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Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Motionscript LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company ("Motionscript", "we", "us"), of 82 Wendell Ave., STE 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201, USA.

They cover the Motionscript desktop app, the web app at app.motionscript.dev, the website at motionscript.dev and its online tools, and the services behind them (together, the "Service").

Please read section 18 carefully. It requires most disputes between you and us to be resolved by individual binding arbitration instead of in court, and it waives class actions and jury trials. You can opt out within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, as section 18.8 explains.

1. Accepting these Terms

You accept these Terms when you create an account, check the box at sign-up, install the desktop app, or otherwise use the Service. These Terms include the following, which are part of the agreement:

• the Billing & Refund Policy
• Appendix A, the Acceptable Use Policy
• Appendix B, the Copyright and DMCA Policy
• Appendix C, the Templates, Assets and Outputs License
• Appendix D, the Desktop App License Agreement, for the installed desktop app
• the Data Processing Agreement, when you use the Service for a business or organization and we process personal data on your behalf

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. If you don't agree to these Terms, don't use the Service.

2. Who can use Motionscript

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms for you and is responsible for your use of the Service. Only an adult may buy a paid plan.

You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under the laws of the United States or any other applicable country. That includes being on a U.S. government sanctions or restricted-party list, or being located in a country subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions.

The Service is operated from the United States. Paid plans aren't currently offered to customers with a billing address in the European Union or the United Kingdom.

The beta. Motionscript is in an invite-only beta. While the beta runs:

• Access is by invitation. You need an invitation to use the web app or a cloud workspace. We decide who to invite and when, and we may limit the number of people or workspaces in the beta.
• Nothing is charged. Plans described on the pricing page are the ones we intend to sell after the beta, and section 9 applies to you only once you choose a paid plan after billing starts. We'll tell you before it does.
• Expect rough edges. Beta features, including the Windows app, may change, break or be removed, and the disclaimers in section 17 apply in full. The Windows app's beta builds may not be code-signed yet, so Windows may warn you before running them. Keep your own copies of work that matters.
• We may end it. We may end the beta, or your participation in it, at any time. If we close a cloud workspace you made during the beta, we'll give you a reasonable chance to download its content first, unless a security or legal problem prevents it.

Joining the waitlist doesn't create an account or accept these Terms; the Privacy Policy covers what we keep about it.

3. Your account

You need an account to use the web app or a cloud workspace. The desktop app works without an account in a local workspace (see section 5).

When you create an account:

• Give accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Keep your password secret. We strongly recommend turning on two-factor authentication in Settings → Security.
• An account is for one person. Don't share your sign-in with anyone. To work with others, invite them to a Business workspace (section 4).

You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has accessed it, tell us right away at security@motionscript.dev.

4. Workspaces, plans and members

Your work in Motionscript lives in workspaces. Each workspace has one owner, a name and its own plan:

• Free and Professional workspaces are for one person.
• Business workspaces are for organizations, such as a team, company or school. The owner can invite members, who use paid seats as described in the Billing & Refund Policy.

When you create an account in the web app, we create one Free cloud workspace for you. You can own one Free workspace at a time; for more, upgrade one to a paid plan. You can delete any workspace you own, including your first one.

Authority. If you create a Business workspace, subscribe for one, or accept these Terms on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to bind that organization to these Terms. "You" then includes the organization. If you aren't authorized, you are personally bound by these Terms.

Who owns content in a shared workspace. Content created or uploaded in a Business workspace belongs to the organization the workspace is for (or to its licensors), not to the member who made it, unless the organization has agreed otherwise with its members. When a member leaves or is removed, their contributions stay in the workspace.

Who controls a workspace. A workspace's owner and admins decide:

• who is a member, and with which role;
• who can see and edit the workspace;
• what is exported or deleted.

Only the owner manages billing and can delete the workspace. We may act on the owner's and admins' instructions about the workspace's content and its members' access to it. We aren't responsible to individual members for those decisions.

What members share. When you join someone else's workspace, its owner and admins can see:

• your name and email address;
• your role;
• whether you've turned on two-factor authentication;
• your activity and contributions in that workspace.

Workspaces you own are separate and stay yours.

Billing. Each workspace has its own plan and is billed separately. Its owner is responsible for its subscription and seats.

Changing owners and deleting a workspace.

