Terms of service

These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement between you (either an individual creator or the legal entity you represent) and Scena Studio LLC, a limited liability company registered in the United States (“we”, “us”, or “Scena Studio”).

These terms govern your access to the scenastudio.app website, your Scena Studio account, the Open Test programme, and the shared test API keys. The Windows desktop application itself is licensed under our End-User Licence Agreement (EULA), personal data is handled under our Privacy Policy, and paid subscriptions and lifetime purchases are governed by our Refunds & Billing Policy.

You accept these terms when you create an account, download the installer, or use Scena Studio. You must be at least 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher) to form a binding contract. If you register or use Scena Studio on behalf of a company, animation studio, agency, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind that entity to these terms.

You must provide an accurate email address when creating an account and keep your sign-in credentials confidential. Each account belongs to one person or one business entity; accounts and sign-in credentials may not be sold, rented, or posted publicly in shared credential groups. Notify us immediately at support@scenastudio.app if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

The Scena Studio desktop application is free to use during the Open Test. Scena Studio provides shared API credits at no charge at the start of the test on services where shared access is enabled. No payment card is required for shared access. Because Open Test builds are pre-release software under active development, features and UI screens may change between builds and unexpected bugs or interrupted queue jobs can occur.

Although all project folders stay on your local PC drive, you are responsible for keeping regular backups of important script sheets, reference assets, and finished episodes. The conclusion of the Open Test and the release of the signed commercial build will be announced in advance on the download page and by email.

Scena Studio LLC funds shared API credits at the start of the Open Test for services on which shared access is enabled. Scena Studio applies no per-user usage quota or credit cap to shared use. Access depends on provider rate limits, service availability and these anti-abuse rules. You must not:

• Use the shared keys to send malicious requests or intentionally disrupt the shared pool or a provider’s service.
• Attempt to extract, intercept, proxy, reverse-engineer, or call the shared test keys from outside the official Scena Studio desktop application.
• Create or use multiple accounts to evade an anti-abuse restriction or suspension.

Scena Studio may pause an account’s access to shared keys if the account breaches these rules and will explain why in writing, subject to Clause 14. Once shared access ends, including after the Open Test, you must use your own API keys in Tools → API Services for AI generation. Whenever you use your own keys, the provider may bill your account directly under its own terms. The Open Test offer is separate from the software plan terms and limits that apply after the test.

During the Open Test, the first verified, usable bug report submitted by an account earns that account one complimentary Studio Lifetime Licence (covering all 1.x releases on up to 3 PCs). The objective criteria for what qualifies as a usable report (reproducible steps, attached log excerpt, non-duplicate issue) are published on the Report a Bug page. Limit one lifetime licence reward per person or business; tester rewards have no cash value and may not be resold or exchanged for money.

You are solely responsible for the scripts, prompts, reference images, audio files, and video outputs you create with Scena Studio. In alignment with international law, Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft, and AI model provider safety policies, you must never use Scena Studio to generate, queue, process, or distribute content that:

• Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (Zero Tolerance CSAM/CSAE): Depicts, promotes, or sexualizes minors in any manner whatsoever, whether realistic, synthetic, or animated. Violations result in immediate permanent termination and mandatory reporting to NCMEC and law enforcement authorities.
• Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII & Harmful Deepfakes): Depicts any real person nude, sexually explicit, or in intimate situations without their documented consent.
• Unauthorized Likeness, Biometric or Voice Cloning: Uses a real individual’s face, photograph, or voice recording in Reference Locks, Face Match, or Lip-Sync to impersonate them without their explicit legal permission.
• Deceptive Disinformation & Fraud: Generates fabricated footage intended to deceive the public about elections, civic processes, public health emergencies, medical advice, financial scams, or identity fraud.
• Harassment, Hate Speech, Violence & Illegal Acts: Promotes terrorism, self-harm, extreme gore, targeted harassment, defamation, or infringes third-party copyright, trademark, or publicity rights.
• Circumvention of Safety Controls: Attempts to bypass provider content filters, strip C2PA / SynthID provenance metadata, or disrupt third-party API infrastructure.

