🔒 Legal & IP Policy

Last updated: 5/20/2025

At Crimson Loom Studios, we take intellectual property (IP), creative rights, and confidentiality seriously. Whether you're working with us or applying to collaborate, we ensure that your work — and ours — is protected.

📄 Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

All contractors, applicants, and collaborators agree to the following by engaging with Crimson Loom Studios or submitting creative work for review:

1. Confidentiality:
You agree not to disclose or share any confidential information, materials, or project content belonging to Crimson Loom Studios without written permission.

2. Covered Information:
This includes but is not limited to: game ideas, designs, assets, code, character details, narratives, business plans, or any unpublished content shared with you.

3. Duration:
This obligation of confidentiality lasts indefinitely for trade secrets, and for a minimum of 5 years for other proprietary or sensitive information.

4. Usage:
Any access you’re granted to internal documents, project files, or private discussions is for the purpose of your direct collaboration only. You may not repurpose, share, or reproduce any part of this work.

5. Violations:
Breach of this agreement may result in immediate termination of any working relationship, as well as legal action if necessary.

🧠 Intellectual Property (IP) Policy

We honor the rights of all creators, and we’re committed to protecting both your work and ours.

1. Studio-Owned Work:
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all creative work done on Crimson Loom Studios projects under contract is considered “work for hire” and becomes the sole intellectual property of Crimson Loom Studios.

2. Your Portfolio Rights:
Contractors and creatives may showcase non-confidential portions of their work in portfolios only with prior written permission from the studio. Any work not yet released publicly must remain private.

3. Independent Work:
If you are hired to complete a specific task or design for Crimson Loom Studios, we do not claim rights to your unrelated, outside work created on your own time and without studio resources.

4. Shared Ideas in Pitches or Submissions:
Unsolicited submissions or pitch materials sent to us are reviewed under the understanding that:

  • You own what you’ve created, but

  • Crimson Loom Studios is not obligated to use, compensate, or acknowledge submissions unless we formally engage with you.

  • We may already be working on similar ideas, and we do not accept liability for conceptual overlap.

✅ By working with or applying to Crimson Loom Studios, you agree to these terms.

Questions? Contact us at crimsonloomstudios@gmail.com.