• The owner can transfer ownership to another member.
• You can't delete your account while you own a workspace that has other members. Transfer ownership or delete the workspace first.
• When a workspace is deleted:
  • we cancel its subscription and tell its members;
  • the owner can restore it for 30 days;
  • after that, its content is permanently deleted, as described in the Privacy Policy.

Personal data. When a business or organization uses the Service, the Data Processing Agreement applies to personal data in its workspaces. It is responsible for having a lawful basis to put that data there.

5. Cloud workspaces and local workspaces

A local workspace is a folder on your own computer, used through the desktop app. We don't host it, back it up or have access to its contents, except when you choose to send something from it to the Service. For example, you might ask the Motionscript assistant about a scene (see section 7 and the Privacy Policy). You are responsible for backing up local workspaces.

A cloud workspace is stored on our servers through our hosting providers. You and the people you share it with can reach it from the web app and the desktop app.

The desktop app can move work between the two:

• Downloading a cloud workspace as a local workspace makes a copy on your computer. The cloud copy stays until you delete it.
• Uploading a local workspace to the cloud copies it into the Service. Plan limits and these Terms apply to the uploaded copy.

6. Your content

What it covers. "Your content" means everything you create, upload, import or store with the Service. That includes:

• projects, scenes, nodes, commands and custom code, such as custom node modules and shaders;
• images, video, audio and fonts;
• messages to the assistant;
• the files you export.

You own your content. As between you and us, you (or the organization a workspace is for, or your licensors) own your content. We claim no ownership of it.

The license you give us. You grant Motionscript a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to do the following with your content:

• host, store, copy and back it up;
• process, transmit, render and transcode it;
• display it to you and to the people you share a workspace with;
• create the derived files a feature produces at your request, such as thumbnails, previews and renders.

The license is only for operating, securing and supporting the Service for you, and for complying with the law. Our service providers may do these things on our behalf. The license ends when your content is deleted from the Service, except for copies kept in backups until they expire and anything we must keep by law.

What we don't do with your content.

• We don't use it to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.
• We don't sell it.
• We don't publish it or display it publicly.

We don't look at your content except as needed to:

• provide a feature you used;
• answer a support request you send us (with your permission);
• investigate abuse, security or legal issues;
• comply with the law.

Your responsibilities. You must have the rights you need for everything you put into Motionscript. That includes music, footage, fonts, images, the likeness and voice of people who appear in your work, and trademarks. You are responsible for your content, for your exports, and for how and where you publish them, including the rules of the platforms you publish on.

Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.

7. AI features

The Motionscript assistant. The assistant is a chat that can read and edit your project. It runs through our servers on a third-party AI model provider (currently Anthropic) and uses your plan's AI credits. It works in cloud and local workspaces. When you use it, your messages and the project information it needs are sent to that provider: scene data, canvas screenshots and any attachments.

Your own AI tools. In the desktop app, you can connect Motionscript to an AI tool installed on your computer, such as Claude Code, using your own account with that tool's provider.

• That connection runs between your computer and the provider, under your agreement with them.
• It doesn't use our credits, and we never receive your credentials for it.
• We aren't responsible for that tool, its output or its charges.

Outputs. As between you and us, you own what AI features produce for you, to the extent the law allows. Some outputs may not be protected by copyright, and other users may receive similar outputs.

Outputs can be wrong, incomplete or unexpected. Review outputs before you rely on them or publish them.

Rules. The Acceptable Use Policy applies to AI features. That includes our assistant provider's usage policy, which it passes on.

No training. Neither we nor our AI service providers use your content, your messages or your outputs to train models.

Credits. AI features use credits from your plan's allowance. Credits have no cash value and can't be transferred or sold. The Billing & Refund Policy explains how they work.

8. Templates, assets and exports

You may use what you export for any lawful purpose, including commercial work, on every plan, including Free. We don't add a watermark.

The templates, modules, shaders, fonts and other material built into Motionscript are covered by the Templates, Assets & Outputs License. You may use them in your projects and exports, but you may not resell or redistribute them as templates or asset packs.

9. Plans, payment and renewal

Motionscript has a Free plan and paid plans. Prices are shown on the pricing page and at checkout, in U.S. dollars. Applicable taxes are added on top.

Your subscription renews automatically. At the end of each billing period, monthly or annual as you chose, it renews and we charge your payment method the then-current price plus tax, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in Settings → Billing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep your paid features until then. For annual plans, we email you a reminder before each renewal.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Your card details go directly to Stripe and never reach our servers.

