Terms of Service

Effective: October 4, 2026

Updated: November 3, 2026 (Section 3 program availability hold; related notes in Sections 1, 6 and 11)

Interim operating terms

FilmsAI.com is an independently operated AI-film hosting, streaming, submission and creator-discovery service. It is currently operated personally by Krista Gable and Paul Hawkins in North Carolina, United States. In these Terms, "FilmsAI," "we," "us" and "our" refer to those operators in connection with the service.

The operators plan to relocate to Charleston, South Carolina and form the business entity intended to operate FilmsAI on or around October 19, 2026. No unformed entity is identified as the present contracting party. These interim Terms remain in effect until properly replaced; they do not automatically expire on the planned move date.

1. Acceptance and eligibility

These Terms form an agreement when you affirmatively accept them. You must accept them and the Community Guidelines before creating or operating a creator account, submitting content, authorizing an import under this agreement or using creator-program features. If you do not agree, do not use those features.

You must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter this agreement. If acting for a business, you must also have authority to bind that business. Accurate age and eligibility representations are required. Do not use another person's account to bypass restrictions. Content maturity labels do not change eligibility or determine the privacy treatment of public viewing.

The Community Guidelines are incorporated into this agreement. Separately presented and accepted program rules control their specific eligibility, allocation, deadline, payment, availability and removal matters. A separate written agreement controls matters it expressly addresses differently. Mandatory law always controls, and no sponsor agreement to which a creator has not agreed expands rights in that creator's content.

The Privacy Policy explains information practices. Acknowledging that policy is not blanket consent to every possible processing activity and is not consent to generative-AI training.

2. Your content remains yours

"Content" includes the creative material, profile information, metadata and promotional assets you submit or authorize FilmsAI to import.

You retain whatever ownership rights you hold in your Content. FilmsAI does not require exclusivity. You may publish, distribute, license, promote and monetize your work elsewhere, subject to rights you independently owe to others.

You represent that you have the rights, permissions, licenses or other valid legal basis needed to submit the Content and authorize the actual uses described in this agreement. This includes relevant rights in music compositions, recordings, performances, voices, likenesses, scripts, characters, trademarks, footage, artwork and other incorporated material.

You are not required to claim that every AI-generated element is independently copyrightable or that you hold exclusive rights you do not possess. Do not overstate your authorship or rights. FilmsAI's publication, profile verification or promotion does not guarantee copyright protection or legally clear the work.

3. Permission to operate FilmsAI

Processing and publication

By submitting Content or authorizing its import under these Terms, you grant FilmsAI a nonexclusive, worldwide license to receive, copy for technical purposes, quarantine, review, store, process, transcode, encode and prepare the Content. Processing permission applies before publication; submission alone does not authorize publication of information supplied as private account or payout information.

For Content approved for publication, the license also permits public display, public performance, streaming and technical distribution through FilmsAI's website, programming channels and authorized viewing and embed functions. The license is royalty-free except where an applicable creator program or separate agreement expressly provides payment.

Necessary service providers may exercise these permissions only to perform authorized functions for FilmsAI, not for independent exploitation of the Content. Technical formatting and metadata corrections must remain connected to service operation, accurate presentation, safety or agreed programming.

Promotion and additional distribution

FilmsAI may generate thumbnails and previews and use your published creator name, supplied promotional materials and brief excerpts to promote your work and FilmsAI on its website and official social channels. Promotional excerpts must be reasonably limited to that purpose, not a substitute for distributing the full work. We may not materially misrepresent your work, credits or endorsement through an edit.

An authorized embedded FilmsAI player is distinct from separately reposting the media to another service. Full-length reposting, off-platform rebroadcasting, use on a separately operated affiliated platform, or an additional distribution campaign requires separate authorization identifying the relevant use. That authorization may be a separately presented and accepted premiere, contest, broadcast or distribution agreement; ordinary upload permission alone is not blanket authorization for every affiliated service.

FilmsAI may display clearly identified advertising or sponsorship alongside its programming. A sponsor placement does not imply that an individual creator endorses the sponsor. Platform branding for an authorized broadcast is subject to the applicable submission or broadcast agreement.

Limits on the license

This license does not transfer ownership, permit standalone resale of the work, permit unrelated adaptations, authorize third-party independent exploitation, grant a sponsor endorsement, or authorize generative-AI training. Users may view, link to and use authorized sharing or embed features, but these Terms do not give them ownership or a general right to download and republish another creator's work.

Withdrawal and removal

Request withdrawal of a submission, removal of published Content or closure of an account by emailing krista@filmsai.com and identifying the affected account or Content. We may reasonably verify your authority.

After a verified request, FilmsAI will stop initiating new promotional uses and remove the affected Content from active delivery and promotional placements under its control without unreasonable delay, subject to any shorter legal deadline or a separate agreement governing that Content. Active delivery includes the relevant FilmsAI player, embed and directly served media copies; a publicly accessible playback file is not merely a restricted backup.

