This summary is not a confidentiality agreement, commission, offer or substitute for project-specific legal terms.
1. Your enquiry does not transfer ownership.
Sending a first-contact email does not assign ownership or grant CDM or RORI a licence to develop, reproduce, train on or exploit your creative material.
2. Do not send the secret first.
Begin with format, stage, audience and broad ambition. Do not send scripts, decks, private links, unreleased footage or material requiring confidentiality until the reviewers and protections are agreed.
3. The reviewer set must be visible.
CDM founding stewardship reviews the initial signal. Before substantive material is requested, the named project lead, operating counterparty and any approved specialist reviewers must be identified.
4. Tool use requires project-specific consent.
Creative material will not be entered into a third-party generative system without disclosure of the proposed tool use and explicit approval for that project. Approval for one use is not blanket approval for another.
5. Human authorship means human accountability.
RORI’s standard is human-authored, human-accountable work, with meaningful tool transparency wherever tools affect consent, rights, credit, representation or creative authority.
6. Terms precede development.
Rights, credit, compensation, scope, approvals, confidentiality, data handling, deadlock, cancellation and exit terms must be agreed in writing before development begins.
7. A respectful no remains possible.
Either side may decide the fit is wrong before an engagement is formed. Unsolicited material should not create an obligation to review, retain or develop it.