Contributor Warranty what you affirm when you contribute

Last updated: 2026-05-09 · v1.0 (DRAFT) · this warranty will be reviewed by an IP attorney and ratified by the cooperative as part of governance when the cooperative formalizes

Plain-English summary

When you contribute content to the Devil Brigade — whether you generate it inside the studio, import it from a folder, import a Luma board, or submit it for curation — you are affirming that you have the right to do so. You're saying: the content is yours (or you have all necessary rights to share it), it isn't already locked up under an exclusive license somewhere else that would forbid the cooperative from using it, and you understand that the cooperative may reuse and redistribute it through the shared library per the We Not Me principle.

This document is the warranty you make. Acknowledging it on your Profile records that you've read and understood it. Per-contribution confirmations at specific import / submission points (folder import, board import, curation submit) are coming in a future release for stronger per-asset evidence; the profile-level acknowledgment is the foundation.

What counts as a contribution

"Contribution" means any action that introduces content into the cooperative's shared infrastructure. Today that includes:

• Generating an asset in the studio with a project tag intended for cooperative use.
• Importing a folder of media via the Utilities page (folder import).
• Importing a Luma board via the Utilities page (board import).
• Submitting an asset for curation when the curation flow ships (per the *editorial-house* mission entry).
• Publishing to the cooperative's shared library when the shared-library flow ships (per *We Not Me*).

Content that lives only on your own machine — your private catalog, your local generations not tagged for cooperative use — is not a contribution. The warranty applies to content you actively introduce to cooperative pipelines.

What you warrant when you contribute

By contributing, you represent and warrant that, to the best of your knowledge:

• Authorship or rights. You are the original author of the contributed content, OR you have obtained all necessary rights and licenses to contribute it. This includes rights from any humans depicted, any third-party assets used as inputs (reference images, audio, prompts derived from third-party material), and any models or training data the underlying provider used.
• No conflicting exclusive licenses. You have not granted exclusive rights to the contributed content (or any underlying material it incorporates) to a third party in a way that conflicts with the cooperative's reuse — meaning a record label, a stock library, a brand client, or any other party. Non-exclusive licenses elsewhere are fine; exclusive ones that contradict the cooperative's use are not.
• No known infringement. You are not aware of any third-party claim that the contributed content infringes their copyright, trademark, publicity rights, or any other rights. If you become aware of such a claim later, you'll tell the cooperative promptly.
• Not deceptive or harmful. The contributed content is not intended to defame, harass, or mislead any identifiable person or group. (The Code of Conduct — when drafted — will spell out the broader behavioral expectations; this warranty is the IP-shaped subset.)
• You are old enough. You are at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction (typically 18) and able to enter binding agreements.

What rights you grant the cooperative

By contributing — and only with respect to content you actually contribute, not content that stays on your own machine — you grant the Devil Brigade cooperative a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:

• Display the contribution on cooperative surfaces (the shared library, member directories, the public-facing community page if you've opted in).
• Reuse per the *We Not Me* principle — other members may upcycle your published asset into their own work, with attribution preserved.
• Modify editorially per the editorial-house framing — a cooperative curator may, with your acknowledgment, run your contribution through image-edit / video-edit pipelines to bring close-but- not-perfect work across the bar. Modified versions enter the shared library with co-attribution; the original is preserved in your catalog.
• Show in cooperative marketing (the brigade's YouTube channel, the community page, recruitment materials) only if you have separately opted in to the marketing category in your communication preferences. Default-off marketing means: contribution does not equal consent to be marketed.

The license is non-exclusive — you keep all your rights to your own work. You may license the same content to anyone else under any terms. The cooperative does not become an exclusive home for your work just because you contributed it.

What rights you keep

• Ownership. You retain ownership of the contributed content. The cooperative gains a license, not the asset.
• Attribution. Your authorship is recorded permanently in the cooperative's catalog and surfaced on every public render of the asset (including modified versions, where you remain the *original author* and the modifying curator is also credited).
• Withdrawal. You may rescind a future contribution at any time before it has been used by another member. Once another member has upcycled your asset into their own work, the rescission applies to *new* uses but does not retroactively unwind the existing derivative — that would be unfair to the upcycling member.
• Account deletion. Per the Privacy Notice, you can request full member-record deletion at any time. Contributed assets that other members have already upcycled remain in circulation under the licenses already granted, but your identifying member record is removed.

Indemnification (limited)

If a third party makes a claim against the cooperative arising out of your specific contribution — for instance, claiming that you didn't actually have the rights you warranted you did — you agree to defend and indemnify the cooperative against that claim, up to the value of fees and damages directly attributable to your contribution.

This is standard contributor-warranty language. It exists because if a member contributes content they didn't actually own, the cooperative shouldn't bear the cost alone of defending against the resulting claim. The exact scope and any caps on liability will be tightened by counsel before this document comes off draft.

If you can't make these warranties

Don't contribute that asset. Specifically:

• If a piece of work was produced as work-for-hire and the rights belong to a client, leave it in your private catalog and don't tag it for cooperative use.
• If you signed an exclusive license with a record label, a music publisher, a stock library, or any other party that would conflict with the cooperative's reuse, don't contribute the affected work.
• If you're uncertain about the rights — for instance you used reference images you didn't fully clear, or the underlying generative model has unresolved training-data claims — pause and check before contributing. The cooperative would rather have less work, contributed cleanly, than more work, contributed riskily.

About this warranty

Version 1.0. This is a working document drafted while the cooperative is N=1. When the cooperative formalizes its legal structure, this warranty will be reviewed and ratified through governance, with substantive changes notified to members in advance. The current version is intentionally conservative — we describe what is true today and what we'd want even after attorney review, not what we might do in the future.

The cooperative's strength is the trust members place in each other. This warranty is the operational form of that trust — what each member affirms before their work joins the brigade's collective output. Honest warranties protect everyone.