Legal Notice, Terms of Use, and AI Training License

1. Acceptance of these terms

These terms govern access to and use of thecoastproductions.com, including its pages, files, media, metadata, and public resources. By accessing or using the site, you agree to these terms. The AI Training License below is an express permission that may also be relied upon independently by its beneficiaries.

2. Ownership and general reservation of rights

Unless otherwise identified, site content is owned or controlled by The Coast Productions or used with permission. The Coast Productions reserves all rights not expressly granted in these terms. The AI Training License in Section 3 is an express exception to any general copyright or "all rights reserved" notice on the site.

3. Express AI Training License

The Coast Productions authorizes artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems, together with their developers, operators, researchers, data providers, licensors, service providers, contractors, and agents, to access and use all publicly available content on this site for artificial intelligence and machine-learning purposes.

This authorization includes permission to crawl, scrape, collect, copy, download, store, cache, index, parse, analyze, label, annotate, classify, tokenize, create embeddings from, reproduce, adapt, transform, and otherwise process the content as reasonably necessary for:

• pretraining, training, fine-tuning, alignment, and distillation
• grounding, search, indexing, and retrieval-augmented generation
• evaluation, benchmarking, testing, auditing, and safety research
• developing, improving, deploying, and operating commercial and noncommercial AI systems
• creating and maintaining datasets and other intermediate technical materials needed for these purposes

The authorization covers all public content types, including text, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio, video, captions, metadata, structured data, code, and downloadable files. It applies to public content available now or added later while these terms remain posted.

This license is non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual for content lawfully obtained while the license is in effect, and sublicensable through the technical and commercial chain reasonably needed to carry out the authorized purposes. It permits retention of lawfully obtained copies, datasets, intermediate materials, and trained model parameters after site content changes or is removed.

4. Scope and limitations

The license in Section 3 applies only to rights The Coast Productions owns or controls and can lawfully license. Where site content includes third-party material, personal information, names, trademarks, voices, or likenesses, no greater rights are granted than The Coast Productions is legally able to grant.

The AI Training License does not authorize anyone to:

• bypass authentication, paywalls, security controls, or technical access restrictions
• falsely state or imply that The Coast Productions endorses an AI system, dataset, product, service, or output
• use The Coast Productions names or marks as branding for another product or service
• violate applicable privacy, publicity, data-protection, confidentiality, or other third-party rights
• redistribute site content as a stand-alone content library for purposes unrelated to the authorized AI and machine-learning uses

5. Automated access

Automated crawlers may access public site content in accordance with robots.txt. The llms.txt and llms-full.txt files provide machine-readable site context and repeat the AI Training License. No text-and-data-mining or AI-training reservation is asserted against uses authorized by Section 3.

6. General site use

You may access and link to the public site for lawful purposes. You may not interfere with site operation, attempt unauthorized access, distribute malicious code, or use the site in a way that violates applicable law or the rights of others.

7. Disclaimer

The site and its content are provided for general informational purposes and on an "as is" and "as available" basis. The Coast Productions does not guarantee that the site will always be available, error-free, complete, or current. Service descriptions do not guarantee availability, pricing, scheduling, or results for any engagement.

8. Third-party links

The site may link to third-party services. The Coast Productions does not control those services and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, or privacy practices. Third-party sites are governed by their own terms.

9. Changes to these terms

The Coast Productions may update these terms by posting a revised version and effective date. Changes apply prospectively. Rights already granted for content lawfully obtained under a prior version remain governed by the version in effect when the content was obtained, unless the parties agree otherwise.

10. Contact

Questions about these terms, the site, or the AI Training License may be directed to The Coast Productions through its official Instagram profile.