Terms of use

1 Subject matter

1.1 Screencurve is a web application that lets production companies have a finished episode analysed: the episode analysis writes a Formatbibel with timecoded evidence covering dramaturgy, characters, visual language, editing (pace and cut frequency), sound, production and continuity, compliance, and format and business; on top of that come continuity errors, Ask the Film (frame-accurate answers to questions about an episode), press releases, the adaptation bible, the series analysis across several episodes of a project, the market-potential check over public web sources with evidence verification, archive search across your own organization, and export as Word and JSON.

1.2 webvise makes Screencurve available for use over the internet for the term of the contract and operates it. Scope, quota, and prices follow from the offer and its acceptance.

1.3 Under Models 1 through 5A, Screencurve is not licensed as software. The customer receives no rights to the source code. A full transfer under Model 5B requires a separate transfer agreement and is not governed by these terms.

2 Formation of contract, contracting parties

2.1 The contract is formed by the signed acceptance of the offer or by a written order. The contracting party is the production company or group named as the customer in the acceptance.

2.2 These terms apply exclusively. The customer's purchasing terms apply only if webvise agrees to them in writing.

3 Accounts, organizations, projects, roles

3.1 Each organization gets its own area with its own data, its own usage, and its own invoice.

3.2 A new organization is inactive until webvise activates it and assigns it a plan. Until then its members see the application read-only: no uploading, no analysis, no external sharing, no invitations. There is no self-service without this step.

3.3 The customer names at least one organization admin per organization. The organization admin creates projects, invites users per project, and releases usage beyond the quota.

3.4 A user sees only the projects an organization admin has invited them to. Without an invitation they see nothing, not even the projects of their own organization. An organization admin, or a member entitled to do so, can additionally share a project or a single episode with a person by email or with another organization, at one of the levels read, read and export, or collaborate. The recipient must sign in; there is no access without sign-in. Any share can be revoked at any time and transfers no ownership.

3.5 Sign-in runs through the sign-in service WorkOS, with the user's Microsoft account, Google account, or a code sent to their email address. Credentials must be kept confidential. The customer notifies webvise without delay if an account is misused or a user leaves.

3.6 The customer is responsible for its users complying with these terms.

4 Material and rights in the material

4.1 The customer uploads only material it is entitled to have analysed: its own productions, material for which it holds the necessary usage rights, and material whose rights holder has consented to the analysis. Each upload carries the user's confirmation of this.

4.2 The following may not be uploaded: material with copy protection that would have to be circumvented (§ 95a of the German Copyright Act); material from streaming or catch-up services that is cleared for viewing only, not for download; and material whose analysis would breach agreements with broadcasters, co-producers, or authors.

4.3 Where the rights to a production lie with a broadcaster or a third party, the customer clears the use before uploading. webvise assists with a description of the processing (clause 7) but does not establish the rights itself.

4.4 The customer indemnifies webvise against third-party claims arising from material uploaded without the necessary rights, including reasonable costs of legal defence. This does not apply to the extent webvise is responsible for the breach.

4.5 webvise may exclude material that clearly breaches clause 4.2 from analysis and inform the customer.

5 Results and their use

5.1 The results of the analyses (Formatbibeln, evidence, tables, reports, exports) belong to the customer. It may use them without limit in time or place, including after the contract ends.

5.2 Results are produced with AI models. Episode analyses provide suggestions and timecoded evidence; market checks provide statements with web sources. They are not decisions and must be reviewed by people. Screencurve marks what has been confirmed and what has not.

5.3 If the customer passes on AI-generated text or images from Screencurve, it is responsible for the labelling required by Art. 50 of the AI Act where applicable in the individual case.

6 Quota, usage, prices

6.1 Each package includes a monthly quota of analysis hours. An analysis hour is one hour of material in the full episode analysis; other functions count at the share stated in the offer.

6.2 Once the quota is reached, Screencurve warns. Further hours run only once the organization admin releases them; they are billed monthly in arrears at the package's hourly price. Unused hours expire at the end of the month.

6.3 Market checks and other services are billed under the hourly or fixed-price model stated in the offer.

6.4 Each organization sees its own usage in the usage log: an organization admin sees every entry of the organization, a member sees their own.

6.5 Failed attempts by the system cost nothing. Prices apply for the term; webvise announces changes three months before it ends.

