Clipping Program Terms of Use

Article 1 — Purpose

These terms (the "Clipping Terms") govern the paid clipping program (the "Program") operated by StreamClipping, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with a share capital of €1,000, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 107 353 054, with its registered office at 5 rue des Wallons, 75013 Paris, trading under the name "StreamClipping AI" (the "Platform"), accessible at streamclipping.ai/clipping.

The Program connects two types of participants: Advertisers (brands, agencies or creators who fund a clip-based promotion campaign) and Clippers (creators who produce and publish clips and are paid on performance). These terms supplement the Terms of Use, the Terms of Sale and the Privacy Policy. Any participation constitutes full and unreserved acceptance of these terms.

Article 2 — Definitions

• Campaign: an operation funded by an Advertiser, defining a topic, a brief, requirements (required audio, hashtags, platforms, countries) and a budget.
• Pool: the share of the Campaign budget allocated to Clipper compensation, after the Platform's commission.
• CPM: the amount paid per thousand confirmed views (up to €1 / 1000 views).
• Confirmed view: a view of a clip which, measured via the platforms' official APIs (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), was already counted at least 14 days earlier and still is ("settling period"). More recent views, or views that have since disappeared, are not confirmed.
• Threshold: the minimum number of confirmed views a Clipper must reach on a Campaign to trigger a payout.
• Remainder: the share of the Pool not distributed at the end of the Campaign.

Article 3 — Role of the Platform

The Platform contracts in its own name with the Advertiser: it supplies a clipping campaign service, covering campaign design, distribution to registered Clippers, the compliance review of submitted clips, and the measurement of confirmed views. The decision to accept a compliant clip rests with the Advertiser, on the terms and within the deadline set out in Article 5; the Platform only establishes technical compliance.

It contracts separately and in its own name with each Clipper, from whom it purchases the service of producing and publishing clips. There is no direct contractual relationship between the Advertiser and the Clippers: the Platform is the sole counterparty of each.

Payments (collection of the budget and payouts to Clippers) are executed by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe), a licensed payment services provider. The budget is collected by the Platform for its own account; it accordingly bears refunds, unpaid amounts and payment disputes ("chargebacks").

Article 4 — Advertiser terms

• The Advertiser warrants that it holds all rights (image, trademark, music, source content) required to run its Campaign, and indemnifies the Platform against any third-party claim in this respect.
• License over the source content. The Advertiser grants the Clippers taking part in its Campaign, free of charge, the right to reproduce, cut, modify and communicate the content it makes available (videos, audio, trademarks, visuals), for the sole purpose of producing and publishing the Campaign clips, on the platforms the Campaign targets, worldwide and for the duration of the Campaign. This license is non-exclusive and non-transferable; it survives the closing of the Campaign solely so that clips already published may remain online. Without this license, no Clipper would be entitled to use the source content.
• Campaign budgets are stated excluding VAT. Applicable VAT is added at payment; an Advertiser that is a business established in the European Union and provides a valid EU VAT number is invoiced without VAT (reverse charge).
• The budget covers the Clipper compensation Pool and the Platform's commission. As long as the Campaign has not started — that is, as long as no clip has been approved — the Advertiser may request a full refund. Once the Campaign has started, the budget covers commitments made to Clippers and becomes firm and non-refundable.
• Should the Platform cancel a Campaign of its own doing, the Advertiser is refunded up to the amounts not yet committed to Clippers.
• Any payment dispute ("chargeback") or unpaid amount arising after compensation has been paid out gives rise to recovery of the corresponding sums from the Advertiser, plus any fees charged to the Platform by the payment services provider.
• The view volumes shown ("view potential") are indicative estimates. They constitute no guarantee of results. The Platform commits to means — making the tool available, distributing the Campaign to registered Clippers, reviewing the compliance of submitted clips and measuring views — not to a number of views achieved. As Clippers freely decide whether or not to take part, the volume of clips produced cannot be guaranteed.
• Any Remainder of the Pool remains the Platform's and gives rise to no refund.

