Ivide creator agreement

This document is being finalised.

This is written in plain language on purpose. If a clause here turns out to need lawyer's phrasing, that rewrite happens before this stops being a draft — the meaning should not change underneath a creator who already accepted it without a new version and a new acceptance.

1. What you're agreeing to

You're about to publish a world you built in World Studio (or a character, in the character builder). This agreement covers anything you publish, remix, or otherwise make visible to other people on Ivide, from today onward. It doesn't cover worlds you keep private/draft — those are yours to tinker with, unpublished, without any of this applying yet.

2. What you can use

• Registry assets (props, terrain kits, sky and weather sets, music and sound packs Ivide ships in World Studio) are free to use in anything you publish. You don't owe Ivide anything extra for using them, and you don't need separate permission per asset.
• Your own material — art, text, names, music you made or that you hold the rights to — is yours; you're only granting Ivide the licence in §4 to host and show it.

3. What you can't do

• No trademarked places. Don't build a recreation of a branded venue, store, resort or attraction that isn't yours to represent, and don't name your world after one.
• No trademarked brands or logos. Don't put a real company's branding into a world unless you are that company or have their written permission.
• No real people's likeness without permission. Don't build a character or a world around a real, named person (celebrity or private individual) without that person's consent.
• No other creator's world, or a substantial copy of one, without that creator's permission — see the remix licence below for the one case where copying part of a world is fine.
• Nothing that breaks the community rules (/legal/community-rules) just because it's dressed up as a place instead of a message — a world is still content, and the same lines apply.

Breaking any of these gets your world taken down (see §6) and, on a pattern of it, your creator status suspended or removed.

4. The licence you're giving Ivide

By publishing, you give Ivide a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, display, and serve your world (and its card image, name, and description) to other players, for as long as it stays published, so the platform can actually show it to people. You keep ownership of what you made. Un-publishing or deleting your world ends this licence for new copies going forward; it does not un-send anything already served to a player's device in that session.

5. The remix licence

Marking a world remixable (a setting you choose, off by default) lets another creator copy it as a starting point for their own build, with automatic credit back to you and a link to your original on the remix's world page. A remix stays subject to §3 like any other world — trademarks, likeness, and other creators' unlicensed material don't become allowed just because they arrived through a remix. Turning remixable off stops new remixes; worlds already remixed from yours keep their existing credit.

6. The OpenStreetMap credit

Some world templates start from real street layouts imported from OpenStreetMap. Where that's true, the world's page carries OpenStreetMap's attribution, exactly as OSM's own licence requires. Removing that credit from a world built on imported OSM data is a §3 violation on its own, independent of anything else about the world.

7. Takedowns

Anyone can tell us a published world infringes their trademark, uses their likeness without permission, or copies their world without permission, through the public form at /legal/takedown. What happens next:

1. Unlisted, pending review. A claim that names a real world unlists it immediately — it stops appearing to other players while a moderator looks at it. This is not a verdict; it's a pause.
2. You can file a counter-notice. If you believe the claim is wrong, you can say so. Filing a counter- notice starts a restoration window (the platform's current setting; ask staff if you need the exact number of days). If the claimant doesn't escalate before that window ends, your world is restored automatically.
3. Escalation. If the claimant does escalate within the window, or a moderator finds the claim clearly valid before then, the takedown stands and the world stays down (or comes down permanently) at staff's decision.
4. Abuse is watched both ways. Filing takedowns you know to be false is itself a violation; filing enough of them in a single day flags the account or contact address for a human review of the pattern, the same way a flood of low-quality reports would. This never blocks a first, ordinary claim.

Every takedown, counter-notice, and outcome is logged and counted (never with anyone's personal browsing or position data attached — a takedown row identifies the claim, not the claimant's other activity) toward Ivide's public transparency numbers.

8. Changes to this agreement

This agreement is versioned. A new version needs a fresh acceptance before your next publish; it never silently applies to something you already agreed to under an older version.

9. World tokens and station content

Tokens and unlocks inside a world you build have no cash value and can never be bought, sold, converted to money, or redeemed outside that world — see the community rules' "no money" rule, which applies here without exception. Draw-and-guess words, quiz answers, and other station content you add to your world go through the same review as any text you write (§3); a station's shared canvases are never stored by the platform.

10. Sign-off

This is the final draft text. It is not in force for any creator until both rows below are filled and the version above this document's history is bumped in configuration (never in this file) with a fresh consent collected from every creator who published under an earlier version.