Terms of Service

Who we are, and what these Terms are

Hydras is operated by Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland Oy (business ID 2551458-5, Tammasaarenlaituri 3, 00180 Helsinki, Finland) — "Hydras", "we", "us".

These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between us and the organisation that subscribes to Hydras ("Customer", "you"). By creating an organisation account or using the platform, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use Hydras.

Hydras is a service for businesses. It is not offered to consumers. The person accepting these Terms warrants that they are authorised to bind their organisation.

The service

Hydras is a production platform for episodic screen work. It covers case and script preparation, episode and scene structuring, shotlists and storyboards, continuity anchoring for characters, locations and details, still and video generation, voiceover, rough-cut assembly, upscaling and delivery of files to an editorial workflow.

Generation is performed by third-party AI models. Section 7 explains what that means for your material and your rights in the output.

Accounts, organisations and users

Access is organisation-scoped. Your organisation's administrators create and manage user accounts and assign roles.

You are responsible for:

• the acts and omissions of everyone you give access to, as if they were your own;
• verifying the identity of your users and controlling their access;
• keeping credentials secure and notifying us promptly of any suspected compromise;
• applying to your users compliance standards at least as protective as the obligations you owe us under these Terms.

Fees and invoicing

Hydras is invoiced monthly in arrears. Each invoice sets out the vendor cost of the work performed for your organisation by category, plus the Service fee, which is the percentage added on top of pass-through cost to run, support and develop Hydras. Failed generations are not charged.

Payment terms are 30 days net from the invoice date. Fees are stated exclusive of VAT; VAT is applied where applicable.

We may change pricing on 30 days' written notice. Changes do not apply to a month already invoiced.

Late payment. Overdue amounts carry statutory late-payment interest under the Finnish Interest Act. If an invoice remains unpaid 14 days after we have given you written notice of non-payment, we may suspend access to the platform until it is paid. We do not delete Customer Content because of non-payment; Section 15 governs deletion.

Your content

You own your content. As between you and us, you retain all right, title and interest in the material you upload and the material generated for you through the platform, including scripts, case material, prompts, reference images, character and location sheets, stills, video, audio and assembled cuts ("Customer Content"). Ownership of generated output is dealt with in Section 7.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, store, process and transmit Customer Content solely to provide the service to you, including transmitting it to the AI providers listed in our sub-processor list so they can produce the output you request. What goes where: the sub-processor list names each provider, what it is used for, what we send it and where it processes. We send providers your material — never the identity of the person using Hydras.

We do not use Customer Content to train our own models. That is a commitment we give and can keep, because it is about us.

We also choose providers on that basis. We review the published terms of every AI provider we use, and we select providers whose terms prohibit the use of customer content to train their models. Where we become aware that a provider's position has changed, we will change provider or tell you.

What that is, and is not. Those are statements about our own selection and conduct. We do not control the AI providers and we give no warranty on their behalf. What a provider may or may not do with material sent to it is governed by that provider's own terms, which we do not write and cannot guarantee.

What you put into Hydras is yours to answer for

6.1 You decide what goes in. Hydras is a tool. You choose the case material you upload, the people you write into a script, the reference images you attach and the words you put in a prompt. We do not select, review, curate or approve any of it, and we are not in a position to know whether you hold the rights or the lawful basis for it. You are responsible for what you and your users submit.

6.2 You are the controller of your material. Where Customer Content contains personal data, you are the data controller and we act as your processor, on your instructions. Deciding what personal data to process, why, and on what legal basis, is yours — not ours.

6.3 Your warranties. You represent and warrant that, for everything you or your users submit:

• you hold all necessary rights, licences, permissions and consents;
• where the material depicts, names, is derived from or otherwise concerns a real, identifiable person, you have a lawful basis for processing their personal data and have given any notices and obtained any consents that basis requires;
• where the material concerns criminal offences, criminal proceedings or related security measures (Article 10 GDPR), or falls into a special category of personal data (Article 9), you have a lawful basis permitting that processing and have applied the safeguards it requires;
• submitting it to Hydras, and Hydras transmitting it to the AI providers listed in our sub-processor list, does not breach any law or any third party's rights.

6.4 Prompts are your material. Anything you type into a prompt is Customer Content and is covered by this Section, exactly as an uploaded file is. We do not review, filter or alter prompts before they are sent to a model, and we are not responsible for what you choose to write in one.

6.5 Confirmation on upload. Hydras may ask you to confirm 6.3 when you add reference material, and will record your confirmation, when you gave it and for which files. That record is evidence of your confirmation. It is not verification by us, and we do not represent that we verify rights in your material.

6.6 Indemnity. You will defend and indemnify us against any claim, proceeding, fine or loss arising from Customer Content, including claims that it infringes a third party's rights, that it was submitted without a lawful basis or the necessary consents, or that its processing breached data protection law. This indemnity is not subject to the cap in Section 14.