If you are eligible for a sponsorship payout, films you uploaded during that payout window stay on FilmsAI for 45 days from the payout date for that program. If you enter a contest, each entered film stays up, and stays in that contest, for 45 days from the hold start for that entry. During the hold you cannot delete the film yourself or withdraw it from the program. The hold covers those films only. You keep ownership and may keep publishing the work elsewhere. A copyright, intimate-image, or other legally required removal still follows its own deadline. FilmsAI may still remove a film sooner for rights, safety, security, fraud, or program integrity. An ordinary removal request for a film in an active hold is completed when the hold ends. The submission page shows the end time while a hold is active.

The license ends for those uses when removal is completed. It survives only as necessary to finish removal and retain restricted copies for specifically justified legal, security, payment-record or backup purposes, for no longer than reasonably necessary. Those copies may not be republished or repurposed under the retention exception.

FilmsAI cannot guarantee deletion of independent third-party copies, search-engine caches or posts outside its control. Keep your own copies. A separate distribution agreement may have different removal terms, but it does not override a mandatory removal obligation.

4. Creator responsibilities

Follow the Community Guidelines and applicable program rules. Supply accurate account details, credits, rights information, maturity guidance and intended-audience information. Accurately disclose synthetic elements when required. Identify whether content targets children under 13 when requested or when seeking review; do not assume that an adult uploader makes the intended audience adult.

Protect your email account and sign-in links. Do not impersonate others, access accounts without permission, submit malware, interfere with systems, harvest nonpublic information, or manipulate views, likes, runtime, submissions or payout eligibility. Automated or bulk copying requires authorization except where applicable law protects the activity. Ordinary viewing, linking and use of authorized sharing features remain permitted.

AI-tool and asset terms must permit the actual use. A personal or noncommercial license may be incompatible with FilmsAI distribution even if you receive no payment. Where you rely on a legal exception instead of permission, the claimed exception must cover the actual use. FilmsAI may request reasonable supporting information and decline unresolved rights risks.

A creator's representation does not eliminate obligations that applicable law places on FilmsAI. FilmsAI may reject, restrict, reclassify, remove or request corrections to Content for rights, safety, security, editorial or program-integrity reasons, subject to these Terms and mandatory procedures.

5. Creator profiles and external links

Profiles and promotional features are primarily for creators, their work and their creative businesses. They may not be used primarily to advertise, recruit users for, redirect traffic to, or fundraise for competing services in violation of the Community Guidelines.

FilmsAI may assess a link's actual destination and purpose, including redirects, wrappers and masked links. An approved personal portfolio or social page is not prohibited solely because its host also offers video or social functionality; a creator's name on a redirect does not make a prohibited destination acceptable.

Approved support links may support your own creative activity. FilmsAI takes no percentage of payments through approved personal support links. Third-party fees and policies are separate. These restrictions govern use of FilmsAI's features, not where you may work, publish or lawfully spend money received.

6. September sponsorship and other creator programs

September 2026 commitments

The September sponsorship was a limited creator-support experiment with a $2,000 pool, allocated under its announced rules: $1,600 for eligible September uploads and $400 for qualifying original creators who uploaded before September 1, 2026. FilmsAI retains $0 from that pool. September entry closed September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

The first $1,500 came from a personal friend of Paul Hawkins. The remaining $500 came from Paul Hawkins personally. Neither Krista Gable nor Paul Hawkins receives a September creator allocation. The detailed closed-program record and payment information appear in Community Guidelines Section 10.

As reported by the operators during the September 27, 2026 interim-policy update, FilmsAI had generated $0 in operating revenue. That is a historical statement, not a representation about every future period or a determination of the tax treatment of private contributions.

Payment obligations and future programs

Publication alone does not create a right to compensation. Payments arise under an expressly announced program or separate agreement. September does not establish a recurring monthly payment or an obligation for the operators to contribute personally to a future pool.

Future sponsorships, contests, awards, campaigns or monetization opportunities may have separately announced funding, eligibility and payment rules. Amounts a commercial sponsor pays FilmsAI are not automatically creator funds. FilmsAI will identify the specific amount it commits to a creator or prize pool and administer that amount under the applicable rules.

Entering a sponsorship payout or contest includes the 45-day availability hold in Section 3 for the films that program covers. September 2026 payout films use a hold that started October 5, 2026. Original-creator payout films uploaded before October 1, 2026 use the hold start recorded for that payout.

A policy update, account restriction, termination or change in operator does not, by itself, cancel an amount owed under a program. Eligibility, fraud or payment disputes must be evaluated under the rules applicable to that program and the law, not a newly invented retroactive condition. No newly introduced platform fee reduces the committed September pool.

