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Script Submission Policy and Release Form
CLAWREIGNA PRODUCTION (the “Company”) would like to thank you (the “Owner”) for your interest in submitting a piece of scripted literary material (the “Screenplay”). We invite you to review our submission policy and procedures below. Please be aware that the Company will only accept and consider material if their Owner(s) agree to the policies set forth and outlined below.
NO UNSOLICITED SCRIPTS:
CLAWREIGNA PRODUCTION does not accept unsolicited screenplays. Please refrain from emailing us scripts as PDF attachments or any other format.
DO NOT submit your screenplay via email. ONLY submit your script through this submission form after reading and agreeing to the terms and conditions. Should you send us your screenplay without following this procedure your submission will not be read or acknowledged, and the script will be deleted.
CONSEQUENCES OF NON-COMPLIANCE:
Repeated unsolicited submissions will lead to being blocked.
FULL COPYRIGHT / OWNERSHIP OF THE SCREENPLAY, TREATMENT, OR SCRIPTED MATERIAL
The Company will only accept material submitted via this submission form. Your submission will only be considered at your request, with your guarantee that you (and your co-writers / owners if applicable) are the sole originator(s) of the scripted material and you have the legal right to submit it to the Company for consideration.
DISCLOSURE OF SCRIPTED MATERIAL IS NOT CONFIDENTIAL
You authorize the Company to discuss your Screenplay with its employees and collaborators to evaluate its overall production potential. You acknowledge and agree that the company may seek independent consultant or third party review of the Script. In the event the company forwards Your Script to third parties, that company hereby expressly waive any and all liability for any violation of Your intellectual property or other rights by any such third party, and You hereby release the company from any and all liabilities arising out of or related to our forwarding of the Script. However, You retain all rights to the Script itself. You furthermore acknowledge and understand that any consideration and discussion of your submission does not create a binding and confidential relationship.
SUBMISSION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
Review of your Screenplay does not imply that the Company agrees to compensate you in any way or you agree to hire/compensate the Company in any way. However, should the Company choose to explore the use of your Screenplay or any portion thereof that is legally protectable, the Company will enter into negotiations with you to determine fair and equitable compensation (whether you will compensate by hiring the company or the company buys the rights to produce your screenplay).
SUBMISSION WITHOUT PREJUDICE
The Company’s consideration of the screenplay you submit, or negotiations to purchase said material, does not waive our right to research and confirm / contest your copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property rights.
CONCEPTION BY THE COMPANY
The world of storytelling is vast and diverse. It’s possible that themes, ideas, or elements in your screenplay may resemble those in projects we are already developing or considering. The Company may already be exploring films and ideas generated by employees or other outside sources that resemble your submission. In certain cases the Company may have considered your ideas in the past, or similar or identical ideas that may have been generated independently. Therefore, you agree to renounce any claim that the Company misappropriated any ideas or portions of your submission in any future Company productions. CLAWREIGNA PRODUCTION is not liable for any perceived similarities between your screenplay and any of our current or future projects. By submitting your screenplay to us, you acknowledge that such similarities can occur independently and are coincidental. We are not responsible for any claims of copyright infringement. We maintain records of our development process to substantiate the independent creation of our projects.
QUALIFICATION & MODIFICATION
You acknowledge that you are at least 18 years of age. You have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these terms and conditions, and you agree to abide and be bound to the terms and conditions herein. You hereby agree that above conditions may not be changed or waived except in writing and must be signed by an officer of the Company.
THE MATERIAL IS SUBMITTED ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:
1. I acknowledge that because of the company's position in the entertainment industry the company receives numerous submissions of ideas, formats, stories, suggestions and the like and that many such submissions received by the company are similar to or identical to those developed by the company or the company’s employees or otherwise available to the company. I agree that I will not be entitled to any compensation because of the use by the company of any such similar idea or material.
2. I further understand that the company would refuse to accept and evaluate said material in the absence of my acceptance of each and all of the provisions of this agreement. I shall retain all rights to submit this or similar material to persons other than the company. I acknowledge that no fiduciary or confidential relationship now exists between the company and me, and I further acknowledge that no such relationships are established between the company and me by reason of this agreement or by reason of my submission to the company of said material.
3. I request that the company read and evaluate said material to decide whether the company will undertake efforts to acquire it and/or in hopes of hiring the company to produce said material, etc.
4. I represent and warrant that I am the author of said material, having written or acquired said material as the employer-for-hire of all writers thereof; that I am the present and sole owner of all right, title and interest in and to said material; that I have the exclusive, unconditional right and authority to submit and / or convey said material to the company upon the terms and conditions set forth herein; that no third party is entitled to any payment or other consideration as a condition of the exploitation of said material. If the material is co-owned, all co-writers / owners have submitted their own release form via the website submission form totaling 100% ownership of said material.
5. I agree to indemnify the company from and against any and all claims, expenses, losses, or liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and punitive damages) that may be asserted against the company or incurred by the company at any time in connection with said material, or any use thereof, including without limitation those arising from any breach of the warranties and promises given by me herein. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the companies, its employees, members, agents and affiliates from any and all liabilities, claims, demands and expenses, including attorney’s fees, made by any third party that may be asserted against the company, at any time, in connection with the SCRIPT or any use thereof, including without limitation those arising from any breach of the warranties and promises provided herein. You expressly waive any claim for express or implied breach of contract with respect to the SCRIPT, and You expressly waives any other claim of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to any unprotected SCRIPT. You hereby release, discharge, and hold the company harmless from any and all such claims, whether at law or in equity.
