Community Movie Idea Submissions
When You Submit an Idea, You Give Us the Rights to Do Whatever We Want With It
When you submit an Idea you give RepX Inc, doing business as Community Movie ("Community Movie", "us"), the irrevocable, unlimited, royalty-free, perpetual worldwide rights and all appropriate licenses to use that Idea however we want for as long as we want.
We hope to use it to build a movie, but there's no guarantee and most Ideas will not become movies.
When you submit an Idea, you agree that it may (without limitation) be displayed, voted on, used for promotional purposes, and/or used as the inspiration or basis for a Project.
The sole restriction or limitation on our use of your Idea is:
- We will not sell your Idea verbatim to someone else.
Other than that, there are absolutely no restrictions on how we can use Ideas, and you grant us all irrevocable, unlimited, royalty-free, perpetual worldwide licenses necessary to use Ideas you submit in any and all ways we deem appropriate (in our sole discretion).
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit your idea for readability. This includes, without limitation, fixing grammatical errors and spelling, punctuation, and capitalization mistakes; we'll try to avoid altering the substance in doing so but can't guarantee that we won't - you understand and agree to that, and waive any and all claims arising from our modification of your idea.
We may also, in our sole discretion, flag your idea and remove it from voting until you modify it according to our request(s). We seriously do NOT want to spend time flagging or editing submitted ideas: please take the extra minute to make sure your idea is decently written. If you need help, ask a friend or email us.
You Can Still Use Your Idea
When you submit an Idea to Community Movie, you grant us irrevocable, unlimited, royalty-free, perpetual worldwide rights to use the Idea - but not exclusive rights. You remain free to use the Idea yourself, and/or to sell it to third parties (always subject to our rights to use it and the rest of this Agreement).
You Agree to Never Sue Us Over Ideas or Our Use/Non-Use of Ideas
You waive any and all claims against us arising from your submission of an Idea and/or our subsequent use (or non-use) of that Idea. You waive any and all claims against us, now or in the future, including copyright claims, arising from any actual or alleged similarity between your Idea and another contributor's Idea. You also waive any and all claims against us, now or in the future, including copyright claims, arising from Ideas submitted by other contributors (or our use/non-use of those Ideas).
You agree that you are not entitled to any compensation in any form for your Ideas from Community Movie. You agree to not assert legal ownership in Ideas. If you sue us in violation of these terms, you agree to pay our attorney's fees and costs (plus we'll be really sad, so you agree to go out for cake with us after to patch things up - cake's on us).
You Will Get NO Money for Submitting Ideas, and You're Cool With That
We don't pay for Ideas, ever. Period.
You understand our position that we do not pay for Ideas because (a) Ideas are not legally protected (only the specific, identifiable embodiments of them get copyright protection) and (b) attempting to give credit and/or payment for Ideas would render CM literally unmanageable. You agree with our position on not paying for Ideas, and you agree to not assert any claims for compensation in any form relating to your Ideas. CM's existence is dependent upon your not suing over mere Ideas; you understand and agree, and further agree that you will not expect or demand compensation, in any form, from Community Movie for your submitted Ideas.
In short, if you believe that your Idea is worth money and you want to get paid for it, DO NOT submit your Idea to Community Movie because you will not be compensated for it under any circumstances.
Only submit your Ideas to Community Movie if your sole objective is to participate in the creative process, without any desire for or expectation of compensation in any form. You represent and warrant that your sole objective in submitting Ideas is to participate in the creative process.
You Agree to Not Steal Other People's Stuff
You may only submit Ideas that are your original creative works. You agree to not submit Ideas that belong to other people/businesses or to use someone else's copyrighted material in any form. You represent and warrant that you have full legal rights to all Ideas you submit to Community Movie.
This means, for example, that you can't submit an Idea about the Marvel character Wolverine - but you can submit an Idea about a man who has badass retractable claws. See our CM FAQs for more examples and information.
You represent and warrant that you understand the difference between "Wolverine the Marvel character" and "man with badass retractable claws."
If Someone Literally Steals Your Idea, We've Got Your Back
Our system tracks when Ideas are saved and submitted, as well as when Ideas are displayed during voting. If someone else literally steals your idea verbatim, we'll remove it from Community Movie. But it has to be literally verbatim (or so close that there is zero doubt in anyone's mind that it was stolen) - for the same reason you can make a movie about a man with badass retractable claws, someone else can submit ideas that may seem extremely similar to your own Ideas.
In fact, it's incredibly likely that someone else's Idea will be similar to one of your Ideas; in turn, one of your Ideas is likely to be similar to yet another person's Idea.
Your best protection is to write your Idea better than anyone else writes it, and promote it to your friends to move up in the rankings.
This Covers the Idea Stage Only; Projects Have Separate Terms and Conditions
You understand and agree that this Agreement covers only the Idea Stage of Community Movie; if you want to participate in the Project Stage, you will have to read, understand, and agree to separate terms.
We do give credit and ownership to contributors who contribute content that is included in the final product(s) (e.g., a completed treatment or screenplay) of a Project. You will not get credit or compensation because your Idea is the inspiration and/or basis for a Project (and you agree with that), but if you contribute content during the Project Stage you will get credit for that contributed content separately under the terms and conditions of the Project.
This Idea stage is simple:
- only submit Ideas that are yours;
- once you submit them you agree that we can use (or not use) them however we want for as long as we want; and
- you agree that we don't owe you anything, ever, for your Ideas under any circumstances and you promise to not sue us claiming otherwise.
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Definitions and Miscellaneous Terms
- "You" means you. If you represent another individual, company, or legal entity, "you" refers to the represented individual/company/entity as well.
- "Ideas" are original content that you submit as Ideas to Community Movie.
- "Projects" mean Ideas that have advanced into further development, first through treatment and then through screenplay. Completed Projects are eligible for funding to become Community Movies.
- "Contributor" means a user who submits original content to Community Movie at any stage.
- "Community Movie," "CM," "we," and "us" mean Community Movie, a division of RepX Inc. "Community Movie" also may refer to the resulting product of the Community Movie process.
- "In our sole discretion" means that we alone, with NO limits except those explicitly stated in this agreement or existing in applicable law, get to make the relevant decision on the specified issue. Sometimes we may use that interchangeably with the phrase "in our sole and absolute discretion" - the result is the same: we are the Decider.
You can't revoke submitted Ideas.
We allow you to save Ideas without submitting them. You agree that if an Idea is inadvertently submitted (e.g., you mistakenly submit the Idea, or there's a bug in the system), all of these terms apply as if you had intentionally submitted the Idea.
Don't Accept this Agreement or Use Community Movie if You Don't Understand and Agree to These Terms
If you don't understand anything in this Agreement, do NOT agree to it and do NOT submit your Ideas to Community Movie.
You can contact us if you have questions or want to discuss this (we're friendly) but we cannot and will not provide you with legal advice.
Only accept this Agreement if you fully understand and agree to all of its terms. If you somehow manage to submit an Idea or otherwise contribute content without first signing this Agreement, please note that use of the Craav site to submit Ideas to Community Movie constitutes acceptance of this Agreement in full.
This Agreement incorporates the terms of the Craav User Agreement (if there's any conflict, the terms of this Agreement prevail to the extent of the conflict).