Introduction

Our licensing and copyright assignment policy covers three possible states, depending upon the type of project we perform for you.

The following sections describe our handling of copyright and licensing.



Content Development Policy

Content development is the most used type of service. Content refers to any creative or informational material you provide or ask us to produce, such as presentations, videos, automation scripts, graphics, or supporting files, that expresses ideas rather than functioning as software. In content‑development projects, this material is treated as your property, including both what you supply and anything new we create from it.



Understanding Your Ownership of Project Content

When we work with you on content‑development projects, for example, converting your PowerPoint presentations into videos, creating graphics from your materials, or preparing scripts and batch files that support your content workflows, you retain full ownership of everything that belongs to you, and you gain ownership of all new content we create from it under that project.



What You Already Own Stays Yours

Any materials you provide to us, whether presentations, documents, images, audio, branding assets, or other creative content, remain 100% your property. We treat your content as your intellectual property at all times.

Your original content is simply the foundation we use to build the deliverables you've requested.



What We Create From Your Content Becomes Yours Too

In content‑development projects, everything we produce that is derived from your materials becomes your property upon delivery. This includes any of the following, as applicable.

Once delivered, you may use, modify, distribute, archive, or repurpose these materials however you choose. They are not licensed to you, they are transferred to you as owned content.



What's Not Included in That Ownership

The main exception to content development is stand‑alone software applications or tools. If a project requires fully functioning software to be written as a part of the delivery, that software is governed separately by our Software Development policy below, which operates under the principle that software is licensed, not sold. In that case, the following general agreement is in effect.

This separation ensures clarity and protects both your rights and the integrity of the open‑source licenses we rely on.



Why We Sometimes Split Projects

If a project involves both:

This allows us to apply the correct ownership rules to each part, ensuring you receive full ownership of your content while we maintain proper licensing for software components.

When a project contains materials with different ownership states, such as in the case of a kiosk project, which could easily contain functionality previously copyrighted by us, functionality previously copyrighted by a third party, as well as your content and data, the cleanest and most reliable way to protect everyone's rights is to keep each ownership category separated at the file level. This approach ensures that nothing becomes blended, confused, or inadvertently transferred.



How File‑Level Separation Works

Each file in the delivered project stands on its own as a clearly identifiable unit of ownership. That means:



1. Your previously owned content

Any file you provide, documents, media, data, or other materials, remains entirely yours at all times.

These files are kept intact, unmodified unless requested. Any modification to those files by us is your property.



2. Our previously copyrighted materials

If the project requires the use of tools, templates, scripts, or other assets that we already own, those files remain under our copyright.

Each of those files are prominently labeled with appropriate copyright notices.

This makes it clear that you may use them as permitted, but ownership does not transfer.



3. Third‑party copyrighted materials

If the project includes open‑source components or third‑party assets, each of those files includes its original license or attribution notice.

This preserves the integrity of the original license and ensures you know exactly what rights you have.



4. Newly created content derived from your materials

Any new content we create specifically for your project, converted media, scripts written to process your files, supporting assets, or other deliverables, is placed in its own files.

Ownership of those files transfer directly to you upon delivery.



Why File‑Level Separation Matters

Keeping each ownership category in its own file prevents accidental mixing of rights. It ensures the following outcomes.

This structure also makes it easy for you to archive, reuse, or redistribute your owned content without worrying about embedded materials that belong to someone else.



Software Development Policy

This section applies to stand-alone software, logic, and advanced functionality we write for you.

Software is licensed, not sold.

All software and related media created by PowerMake Systems LLC, including custom tools, libraries, user interfaces, scripts, or configuration frameworks that we produce for a stand-alone purpose, are protected under copyright law and remain the exclusive intellectual property of PowerMake Systems LLC or its contributing authors.

We believe in protecting the rights of those who design and build, including employees and contracted engineers, and ensuring that authorship and ownership are never erased by corporate usage.



Bespoke Purchase Policy

Custom-developed (bespoke) software services grant you full usage rights, including the right to brand, package, distribute, and sell the delivered product as part of your own offering.

However, underlying software ownership, source code rights, and authorship remain with PowerMake Systems LLC and its contributors at all times, unless otherwise agreed to in a separate written agreement. This ensures fair recognition and legal protection for all engineers and contributors involved in development.



Proprietary Data Protection

Any proprietary data provided by you, including business logic, files, configuration settings, or client-specific content, will be maintained separately from our software codebase and remains fully under your ownership.

We will never disclose, transmit, or share your proprietary data with any third party, except through your explicit authorization, and only then to facilitate the completion of a task we are completing for you.



Contributor and Author Protections

We value the work independent contributors add to the functionality of technology and show our appreciation in one way by assuring their work will remain usable to whomever needs it.



Authorship Retention

All individuals or entities contracted by PowerMake Systems LLC to contribute to software, documentation, or system design retain recognition of authorship for their original work. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, no contribution shall be construed as a transfer of copyright to the client.



Moral Rights

We respect the moral rights of engineers and creatives to be credited for their original contributions. Any attempt to remove or obscure such attribution without written permission from PowerMake Systems LLC or the original contributor is prohibited.



Licensing vs. Assignment

Unless a formal copyright assignment agreement is signed, all work produced under contract or subcontract remains licensed, not sold or assigned, and is protected under the same usage and distribution terms described above.



Open Contributions and Collaboration

Where appropriate, and with mutual agreement, components developed by our contributors may be offered under open licenses (such as MIT, BSD, or custom internal terms), but such usage will always be accompanied by clear licensing statements and attribution requirements.



Protection of Contributor IP

PowerMake Systems LLC will not resell, relicense, or repackage contributor-created works into external products without the author's knowledge and explicit agreement, unless the work was originally created under full assignment terms.



General Purchase Policy

Purchasing any PowerMake software product grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use that software in accordance with the terms and conditions provided with the specific product.

You do not acquire rights to reverse engineer, resell, sublicense, or repackage the software unless expressly stated in your license agreement.