Stird Creator Licence (SCL)

This page publishes a draft of the Stird Creator Licence (SCL) for review. It sets out, in two parts, the rights a creator would grant Stird over their content and identity (Part A), and the rights other users would receive in return (Part B).

The legal text below is kept in English while it is under legal review. Once finalized, it would replace the narrower content licence in today's Terms.

Part A — Creator Licence (creator → Platform)

Two grants, each standing on its own. If any part of A-II is held invalid, limited, or withdrawn, A-I continues in full. A-I is accepted at sign-up. A-II is accepted on its own screen at the moment a creator first records or uploads their face or voice.

A-I — Content Rights

A.1 Content.“Content” means anything you submit, upload, record, import, connect, or create on or through the Services, in any form or medium — including text, images, video, audio, data, and any format now known or later developed — together with everything the Services derive from it (structured data, memories, embeddings, summaries, style models of your works, and other creator-specific models). Content does not include your Identity, which is licensed separately in A-II.

A.2 Grant. You keep ownership of your Content. You grant the Platform a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, fully paid-up and royalty-free (except for amounts expressly payable under the Payment Schedule) licence, sublicensable through multiple tiers, to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, publish, distribute, transmit, publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise use Content, in any media and by any technology now known or later developed, for the purposes of operating, providing, improving, promoting, and developing the Services and any current or future product, feature, or technology of the Platform — including generative features, marketplaces, public feeds, and the training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and improvement of machine-learning and artificial-intelligence models, whether operated by the Platform or by its service providers and partners — and to permit other users to access and use Content and works generated from it on terms the Platform determines.

A.3 Training opt-out. You may turn off the use of your Content for model training at any time in your account settings. The opt-out applies to training that begins after you switch it off. It does not require the Platform to retrain or withdraw models already trained, and it does not affect any other right in this Part, including the retrieval of your Content at generation time and style models built from your works.

A.4 Platform’s discretion. The Platform alone decides which features exist, which rights other users receive, the prices, and the share payable to you, and may change them prospectively by publishing a new Payment Schedule. The Platform has no obligation to use, list, or monetize any Content.

A-II — Identity Rights

A.5 Identity.“Identity” means your name, image, face, likeness, voice, signature, mannerisms, persona, and any digital twin or replica of you. Separately from A-I, you grant the Platform a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free (except under the Payment Schedule) licence, sublicensable through multiple tiers, to use your Identity for as long as your account exists and until you withdraw it under A.7. You specifically authorize the Platform to:

• (a) capture and record your face and voice through the Services;
• (b) analyze them and create digital replicas — voice models, visual avatars, and any synthetic representation that looks or sounds like you, in any technology now known or later developed;
• (c) generate new audio, images, and video in which your digital replica speaks, appears, or performs words and actions you never actually said or did, including in conversations with your twin and in works created by other users;
• (d) reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display such material within the Services and, where the Platform permits it, outside them, including for commercial purposes and for promoting the Services; and
• (e) sublicense these rights to other users on terms the Platform determines.

The Platform will not permit your Identity to be used in sexual content, in political campaigning, or to state or imply your endorsement of any product, service, candidate, or cause.

A.6 Biometric consent.To do the above, the Platform collects and stores data derived from your face and voice, which may be “biometric identifiers” or “biometric information” under laws such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Texas CUBI, and Washington law. You give your informed written consent to that collection, storage, and use for the purposes in A.5, until you withdraw under A.7 or delete your account, after which the data is destroyed within 30 days under the Platform’s published biometric retention and destruction policy.

A.7 Withdrawing your Identity. You may withdraw the Identity licence at any time in your account settings, without giving a reason. From that moment: (i) the Platform stops generating any new material with your face, voice, or digital replica, for you and for every other user; (ii) your Identity is removed from the marketplace and every listing; (iii) within 30 days the Platform deletes your voice model, avatar, and the biometric data behind them. What does not change: (iv) audio, images, and video already generated, and licences already granted to other users for those works, remain valid on the terms recorded for them, and amounts owed to you for them continue to be paid; (v) the Platform may keep the records needed to prove those licences and meet legal obligations; (vi) your Content licence in A-I is not affected. You may grant the Identity licence again later. Deleting your account has the same effect as withdrawal.

