The terms that govern how finished productions and source media from The Refinery Entertainment may be used, licensed, edited, and credited.
This Usage Rights Agreement (the "Agreement") supplements your production or booking agreement with The Refinery Entertainment ("The Refinery," "we," "us"). Where a signed statement of work conflicts with this Agreement, the signed statement of work controls. Capitalized terms have the meaning given in your production agreement.
Usage of any deliverable is licensed, not sold, unless outright ownership is separately negotiated and paid for in writing. Unless your statement of work says otherwise:
Travel expenses (flights, hotels) are never part of a usage license and are never discounted. Media/ad spend, where purchased, passes through 100% to the platforms.
In all instances, The Refinery holds the sole, unilateral option to decide whether or not it is credited on a production — whether by on-screen credit, metadata, caption, or otherwise. We may elect to take a credit or to decline a credit, at our discretion, for any production or deliverable.
Where The Refinery elects to decline credit — for example, because a deliverable has been edited, altered, or finished outside our supervision and no longer reflects our standard of quality — the Client agrees, on seventy-two (72) hours' written notice, to remove The Refinery's name, logo, and any attribution from the final product and from all copies the Client controls or distributes.
Our in-house editing exists for quality control. If the Client's team (or any third party) edits raw or source footage we deliver, the results may not meet our creative and technical standard. Accordingly, where an outside edit is used, The Refinery may exercise the unilateral option in Section 2 to decline credit and require removal of its attribution under the same 72-hour notice.
Compliance with Section 2 is a condition of the usage license. If the Client does not comply with a valid 72-hour notice to add or remove The Refinery's credit as elected:
Upon annulment, the Client must cease all use, distribution, and monetization of the affected deliverables until the matter is cured and usage rights are reinstated in writing by The Refinery. This remedy is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other remedy available at law or in equity.
Usage licenses are billed separately from production. Where a deliverable includes celebrity or named talent, any stated buyout deposit reserves the engagement only; the full casting cost is quoted to and confirmed by the Client before the balance is billed. Every estimate is a request; The Refinery may decline or adjust any project prior to the Executive Producer's approval.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect.
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This document is a plain-language summary of contract terms and is provided for convenience; it does not constitute legal advice. Your executed production agreement and statement of work are the binding instruments.