel remix permissions already granted (section 4) and does not require us to delete records we must keep.

11. Contact

Legal: [LEGAL CONTACT NOT CONFIGURED]. Rights complaints: [COPYRIGHT CONTACT NOT CONFIGURED].