6. The company may use without any obligation or payment to me any of said material which is not protectable as literary property under the laws of plagiarism, or which a third person would be free to use if the material had not been submitted to the company or had not been the subject of any agreement with the company, or which is in the public domain. Any of said material which in accordance with the preceding sentence, the company is entitled to use without obligation to me is hereinafter referred to as “unprotected material.”
7. The company agrees that if the company uses or causes to be used any protected material provided it has not been obtained from, or independently created by, another source, the company will pay or cause to be paid to me an amount which is comparable to the compensation customarily paid for similar material. With the exception that I would like to hire the company to create the project.
8. I agree to give the company written notice of any claim arising in connection with said material or arising in connection with this agreement, within sixty calendar days after I acquire knowledge of such claim, or of our breach or failure to perform the provisions of this agreement, or if it be sooner, within sixty calendar days after I acquire knowledge of facts sufficient to put me on notice of any such claim, or breach or failure to perform; my failure to so give the company written notice will be deemed an irrevocable waiver of any rights I might otherwise have with respect to such claim, breach or failure to perform. The company shall have sixty calendar days receipt of said notice to attempt to cure any alleged breach or failure to perform prior to the time that I may file a Demand for Arbitration.
9. In the event of any dispute concerning said material or concerning any claim of any kind or nature arising in connection with said material or arising in connection with this agreement, such dispute will be submitted to binding arbitration. Each party hereby waives any and all rights and benefits which he or she or any pronouns they choose to be named as or it may otherwise have or be entitled to under the laws of the State of California to litigate any such dispute in court, it being the intention of the parties to arbitrate all such disputes. Either party may commence arbitration proceedings by giving the other party written notice thereof by registered mail and proceeding thereafter in accordance with the rules and procedures of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration shall be conducted in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and shall be governed by and subject to the laws of the State of California and the then prevailing rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrators’ award shall be final and binding and a judgment upon the award may be enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction.
10. I have retained at least one copy of said material, and I release the company from any and all liability for loss or other damage to the copies of said material submitted to the company hereunder. By submitting my Script for review, the company in no way grants me any additional rights therein or otherwise expands the scope of my rights under applicable copyright laws. I am solely responsible for protecting my rights in the Script, including without limitation for filing or registering the Script with the Copyright Office. The company may at any time reserve the right to request for further documents for verification /authentication purposes. The company, at any time may request amendment on the SCRIPT or resubmission of the Script within a specified period as it deemed necessary. If You do not wish to proceed with Script Submission, You can remedy by canceling the Script submission (cancel by responding to email if the company has sent one for further evaluation, etc.); If no response is given by 20 days, The Company will consider this an act of you wanting to cancel your script submission and you must resubmit your script via the submission form. If you submit your script for evaluation and the company has not reached out to you, you acknowledge that the company is not liable to get back to you and/or discard your script. You can submit a request via the submission form that you no longer wish to submit your script to the company. The Company is under no obligation to respond and/or return/destroy copies of the Script.
11. Either party to this agreement may assign or license its or their rights hereunder, but such assignment or license shall not relieve such party of its or their obligations hereunder. This agreement shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, successors, representatives, assigns and licenses, and any such heir, successor, representative, assign or licensee shall be deemed a third party beneficiary under this agreement.
12. I hereby acknowledge and agree that there are no prior or contemporaneous oral agreements in effect between the company and me pertaining to said material, or pertaining to any material (including, but not limited to, agreements pertaining to the submission by me of any ideas, formats, plots, characters, or the like). I further agree that no other obligations exist or shall exist or be deemed to exist unless and until a formal written agreement has been prepared and entered into by both the company and me, and then our and my rights and obligations shall be only as are expressed in said formal written agreement.
13. I understand that whenever the word “I” or “me” or “my” or “you” or “your” (He/she/it/etc) is used above, it refers to (1) you, the person agreeing to this terms and condition, (2) any company affiliated with you by way of common stock ownership or otherwise, (3) your subsidiaries, (4) subsidiaries of such affiliated companies, (5) any firm, person or corporation to whom you are leasing production facilities, (6) clients of any subsidiary or affiliated company of yours, and (7) the officers, agents, servants, employees, stockholders, clients, successors and assigns of you, and of all such person, corporations referred to in (1) through (6) hereof. If said material is submitted by more than one person, the word “I” shall be deemed changed to “we,” and this agreement will be binding jointly and severally upon all the persons so submitting said material.
14. Should any provision or part of any provision be void or unenforceable, such provision or part thereof shall be deemed omitted, and this agreement with such provision or part thereof shall remain in full force and effect.
15. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of California applicable to agreement executed and to be fully performed therein.
16. I have read, acknowledge, understand, and agree with this agreement and no oral representations of any kind have been made to me and this agreement states our entire understanding with reference to the subject matter hereof. Any modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this agreement must be in writing and signed by both of us. I agree with the terms and conditions. By submitting your screenplay for our services and/or in hopes for the company to compensate you for the rights, and/or etc. you agree to these NDA terms. Submissions without adherence to these terms will not be considered. The company reserves the right to refuse reading or providing services for any screenplay that does not comply with our policy or poses a conflict of interest with our current projects. Any breach of this policy, such as repeated unsolicited submissions, may result in being blocked and banned.
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