7 Data processing, data protection, security

7.1 Material and results are processed and stored within the European Union. Video material and stills sit in the Frankfurt region (Google Cloud, europe-west3); the AI-based analysis runs on Google Cloud Vertex AI over the EU multi-region endpoint, for which Google guarantees that processing stays within the EU. Only a compressed viewing copy ever reaches the model, never the broadcast master.

7.2 Google does not use the customer's content to train its models. webvise does not train its own models on the customer's material or results.

7.3 To the extent personal data is processed, the data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR applies as an annex. Sub-processors are listed there.

7.4 webvise takes the technical and organizational measures described in the data processing agreement, keeps the application up to date, and closes critical security vulnerabilities within 48 hours of becoming aware of them.

7.5 The customer can delete material and results at any time by deleting the respective episode or the entire project. This removes viewing copies, stills, and analyses from the application; the underlying objects in storage can still be recovered for 30 days afterward, before they are permanently deleted.

8 Availability and support

8.1 webvise operates Screencurve with care: with a continuously backed-up database (point-in-time restore), a 30-day recovery window for deleted objects in storage, and monitoring. A specific availability is committed only where an SLA has been agreed; the values and credits named there then apply.

8.2 webvise announces maintenance windows at least two business days in advance.

8.3 Support is reachable on business days from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. by email and Teams; the response time follows from the package.

9 Duties of the customer

9.1 The customer delivers material in the agreed formats, names one point of contact per organization, and accepts services within 14 days of delivery; if it does not report material defects in writing within that time, the service is deemed accepted.

9.2 The customer does not use Screencurve to train models, to rebuild the product, to circumvent protection mechanisms, or to give third parties access outside the contract.

10 Confidentiality and references

10.1 Both parties treat material, results, prices, and technical information as confidential, including for five years beyond the end of the contract. Excepted is what is publicly known or must be disclosed under a legal duty.

10.2 webvise does not name the customer, its organizations, or the pilot to third parties, and uses nothing as a reference without written approval.

11 Liability

11.1 webvise is liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, and under the Product Liability Act.

11.2 For slight negligence, webvise is liable only for breach of a duty whose performance makes carrying out the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance the customer may rely, and then limited to the foreseeable, typical damage for this kind of contract, capped at the amounts paid in the current contract year. webvise is not liable for lost profit.

11.3 For data loss, webvise is liable only for the effort that would have been necessary to restore the data had the customer kept proper backups of its own; webvise restores from its own most recent backup.

11.4 For results, clause 5.2 applies: webvise is not liable for decisions the customer makes on the basis of results.

12 Term, termination, end of contract

12.1 Term and notice periods follow from the offer and its acceptance. The right to terminate for good cause remains unaffected.

12.2 At the end of the contract webvise exports all results as Word and JSON and makes them available to the customer. webvise then deletes material and results within 30 days and confirms the deletion.

12.3 Source code escrow is not included in Models 1 through 5A. Under Model 5B, a separate transfer agreement governs the handover of source code and product components.

13 Changes to these terms

webvise may change these terms with three months' notice to the end of the term. The customer may terminate before then; otherwise the changed terms apply from the next term.

14 Final provisions

14.1 German law applies. The place of jurisdiction is Potsdam.

14.2 Changes and side agreements require text form.

14.3 If a provision is invalid, the rest of the contract remains valid.

Annex: clause on material and rights

1. The customer uploads only material it is entitled to have analysed: its own productions, material with the necessary usage rights, or material whose rights holder has consented to the analysis. Each upload carries the user's confirmation of this; the confirmation is recorded per user, project, and version of these terms, with the date and the first file uploaded.

2. Excluded is material whose copy protection would have to be circumvented (§ 95a of the German Copyright Act), material from streaming or catch-up services without a download right, and material whose analysis would breach agreements with broadcasters, co-producers, or authors.

3. Where the rights to a production lie with a broadcaster or a third party, the customer clears the use before uploading. For the pilot, the parties clear the rights position of the pilot productions with the group's legal department before the pilot starts; webvise provides a description of the processing for that purpose.

4. Screencurve processes material solely to analyse it for the customer. Neither webvise nor the model providers it uses use material or results to train models. Only a compressed viewing copy ever reaches the model, never the broadcast master; processing and storage take place in the EU.

5. Results belong to the customer. webvise acquires no rights in the analysed material.

6. The customer indemnifies webvise against third-party claims arising from material uploaded without the necessary rights, including reasonable costs of legal defence, to the extent webvise is not responsible for the breach.

7. webvise may exclude material that clearly breaches paragraph 2 from analysis and informs the customer.