Except where the law requires otherwise, payments aren't refundable. We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice. A new price applies from your next renewal, and you can cancel before then.

If a payment fails, we retry it and let you know. If it still can't be collected, your workspace moves to the Free plan (section 10).

The Billing & Refund Policy has the details on proration, seats, credits and failed payments.

10. Limits, fair use and read-only content

Every plan has limits, including:

• how many projects and videos you can have;
• storage;
• how much you can download from the Service;
• AI credits;
• how quickly requests may be made.

"Unlimited" on a plan describes how much you may have, never how fast you may ask for it.

Don't try to get around these limits. That means no automation the Service wasn't designed for, and no extra accounts to avoid a cap.

If a workspace has more than its plan allows, for example after a paid plan ends, the content over the limit becomes read-only. You can still view it, export it and delete it, but you can't edit it or add more until you upgrade or bring the workspace back within its limits. We don't delete content because it is over a limit.

11. The desktop app

The installed desktop app is licensed to you under the Desktop App License Agreement as well as these Terms. If the two conflict about the installed software, the License Agreement controls. For the hosted Service, these Terms control.

The desktop app installs updates automatically. When a project needs it, the app also downloads other versions of the Motionscript engine from the npm registry, which come with their own licenses.

12. Custom code and third-party material

Motionscript can run custom nodes and code that you or someone else wrote. That code runs with the app's access to your workspace. We don't review, endorse or support code you didn't get from us, and we aren't responsible for what it does. Only use code from sources you trust.

Third-party services you use with Motionscript are governed by their own terms. Examples are your AI tool provider, Stripe, and the platforms you publish to.

13. Acceptable use

You must follow the Acceptable Use Policy. In short, don't use the Service to:

• break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
• exploit or sexualize minors;
• harass people;
• make deceptive media of real people;
• spread malware;
• attack our systems or anyone else's.

We may remove content, limit features, or suspend or end accounts that break that policy.

14. Copyright complaints

We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as described in our Copyright & DMCA Policy. We end the accounts of repeat infringers.

15. Ending the agreement and deleting your account

You can stop at any time. Cancel your plan in Settings → Billing, or delete your account in Settings → Security.

What happens when you delete your account.

1. We deactivate it immediately. You are signed out everywhere, any paid subscription for a workspace you own alone is canceled, and you are removed from workspaces you belong to but don't own.
2. For 30 days, you can restore the account by signing in again. Restoring it doesn't bring back canceled subscriptions or workspace memberships.
3. After 30 days, we permanently delete your account and the workspaces you owned alone. Copies in backups expire on the schedule in the Privacy Policy.

Export first. Use the export and download options in the app before deleting anything you want to keep. Once content is permanently deleted, we can't get it back.

Local workspaces aren't affected. They stay on your computer, and the desktop app keeps working with them without an account.

When we can suspend or end your access. We may suspend or end your access to the Service, with notice where reasonable:

• if you materially breach these Terms;
• if the law requires it;
• to prevent harm to others or to the Service;
• if we discontinue the Service.

Unless the law or the nature of the breach prevents it, we'll give you a chance to export your content first. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we'll give at least 60 days' notice and refund any prepaid fees for the unused period.

Sections 6 (ownership and feedback), 16, 17, 18 and 20 survive the end of this agreement.

16. Our intellectual property and open source

The Service and the software, other than your content and third-party components, belong to Motionscript or its licensors. "Motionscript" and our logo are our trademarks. You may use them to refer to our product, but not in a way that suggests we endorse you.

The Motionscript SDK is open source. The SDK (the rendering engine and its component kits) is available under the Apache License 2.0, and its CanvasKit build is under the BSD 3-Clause License. Your use of the SDK on its own is governed by those licenses, not these Terms. The Motionscript web and desktop apps aren't open source.

The apps include open-source components, listed in Settings → Legal → Open-source licenses and in the THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES file shipped with the apps. Where a component's license gives you more rights than these Terms, that license governs that component.

17. Disclaimers, limits on liability and indemnity

17.1 Disclaimers. To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. That includes any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We don't promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that it will never lose data. Keep your own backups of work that matters.

17.2 Limitation of liability. To the fullest extent the law allows:

• Neither party is liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, however caused, even if it was advised they were possible.
• Our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US$100.

These limits don't apply to liability that can't be limited by law, including liability for fraud or for gross negligence or willful misconduct. Some states don't allow certain limitations, so some of them may not apply to you.

