User Content, Copyright, and Intellectual Property

1. Ownership of User Content

Atelier respects the intellectual property rights of its users.

You retain all ownership rights, copyrights, moral rights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in any content that you create, upload, publish, transmit, display, sell, or otherwise make available through Atelier, including but not limited to:

• Artwork and creative works
• Photographs and images
• Illustrations and designs
• Digital downloads
• Written articles and blog posts
• Studio notes and creator updates
• Audio recordings
• Video content
• Comments and community contributions
• Any other materials uploaded to the platform

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your User Content to Atelier.

2. License Granted to Atelier

To operate the platform and provide services to you, you grant Atelier a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to:

• Host and store your User Content;
• Display and publish your User Content on the platform;
• Reproduce, transmit, distribute, and make available your User Content through platform features;
• Format, resize, compress, optimize, and adapt User Content for technical and display purposes;
• Promote your User Content and your creator profile;
• Operate, improve, maintain, secure, and develop the platform and related services.

This license exists solely for the purpose of providing and promoting the services offered by Atelier.

This license does not grant Atelier ownership of your User Content.

3. Creator Attribution

Atelier will make reasonable efforts to identify and attribute User Content to its creator whenever such content is displayed on the platform.

Nothing in these Terms grants Atelier the right to claim authorship of your User Content or represent itself as the creator of your work.

4. Promotional Use

You agree that Atelier may use publicly available portions of your User Content for promotional and marketing purposes related to:

• The platform;
• Creator discovery;
• Featured artist showcases;
• Social media promotion;
• Email newsletters;
• Press releases;
• Advertising campaigns;
• Educational and informational materials relating to the platform.

Promotional use may include thumbnails, excerpts, previews, screenshots, creator names, profile information, artwork samples, article excerpts, and related content.

Atelier will not sell ownership of your User Content to third parties.

5. Sales of Artwork and Content

Unless expressly stated otherwise, any sale, purchase, download, subscription, membership, commission, or transaction conducted through Atelier transfers only the rights specifically granted to the purchaser.

Copyright ownership remains with the creator unless a separate written agreement explicitly transfers copyright ownership.

Purchasers may not reproduce, distribute, modify, resell, or commercially exploit purchased content beyond the rights granted by the creator.

6. User Responsibilities

You are solely responsible for all User Content that you upload, publish, or distribute through Atelier.

By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that:

• You own the content or possess all necessary rights to publish it;
• The content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights of any third party;
• You have obtained all necessary permissions and licenses;
• The content complies with applicable laws and regulations.

Atelier reserves the right to remove content that violates these Terms or applicable law.

7. Content Removal

You may remove your User Content from Atelier at any time, subject to any active purchases, subscriptions, memberships, legal obligations, or ongoing disputes.

Upon removal:

• Public access to the content will be discontinued within a reasonable period;
• Existing customer access rights may continue where required by a purchase or subscription agreement;
• Backup and archival copies may be retained.

8. Platform Backups and Archives

Following deletion of User Content, Atelier may retain copies of such content in backup systems, archives, logs, and records for:

• Security purposes;
• Fraud prevention;
• Disaster recovery;
• Legal compliance;
• Tax and accounting obligations;
• Dispute resolution;
• Enforcement of these Terms.

Such retained copies will not be publicly displayed unless required by law.

9. Feedback and Suggestions

If you provide suggestions, recommendations, ideas, feature requests, or feedback regarding Atelier, you grant Atelier a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, implement, and incorporate such feedback without compensation or attribution.

10. Copyright Infringement

Atelier respects intellectual property rights and expects users to do the same.

If you believe that content on the platform infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, you may submit a written notice containing:

• Identification of the copyrighted work;
• Identification of the allegedly infringing content;
• Your contact information;
• A statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized;
• A statement that the information provided is accurate.

Atelier may remove, disable access to, or investigate allegedly infringing content.

11. Termination of License

The license granted to Atelier under these Terms ends when:

• You remove the applicable User Content; and
• All reasonable administrative, technical, legal, backup, and archival retention periods have expired.

Any rights necessary to fulfill legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain records, or complete existing transactions shall survive termination.

12. Guiding Principle

Atelier is built to support creators.

Artists, writers, and creators retain ownership of the content they create. Atelier receives only the rights reasonably necessary to host, display, distribute, promote, and operate the platform and related services on behalf of its users.