Data Rights, Record Custody, Responsible Sharing, and Subscriber Obligations

Event Poet is an objective event-understanding system—not a viral-content, indiscriminate-surveillance, or public-shaming platform. Its governance separates ownership of contributing recordings from custody of the unified Event Poet record, the privacy interests of people depicted, the subscriber’s right to use the platform, and the authority to disclose or publish session material.

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1. A Partitioned Bundle of Rights

No single party automatically possesses unlimited ownership and control over every element of an Event Poet session. Applicable rights are divided according to the origin and authorship of the material, the participant’s role, contractual agreements, federal law, and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the session occurs.

Under federal copyright law, copyright initially vests in the author or authors of a protected work. A work made for hire may belong initially to the employer or other party for whom it was prepared. Copyright ownership may also be transferred in whole or in part.

17 U.S.C. § 201

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Participating Source Owners

The owner or authorized operator of a participating camera ordinarily retains whatever copyright, property, and access rights that party lawfully possesses in the original footage created by that device. When the source participates in an Event Poet session, its owner grants the permissions reasonably necessary to query, transmit, process, incorporate, secure, preserve, and lawfully disclose relevant material for the identified event.

The initiating subscriber does not automatically acquire ownership of footage contributed by every neighbor, business, vehicle, municipality, or other participating source merely because that footage becomes part of the subscriber’s Event Poet session.

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The Initiating Subscriber

The subscriber receives primary account control over the completed before/during/after session record, subject to the rights of contributing sources, authorized participants, people depicted, Event Poet’s governance requirements, retention rules, and applicable law.

Account control permits legitimate review, preservation, export, and authorized sharing. It does not create an unrestricted right to exploit, publish, materially misrepresent, or monetize the recording.

Federal copyright law grants a copyright owner certain exclusive rights, including reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution, and public performance or display of protected audiovisual works. Those rights remain subject to statutory limitations and do not displace independent privacy, recording, evidentiary, contractual, or other legal obligations. 17 U.S.C. § 106

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Event Poet’s Practitioner

The entity practicing Event Poet’s intellectual property ordinarily acts as a secure processor and neutral record custodian. It receives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to transmit, organize, encrypt, store, maintain, analyze, preserve, and produce session information only as required to:

• provide the Event Poet service;

• maintain platform security and operational integrity;

• enforce subscriber agreements and platform rules;

• perform authorized technical support;

• execute applicable retention and deletion schedules;

• investigate credible reports of platform misuse; and

• comply with subscriber authorization or legally sufficient process.

That custodial license continues only for the period and purposes established by the subscriber agreement, retention policy, preservation requirements, and applicable law. It cannot be revoked retroactively where continued processing or preservation is necessary to complete an active session, maintain system security, satisfy a valid legal hold, investigate alleged misuse, or comply with law.

Event Poet’s practitioner does not claim commercial ownership of subscriber audiovisual content merely because the platform processes or stores it. Rights in Event Poet’s software, intelligent focusing, data structures, compilation methods, and other proprietary technology remain distinct from rights in the underlying audiovisual content.

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No Commercial Data Exploitation

Event Poet session content, audio, video, telemetry, and location information shall not be sold, rented, or disclosed to data brokers or advertisers. Limited use of operational information for security, billing, technical support, fraud prevention, and documented service improvement must remain disclosed, purpose-limited, access-controlled, and consistent with the applicable privacy notice.

Where the Stored Communications Act applies, federal law restricts voluntary disclosure of stored communications while recognizing specifically defined exceptions. Government access may require different legal process depending upon whether a request concerns stored content, subscriber information, transactional records, or other non-content information. 18 U.S.C. § 2702, 18 U.S.C. § 2703

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People Appearing in the Record

A person does not ordinarily acquire copyright ownership merely by appearing incidentally or as a person of interest in a recording. Nevertheless, people depicted may retain legally protected privacy, dignity, confidentiality, safety, publicity, and due-process interests.

The United States does not have one comprehensive federal right-of-publicity statute governing every unauthorized use of a person’s image or likeness. Those protections arise substantially under state law and vary by jurisdiction. Event Poet therefore applies nationwide contractual restrictions against unauthorized commercial exploitation while requiring compliance with any stronger state or local protections.

People depicted may use Event Poet’s Privacy Inquiry pathway to report suspected misuse or request a temporary administrative preservation hold. That pathway does not transfer ownership, establish wrongdoing, or grant access without subscriber authorization or legally sufficient process.

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2. Subscriber License and Scope of Authorized Use

Subject to completion of required qualification and continuing compliance with the subscriber agreement, the practitioner grants the subscriber a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use Event Poet’s software and event-coordination functions.

The subscriber acts as an independent user and is not an employee, partner, joint venturer, or agent of Inventor LLC or the practitioner. The subscriber has no authority to bind, represent, or act on behalf of either entity.