17.3 Indemnity. To the extent the law allows, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Motionscript and its members, managers, employees and agents against third-party claims, and the resulting losses and reasonable legal fees, that arise from:

• your content;
• your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or the law;
• your infringement of anyone's rights.

We will tell you promptly about any such claim and may take part in the defense with counsel of our choice.

18. Dispute resolution and arbitration

18.1 Try to resolve it informally first. Before starting arbitration or a court case, the party with the dispute must send the other a written notice:

• If you have the dispute: email legal@motionscript.dev, or write to the postal address in section 21.
• If we have the dispute: we email the address on your account.

The notice must include the sender's name, the email address of the account, a description of the dispute, and the relief wanted. Both parties will then try in good faith to resolve it for 60 days. Any time limit for bringing the claim is paused during those 60 days.

18.2 Agreement to arbitrate. Except as section 18.3 says, you and Motionscript agree to resolve any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service ("Dispute") by final and binding individual arbitration, not in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section 18. The arbitrator decides all questions about the scope and enforceability of this agreement to arbitrate, except that a court decides the questions in section 18.6.

18.3 Exceptions. Either party may:

• bring an individual claim in small claims court, if it qualifies and stays there;
• ask a court for an injunction to stop the infringement or misuse of intellectual property, or unauthorized access to or abuse of the Service.

18.4 Rules and fees. The arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under:

• its Consumer Arbitration Rules, if you use the Service as an individual for personal purposes;
• otherwise, its Commercial Arbitration Rules;
• in either case, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules when they apply.

The rules are available at adr.org. Filing, administration and arbitrator fees are paid as the AAA rules provide.

In a consumer arbitration, we pay all fees beyond your filing fee. If you show that arbitration costs would be prohibitive compared with going to court, we will pay as much of your filing fee as the arbitrator finds necessary.

18.5 How the arbitration works.

• Where. Hearings take place by video or phone, or in the county where you live. Claims under US$10,000 are decided on written submissions unless a party asks for a hearing.
• What the arbitrator can do. The arbitrator can award the same individual relief a court could, but only to the individual party bringing the claim and only as far as needed for that party's own claim.
• The decision. The arbitrator issues a written decision, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

18.6 No class actions and no jury. You and Motionscript may bring claims against each other only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate different parties' claims or award relief to anyone other than the individual parties.

If a court finds this section 18.6 unenforceable as to a particular claim or remedy, then:

• that claim or remedy (and only that one) proceeds in court;
• the court case is paused until the individual arbitration is finished.

You and Motionscript both waive any right to a jury trial.

18.7 Mass filings. If 25 or more similar Disputes are filed against us, or by us, by the same or coordinated counsel:

• the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply;
• the Disputes will be administered in batches of up to 100 Disputes, each batch assigned to one arbitrator;
• administrative and arbitrator fees are charged per batch, to the extent the AAA's rules permit.

Time limits for bringing Disputes that are waiting for their batch are paused while they wait. Nothing in this section stops a party from settling any individual Dispute at any time.

18.8 Your right to opt out. You can opt out of this agreement to arbitrate by emailing legal@motionscript.dev, from the email address on your account, within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Include:

• your name;
• the email address on your account;
• a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration.

Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these Terms. If you opt out, or if this section 18 doesn't apply to a Dispute, the Dispute is decided in court under section 18.10.

18.9 Changes to this section. If we change this section 18:

• the change doesn't apply to a Dispute we had notice of before the change took effect;
• you may reject a material change by emailing legal@motionscript.dev within 30 days after it takes effect. If you do, the earlier version of this section 18 continues to apply to you.

18.10 Governing law and courts. These Terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to section 18. Any Dispute that isn't arbitrated will be heard only in the state courts located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, or the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and you and we consent to those courts' jurisdiction.

18.11 Your local law. If you live outside the United States and the law where you live gives you a right that can't be waived to bring a claim in your local courts or under your local law, nothing in these Terms takes that right away.

19. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

We may change, add or remove features. We'll give reasonable notice before removing a significant feature you pay for, unless a security or legal problem prevents it. Features marked beta, preview or experimental may change or disappear without notice and come without any warranty.

We may update these Terms. The version and effective date are shown at the top of this page.

• Material changes. We tell account holders by email and in the app at least 30 days before the change takes effect, and ask you to accept the updated Terms the next time you sign in. If you don't agree to the change, cancel your plan and stop using the Service before it takes effect.
• Other changes. Changes that aren't material, such as clarifications, take effect when they are posted. So do changes we must make for legal reasons and changes for new features.

