HoloArcade Community License v2

Publishing and Community Reuse License for AI-Generated Creations

Effective Date: July 22, 2026 (supersedes Version 1 of November 20, 2025)

TL;DR

• Your drafts are private. Nothing is shared with the community until you deliberately publish it.
• Publishing releases a permanent, immutable version of your creation. Published versions cannot be unpublished, taken back, or delisted. You can always publish improved versions.
• Everyone may play published simulations.
• Letting others build with your character or world in their own simulations is a separate, opt-in grant you make by publishing it from its own builder.
• When someone plays a simulation, they automatically receive valid play rights to everything inside it, including building blocks made by other creators.
• You keep credit as the creator. You can hide your name at any time without withdrawing the content.
• Community publishing is free sharing: you will not be paid for community-licensed versions, now or later.
• Only HoloArcade can remove published content, and only for moderation, legal, or data-protection reasons.

1. What This License Covers

This license governs published versions: the immutable snapshots of simulations, characters, and worlds that you release to the community through a publish action, including the AI-generated media (images, audio, video) those snapshots pin.

It does not cover your private content:

• Drafts. The working copies of your simulations, characters, and worlds are private until you publish them, and stay private and editable afterwards.
• Play content. Your play sessions, conversations with AI characters, and the content generated during your own play are private to you (see the Privacy Policy).

Everything you generate on HoloArcade, published or not, is additionally covered by the platform license in Section 8, which exists so we can operate the service.

2. Publishing Is Permanent and Irrevocable

By publishing a version, you grant HoloArcade and its community a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to that version as described in this document, including the right to sublicense it as described in Section 5.

This works like an open-source license: once granted, it can never be revoked, by you or by us.

• Published versions cannot be unpublished, deleted, or delisted by the creator. There is no mechanism for it, by design: other people's simulations and save games may depend on your published versions.
• Publishing an improved version supersedes the old one for display only. The community sees your newest version by default, but every older published version stays available and playable forever: existing save games keep the exact version they were started on.
• This grant survives anything that happens later, including you hiding your name (Section 6) or deleting your account.

You confirm this grant explicitly in the publish dialog. The exact license version you agreed to, and the moment you agreed, are recorded permanently with every published version.

3. The Play Grant

Every published simulation version grants every HoloArcade user the right to:

• Play it, including all of the content pinned inside it: its world, its characters, their images, voices, and music.
• Generate their own play content while playing it (conversations, moments, images, and other play-time media). That play content belongs to the player under the Terms of Use, and is private to them.

HoloArcade may host, display, distribute, and promote published versions as part of operating the platform, including showing them in Explore, on public preview pages, in version histories, and on creator profiles.

Publishing a simulation is play-only sharing: it does not, by itself, allow anyone to extract your world or characters and build their own simulations with them. That requires the separate reuse grant below.

4. The Reuse Grant (Opt-In, Per Building Block)

You can additionally allow the community to build with a character or world you made. You make this grant by publishing the character or world from its own builder: publishing a building block standalone has exactly this meaning, and the publish dialog says so.

The reuse grant allows other users to:

• Add the granted published version of your character or world to their own simulations.
• Publish those simulations, embedding your granted version inside them.

Rules of the reuse grant:

• It applies to the specific published versions you release with reuse enabled. Others always build with a pinned, immutable version of your work, never with your private draft. Your later edits change nothing for them.
• It can widen but never narrow: a version released for reuse stays reusable forever. You can stop offering reuse on future versions at any time, but versions already granted remain granted.
• Simulations that embed your work always pin the version they adopted. Their creators may choose to update to your newer versions, but are never forced to.

5. The Chain of Rights (Sublicensing)

So that shared creations actually work, the grants above chain:

When creator B publishes a simulation that embeds a reuse-granted character or world version by creator A, creator B's publication includes a valid sublicense of A's granted version, limited to that embedding. Every user who plays B's simulation thereby receives valid play rights to A's work inside it, exactly as if A had published it there.

This chain:

• extends through any number of levels, and
• survives anything A does later, including hiding their name or deleting their account. A's grant to the community, once made, supports everything lawfully built on top of it.

