Peakime Creator & Publishing Agreement

1. Who This Agreement Covers

This Agreement applies to any person or entity that publishes Creator Content on Peakime, whether or not that content is currently monetised — individual creators, collaborating co-creators, and organisations or studios publishing under a Peakime account are all equally covered.

Where a work has more than one contributor — a writer and an illustrator, for example — each contributing creator is independently bound by this Agreement with respect to their own contribution, and each is independently responsible for having the rights necessary to publish their part of the work.

2. The Licence You Grant Peakime

By publishing Creator Content, you grant PeakCraft a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, technically reproduce, encode, transcode, resize, format, display, stream, transmit, distribute, index, recommend and otherwise technically process that content to operate, secure and promote the Peakime Services, as more fully described in the Terms of Service.

This licence does not transfer copyright, and does not by itself grant PeakCraft rights to produce a film, anime, game, merchandise line or other adaptation of your work — it is limited to what is reasonably necessary to run the platform you chose to publish on.

3. Your Representations and Warranties

By publishing Creator Content or entering a creator programme, you represent and warrant, on an ongoing basis for as long as your content stays published, that the following are true.

• You own it or have the right to publish it — you created it, or hold all licences, permissions or assignments necessary to publish it and grant Peakime the licence in Section 2.
• It is original, or your use of others’ material is lawful — a licence, a recognised exception like fair use or fair dealing, or the rightsholder’s permission.
• It does not infringe anyone else’s copyright, trademark, right of publicity, privacy right or other legal right, to the best of your knowledge.
• It complies with the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines and Copyright Policy, and contains no unlawful material.
• Your account, payout and tax information is accurate and kept up to date.
• You have the legal capacity to be bound — you meet the age requirement, or have verified parental/guardian consent where the law requires it.
• You are not subject to sanctions, embargoes or other legal restrictions that would make it unlawful for Peakime to pay or transact with you.

4. Creator Indemnification of Peakime

This is one of the most important sections of this Agreement, because it defines who is financially responsible when a third party brings a claim relating to something you published.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless PeakCraft Studios Private Limited, its officers, directors, employees, contractors and affiliates (the "Peakime Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, costs and reasonable legal fees arising out of or relating to:

• Your Creator Content, including any claim that it infringes a third party’s copyright, trademark, right of publicity, privacy right or other right;
• Your breach of any representation or warranty in Section 3;
• Your violation of the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Copyright Policy or another applicable Peakime policy;
• Your violation of applicable law in connection with your use of the Services or your Creator Content; or
• A dispute between you and another user, collaborator, licensor or third party relating to your Creator Content or your conduct on Peakime.

How This Indemnity Actually Works

5. Exclusivity and Programme-Specific Terms Live in Separate Agreements

Ordinary publication on Peakime never requires exclusivity. You may publish the same work on other platforms, unless and until you separately and expressly sign a different agreement that says otherwise.

This base Agreement deliberately does not contain exclusivity terms, curated-programme terms or adaptation-option terms — those live in their own dedicated agreements so that what you’re agreeing to is always specific, visible and opt-in, never buried in a general clause.

• Selected for a curated creator programme (editorial support, marketing, a stipend) → governed by the Featured Creator Programme Agreement, only if you expressly accept it.
• Peakime wants to negotiate a FANOA production, anime, film or other adaptation → governed by the Adaptation & Option Rights Framework, which keeps merchandising and other ancillary rights with you by default.

6. Confidentiality

Where Peakime shares non-public information with you as a creator — beta features, unreleased programme terms, creator-dashboard analytics methodology, or other information reasonably understood to be confidential — you agree not to disclose it to third parties without PeakCraft’s consent, except where disclosure is required by law.

This obligation does not apply to information that becomes public through no fault of yours, information you already lawfully knew, or information you must disclose under a valid legal order, provided you give PeakCraft reasonable notice where legally permitted.

7. Term, Withdrawal and Termination

This Agreement applies for as long as you have Creator Content published on Peakime or participate in a Peakime creator programme.

You may stop publishing at any time by unpublishing or removing your Creator Content, or stopping participation in monetisation, through the tools Peakime provides. Withdrawing a work does not retroactively cancel a separate signed production or licensing agreement already in effect for that work, such as an active FANOA production agreement — that agreement is governed by its own terms.

PeakCraft may suspend or terminate your ability to publish or monetise, in whole or in part, where you materially breach this Agreement, the Terms of Service or applicable Peakime policy, consistent with the enforcement provisions of the Terms of Service.

8. General Provisions