20. General terms

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the policies they include, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. They replace anything said about it before. If you and we have signed a separate written agreement for the Service, it controls where it conflicts with these Terms.
• Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, or to an affiliate.
• Severability and waiver. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, except as section 18.6 provides. If we don't enforce a right, we haven't waived it.
• Events outside our control. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms don't give anyone else any rights.
• Notices.
  • From us: we may send notices to the email address on your account or show them in the app.
  • From you: send legal notices to legal@motionscript.dev, with a copy by mail to the address in section 21.
  • You agree to receive communications from us electronically.
• Translations. If we provide these Terms in another language, the English version controls if there is any conflict.

21. Contact

Motionscript LLC 82 Wendell Ave., STE 100 Pittsfield, MA 01201 USA

• Legal questions and notices, privacy requests and copyright notices: legal@motionscript.dev
• Help with your account: support@motionscript.dev
• Billing: billing@motionscript.dev
• Security reports: security@motionscript.dev

Appendix A: Acceptable Use Policy

This appendix is part of these Terms. It applies to everything you do with Motionscript: what you upload and create, what you export, how you use AI features, and how you use our systems. It also applies to everyone you let into your workspaces.

Illegal and harmful content

Don't use Motionscript to create, store or share:

• Child sexual abuse material, or any content that sexualizes minors. We report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and close the accounts involved.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery, real or synthetic, including "nudified" or sexualized edits of real people.
• Content that threatens, harasses, bullies or intimidates people, or that promotes violence against them or against groups based on protected characteristics.
• Content that promotes terrorism or violent extremism, or glorifies mass violence.
• Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. That includes music, footage and fonts you don't have a license for.
• Anything else that is illegal where you are or where you publish it.

Deepfakes, impersonation and deception

Motionscript makes realistic motion graphics and video. Use it honestly.

• Don't misrepresent real people. Don't make media that falsely shows a real, identifiable person saying or doing something they didn't, in a way meant to deceive, without that person's consent.
• Don't impersonate. Don't pose as another person, brand or organization, or suggest an endorsement or affiliation that doesn't exist.
• Don't deceive voters. Don't make deceptive content about elections, voting or candidates.
• Don't defraud. Don't create fake evidence, documents or news meant to defraud, defame or manipulate people.
• Disclose what's realistic. Where the law or a platform requires disclosure that realistic content was digitally altered or AI-generated, make that disclosure.

Parody, satire, commentary and clearly fictional work are fine when a reasonable viewer wouldn't be misled.

AI features

When you use AI features, these rules apply in addition to the rest of this policy.

The Motionscript assistant runs on Anthropic's models. When you use it, you must also follow Anthropic's Usage Policy.

Your own AI tool. If you connect your own AI tool to the desktop app, its provider's terms and policies apply to that use as well.

Protecting the Service

Don't:

• access, or try to access, workspaces, accounts or files that aren't yours;
• probe, scan or test the security of our systems except as allowed by the vulnerability disclosure program on our Security page;
• upload malware, or use Motionscript to distribute it;
• overload or disrupt the Service, or get around rate limits, plan limits or other technical restrictions;
• use bots, scrapers or other automation in ways the Service wasn't designed for;
• share an account between people, resell access or AI credits, or create accounts to avoid limits or enforcement;
• copy, frame or mirror the Service, or use it to build a competing product;
• send spam through any Motionscript feature, including invitations.

Enforcement

If we find or are told about something that breaks this policy, we may:

• remove or disable the content;
• limit features;
• suspend or close the account;
• report it to law enforcement where appropriate.

We decide based on how serious the violation is, whether it was deliberate, and its history. Where we can, we'll tell you what happened and give you a chance to respond. In an organization, we may tell its owner and admins about violations in their workspaces.

Reporting a problem

• Content or behavior that breaks this policy: legal@motionscript.dev.
• Copyright infringement: follow the Copyright & DMCA Policy.
• Security vulnerabilities: security@motionscript.dev.

Appendix B: Copyright and DMCA Policy

Motionscript LLC respects intellectual property rights and expects its users to do the same. We respond to notices of claimed infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512. This appendix is part of these Terms.

Content in Motionscript workspaces is private to the people who share each workspace. We don't host public pages or a public gallery. Notices about stored content are still handled under this policy.