Article 5 — Clipper terms

• The Clipper participates as an independent contractor. No relationship of subordination or employment contract is created. They are solely responsible for their reporting, tax and social-security obligations related to their income.
• The Clipper must connect a verified social account they own, prove ownership of the videos submitted, and follow the Campaign requirements (required audio and its portion, required hashtags, platforms, no prohibited logo/watermark, etc.).
• Compliance review. Each submitted clip undergoes a review, automated and/or human, which bears exclusively on the following objective criteria:
  1. presence of the audio required by the Campaign;
  2. the time portion of the audio required by the Campaign;
  3. audibility of the required audio;
  4. absence of the logos and trademarks prohibited by the Campaign;
  5. presence of the hashtags required by the Campaign;
  6. publication on a platform targeted by the Campaign;
  7. ownership of the publishing account and of the submitted clip;
  8. absence of manipulation within the meaning of Article 7;
  9. lawfulness of the content and absence of infringement of third-party rights;
  10. compliance with the Campaign's own requirements, on the twofold condition that they were announced before the clip was submitted and that they are objectively verifiable.
  Any clip meeting these criteria is accepted as of right. The review involves no assessment of the quality, style, editing, editorial line or performance of the clip, and the Platform holds no discretionary power of refusal. The Clipper freely chooses the content, the form, the timing and the volume of their publications.Any refusal is reasoned by stating which of the criteria listed above is not met, is notified to the Clipper, and is reviewed again upon their simple objection. The views of a non-compliant clip are not counted. A refusal constitutes neither a sanction nor a disciplinary measure: it restricts the Clipper's access neither to the Campaign concerned, to which they may submit a new compliant clip, nor to other Campaigns.
• Advertiser approval and tacit acceptance. Once compliance has been established, the decision to accept the clip rests with the Advertiser, not with the Platform. The Platform sends them a personal approval link.
  1. The Advertiser has seventy-two (72) calendar hours from the sending of that notification to approve the clip or object to it. A reminder is sent halfway through.
  2. Absent a reply within that period, the clip is accepted as of rightand the Clipper's compensation becomes due. This deadline is strict: the compensation of an independent contractor cannot depend on a third party's inaction.
  3. The Advertiser may object only under the 10th criterion above — failure to comply with a requirement specific to their Campaign — and must state which requirement. They may not refuse a clip under the nine technical criteria, which the Platform has already established: should they dispute those, the clip returns to the Platform for review. They hold no power to assess the quality, style, editing or performance of the clip.
  4. Where the notification cannot be delivered to the Advertiser, the clip is accepted as of right upon expiry of a seven (7) dayperiod from the compliance finding. The Platform assumes this choice: the impossibility of reaching the Advertiser cannot indefinitely suspend the Clipper's compensation.
  5. Clips still awaiting approval when a Campaign closes are accepted automatically.
  6. Campaigns funded by the Platform itself (contests and internal operations) are not subject to this approval: the Platform is the Advertiser there, and the compliance finding amounts to acceptance.
• Ownership and license. The Clipper retains ownership of their clips. They grant the Platform and the Advertiser a non-exclusive, non-transferable license over the reproduction and communication rights in their clips, for the sole purposes of running, reviewing and promoting the Campaign, worldwide, on the social platforms targeted by the Campaign and on the Platform's showcase and reference materials, for a term of three (3) years from publication of the clip. Any use beyond that scope, in particular paid advertising distribution, requires a separate written agreement and gives rise to additional compensation.
• Third-party rights. The Clipper warrants that they hold the necessary permissions for any identifiable person appearing in their clips (image rights)and for anything they add to the source content (music, images, excerpts, voice). They use the Advertiser's source content only within the limits of the license granted under Article 4. Using a required audio track does not amount to permission to exploit a musical work beyond what the publishing platform's own terms allow. Any rights holder may report a clip infringing their rights to abuse@streamclipping.ai: the clip is taken down and its views stop being paid.
• Payout of earnings requires a verified (KYC) payment account via Stripe. Until verification is complete, earnings due remain on hold.
• The Clipper provides and keeps up to date their tax profile: status, identity, address, tax identification number (TIN) and, for natural persons, date of birth. This information is required by Directive (EU) 2021/514 "DAC7"(articles 1649 ter A et seq. of the French Tax Code), which requires the Platform to report the amounts paid each year. Because clipping services qualify as "personal services", this reporting is due from the very first euro, with no threshold. Without complete information, payouts are suspended until the situation is regularised.
• The Clipper mandates the Platform to issue their invoices in their name and on their behalf (article 289, I-2 of the French Tax Code). Those invoices are addressed to the Platform, which is the customer for their service.
• The "individual" status is reserved for occasional income. As soon as the amounts received through the Platform become habitual, the activity qualifies as professional: the Clipper must then register with the competent authorities and update their tax status in their profile. The Platform may make further payouts conditional on that update.
• The Clipper's own tax and social security obligations. Amounts received through the Platform are income the Clipper must declare themselves. Depending on their amount and how regular they are, they may also give rise to social security contributions. The Platform withholds neither tax nor contributions at source, and retains no fee or commission on the amounts it pays out: the sum transferred is the sum due. Official information: impots.gouv.fr for tax, urssaf.fr for social security. In accordance with article 1649 ter D, III of the French Tax Code, the Platform also sends each paid Clipper, by 31 January at the latest, a summary of the information reported about them to the tax authorities for the previous year — net amounts and number of transactions, broken down by quarter.
• Social security compliance certificate. Where the amounts paid to a single Clipper reach €5,000 net of tax over a year, the Platform is required, as the contracting party, to verify that they are up to date with their social security obligations (articles L.8222-1 and D.8222-5 of the French Labour Code). The Clipper concerned undertakes to provide, on request, a valid URSSAF compliance certificate, to be renewed every six months. Failing that, the Platform suspends payouts until it is received: it cannot keep paying without meeting its own verification obligation.
• Minute credits. Approval of a clip on a Campaign may give rise, in addition to the payment in euros, to a credit of processing minutes depending on the plan (see Article 4 of the Terms of Use). That credit can only be used within the Service; it has no cash value and cannot be converted into money.

