Terms of service.

01 — Acceptance

By accessing the site, submitting a form, or otherwise interacting with our services, you accept these terms in full. We may update them at any time; continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of the new terms. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

02 — Site content and intellectual property

All site content — including text, images, video, audio, source code, design, and underlying systems — is owned by the Studio or its licensors and protected by US and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws. You may view the site for personal, non-commercial purposes. Any other use — including reproduction, distribution, modification, framing, scraping, or training of any machine learning system on our content — requires our prior written consent.

03 — Submissions

When you submit anything to us through a form, an email, or any other channel — whether a project pitch, a festival suggestion, an idea, a script, a clip, a question, or a recommendation — you grant the Studio a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, store, reproduce, adapt, and reference the submission for any lawful purpose, including evaluating fit and responding to you. You represent that the content is yours to send and that its use by us will not infringe any third party's rights. We are under no obligation to read, respond to, produce, or acknowledge any submission. We may delete or retain submissions at our discretion. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights in submitted material.

04 — Press access, comp tickets, and professional courtesies

This section applies in both directions — when a festival, venue, label, artist, or other party offers professional courtesies to us, and when we request them from such parties.

Offers received by the Studio. We may, at our discretion, accept or decline press credentials, comp tickets, screening links, lodging, transportation, equipment loans, advance access, or other professional courtesies in the ordinary course of journalism and production. Accepting any such courtesy creates no contract, no obligation, and no implied promise that we will produce, publish, mention, cover, position favorably, or otherwise reference the offering party. Editorial decisions are made independently per our published Editorial Standards. We retain the right at any time to refuse, return, or pay fair market value for any courtesy without explanation.

Requests made by the Studio. When we request press credentials, comp access, screening links, lodging, transportation, interviews, archival material, location permission, or any other professional courtesy from a third party, the request creates no obligation on the recipient to grant it, and granting it creates no obligation on us to produce, publish, or position any specific coverage. We may cover, decline to cover, or change coverage based on our editorial judgment regardless of any access granted or denied.

Material disclosure. Where a connection is material to a piece of published work, we disclose it in or alongside that work, consistent with applicable US Federal Trade Commission guidance and good editorial practice.

05 — No warranties

The site and any services are provided as is and as available, without any warranty of any kind, express or implied. We disclaim all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, availability, reliability, uptime, and freedom from viruses or other harmful components. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. Your use of the site is at your sole risk.

06 — Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Studio, its officers, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, arising out of or related to your use of the site, your submissions, our services, or any relationship between us — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or the site is limited to the greater of (a) one hundred US dollars (US$100), or (b) the total amount you have paid to the Studio in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, if any. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

07 — Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Studio and its officers, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your use of the site, (b) your submissions, (c) your violation of these terms, (d) your violation of any applicable law, or (e) your infringement of any third party's rights.

08 — Privacy

Our handling of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these terms by reference.

09 — Modifications

We may modify these terms at any time. The current version will always be available at this URL with the revision date at the top of the page. Material changes will be reflected by an updated date and, where appropriate, additional notice. By continuing to use the site after a change, you accept the modified terms.

10 — Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to the arbitration clause below, you and the Studio agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New Mexico for any dispute that is not required to be arbitrated.

11 — Arbitration and class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully.Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms or the site (a “Dispute”) — except a claim for injunctive or other equitable relief — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will take place in New Mexico, conducted in English, before a single arbitrator. The arbitrator's award is final and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction. You and the Studio each waive any right to a jury trial. You and the Studio each waive any right to participate in a class action, collective action, or representative proceeding. Claims must be brought within one (1) year of the event giving rise to the claim or be permanently barred, to the extent permitted by law.

12 — Copyright (DMCA) notice and takedown

If you believe content on the site infringes your copyright, send a notice to contact@stillfield.studio with: (a) your electronic or physical signature, (b) identification of the copyrighted work, (c) the URL of the allegedly infringing material, (d) your contact information, (e) a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized, and (f) a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

13 — Severability and entire agreement

If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Editorial Standards, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Studio with respect to the site and supersede any prior agreements.

14 — Contact

Questions about these terms? contact@stillfield.studio.