Creator Agreement

This sits on top of the Terms of Service, which apply to you as well.

1. What you grant us

You give LAJ House Limited a non-exclusive licence to host your film, stream it to viewers who rent or buy it, and show its title, poster, synopsis and credits in the catalogue and in material promoting the platform.

Non-exclusive means exactly that. You can put the same film on any other platform, enter it into festivals, screen it, or sell it elsewhere. You do not need our permission and you do not have to tell us.

2. You keep your film

Publishing here transfers no ownership. The copyright stays exactly where it was. We acquire no right to edit, re-cut, sublicense or create anything derived from your film, and we will not use it to train machine-learning models.

3. You must hold the rights

When you publish a film you warrant that you hold or control every right needed to do so, and that our streaming it will not infringe anyone else’s rights. That covers the whole film, not just the footage: the music and score, archive material, stills, fonts, and the contributions of cast and crew.

You confirm this per film at the point of upload, and that confirmation is recorded against the film.

3a. The KECOBO certificate

On top of that confirmation, every film needs a valid copyright registration certificate from the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO), for that specific film. You upload it with the film.

No certificate, no publishing. You can upload a film without one and it will sit in review, but it will not appear in the catalogue and it cannot be rented or bought until we have seen a valid certificate. We check it before a film goes live — that check is what stands between the platform and somebody selling a film that is not theirs.

If a certificate turns out to be invalid, or is withdrawn, we will take the film off sale and tell you why.

This is the one thing we cannot check for you and the thing most likely to cause real trouble.

4. Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against us because a film you published was not yours to publish, you are responsible for it, and you agree to indemnify us against the losses, damages and reasonable legal costs we incur as a result.

We will tell you promptly about any such claim, will not settle it without asking you first, and will let you take over the defence if you want it.

5. Money

You keep 75% of the gross on every sale; 25% is the platform’s. Gross means what the viewer actually paid, before anything is taken out. The split is calculated in whole shillings and where it cannot divide evenly the rounding goes in your favour.

That 25% covers payment processing, video hosting and bandwidth, and running the platform. There is no listing fee, no monthly charge, and nothing deducted for putting a film up.

You set your own prices, and you may publish a film free to watch — in which case there is no payment, no split and nothing to pay out.

6. Getting paid

Earnings accrue to your account as viewers buy your films. Payouts run weekly and are made manually, by transfer to the payout details on file — your M-Pesa number or bank account. Until those details are there your earnings are recorded and waiting, not lost.

A payout is marked paid against your account once sent. If a transfer fails or bounces we will come back to you. You are responsible for your own tax.

7. Withdrawing a film

You can withdraw a film at any time, from its edit page.

Withdrawal removes it from the catalogue, from the landing page, from search and from your creator page, and it can no longer be bought or rented.

What withdrawal does not do — and this is the part to read twice:

• Viewers who already bought it keep streaming access, for as long as the platform operates. It stays in their library and it keeps playing.
• Rentals already running continue to the end of their 48-hour window.

That is the deal viewers were sold when they paid, and withdrawing a film does not unwind it. If you need a film taken down completely — not just delisted — that is a takedown, and clause 8 covers it.

Withdrawal does not delete the video. Deleting the underlying file is an administrator action, reserved for takedowns.

8. Takedowns

If we receive a credible claim that a film infringes someone’s rights, we may delist it and hold the payouts attached to it while we look into the claim. We will tell you when we do and why, and give you a fair chance to respond.

Where a claim is upheld, or a court or regulator requires it, we will remove the film completely — including from the libraries of people who bought it — and refund those buyers. Where that happens because of a breach of clause 3, those refunds fall under the indemnity in clause 4.

To make a claim against a film on the platform, write to viewpoint@lajhouseltd.com with enough detail to identify the film and your right in the work.

9. Ending the agreement

You can stop publishing whenever you like, and withdraw your films as clause 7 describes. Clauses 4, 7 and 8 survive: the indemnity continues for claims arising from what you published, and buyers keep what they bought.

We may end this agreement if you breach it, in which case the same survivals apply.

10. Changes

We will update this agreement as the platform changes and when counsel has reviewed it. Every version carries a number and a date. Material changes are put to you for acceptance the next time you sign in.