Event Poet credentials authorize access only for event-driven coordination anchored to a bona fide qualifying occurrence. The license does not authorize continuous monitoring, generalized tracking, bulk data harvesting, automated scraping, circumvention of access controls, or creation of an independently searchable surveillance database.

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3. Qualifying Events and Prohibited Uses

Every session initiation or participation must be connected to a bona fide qualifying event, such as suspected criminal activity, a missing or endangered person, property damage, a hit-and-run, fire, hazardous condition, or another occurrence reasonably requiring event-specific understanding.

A subscriber may not use Event Poet to:

• stalk, harass, intimidate, or unlawfully track another person;

• fabricate an event or submit a fraudulent activation justification;

• engage in voyeuristic monitoring;

• intrude upon a place or communication carrying a legally protected expectation of privacy;

• incite vigilantism, retaliation, public shaming, or doxxing;

• employ discriminatory profiling based upon race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or another legally protected characteristic;

• conceal the subscriber’s identity during platform use;

• interfere with an investigation or judicial proceeding; or

• use session information for a purpose materially unrelated to the qualifying event.

Federal law prohibits certain interstate or electronic courses of conduct undertaken with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place another person under surveillance with such intent when the conduct produces the harms specified by the statute. State laws may provide broader protections. 18 U.S.C. § 2261A

Subscriber credentials are personal to the authorized account holder. Credentials may not be shared, transferred, sold, or used through anonymous mechanisms intended to conceal the identity of the person directing an Event Poet session.

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4. Control Does Not Mean Unrestricted Publication

Possessing or controlling an Event Poet session record does not give a subscriber an unlimited right to upload it to a video-sharing platform, distribute it through social media, sell it to others, or use it to encourage public identification, retaliation, or harassment.

Event Poet session records are private by default. Disclosure operates through three progressively controlled levels:

1. Private review: Access by the subscriber and properly authorized session participants.

2. Limited event-related disclosure: Authorized sharing with an attorney, insurer, affected person, court, law-enforcement agency, emergency authority, or another legitimate recipient for a defined operational or legal purpose.

3. Public dissemination: Release to the public or media only when permitted by federal law, applicable state and local law, Event Poet’s platform rules, contractual restrictions, evidentiary obligations, and any required consent, redaction, or review.

The legality of recording and sharing may depend upon what was recorded, where it occurred, whether audio was captured, the expectations of the people involved, and how the material was obtained.

The federal Wiretap Act generally prohibits specified intentional interception, use, and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications unless a statutory exception applies. State laws may establish additional or more protective consent requirements.

18 U.S.C. § 2511, 18 U.S.C. § 2520

Federal law also prohibits specified intentional capture of a person’s private areas without consent where the person possesses a reasonable expectation of privacy, although the federal video-voyeurism statute applies principally within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. State laws may apply more broadly.

18 U.S.C. § 1801

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5. Sensitive and Critical Event Records

Event Poet classifies session records according to sensitivity. Routine matters—such as property damage, traffic obstruction, or recovery of lost property—may qualify for broader sharing when lawful and consistent with platform rules.

Critical or highly sensitive records require substantially greater protection. These may include:

• death, homicide, suicide, or severe bodily injury;

• sexual violence or intimate content;

• medical or mental-health emergencies;

• children or other vulnerable persons;

• activity inside a place carrying a heightened expectation of privacy;

• audible private communications;

• graphic violence or human suffering;

• identifying information that may expose a person to retaliation; and

• material connected to an active investigation or judicial proceeding.

Raw or unredacted critical-event footage shall not be publicly uploaded, livestreamed, or distributed merely because a subscriber possesses it. Public release may require redaction, consent, legal review, evidentiary clearance, or another documented authorization. Certain material may remain unsuitable for public release even after an investigation concludes.

These are nationwide Event Poet governance requirements and contractual conditions. They may provide protections beyond the minimum required by federal or state law and do not declare that every public release of incident footage is necessarily unlawful.

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6. Restricted Evidentiary Records

When a session reasonably appears to document a serious crime, death, severe injury, or another critical occurrence, the practitioner may designate the raw material as a Restricted Evidentiary Record.

This designation may temporarily prevent deletion, alteration, or public export of the preserved original while permitting authorized creation of working, evidentiary, or redacted copies. The designation must be documented, limited to a legitimate preservation purpose, and reviewed under the applicable retention, investigation, or legal-hold procedure.

Subscribers must preserve the integrity of the original record, avoid edits that create a false impression, maintain available timestamps and metadata, and comply with valid preservation demands and legal process.

Federal law prohibits knowingly altering, destroying, concealing, or falsifying records with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence a matter within the jurisdiction of a federal department or agency or in contemplation of such a matter. Other federal and state evidence-preservation laws may apply. 18 U.S.C. § 1519

An evidentiary designation does not determine guilt, establish that a crime occurred, transfer ownership to law enforcement, or give authorities unrestricted access.

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7. Non-Subscriber Privacy Inquiries and Temporary Holds

A non-subscriber or affected third party who reasonably believes that an Event Poet session violated that person’s privacy or was activated improperly may submit a formal Privacy Inquiry through the practitioner’s designated channel.