Article 6 — Compensation and payouts

• A Clipper's compensation equals their confirmed views divided by 1000, multiplied by the Campaign CPM, provided the Threshold is reached.
• Compensation is capped by the Pool. If the sum of compensation due exceeds the Pool, it is distributed pro rata to confirmed views (or, where applicable, by performance ranking), within the limit of the Pool.
• Payouts occur at the end of the Campaign, after the view settling period (14 days per publication), by Stripe transfer to the Clipper's account.
• Only views confirmed via the platforms' official APIs are paid. In the event of disagreement over the count, the Clipper may dispute it in writing within 30 days of the Campaign closing; the Platform then re-examines the API records and gives a reasoned answer.
• The CPM and the amounts paid are stated inclusive of all taxes: they are the gross amount transferred to the Clipper. A VAT-registered Clipper remits to the tax authorities the VAT included in that amount; a Clipper under the small-business exemption or not subject to VAT keeps the full sum. For the same number of views, the net amount actually received therefore varies with the tax status declared.
• In the event of a payment dispute raised by the Advertiser, established fraud, or an erroneous payment occurring after a payout, the Platform may withhold the corresponding amounts from subsequent payouts or request their repayment.

Article 7 — Fraud prevention

Any manipulation (artificial views, bots, view purchases, fake accounts, re-uploads, misuse of the required audio or instructions) results in the rejection of the clips concerned, non-payment of the corresponding views, and may lead to exclusion from the program. The Platform runs automated checks (required-audio fingerprint, audibility, logo detection, view-velocity analysis) and human checks.

Article 8 — Liability

The Platform guarantees neither a volume of views, nor revenue, nor the uninterrupted availability of third-party APIs. It cannot be held liable for the moderation decisions of third-party platforms, audience variations, or any indirect damage. Each participant indemnifies the Platform against third-party claims arising from a breach of their own warranties (rights, instructions, legal obligations).

By way of derogation from the liability cap set out in the Terms of Sale, which is calibrated for subscriptions, the Platform's liability in respect of a Campaign is capped at the net-of-tax amount of that Campaign's budget. This cap does not apply in cases of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor where the law prohibits limiting liability.

Article 9 — Personal data

The data processing related to the program (account, social connections, view measurements, payment information processed by Stripe) is described in the Privacy Policy.

Article 10 — Termination, amendments, governing law

The Platform may close a Campaign and then calculates the compensation due. It may amend these terms; the applicable version is the one in force at the time of participation. These terms are governed by French law. Failing an amicable resolution, the competent courts are those of the jurisdiction of the Platform's registered office, subject to the mandatory rules applicable to consumers.

Consumer mediation. A participant who qualifies as a consumer — which may be the case for a Clipper receiving occasional income as well as for an Advertiser who is an individual creator — may refer the matter free of charge to a consumer ombudsman after a written complaint has gone unanswered or unsatisfied for two months (article L.612-1 of the French Consumer Code). The competent ombudsman is SAS Médiation Solution, whose contact details appear in the legal notice.

What happens to clips after the Campaign. Closing a Campaign does not require published clips to be taken down: the Clipper may leave them online, and the licence granted under Article 5 continues to run for its term. The Clipper may remove them from their own accounts at any time, without affecting compensation already earned on confirmed views. The Advertiser may neither require a clip to stay online, nor use it beyond the scope of the Article 5 licence — in particular paid advertising distribution, which requires a separate agreement.