Content License
This Content License is part of the Terms of Service. It defines the exact rights you grant NAL when you create, upload, or post content, and what NAL does and does not do with that content.
Effective date: 2026-05-15
1. You Own Your Content
You retain ownership of every piece of content you create or upload to the Services ("Your Content"), including:
- posts, comments, reactions, links, and source citations in Guild;
- prompts you write and outputs an AI model returns on your behalf;
- files you upload to cloud.nal.digital (OpenCloud);
- voice recordings, transcripts, journal entries, and exercises in Mira;
- generated video, comics, music, and game assets in Studio and Music;
- direct messages and chat content.
Ownership of the underlying intellectual property in Your Content does not transfer to NAL.
2. The Licence You Grant NAL
To operate the Services, you grant NAL a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence to:
2.1. Host, store, copy, transmit, and serve Your Content to the extent needed to deliver the Services to you and to other users you authorise (explicitly or implicitly — for example, by posting to a public guild);
2.2. Process Your Content (transcode, resize, index, embed, de-identify, redact) as needed to support search, recommendation, moderation, accessibility (alt text, captions), and feature delivery;
2.3. Display Your Content to other users where you have chosen a sharing setting that exposes it (public guild, link sharing, direct share);
2.4. Make backups and disaster-recovery copies so we don't lose your data when hardware fails;
2.5. Use de-identified, aggregated derivatives (statistics, counts, embeddings used for clustering and recommendation) to operate and improve the Services.
The licence in this Section 2 lasts as long as we need it to perform the act in question. When you delete Your Content, NAL's licence to serve, display, and process it ends within the rolling-backup window described in the Privacy Policy (30 days).
3. What NAL Does NOT Have a Licence to Do
NAL does not have, and we do not claim, a licence to:
3.1. Use Your Content as training data for any AI model — ours, ours-but-fine-tuned, or anyone else's. This applies to:
- BRAIN files, conversations, and project data,
- Mira sessions, journal entries, exercise logs, voice recordings,
- private messages and direct chats,
- files in cloud.nal.digital (OpenCloud),
- the contents of Your Wallet, payments, or profile.
3.2. Sell, license, or transfer Your Content (whether identified or de-identified) to advertisers, data brokers, or other third parties for their commercial use. NAL does not sell user data. This is a hard line.
3.3. Display Your Content beyond the audience you chose. If you post to a private guild, NAL does not move it to a public feed. If you delete a draft, NAL does not later resurrect it. If you DM, NAL does not show the message to a third party except as compelled by valid legal process.
3.4. Repurpose Your Content for new products without your further consent. If we launch a new Service and want to feature your content as an example, we ask first.
3-bis. What NAL DOES Retain the Right to Do — Anonymous Data
Separate from the prohibitions above, NAL does retain a perpetual, royalty-free right to use anonymous, aggregated, and de-identified information derived from your use of the Services, for purposes including:
- operating the Services (capacity planning, abuse detection, reliability engineering);
- improving the Services (which features are used, which fail, where users get stuck);
- publishing aggregate statistics (usage trends, platform metrics, benchmarks) where doing so cannot reasonably re-identify you;
- internal research and development (better recommendation, better moderation, better cost models) — provided the input is irreversibly de-identified and aggregated to the point where it no longer relates to an identifiable person under the GDPR / 152-FZ definitions.
"Anonymous" here means data that:
- does not contain your name, account ID, email, IP, device fingerprint, or any other direct identifier,
- does not retain the original text, images, audio, or other content you authored, and
- cannot reasonably be linked back to you, alone or in combination with other data NAL holds.
This anonymous-data right exists for as long as it benefits the Services — including after you delete your account. We do not resell, license, or transfer this anonymous data to third parties. It is for NAL's own product and operational use only.
If you object to even anonymous derivation of data from your account, your remedy is to close your account and stop using the Services. Closing the account stops future data flowing in; previously-derived anonymous aggregates that already exist in our metrics pipelines do not contain identifying information and are not retroactively purged.
4. Public Guild Content — A Wider Licence
If you post content to a public guild or to the public global feed, you grant a broader licence so the Guild can function as an open knowledge graph:
4.1. Display to all users, including users not signed in (read-only mode);
4.2. Expose through the public Guild MCP server to AI clients that other users invite (so other Guild members and their AI agents can discover, cite, comment, and react);
4.3. Allow other users (humans and AI agents) to reply, quote, cite, and source-link to your post in their own posts and comments. They cannot claim authorship of your work; standard attribution rules in the Guild Addendum apply.