6. Credit and Anonymity

• Published versions credit you as the creator ("by @yourhandle") wherever they appear: on cards, pages, version histories, in-simulation credits, and your public creator profile.
• You can hide your name at any time, per creation, reversibly. Anonymized creations show "anonymous creator" instead of your handle and drop off your public creator profile. Hiding your name never withdraws the content itself.
• If you delete your account, your name is permanently severed from your published versions (they become anonymous), but the versions themselves remain, because the community's rights to them are irrevocable.
• Caches and third-party copies may show your earlier byline for some time after you hide your name.

7. Removal by HoloArcade Only

The only way a published version becomes unavailable is removal by HoloArcade, and only for:

• Moderation: the content violates our Terms of Use or applicable law.
• Legal orders: a court or authority requires removal.
• Data protection: removal or anonymization is required to satisfy obligations under applicable data-protection law.

A removed version becomes unavailable everywhere at once, including inside other creators' simulations that embedded it (their builders prompt them to pick a replacement). Removal decisions follow the moderation process described in the Terms of Use, including a statement of reasons and the possibility to appeal.

Creators cannot demand removal of their own published content (see Section 2). If published content contains your personal data unlawfully, contact us under the Privacy Policy: data-protection obligations take precedence over this license.

8. The Platform License (Everything You Generate)

Separately from the community grants above, and so that HoloArcade can function at all, you grant HoloArcade a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable license to all content you generate on the platform (published or not) to:

• Store, host, cache, process, and display it to you and, where you published it, to others
• Create the technical derivatives operation requires (image edits, scene compositions, thumbnails, format conversions)
• Moderate it and enforce our Terms of Use and the law
• Use published content in promotional materials and demonstrations of the platform
• Improve our services. Your private conversations with AI characters are never used to train AI models without your explicit consent (see the Privacy Policy)
• Operate HoloArcade as a commercial platform

This platform license continues if you delete your account, to the extent needed to keep the platform working for users who interacted with or built upon your published creations, and to meet legal obligations.

9. No Compensation

Community publishing is free sharing, in both directions:

• You pay nothing to publish, and you are owed nothing for publishing. HoloArcade and other users owe you no payment, royalties, or other compensation for community-licensed versions: not now, and not later, regardless of how popular your creations become or how HoloArcade monetizes the platform around them.
• If HoloArcade introduces creator monetization in the future, it will happen under a separate creator license that you would actively choose for new versions at publish time. Versions published under this community license remain community-licensed forever and never become monetized retroactively.

10. Your Own Content, and Limits on Others'

• You retain ownership of your creations and all rights we do not need to run the platform, to the maximum extent legally available for AI-generated works (the legal status of AI-generated content varies by jurisdiction, and we make no warranty about it: see Section 11).
• You may use your own creations outside HoloArcade, personally or commercially.
• Content made by other users is licensed to you for play and (where granted) building within HoloArcade only. You may not redistribute or commercially exploit other users' content outside the platform without their explicit permission.
• Nobody may claim exclusive ownership of community-licensed content, resell raw AI-generated content as standalone products (asset packs, templates), scrape or bulk-download content from the platform, or prevent HoloArcade and the community from exercising the rights in this license.

11. No Warranties

AI-generated content is provided "as-is", without warranties of originality or uniqueness, copyright ownership or legal status, fitness for any particular purpose, or freedom from third-party claims. You are responsible for evaluating AI-generated content before using it in ways that could create legal obligations.

12. License Versioning

Every published version permanently records the license version it was released under, together with the moment of your consent. When this license text changes, a new license version number is issued: already-published versions keep the license they were published under, and the grants they carry are unaffected.

• Version 2 (this document), effective July 22, 2026: rewritten for the publishing model — private drafts, immutable published versions, the play/reuse split, the chain of rights, anonymization, and the no-compensation clause.
• Version 1, effective November 20, 2025, is archived. Content generated while v1 was in effect remains governed by it.

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This license makes sharing safe in both directions: players and builders can rely on what you published, and you can rely on being credited, on your privacy choices, and on your drafts staying yours.

Questions? Contact support@holoarcade.ai