This summary is not an NDA, confidentiality agreement, commission, offer or substitute for project-specific legal terms.
1. Your enquiry does not transfer ownership.
Sending a first-contact email does not assign ownership or grant CDM or RORI a licence to develop, reproduce, train on or exploit your creative material.
2. Do not send the secret first.
Begin with format, stage, audience and broad ambition. Do not send scripts, decks, private links, unreleased footage or material requiring confidentiality until the reviewers and protections are agreed.
3. Speculative development is not free extraction.
Before substantive development, the parties should agree who is contributing, whether work is paid, how meaningful contribution is credited, and what happens if the project stops.
4. The authority set must be visible.
The Originating Creator, Rights Holder or Commissioner, RORI Creative Lead, Producer and relevant specialist craft leads are distinct seats. Approved tools and services remain instruments, never authority holders.
5. Tool use requires project-specific consent.
Creative material will not be entered into a third-party generative system without disclosure of the proposed tool use and explicit approval for that project. Approval for one use is not blanket approval for another.
6. Reuse requires permission.
Material, derivatives and learning from one engagement are not automatically available for another. Reuse, credit and compensation must be agreed in writing.
7. Terms precede development.
Rights, credit, compensation, scope, approvals, confidentiality, data handling, deadlock, cancellation, exit and rights reversion must be agreed in writing before development begins.
8. A respectful exit remains possible.
Either side may decide the fit is wrong before an engagement is formed. The written schedule should state what is returned, retained, deleted or reverted if work ends.