Terms of Service

Cassie is an AI-powered service designed to help people understand, explore, connect around, and facilitate opportunities involving synthetic rights.

These may include authorized uses of:

• Voice
• Name
• Image
• Likeness
• Performance
• Digital replicas or digital twins
• AI-generated or AI-enabled uses of identity
• Other related intellectual property and personality rights

Cassie may help users identify opportunities, understand potential deal structures, identify relevant parties, facilitate introductions, gather information, and move potential transactions forward.

Cassie is a technology service operated by Royall. Cassie is not a human talent agent, attorney, law firm, financial adviser, or fiduciary.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to use Cassie.

If you use Cassie on behalf of a company, client, creator, rights holder, agency, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to act on its behalf in connection with your use of the Service.

Cassie uses artificial intelligence to communicate with users and provide information.

AI-generated responses can be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or inappropriate for your particular circumstances.

Information provided by Cassie is for informational and facilitation purposes and should not be treated as legal, financial, tax, business, or other professional advice.

Synthetic rights can involve copyright, trademark, publicity rights, privacy rights, contractual rights, guild or union rules, employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements, and other legal or contractual restrictions.

You are responsible for obtaining appropriate professional advice before entering into a transaction where necessary.

Conversations with Cassie—including chats, messages, emails, recommendations, proposed terms, summaries, introductions, or other communications—do not themselves create a binding license, contract, representation agreement, agency relationship, or other legal obligation.

Cassie cannot independently bind:

• Royall Labs, Inc.
• You
• A rights holder
• A creator
• A buyer or licensee
• A prospective counterparty
• Any other person or organization

A transaction is binding only when the applicable parties enter into the appropriate agreement or otherwise validly execute the transaction.

Where Royall facilitates a licensing transaction, additional terms, consents, licenses, payment terms, or agreements may apply.

You may tell Cassie that you:

• Have rights you are interested in licensing
• Represent someone whose rights may be available
• Want to license someone else's rights
• Are developing a project involving synthetic media
• Need to identify a rights holder or potential partner
• Want information about synthetic-rights markets, practices, or opportunities

Cassie may use the information you provide to identify potential opportunities or counterparties.

If you ask Cassie to help pursue an opportunity, you authorize Royall to use information reasonably necessary to evaluate and facilitate that opportunity, including contacting or introducing potentially relevant parties where appropriate.

An introduction does not guarantee that a transaction will occur.

You may only offer, submit, negotiate, or authorize rights that you own, control, represent, or otherwise have authority to deal with.

You represent and warrant that information and materials you provide through Cassie do not knowingly infringe another person's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights.

You may not use Cassie to obtain or exploit another person's voice, image, likeness, identity, performance, or other protected rights without appropriate authorization.

Royall may request verification of identity, ownership, representation, or authority before facilitating certain opportunities.

Using Cassie does not transfer ownership of your name, image, likeness, voice, performance, content, intellectual property, or other rights to Royall.

You retain whatever rights you otherwise hold in materials and information you provide.

You grant Royall a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, reproduce, analyze, and transmit materials you provide to the extent reasonably necessary to operate Cassie, respond to your requests, and facilitate opportunities you choose to pursue.

Any commercial license involving your identity, content, or other rights will be governed by separate applicable transaction terms.

Your use of Cassie is also subject to the Cassie Privacy Policy.

Cassie may process your conversations, professional information, project information, publicly available information, and other information you provide in order to operate the Service and identify or facilitate relevant opportunities.

Royall may use third-party artificial intelligence, hosting, infrastructure, communications, analytics, payment, security, and other technology providers to operate Cassie.

Your interactions with Cassie may therefore be processed using third-party technology acting on behalf of Royall.

Additional information is provided in our Privacy Policy.

You agree not to use Cassie to:

• Impersonate another person without authorization
• Create or facilitate deceptive or fraudulent synthetic media
• Violate another person's privacy, publicity, intellectual property, contractual, or other rights
• Harass, threaten, exploit, defame, or harm another person
• Facilitate unlawful discrimination
• Misrepresent your ownership or control of rights
• Misrepresent your authority to act for another person or organization
• Circumvent security or access controls
• Introduce malware or malicious code
• Scrape, reverse engineer, interfere with, or disrupt the Service except where applicable law expressly permits such activity
• Use the Service for an unlawful purpose
• Attempt to manipulate Cassie into facilitating conduct prohibited by these Terms

Royall may restrict or terminate access where we reasonably believe the Service is being misused.