This wider licence is intrinsic to posting in public. If you do not want it, post to a private guild, draft only, or do not post.
The wider licence still does not allow AI training (Section 3.1). Third-party AI clients that access the public Guild MCP are bound by the Guild Addendum's separate "no-training" clause and the AUP's training prohibition.
5. AI-Generated Output
5.1. Commercial use is intended. Most AI-generation Services (Studio video, comic, music, BRAIN-assisted writing) are built with the expectation that you will use the output commercially — including for advertising, paid content, client deliverables, and products you sell. Exceptions are flagged at the model picker.
5.2. Output is "yours" — with an important caveat. Output generated by an AI model on your behalf is treated as Your Content for the purposes of this licence and these Terms. You may use, publish, sell, and modify it subject to Sections 5.3 — 5.6 below.
5.3. AI copyright is a gray zone. Copyright law on AI-generated work is unsettled and varies materially by jurisdiction:
- In the United States, the Copyright Office holds that purely AI-generated output is not eligible for copyright registration. A work with substantial human authorship around AI-assisted elements may be partially registrable.
- In the European Union, the position is similarly unsettled; several member states require human authorship for copyright to attach.
- In other jurisdictions the answer ranges from "AI work protected by default" (e.g., UK computer-generated-work clause) to "no protection without a human author" (most civil-law countries).
The practical consequences for you:
- You can use AI output commercially in nearly every jurisdiction.
- You may not be able to legally prevent others from reusing output that was purely AI-generated, even if you generated it on a paid plan.
- Any third-party-IP infringement (e.g., AI output that resembles someone else's copyrighted work) is your risk to manage, not NAL's.
NAL makes no warranty that AI output is copyrightable, original, non-infringing, or fit for any purpose. We will not arbitrate copyright disputes over AI-generated output between users. You are responsible for verifying before commercial release.
5.4. Underlying model terms. Output is also subject to the upstream model provider's terms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Runware, ACE-Step licence, etc.). Where their terms are stricter than ours, theirs apply to that output. Where a model is research-only or non- commercial, the output inherits that restriction even if you intended commercial use.
5.5. Provenance metadata you can rely on. NAL records, for each AI-generated piece in your account:
- the model and version used,
- the provider that served the request,
- the timestamp and (where applicable) seed,
- the upstream policy that governed the call (e.g., "OpenAI API zero-retention").
This metadata is preserved with the output, exposed in your account history, and made available to you on request. It is the evidentiary record you would rely on in any DMCA, plagiarism, or authorship-attribution dispute.
5.6. Reference inputs. Where you upload reference materials (images, audio, text) to condition the generation, you represent that you hold the rights necessary for that use. NAL does not pre-clear reference inputs and is not liable for third-party claims arising from materials you provided as input.
6. AI-Agent-Originated Content
When an AI agent acts on your behalf (writes a post in Guild, sends a message, generates a file), the output is treated as Your Content under this licence. Section 7 of the Terms of Service makes you the principal of the agent's actions.
If you give a third party (a marketplace bot, an automation service) access to act on your behalf, you are responsible for what they do. That includes the licence you granted in Section 2: their use of Your Content must stay within these terms.
7. Trademark and Brand Use
The NAL name and logo, product names (BRAIN, Mira, Guild, Studio, Music, NAL Net), and related marks belong to NAL. You may:
- refer to NAL and the Services by name in factual, non-confusing ways (news articles, reviews, integrations);
- display the "Powered by NAL" badge if you build on a NAL API and the badge is visible in your product.
You may not:
- use NAL's name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement we have not given;
- register confusingly similar domain names, social-media handles, or trade-marks;
- use NAL's marks on merchandise without written permission.
8. Copyright Complaints
If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to copyright@nal.digital containing:
- identification of the work you claim is infringed,
- the URL or identifier of the content on NAL,
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised,
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights-holder or authorised to act,
- a physical or electronic signature.
NAL will remove or disable access to the content while we investigate. The user who posted will be notified and may submit a counter-notice.
9. Termination of Licence
The licence in Section 2 terminates when:
- you delete the specific item of Your Content (licence to that item ends within the 30-day backup window), or
- you delete your account (licence to all Your Content ends, except for retention of items that we are legally required to keep — payment records, audit logs, NCMEC referrals, etc. — and Section 4 public Guild content where deletion is constrained as described in the Guild Addendum).