Our designated agent

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent Motionscript LLC 82 Wendell Ave., STE 100 Pittsfield, MA 01201 USA legal@motionscript.dev (put "DMCA notice" in the subject line)

For help with your account, use support@motionscript.dev instead.

Reporting infringement

Your notice must include:

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act for them;
2. identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed, or a representative list if there are several;
3. identification of the material you claim is infringing, and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, such as the workspace, project or file name, or a link;
4. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We may forward your notice, including your contact details, to the user who provided the material.

What happens next

When we receive a valid notice, we:

1. remove or disable access to the material;
2. tell the user who provided it, and send them a copy of the notice;
3. record a strike against that user's account (see "Repeat infringers" below).

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notification to our designated agent. It must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal;
3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address and telephone number;
5. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is, or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Motionscript may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

When we receive a valid counter-notification, we forward it to the person who sent the original notice. We restore the material in 10 to 14 business days after receiving the counter-notification, unless that person tells us they've filed a court action to stop the infringement.

Repeat infringers

Each valid notice that leads to removal counts as a strike against the account that provided the material.

• Three strikes in any 12 months and we close the account.
• A successful counter-notification, or a notice that was withdrawn, removes its strike.
• In organizations, strikes count against the member who provided the material, and we may tell the organization's owner and admins.

We may also close an account after fewer strikes when the infringement is flagrant.

Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notification may be liable for damages. If you aren't sure whether material infringes your rights, consider talking to a lawyer first.

Trademarks and other complaints

For trademark complaints and other intellectual-property concerns that aren't about copyright, email legal@motionscript.dev with the details.

Appendix C: Templates, Assets and Outputs License

This appendix is part of these Terms. It explains what you may do with the videos and images you make in Motionscript, and with the material built into it.

The short version

• Your exports are yours to use, for anything lawful, on every plan including Free: client work, monetized YouTube and social channels, ads, courses, broadcast and products. No watermark, no attribution required.
• Built-in templates and assets may be used in your own projects and exports, but not resold or redistributed as templates or asset packs.
• Material you bring in is your responsibility. Make sure you have the rights to it.

1. Your exports

Videos, images, audio and other files you export from Motionscript are your content under these Terms. You may use them for any lawful purpose, including commercial ones, in any medium, worldwide, forever, without paying us anything more and without crediting Motionscript. That includes exports that contain built-in templates, modules, shaders, fonts and other Motionscript Content (section 2) as part of your work.

Plan changes and cancelling don't affect your rights to anything you've already exported.

2. Motionscript Content

"Motionscript Content" means the material we make available inside Motionscript:

• built-in templates and presets;
• modules, nodes and components;
• shaders, effects, color grades and easing curves;
• icons and example scenes.

What you may do. We grant you a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use, modify and combine Motionscript Content in your own projects, and to distribute it as part of your exports. You may share projects that use Motionscript Content with your clients and collaborators.

What you may not do. You may not:

• sell, license, give away or otherwise distribute Motionscript Content on its own, or as templates, presets, asset packs or project files whose main value is the Motionscript Content rather than your own work;
• offer Motionscript Content in a template or asset marketplace, or use it to build a competing product or library;
• use Motionscript Content as a logo, trademark or other identifier for yourself or your products, or register any rights in it;
• suggest that Motionscript endorses you or your work.

3. Fonts

Motionscript includes fonts from the Google Fonts library and others, under their own open licenses: mostly the SIL Open Font License 1.1, plus the Apache License 2.0 and the Ubuntu Font Licence.

• In your exports. Those licenses let you use the fonts in your exported videos and images, commercially included.
• The font files. Redistributing the font files themselves is governed by each font's own license.

Each font's license is listed in the app under Settings → Legal → Open-source licenses.

4. Maps and geographic data

Map shapes and geographic data in Motionscript come from Natural Earth and are in the public domain. You may use them freely.

5. AI outputs

What the Motionscript assistant produces for you is yours to use as described in section 7 of these Terms. We don't guarantee it's accurate; check it before you publish.

6. Material you bring in

You are responsible for having the rights to everything you add to Motionscript and publish from it, and for meeting the terms of its license. That includes:

• music and sound effects;
• footage and photos;
• fonts you upload;
• logos and other trademarks;
• the likeness and voice of the people in your work.

Monetized platforms. YouTube's Content ID and similar systems may flag music or footage you don't have a license for. That's between you and the rights holder.