Major publishing and advertising platforms — including YouTube ("Altered or synthetic content" declaration in YouTube Studio), TikTok, Meta (Facebook & Instagram AI labels), Google Ads, and Article 50 of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) — require realistic AI-generated or synthetically altered video and audio to be clearly disclosed to viewers. You are solely responsible for applying all required synthetic-media labels and complying with the disclosure rules of every platform or ad network where you publish your episodes.

As between you and Scena Studio LLC, you retain 100% ownership and full commercial rights to your scripts, prompts, reference sheets, and rendered video/image outputs across every plan, including the Free plan. We claim no copyright, licence, or royalty over anything you produce.

Each third-party AI service you connect to (such as Kling, Google Veo, Gemini, Runway, Luma, MiniMax, Seedance, Wan, Flux, fal.ai, Replicate, or OpenRouter) operates under its own terms of service and content policy, which apply both to your personal API keys and to the shared Open Test keys. A prompt queued by Scena Studio may still be declined or filtered by the selected AI provider.

Generative AI models are probabilistic: outputs may contain visual artifacts, inaccuracies, or unintended similarities to existing characters, brands, or real persons. Scena Studio’s GPU-based Consistency Check compares a rendered clip solely against the reference images you supplied in your local project; it is a technical production aid, not a copyright, trademark, or legal rights clearance service.

The Scena Studio desktop software, website, documentation, visual design, and the Scena Studio name and logo are owned by Scena Studio LLC and protected by copyright and trademark laws.

Independent Publisher Notice: Kling, Google Veo, Gemini, Imagen, Runway, Luma, MiniMax, Seedance, Wan, Flux, Grok, Seedream, fal.ai, Replicate, OpenRouter, Microsoft Windows, and all other third-party product or service names mentioned on this site are trademarks of their respective owners. Scena Studio is an independent desktop workflow application that connects to those services via their public APIs; Scena Studio LLC is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of them.

Because Scena Studio is a local-first desktop application that stores zero user projects or rendered videos on our servers, we do not host user-generated media. However, if you believe any material published on scenastudio.app or in our official community channels infringes your copyright under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) or applicable copyright law, please send a written notice to our designated copyright contact at support@scenastudio.app including: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) the exact URL of the allegedly infringing material; (c) your contact details (name, address, telephone, email); and (d) a good-faith statement signed under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Website, account and update services may be available at different times during rollout (see our Status page for known issues). Open Test services may be interrupted. Third-party AI services change their models, API endpoints, per-second pricing, and rate limits independently without consulting us; the desktop app passes through the exact responses and pricing those services return.

You may close your account at any time from inside the app or by emailing support@scenastudio.app. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates Clause 07 (Acceptable Use Policy) or abuses the shared test keys under Clause 05, after sending a written explanation, unless immediate suspension is required by law or to prevent imminent harm.

Local Files Never Touched: Closing or suspending an account never deletes, encrypts, or locks the project folders, scripts, reference sheets, or rendered videos stored on your own PC.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or mandatory statutory consumer rights. Subject to that rule, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to Scena Studio or these terms is limited to the total amount you paid to Scena Studio LLC in the 12 months immediately preceding the claim (or $50 USD if you have only used the Free plan or Open Test). We are not liable for indirect, consequential, or business-interruption losses, nor for API usage charges billed by third-party AI providers to your own API keys.

You may not download, install, use, or re-export Scena Studio in or to any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive trade embargoes, or if you are listed on any restricted-party or sanctions list maintained by the United Nations, the United States (OFAC/BIS), the European Union, or the United Kingdom.

Please contact us first at support@scenastudio.app if a dispute arises: almost every issue regarding a build, licence activation, or charge is resolved quickly in a direct email exchange. If you are an individual consumer residing in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer protection laws, you retain the full benefit of those mandatory local laws and may bring a claim in the courts of your country of residence.

We update these terms when the product evolves or transitions from the Open Test to the signed commercial release. Whenever we make a material change, we update the version number and effective date at the top of this page and notify registered users by email and in our community groups at least 14 days before the change takes effect. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you may close your account before the effective date.