6.7 What this section does not do. This Section allocates responsibility between you and us. It does not, and cannot, remove obligations that data protection law places on us directly as a processor — including our duties on security, sub-processors, assisting you with data subject requests, and notifying you of a personal data breach. We meet those regardless of this Section.

AI providers and generated output

Generation is performed by third-party models. The providers we use are named in our sub-processor list, published at hydras.app and updated when it changes.

Output ownership

Output generated for you is yours. We claim no ownership of it and no royalty in it. That is our own undertaking and it does not depend on anyone else.

What we have checked. We review the published terms of every AI provider we use. As at the date of these Terms, none of them retains ownership of generated output or asserts a royalty in it, and several expressly assign their interest to the customer. That is a statement of what those documents said when we read them and of the basis on which we chose those providers. It is not a warranty given on their behalf, and we do not undertake what their terms will say in future. Where we become aware that a provider's position has changed, we will change provider or tell you before you rely on it.

What we cannot promise

AI output may be inaccurate, may resemble existing works, and may not be protectable by copyright in a given jurisdiction. Whether a particular output attracts intellectual property rights, and who holds them, is determined by applicable law and is your assessment to make. We give no warranty of originality or non-infringement and no indemnity against third-party intellectual property claims arising from output.

Restriction on downstream use

You may not use Hydras, its output, the underlying models or any component of them to develop, train, validate, improve or otherwise support any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, whether directly or indirectly and whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes. This restriction is required of us by a provider and applies to you and to anyone you supply the output to.

What we record about how each asset was made

For every asset generated through the platform we record which provider and which model produced it, and when. That record is part of your Customer Content, is available to you, and is included in an export.

We keep it because you may need it: if you are required — by law, by a regulator, by your own editorial standards or by your broadcaster — to say how a piece of content was made, you should not have to ask us to reconstruct it. It is a production record, separate from any marking on the files themselves; marking is dealt with below.

Model availability, and their terms

Which models are available may change as providers change their offerings, terms or regional availability. We will not degrade a production in progress without telling you. Your use of Hydras is also subject to those providers' terms as they apply to us; we will not accept a provider term that conflicts with these Terms without telling you.

The EU AI Act

Hydras generates synthetic image, video, audio and text content through third-party models, and Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 applies to that activity. We do not restate the Act here, and nothing in these Terms is a legal characterisation of either party's role under it. What we do, and what we ask of you, is this:

• Marking. Where a model provider marks its output and our pipeline does not re-encode the file, the mark is preserved. We are adding machine-readable marking to files delivered from Hydras, in line with Article 50(2) and the Commission's Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content, within the transition period the Act allows for systems already on the market — by 2 December 2026. We do not remove marking, and you may not.
• The provenance record above tells you which provider and model produced each asset, and when, so that you can meet any disclosure duty you have without asking us.
• Your obligations. You are responsible for complying with the obligations the Act places on deployers when you use, publish or distribute the output. They include: disclosing, in a clear and distinguishable manner, that content which resembles real persons, places or events has been artificially generated or manipulated (Article 50(4)) — for evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional work, in an appropriate manner that does not hamper the work; labelling AI-generated text that you publish to inform the public on matters of public interest, unless it has been through human review or editorial control; keeping marking and labels intact when the content passes to distributors and broadcasters; ensuring the AI literacy of your staff (Article 4); and not using the output for any practice the Act prohibits (Article 5).
• The in-product assistant is an AI system (Article 50(1)). It says so, and the people who use Hydras are professionals working with it knowingly.
• Hydras is not a high-risk AI system under Article 6 and Annex III, and it uses no practice prohibited by Article 5.
• AI literacy (Article 4). The people who build and operate Hydras are trained in what the models can and cannot do, and this documentation is part of how we support yours.
• The models we build on, and what each is used for, are named in the sub-processor list, which we keep current.

Acceptable use

8.1 General

Use Hydras lawfully. You may not use it:

• to break the law, or to infringe anyone's rights;
• to generate material that depicts the sexual abuse or sexualisation of minors, or non-consensual intimate imagery;
• to present a real person's likeness or voice as genuine when it is not, or to use either for a deceptive purpose;
• to circumvent the platform's or a provider's safety measures, or to extract, copy or reverse-engineer the models;
• to resell or provide access to the platform to a third party without our written agreement.

Generation is performed by third-party providers, and each provider's published usage policy applies to what you generate through it; the providers are named in our sub-processor list. Where a provider's policy requires the consent of a person whose likeness or voice is used, obtaining it is your responsibility.