Cassie may introduce you to creators, rights holders, buyers, brands, agencies, platforms, technology companies, representatives, or other third parties.

Royall does not guarantee:

• The identity or authority of every third party
• That a party will respond
• That an introduction will result in a transaction
• The accuracy of information provided by another party
• That proposed terms will be accepted
• The performance of any third party
• Any particular commercial or financial result

You are responsible for evaluating counterparties and proposed transactions before entering into an agreement.

A synthetic-rights transaction may require a separate agreement establishing matters such as:

• The rights being licensed
• Permitted uses
• Media
• Territory
• Term
• Exclusivity
• AI training permissions or restrictions
• Generation permissions
• Approval rights
• Compensation
• Attribution
• Revocation or termination rights
• Content restrictions
• Data handling
• Other transaction-specific conditions

Where a transaction occurs through Royall, the transaction may be subject to additional Royall licensing or platform terms.

If additional terms conflict with these Terms regarding a particular transaction, the transaction-specific terms will control for that transaction.

Cassie, the Service, software, interfaces, designs, branding, underlying technology, and original content provided by Royall are owned by or licensed to Royall Labs, Inc. and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Except for the limited right to use the Service under these Terms, no rights in Cassie or Royall's intellectual property are transferred to you.

If you voluntarily provide ideas, suggestions, or feedback about Cassie, you grant Royall a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use that feedback to develop and improve its products and services without compensation or obligation to you.

This section does not transfer ownership of your identity rights, project materials, confidential deal information, or other intellectual property merely because you discuss them with Cassie.

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of Cassie at any time.

We do not guarantee that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Cassie and the Service are provided "as is" and "as available."

Royall disclaims warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, and reliability.

Royall does not warrant that Cassie's responses are accurate or complete or that use of Cassie will result in an introduction, license, deal, payment, commercial opportunity, or other particular outcome.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Royall Labs, Inc. and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of Cassie.

This includes damages arising from:

• AI-generated information
• Failed or unsuccessful introductions
• Negotiations or transactions
• Actions of third parties
• Reliance on information provided through Cassie
• Unauthorized use of identity or intellectual property by third parties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Royall's total liability arising out of or relating to Cassie will not exceed the greater of (A) the amount you paid Royall specifically for the Cassie Service during the six months before the event giving rise to the claim or (B) $100.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain limitations of liability, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Royall Labs, Inc. and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:

• Your misuse of Cassie
• Your violation of these Terms
• Materials or information you provide
• Your infringement of another person's rights
• Your misrepresentation that you own, control, or are authorized to license or acquire particular rights

Royall may suspend or terminate your access to Cassie if you violate these Terms, create risk or potential legal exposure for Royall or others, misuse the Service, or engage in fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct.

You may stop using Cassie at any time.

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including intellectual-property provisions, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and dispute provisions—will survive.

These Terms and your use of Cassie are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

To the extent a dispute is subject to a mandatory arbitration agreement contained in other applicable Royall terms governing your account or transaction, that arbitration agreement will apply according to its terms.

Otherwise, disputes arising from these Terms or Cassie will be subject to the state and federal courts located in New York, New York, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

We may update these Terms from time to time as Cassie evolves.

If we make material changes, we may provide notice through Cassie, by email, or through another reasonable method.

Your continued use of Cassie after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of those Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

These Terms, together with any policies or additional terms expressly incorporated into them, constitute the agreement between you and Royall concerning your use of Cassie.

If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

Our failure to enforce a provision does not waive our right to enforce it later.

You may not assign these Terms without Royall's consent. Royall may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, sale of assets, or otherwise as permitted by law.

Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary, or traditional talent-agency relationship between you and Royall solely because you use Cassie.

Cassie is owned and operated by:

Legal: legal@royall.ai