Published via Sunbeam.
For work you already own. It stays yours. You get a feature on this site and the right to put the Sunbeam mark on the work.
01 What this covers
A specific piece of work you made and own — a film, a series, a site, an app, a body of photographs, a product — named when you agree to this. It does not extend to your wider practice or future work.
Work built on Sunbeam infrastructure is a different thing entirely. That’s the Sunbeam Project Agreement, and it’s open source.
02 You keep everything
Copyright, trademarks, source, footage, negatives, and files remain yours, unchanged. Sunbeam acquires no ownership in the work.
There is no requirement to publish source. You can keep it closed, sell it, licence it, or take investment on it without asking or telling anyone here.
You give Sunbeam one permission: a non-exclusive, revocable, royalty-free licence to show the work’s name, images, a short description, and a link, for the purpose of featuring it on this site.
You confirm the work is genuinely yours to publish and clear of anyone else’s claim — collaborators credited, licences paid, releases signed.
03 What you get
A feature in the work on this site: name, icon, description, and a link out to you. Same treatment as everything else listed there.
A limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the Sunbeam mark on that work, in the form “Published via Sunbeam” — on the work itself, its site, its credits, and its press.
Published via Sunbeam — the lockup
Introductions and review from the rest of the group.
04 Using the mark
Sunbeam owns the mark and always will. This is permission to use it, not a share of it.
Use it only on the covered work, and only in the “Published via Sunbeam” form. Don’t alter the logo, recolour it, or build it into your own.
Never imply Sunbeam made the work, owns it, funded it, employs you, or stands behind a claim you’re making. Not in your company name, product name, or domain.
Don’t register the mark, or anything confusingly similar to it, as your own.
05 Money
Sunbeam charges no fee and takes no commission, revenue share, or equity, and gains no rights over your future work.
No money moves in either direction. The feature and the mark licence are free of charge.
If the work later needs Sunbeam money or Sunbeam infrastructure, that’s a separate written agreement. This one doesn’t create it.
06 Ending it
Either side can end this at any time, by message, without notice period or penalty.
When it ends: the mark comes off within 30 days — live surfaces first, printed and archived material as it’s reprinted. Sunbeam takes the feature down or archives it on the same clock.
Sunbeam can end it immediately, and require the mark off, if the work turns out to be misrepresented, someone else’s, or used to deceive or harm people.
Ending it changes nothing about your ownership.
07 General
Not employment, partnership, agency, or a joint venture. Nothing here is exclusive, in either direction.
Rates, unreleased work, and anything said in confidence stay confidential. That obligation outlives this agreement.
Everything is provided without warranty. Each side’s liability is limited to the amounts it has actually paid the other under this agreement.
South African law. A disagreement starts as a conversation, then mediation, then the courts if it comes to that.
Where a clause reads two ways, the reading that favours the maker wins. If this document is updated, the version you agreed to keeps applying to work already published.
Signing it.
Reply with the name of the work and “Published via Sunbeam, v1.0”. That counts as the signature. Send an icon and one line of description and it goes up.