8.2 Personal data in prompts and uploads

Do not put personal data about a living, identifiable person into a prompt, an uploaded file or any other input unless you need it for the production and you are entitled to process it. Describing a character, a performer's appearance or a scene is not personal data unless it identifies a real person. Where Customer Content does identify a real person — as documentary and factual work can require — Section 6 applies in full: you are the controller of that data and you are responsible for its lawful basis, for any notices and consents, and for the safeguards the law requires, including for data about criminal offences and special categories of personal data. Whether an exemption for journalistic or artistic purposes applies to your production is your assessment to make. Hydras does not review, filter or alter prompts before they are sent to an AI provider, and does not assess productions case by case.

8.3 Enforcement

We may suspend access where we reasonably believe this section has been breached. Where the breach is not serious and can be corrected, we will tell you and give you a reasonable opportunity to correct it first.

Confidentiality

Each party will keep the other's confidential information confidential and use it only to perform these Terms. Customer Content is your confidential information. These obligations survive termination.

Publicity. We will not name you as a customer, describe work we do for you, or use your name or marks in any public material without your prior written consent. You may say that you use Hydras.

Data protection

Our processing of personal data is described in the Hydras Privacy Notice. Where we process personal data contained in Customer Content, we do so as your processor and on your instructions; a data processing agreement is available on request.

Changes to our AI providers and sub-processors. We will give you at least 30 days' notice before we add a new AI provider or other sub-processor that will process Customer Content, and we publish the current list. You may object within that period on reasonable data protection grounds. We will work with you in good faith to resolve an objection — normally by keeping the affected work on an existing provider. If we cannot resolve it, either of us may terminate the part of the service that requires the provider objected to.

Security information. We do not hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification and we do not claim otherwise. What we will do is give you a written description of our technical and organisational measures, answer reasonable security and data protection questionnaires, and tell you about any material change to those measures. If you need more than that for your own compliance, tell us before you commit to a production and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.

Our intellectual property

The Hydras platform, its interface, branding, documentation and underlying technology are ours or our licensors'. These Terms grant you a right to use the service, not a transfer of any of it. You may not copy it, reverse-engineer it or create derivative works from it.

Availability

We aim to keep Hydras available and performing well, and we will give reasonable notice of planned maintenance where we can. We do not offer a service level agreement or an availability commitment. Generation depends on third-party providers whose capacity we do not control.

Warranties

The platform is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent permitted by law we exclude all warranties not expressly stated in these Terms, including any warranty that output will be accurate, original, non-infringing or fit for a particular purpose.

Liability

Neither party excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under Finnish law.

Subject to that, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data or anticipated savings.

Your indemnities under Sections 6 and 8 are not subject to this cap.

Term, suspension and termination

These Terms run until terminated. Either party may terminate on 30 days' written notice. We may terminate immediately for material breach that is not corrected within 30 days of notice, or immediately where Section 8 has been seriously breached.

Getting your content back

You can download the material generated for you directly from the platform at any time while your account is active, and we recommend doing so as the production progresses.

In addition, you may ask us for an export of your Customer Content at any time during the term and for 30 days after termination. We will deliver it within 30 days of your request, and we will not delete anything covered by a request we have received until we have delivered it.

An export contains the media generated for you as files, together with your production data — episodes, scenes, shotlists, prompts, character and location sheets, and continuity records — in a structured, machine-readable format. We agree the delivery method with you, normally a time-limited download or a transfer to cloud storage you nominate. We provide exports in the formats the platform produces. We do not undertake that an export will import into any particular third-party system, and we do not convert it into another vendor's format.

There is no charge for one export on termination. For repeated or bespoke extracts we will agree reasonable costs with you in advance.

Deletion

We delete your Customer Content within 90 days of termination — and never before we have delivered any export you have asked us for. Retention of other data is described in the Privacy Notice.

Force majeure

Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

Changes to these Terms

We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email of material changes once the platform is generally available. If you do not accept a change, you may terminate before it takes effect and we will refund any fees paid for a period after termination. See the beta notice at the top of this page for the pre-launch period.

Productions under a signed order. For a production commissioned under a signed order, the version of these Terms and the pricing in force when the order is signed apply to that production for its term, unless we agree a change in writing. The beta notice does not override this.

General

These Terms, together with any signed order form and the Data Processing Agreement, are the entire agreement between us on their subject matter. If they conflict, the order form prevails over these Terms, and the Data Processing Agreement prevails on the processing of personal data. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. Neither party may assign without the other's consent, except to a group company or on a sale of the business. No third party has rights under these Terms. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it.

Notices. Formal notices are given in writing: to you, by email to your organisation's administrator contact; to us, by email to the address in Section 20. A notice is effective on the business day it is received.

Survival. Sections 5 (as to records we are required to retain), 6.6, 7 (the restriction on downstream use), 9, 13, 14, 15 (export and deletion), 18 and 19 survive termination.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by Finnish law. Disputes are resolved in the Helsinki District Court as the court of first instance, which has exclusive jurisdiction.

Contact

Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland Oy
Tammasaarenlaituri 3, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
Business ID 2551458-5
joona.kortesmaki@wbitvp.fi