05.05.2023

Cinevva is on a mission to empower the world to design. We value our global community of game developers and content creators who contribute to our platform and we take intellectual property rights very seriously. When you use Cinevva, you agree that any content you upload or put into an interactive game experience (like photos, videos, experience, game app, text and audio) does not violate third party rights of any kind. The safest way to ensure you stick to this agreement is to only upload content you created yourself, or that you have permission to use. This policy sets out Cinevva’s position on intellectual property infringement and explains how you can make a complaint if you believe there is content on Cinevva that violates your rights. We’ve also included some general information about intellectual property - but please remember this is not legal advice.

Capitalised terms used in this policy have the meaning given in our Terms of Use.

What is Intellectual Property?

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind and includes things like inventions, literary and artistic works, designs and symbols. It is protected by legal rights like copyright and trademarks, which enable people to have exclusive rights over their creations and to only allow other people to use their creations with their permission.

Copyright protects the expression of an original idea in a material form. It protects artistic works (such as graphics or photographs), literary works (such as poems, lyrics and stories), films, musical works and sound recordings.

Trademarks protect the use of particular marks, from words and logos, to colors and sounds, that distinguish a source of goods or services.

Who owns the IP in a design made on Cinevva?

This depends on its game experience, game or its composition. Generally speaking, if you’re the creator of an original design, you’re also the copyright owner. But if you used third-party content (e.g. Licensed Content from the Cinevva library) in your design, your ownership is subject to those third-party rights (for example, you can’t claim copyright ownership of a photo from the Cinevva library you have used in your design - you only have a license to use that photo).

Cinevva gives you non-exclusive licenses to use various elements in your designs, including photos, graphics, videos, fonts, and music. For more information, read our Terms

Submitting an infringement notice to Cinevva

Cinevva will respond to alleged copyright infringement notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) and trademark infringement notices that comply with this policy.

If you believe that:

• your copyright work has been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement; or
• your trademark has been used in a way that constitutes trademark infringement,
• and is accessible via the Service, please notify Cinevva by providing the following information in writing:

An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright or trademark owner;

Identification of the copyright work or trademark that you claim has been infringed (in the case of a trademark, please provide the registration number and jurisdiction);

Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Service (e.g. URL);