Common to A-I and A-II

A.8 Adaptation and moral rights. You consent to the editing, excerpting, fictionalization, and adaptation of your Content, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waive — or agree not to assert — moral rights and similar rights against the Platform and its sublicensees.

A.9 Removing Content; privacy. You may remove Content or delete your account. The Platform will then stop offering that Content for new uses within 30 days and will handle your personal data as required by applicable privacy law. Licences already granted to other users, and works already generated, continue unaffected. Nothing in this Part limits rights under privacy law that cannot be waived.

A.10 Your promises.(a) The Content is your own, you have every right needed to grant these licences, and it does not reproduce another person’s work — including work you created for an employer or client who owns it. (b) The Identity you provide is yours and no one else’s. (c) You will declare Content generated by AI; such Content is not eligible for payment. (d) You are 18 or older.

A.11 Payment; full satisfaction and release. Amounts payable to you are stated in the Payment Schedule in force when a work is generated. Conversation with your twin and viewing of works are not paid; payment arises when another user generates a work from your Content or Identity. Those amounts are the full and final consideration for every use permitted by this Part. You agree that the Platform, its sublicensees, and every user have discharged all obligations to pay royalties, fees, residuals, equitable remuneration, or any similar amount for such uses — to you or to any collecting society, union, agent, publisher, or other third party claiming through you — and you will not assert or authorize any such claim. If you are or become a member of a collecting society, you confirm that the rights granted here are not, and will not be, exclusively assigned to it, or that you have obtained any waiver needed. Payments become payable 60 days after accrual, subject to a minimum threshold, payee onboarding, and A.12.

A.12 Takedown and clawback.On a facially valid notice that Content infringes or violates someone’s rights, the Platform may immediately suspend it from all use. Payments attributable to Content later found infringing may be withheld or reclaimed. Repeated violations suspend licensing and payment.

A.13 Statements. You may obtain a periodic statement and an export of the records of generations that used your Content or Identity. Records never disclose who conversed with your twin or the content of any conversation.

Part B — User Licence (Platform → user)

Layer 1 — Summary (not a substitute for the terms below)

You are using material that a real person chose to share on Stird. What you may do with it is shown by badges on the creator's profile and on every listing. The Platform sets the badges, the prices, and the rules.

Always: credit the creator · keep other real people unrecognizable · never present the work as something the creator really said, did, or endorsed · don’t scrape, train AI on, or rebuild the source · don’t use it to imitate or compete with the creator.

Once you have paid, you owe nothing more to the creator or anyone else for the uses in your badge.

If a creator later leaves or withdraws, what you already made stays licensed on the terms recorded for it.

No one promises that AI-generated work is copyrightable, accurate, or free of claims arising from the underlying AI model.

Layer 2 — Terms

1. Definitions

Platform — the operator of the Services, which holds the licences in Part A and grants the rights in this Part as sublicensor. Source Creator — the person whose Content or Identity is used. User — you: a Consumer (conversation) or an Adapter (generation of a Work). Source Material— a Source Creator’s Content and the units derived from it (“Units”), each with its own identifier and audience setting. Access Event — one Unit, style model, or digital replica being used in the course of producing one Output. Output — anything generated through the Services using Source Material. Work — an Output intended to stand on its own (story, article, thread, image, video, audio, or other form). Tier — TALK, MAKE, PUBLISH, or EARN. Licence Record — the immutable machine-readable record (Layer 3) created for each Work, fixing the Tier, add-ons, price, and terms in force at that moment. Third Person — any identifiable natural person, other than the Source Creator, who appears in Source Material. Sensitive Material — Source Material concerning health, sexual life, religious or political belief, criminal history, or minors.

2. What the Platform grants you

2.1 Access. The Platform permits you to cause Access Events through the Services, within the audience setting of each Unit. This permission is contractual and applies whether or not the Source Material is protected by copyright.

2.2 Output licence. To the extent copyright or related rights subsist in Source Material embodied in an Output, the Platform grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to exercise the rights listed for your Tier in Section 3.