7. Stock media

Motionscript doesn't include a stock music, footage or image library at the moment. If we add one, each item will come with its own license terms, shown in the app before you use it.

8. Changes

We may update this license as section 19 describes. Changes never reduce your rights in exports you've already made.

Questions: legal@motionscript.dev

Appendix D: Desktop App License Agreement

This Desktop App License Agreement ("Agreement") is between you and Motionscript LLC, 82 Wendell Ave., STE 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201, USA ("Motionscript", "we", "us"). It covers the Motionscript desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, including its updates (the "App").

You accept this Agreement when you choose "Accept" the first time you open the App, or when you install or use the App. If you don't accept it, don't install or use the App.

The rest of these Terms are part of this Agreement. If this Agreement and the Terms conflict about the installed App, this Agreement controls. The Terms control your use of our hosted services, such as cloud workspaces, the Motionscript assistant and web media tools. Section 18 of the Terms requires individual arbitration of most disputes and waives class actions, and it applies to this Agreement too.

1. License

The App is licensed, not sold. Subject to this Agreement, we grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

• install the App on computers you own or control;
• use it, for personal or business purposes, under these Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy.

You don't need an account to use the App with local workspaces. You need one for cloud workspaces and other hosted features.

2. Restrictions

Except as section 3 allows, you may not:

• sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or redistribute the App, or make it available to others over a network;
• copy the App, except to install it as section 1 allows and to make a reasonable backup copy;
• modify the App or make derivative works of it;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, or try to derive its source code, except as far as applicable law allows despite this restriction;
• remove or change any copyright, trademark or other notice in the App;
• get around any limit, license check or security feature in the App;
• use the App to build a competing product.

Your own projects aren't derivative works of the App. They belong to you as these Terms describe.

3. Open-source and third-party components

The App includes software from other people, under its own licenses: open-source components, including the Motionscript SDK under the Apache License 2.0, and some proprietary third-party components licensed to us. The list and the license texts are in the App under Settings → Legal → Open-source licenses, and in the THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES file installed with the App.

• Open-source licenses come first. For each open-source component, its license governs your use of that component. Nothing in this Agreement limits the rights it gives you.
• LGPL components. Where a component is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, you may modify that component for your own use and reverse engineer the App as needed to debug those modifications.
• Proprietary third-party components may be used only as part of the App.

4. Components the App downloads

When a project needs it, the App downloads another version of the open-source Motionscript engine from the npm registry. Those versions are licensed under their own terms, listed in the App.

5. Connecting your own tools

The App can connect to AI tools and other software installed on your computer, such as Claude Code, using your own accounts with their providers. Your agreement with each provider governs those tools. We don't receive your credentials for them, and we aren't responsible for them. To make these connections, the App may run a local service that can only be reached from your own computer and is protected by a key stored on it.

6. Updates

The App checks for updates automatically and installs them, including security fixes. Some updates are needed for the App to keep working with our hosted services. This Agreement applies to updates unless they come with a different agreement.

7. Your data and backups

The App saves local workspaces in folders you choose on your computer. We don't back them up. You are responsible for keeping your own backups. The Privacy Policy describes the limited information the App sends over the network, and when.

8. Ownership

The App and all intellectual property in it, other than third-party components and your content, belong to Motionscript or its licensors. We keep all rights not expressly granted to you.

9. Export laws and U.S. Government users

You must follow U.S. and other applicable export control and sanctions laws when you download and use the App. Don't export it to, or use it in, a comprehensively sanctioned country, and don't make it available to people on a U.S. restricted-party list.

The App is "commercial computer software" and its documentation is "commercial computer software documentation," as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 2.101, 12.212 and 227.7202. U.S. Government users get only the rights this Agreement gives everyone else.

10. Ending the Agreement

This Agreement lasts until it ends:

• You can end it at any time by uninstalling the App.
• It ends automatically if you materially breach it.
• We may end it if we discontinue the App, with notice.

When it ends, stop using the App and uninstall it. Your local workspaces remain yours, as ordinary files on your computer. Sections 2, 8, 11 and 12 survive.

11. Disclaimers and limits on liability

The disclaimers, limits on liability and indemnity in section 17 of these Terms apply to the App. The App is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows.

12. General

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Disputes are resolved as section 18 of these Terms provides. Section 20 of the Terms (general terms) also applies to this Agreement.

13. Contact

Motionscript LLC, 82 Wendell Ave., STE 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201, USA, legal@motionscript.dev