Provide accurate payout information. Recipients are responsible for taxes imposed on them, and FilmsAI will comply with applicable reporting or withholding obligations. Manual payment processing, a missing payment address or a service-provider delay does not by itself extinguish a valid payment obligation.

7. Sponsors and commercial placements

FilmsAI may enter commercial advertising and sponsorship arrangements and retain the compensation expressly allocated to its business. Paid placements will be identified appropriately.

Sponsorship does not itself grant ownership of creator Content, independent reuse rights, generative-AI-training rights, private creator contact lists, payout information or identifiable viewing histories. It does not require creators to endorse a sponsor or grant the sponsor rights they have not separately authorized.

An optional branded challenge, commissioned campaign or other program requiring additional creator rights or obligations must present those terms separately before participation. Aggregate campaign reporting is subject to the Privacy Policy and restrictions on identifiable viewing information.

8. Privacy and no generative-AI training

FilmsAI does not sell personal information.

FilmsAI does not use creator uploads to train or fine-tune generative AI models and does not sell, license or authorize creator uploads for third-party generative-AI training. Submission, account creation and sponsorship participation do not constitute training consent. Necessary technical processing to operate the service is not a training license.

The Privacy Policy explains collection, use, disclosure, retention and requests. Publicly published material is visible to others. These Terms do not authorize unrelated parties to misuse it, but FilmsAI cannot guarantee that outsiders will never attempt to copy public material.

9. Copyright and safety reports

Copyright notices, counter-notifications and repeat-infringer handling follow the Copyright & DMCA Policy. FilmsAI's policy is to terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

Nonconsensual intimate imagery is prohibited. Use the separate intimate-image removal procedure for those reports; copyright ownership is not required. Applicable reporting, removal, preservation and response deadlines control over general moderation timelines.

Privacy and underage-account requests use the Privacy Policy. A person does not need a creator account or program participation to make a rights, privacy or safety report. The adult-creator eligibility rule does not bar a child or parent from reporting harm.

10. Availability, external services and platform materials

FilmsAI is an independently operated service in active development. Features and programming may change. Submission does not guarantee publication, promotion, permanent storage, uninterrupted availability, audience size, monetization or a commercial result. Keep independent backups.

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available," without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. This does not override express content-use and privacy commitments, amounts owed, or duties and remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Third-party websites and support or payment services have their own terms and practices. FilmsAI does not guarantee their independent conduct. Nothing here excludes responsibility that the law assigns to FilmsAI.

FilmsAI and its licensors retain rights in platform software, branding and other platform materials, excluding creator-owned Content. These Terms do not transfer those platform rights to users.

11. Accounts, enforcement and closure

FilmsAI may request corrections, reject Content, limit features, restrict access or suspend or terminate accounts when reasonably necessary to enforce its rules or address rights, safety, security, fraud or legal concerns. Serious or urgent issues may require action without advance notice. We distinguish correctable mistakes from deliberate or repeated evasion.

You may request review at krista@filmsai.com, identifying the decision and relevant account or Content. A general appeal does not replace a statutory counter-notification or other legally required process.

You may stop using creator features and request account closure. Closure and suspension do not automatically erase Content, legal records or accrued payment obligations; the removal, retention and payment provisions above continue to apply. Content in an active Section 3 program hold stays available until that hold ends. An account-closure request does not remove that Content early. Restricted retention is not continuing public-distribution permission.

12. Policy changes and transition to a new operator

We will identify material changes, state their effective date and provide appropriate notice through the service or account contact information. Where required, we will obtain renewed acceptance before applying new contractual terms. A footer edit alone does not retroactively enlarge a creator's grant or remove an accrued right.

When a legally formed entity actually assumes operation, we will identify its correct legal name and update the relevant agreements and notices. The operators may transfer service operations and this agreement to a lawful successor that assumes the applicable obligations, subject to legal requirements and any required consent or notice.

Relocation or entity formation does not, by itself, transfer creator ownership, expand the Content license, authorize training or data sales, cancel earned payments, or release existing responsibilities merely because the operator's name changes. Our no-sale and no-training commitments are not overridden by silent policy changes or presumed consent from continued use.

Mandatory law and nonwaivable consumer rights remain applicable. These interim Terms do not require mandatory arbitration or waive rights that applicable law does not permit you to waive. Accrued obligations and provisions concerning retained copies, privacy, payments and legal disputes survive termination as necessary to give them effect. If a provision is unenforceable, the remainder continues to the extent lawful.

13. Contact

FilmsAI Current operators: Krista Gable and Paul Hawkins Current operating location: North Carolina, United States Email: krista@filmsai.com

Contact this address for account, submission, removal, payment or legal questions, using the specialized procedures linked above where applicable. These interim Terms remain in effect until properly replaced.