Legal
Creator Agreement
Last updated: November 8, 2026
Every title a creator brings to ArchMadison is covered by its own Distribution Agreement, signed in the Upload Center when the title is sent for review. Below is that agreement as it reads today, filled in for a title offered on the ArchTV app, Arch Movie Channel and Madison Movie Channel. Your own copy carries your names, address, the screens you choose and your exact shares, including the 5 extra points on your first three titles if you are one of the Founding 100. Once signed, your copy does not change, and you can print it any time from My Agreements in your portal.
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Agreement No. SAMPLE · Effective November 7, 2026
BETWEEN
ArchMadison, LLC, a Florida limited liability company ("ArchMadison")
info@archtv.app
[Creator's full legal name], working as [Creator name] ("Creator")
[Street address]
[City]
[Country]
[creator@example.com]
BACKGROUND
A. The Creator owns, or controls the necessary rights in, the audiovisual work titled "[Title]" (the "Title").
B. ArchMadison operates the ArchTV app and the Arch Movie Channel and Madison Movie Channel on Roku.
C. The parties want to set out, and to fix for the life of this Agreement, the terms on which ArchMadison shows the Title and pays the Creator.
KEY TERMS
AGREEMENT
Agreement number ................................ SAMPLE
Version ......................................... 1
Effective date .................................. November 7, 2026
Title ........................................... [Title]
Creator (legal name) ............................ [Creator's full legal name]
Working name .................................... [Creator name]
Founding 100 terms .............................. No
RIGHTS
Ownership ....................................... Creator keeps the copyright
License ......................................... Non-exclusive
Term ............................................ 5 years from the Availability Date; if not funded through ArchMarket, you can end it any time on 30 days' notice
ARCHTV APP
Viewers you bring ............................... 85%
Viewers ArchTV brings ........................... 60%
Your viewers on other titles .................... 10%
Subscriptions ................................... 50/50 split
Counted ......................................... After app store fees
ROKU
Arch Movie Channel (ad revenue) ................. 85%
Madison Movie Channel (ad revenue, if selected) . 70%
PROTECTIONS
Paid ............................................ Monthly, with a statement for the Title; under $25 rolls over
Takedown ........................................ 5 reasons only; written notice and 30 days to fix
Changes to these terms .......................... Only by written amendment signed by both parties
Full terms ...................................... ArchMarket Terms of Service, last updated October 7, 2026
The Key Terms summarize the Agreement below. If they ever differ, the sections below govern.
THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS
1. Definitions
"Availability Date" means the day the Title is first available to viewers on any Screen.
"Screens" means the services the Creator chose for the Title: the ArchTV app, Arch Movie Channel (Roku) and Madison Movie Channel (Roku), if the Title is selected.
"Net Receipts" means the amounts ArchMadison actually receives from viewers for the Title (or, for Section 5(b), for other titles), after the fee charged by the Apple or Google app store and after refunds and chargebacks. Nothing else is deducted.
"Your Viewers" means viewers who create an ArchTV account carrying the Creator's code, whether they arrive through the Creator's link, post or email, or enter the code when they sign up. A viewer who is Your Viewer stays Your Viewer.
"Ad Revenue" means the advertising revenue ArchMadison actually receives that is attributable to the Title on a Roku channel.
2. License
The Creator grants ArchMadison a non-exclusive, worldwide license, during the Term, to host, stream, display and distribute the Title on the Screens, and to use the Title's name, artwork, short excerpts and the Creator's name to promote the Title and the Screens.
The license is non-exclusive. The Creator may show, sell or license the Title anywhere else, at any time, without asking ArchMadison.
ArchMadison may format the Title for each Screen (for example transcoding, captions, and fitting it to a phone or a television). ArchMadison will not otherwise edit, cut or alter the Title without the Creator's written consent.
3. Ownership
The Creator keeps the copyright and every other right in the Title, including all later seasons. This Agreement is a license, not a sale or an assignment, and the Title is not a work made for hire. Every right not expressly granted in Section 2 stays with the Creator.
4. Term
This Agreement starts on the Effective Date and the license runs for five (5) years from the Availability Date (the "Term"). After the Term, the Title may remain in the ArchTV catalog on the same non-exclusive basis and at the same shares, until either party ends that by thirty (30) days' written notice.
If the Title was not funded through ArchMarket, the Creator may end this Agreement at any time, during or after the Term, by thirty (30) days' written notice. The Title then comes down from every Screen, and everything it earned before that date is paid, including any balance carried forward.
5. Compensation
(a) ArchTV app. For each sale on the ArchTV app of access to the Title, you receive 85% of Net Receipts from Your Viewers and 60% of Net Receipts from all other viewers.