The inquiry should identify, to the extent known, the relevant date, time, location, subscriber, device, or Session ID. The practitioner may require reasonable identity verification and supporting information to prevent fraudulent, retaliatory, or abusive requests.

Upon receiving a sufficiently specific inquiry, the practitioner may institute a temporary administrative preservation hold on the referenced record. The default and maximum administrative hold period is 30 calendar days.

The hold preserves potentially relevant information but does not:

• transfer ownership;

• establish that misuse occurred;

• grant the requester access;

• require disclosure;

• suspend the subscriber’s legal rights; or

• replace the need for consent or legally sufficient process.

If the practitioner is not served with a valid subpoena, court order, warrant, preservation demand, or other legally sufficient process before the 30-day period expires, and no independent legal preservation duty exists, the administrative hold automatically terminates. The information then returns to its ordinary retention and deletion schedule.

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8. Government Access and Compelled Disclosure

Government and law-enforcement entities receive no automatic, standing, or unmonitored backdoor access to privately controlled Event Poet sessions.

Where the Stored Communications Act applies, the practitioner distinguishes between content and non-content records:

• A subpoena or order under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(d) may potentially be sufficient for specified subscriber records, timestamps, transactional metadata, or Session ID logs, depending upon the precise information requested and governing constitutional and statutory requirements.

• A probable-cause search warrant is required by Event Poet policy for compelled disclosure of stored audiovisual content, absent valid consent, an applicable statutory emergency provision, or another legally recognized exception.

These are operational baselines rather than exceptionless conclusions. The practitioner’s legal status, the nature of the information, constitutional requirements, and applicable state law may require stronger process. 18 U.S.C. § 2703

In a bona fide emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury, the practitioner may voluntarily disclose communications or related information to an appropriate governmental entity when the practitioner, in good faith, determines that disclosure without delay is required by the emergency. Any disclosure must be limited to information reasonably related to the immediate danger and documented through Event Poet’s emergency-review procedure. 18 U.S.C. §§ 2702(b)(8), 2702(c)(4)

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9. Attribution, Auditability, and Account Security

Event Poet is designed to eliminate anonymous operational authority. Session activations, queries, permissions, exports, and access requests should be cryptographically verifiable, tamper-evident, and attributable to authenticated accounts.

No system should promise absolute immutability unless its deployed architecture can substantiate that claim. Event Poet’s audit controls must accurately reflect the implemented cryptographic, append-only, write-once, access-logging, and integrity-verification mechanisms.

Subscribers must safeguard credentials, prevent unauthorized access, promptly report suspected compromise, and remain responsible for actions taken through their accounts except where unauthorized use occurred despite reasonable security measures and prompt notice.

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10. Suspension and Termination for Cause

The practitioner may restrict, throttle, suspend, or permanently revoke subscriber credentials upon credible evidence of:

• unlawful surveillance or stalking;

• fabricated qualifying events;

• credential sharing or concealed account use;

• prohibited scraping or bulk collection;

• unauthorized dissemination of sensitive records;

• doxxing, public shaming, or vigilantism;

• discriminatory misuse;

• interference with audit or security controls; or

• another material breach of the subscriber agreement.

Suspension or termination does not authorize destruction of information subject to an active retention period, Privacy Inquiry hold, misuse investigation, evidentiary designation, preservation duty, or legal process. Access privileges and preserved records must be treated separately.

Completion of training or issuance of credentials does not guarantee that every subscriber action complies with applicable law or that every recording will be admissible in a judicial proceeding.

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11. Indemnification and Allocation of Operational Risk

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the subscriber must defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Inventor LLC, the practitioner, and their officers, directors, employees, architects, and affiliates from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from:

• the subscriber’s initiation of or conduct during an Event Poet session;

• violation of federal, state, or local privacy, recording, or communications law;

• unauthorized public dissemination of session material;

• stalking, doxxing, harassment, discrimination, or retaliation;

• fabrication of a qualifying event;

• infringement of another party’s copyright or data rights; or

• the subscriber’s material breach of the agreement.

The practitioner’s role as a neutral platform provider and record custodian does not make it responsible for unlawful conduct independently undertaken by a subscriber.

These provisions allocate contractual responsibility but do not prevent a third party from filing a claim, eliminate duties that cannot lawfully be waived, or excuse the practitioner from responsibility for its own legally actionable conduct. A subscriber agreement should not purport to prohibit legitimate claims concerning the practitioner’s independent acts or omissions.

Event Poet is designed to Understand Events—not to exploit them. Access to Event Poet and control of an Event Poet record carry enforceable responsibilities to protect privacy, preserve evidence, prevent misuse, and disclose information only through lawful and responsible pathways.

This public statement summarizes Event Poet’s intended nationwide governance and subscriber framework. It does not replace the complete operative EULA, subscriber agreement, privacy notice, retention policy, security documentation, or jurisdiction-specific legal review.