2.3 Nothing else. All other rights are reserved. You receive no right to train, fine-tune, distil, or evaluate any machine-learning model on Source Material or Outputs.

3. Tiers (cumulative)

+IDENTITY.Where the Platform offers it for a Source Creator, you may use that creator’s name, face, voice, or digital replica in a Work, within the uses shown in the Licence Record, and never in sexual content, in political campaigning, or to state or imply endorsement of any product, service, candidate, or cause. Whether the Source Creator’s approval of the final Work is required is shown in the Licence Record.

4. Conditions for generating Works

4.1 Third Persons. You shall not make any Third Person identifiable in a Work — by name, image, voice, location, or distinctive detail — regardless of what the Source Material contains. No one can waive this condition.

4.2 Sensitive Material is excluded unless the Licence Record shows otherwise.

4.3 Fictionalization is permitted to the extent shown in the Licence Record.

4.4 Verbatim limits. TALK and MAKE do not permit reproducing any single item of Source Material in an Output beyond short quotations; the limit that applies is shown before you generate. The Platform may enforce this technically.

5. Conditions for every Tier

5.1 Attribution.Every Work shared or published must carry the credit shown in the Licence Record (default: “Adapted from the story of [display name] on Stird”) and a link or credential resolving to the public verification page.

5.2 Provenance. You shall not remove or alter the Licence Record reference, content credentials, or AI-generation disclosure attached to an Output.

5.3 Truthfulness. Outputs are AI-generated. You shall not present an Output as a genuine statement, recording, or act of the Source Creator.

5.4 Prohibited uses. Defamatory, harassing, sexually explicit, or deceptive uses; any use unlawful where made; bulk or automated collection of Outputs; systematic querying intended to reconstruct Source Material; using Source Material or Outputs to build or improve a twin, persona, style, or product that imitates or competes with the Source Creator.

5.5 Personal to you. Rights may not be assigned or sublicensed.

6. Price; one level only; release

6.1 TALK is free. Generating a Work is charged per transaction at the price shown before you generate, rising with Tier. The version of the Payment Schedule in force is fixed in the Licence Record.

6.2 One level only. The Source Creator whose material is used in a generation is paid for that generation, and no one further upstream. A Work you post on the Services is your own Content under Part A; if another user later generates from it, you are the Source Creator for that generation.

6.3 Full satisfaction. Once you have paid the price shown for a Work, no further payment is owed — to the Source Creator, to any earlier creator, or to any collecting society or other third party claiming through them — for the uses within your Tier.

7. Term and change

7.1 Your rights in a Work begin with its Licence Record and continue for as long as any underlying rights last.

7.2 The Platform may change or withdraw Tiers, prices, and features, and a Source Creator may remove Content or withdraw Identity. Any such change applies only to Works generated afterwards. Works already generated remain licensed under their own Licence Record.

7.3 Breach. Your rights in a Work end automatically if it is used in breach of Sections 3–5, and are reinstated if the breach is cured within 30 days of discovery — except breaches of 4.1 and 5.4.

7.4 Nothing here limits a right that cannot be waived by law.

8. Disclaimers and risk

8.1 Outputs are provided as-is. No one warrants that an Output is protectable by copyright, that you are its author, that it is accurate, or that it is free of claims arising from the training or operation of any AI model used to produce it.

8.2 You are responsible for the use you make of a Work, including compliance with Sections 4 and 5.

9. General

Governing law and forum: as set out in the Terms · mandatory consumer rights unaffected · severability · the Source Creator is an intended third-party beneficiary of Sections 3–5 and may enforce them alongside the Platform · electronic acceptance and the Licence Record constitute the written agreement · you must be 18 or older to use MAKE, PUBLISH, EARN, or +IDENTITY.

Layer 3 — Licence Record (one per Work)

For every generated Work, the Platform keeps an immutable record that fixes the source material, the Tier, the price, and the terms in force at that moment. The public verification page shows the Tier, identity use, attribution, date, and validity — never the Source Material or the identity of a Consumer. The same record is embedded in the Work as a content credential and serves as the user’s chain-of-title document.

See also

Terms of Service — the licence in force today — and our Privacy Policy.