(b) Your Viewers on other titles. You also receive 10% of Net Receipts from what Your Viewers spend on other creators' titles, for as long as they keep paying. ArchMadison pays this from its own share; it never reduces another creator's share.
(c) Subscriptions. Net Receipts from ArchTV subscriptions are divided 50/50 between ArchMadison and the titles watched, and the Title's portion is allocated in proportion to time watched.
(d) Arch Movie Channel. You receive 85% of the Ad Revenue from the Title on Arch Movie Channel.
(e) Madison Movie Channel. If ArchMadison selects the Title for Madison Movie Channel, you receive 70% of the Ad Revenue from the Title there. Selection is at ArchMadison's discretion, title by title.
(f) Nothing else is deducted. No fee, cost or charge is taken from your share except as stated in this Section.
6. Statements and payment
ArchMadison will pay the Creator monthly, to the payout method the Creator sets in the creator dashboard, within thirty (30) days after the end of each month, and will provide a statement for the Title showing what it earned on each Screen. If the amount due for a month is less than twenty-five U.S. dollars (US$25), it is carried forward and added to the next month's payment, and ArchMadison pays any balance carried forward when this Agreement ends, whatever the amount.
Once a year, on thirty (30) days' written notice, the Creator may have ArchMadison's records for the Title checked by an independent accountant. If the check shows the Creator was underpaid by more than five percent (5%) for the period checked, ArchMadison pays the shortfall and the reasonable cost of the check; otherwise the Creator bears that cost.
7. Your viewers and your backers
ArchMadison will credit Your Viewers to the Creator as described in Section 1, and will show the Creator, in the creator dashboard, how many viewers the Creator's links and code have brought.
Backers who fund a campaign for the Creator agree that their email address is shared with the Creator, and the Creator may download that list during and after the campaign. ArchMadison will not sell the Creator's information or the Creator's backer list to anyone.
8. When the Title can be removed
ArchMadison will remove the Title, or stop paying on it, only if the Title (a) breaks the law; (b) infringes another person's rights; (c) uses a real person's name, likeness or voice without that person's permission; (d) is not made with generative AI; or (e) breaks a rule the Apple or Google app store enforces, and then only as far as that rule requires.
Before removing the Title, ArchMadison will give the Creator written notice stating the reason and thirty (30) days to fix it, except where the law or an app store requires faster action. Amounts the Title earned before removal are paid.
9. The Creator's promises
The Creator promises that the Creator owns or controls the rights needed to grant this license; that the music declarations and the rights acknowledgements made when the Title was submitted (likeness and voice, fonts and marks, chain of title) are true; and that the Title is made with generative AI.
If a third party brings a claim against ArchMadison because one of these promises is untrue, the Creator will cover ArchMadison's resulting losses and reasonable legal costs, provided ArchMadison tells the Creator promptly and lets the Creator take part in the defense.
10. Limits on liability
Neither party is liable to the other for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits. This Section does not limit ArchMadison's obligation to pay the Creator's share, or the Creator's obligation under Section 9.
11. These terms stay with this Title
ArchMadison may offer different terms to other titles. The license, shares, payment and removal terms in this Agreement do not change for this Title unless both parties sign a written amendment. Where this Agreement and the Terms of Service differ, this Agreement governs for this Title.
12. Notices
Notices under this Agreement are given in writing to the addresses at the top of this Agreement, or to a new address a party gives by notice. Email to the addresses shown is valid notice.
13. Law and disputes
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida. The parties will first try in good faith, for thirty (30) days, to settle any dispute by discussion. If that fails, the dispute will be decided by the state or federal courts located in Florida, and each party accepts their jurisdiction.
14. General
Assignment. ArchMadison may assign this Agreement only to a successor to its business that assumes all of its obligations under it, and will notify the Creator. The Creator may assign the right to receive payment under this Agreement.
Relationship. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in this Agreement makes either party the employee, partner or agent of the other.
Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the ArchMarket Terms of Service, last updated October 7, 2026 (https://archmarket.io/legal/terms), is the whole agreement about the Title. If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. A delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.
Electronic signature and language. The parties sign electronically, and an electronic signature has the same effect as a handwritten one. If this Agreement is shown in another language, the English version governs.
Survival. Sections 3, 5 (for amounts earned), 6, 9, 10 and 13 continue after this Agreement ends.
SIGNATURES
ArchMadison, LLC
By: /s/ Gary DePew
Name: Gary DePew
Title: Founder
Date: November 7, 2026
Signed electronically on ArchMadison's behalf when the Creator signed.
[Creator's full legal name] ([Creator name])
By: /s/ [Creator's typed signature]
Name: [Creator's full legal name]
Title: Creator
Date: November 7, 2026
Signed electronically from the account [creator@example.com] on 2026-11-08 00:00:00 UTC.Questions about the agreement: info@archtv.app