These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of 42Lines Studio, an AI-assisted video transcription, captioning, editing, and export platform operated by 42 Lines Media. By using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
1. Company and Services
42Lines Studio is operated by 42 Lines Media, doing business as 42Lines Studio, based in Massachusetts, United States. The Services include the website located at https://42lines.studio and related tools, features, software, workflows, and services that link to these Terms.
The Services help users upload video or audio, generate transcripts and captions, edit timing and text, customize caption styling and layouts, convert aspect ratios, and export video files with burned-in captions for platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other social platforms.
2. Eligibility and Accounts
The Services are intended for users who are at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Services only with permission and supervision from a parent, guardian, school, or authorized adult.
You may be required to create an account to use some features. You agree to provide accurate information, maintain the security of your login credentials, and promptly update your information when needed. You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account.
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, create security risk, infringe rights, misuse the Services, or provide false or incomplete information.
3. User Content and Uploads
You keep ownership of your videos, audio, captions, transcripts, project files, images, and other materials you upload or create using the Services. We do not claim ownership of your User Content.
By uploading or creating User Content, you grant 42 Lines Media a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, process, transcribe, analyze, render, reproduce, display, and transmit your User Content only as necessary to provide, maintain, troubleshoot, secure, and improve the Services and to comply with applicable law.
You represent and warrant that you own or have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, releases, and permissions necessary to upload, process, edit, publish, distribute, or otherwise use your User Content. This includes rights related to copyright, music, voice, likeness, privacy, publicity, and confidentiality.
You are solely responsible for reviewing all content before publication, broadcast, commercial use, or distribution. Do not upload confidential, private, copyrighted, school-protected, student-protected, medical, financial, or otherwise restricted material unless you have proper authorization and your use complies with applicable laws and policies.
4. AI Processing and Output
42Lines Studio uses automated technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, to generate transcripts, captions, timing data, translations, and related media outputs.
AI-generated outputs may contain inaccuracies, omissions, formatting errors, timing inconsistencies, mistranscriptions, or other mistakes. 42 Lines Media does not guarantee that AI-generated or automatically generated content will be accurate, complete, suitable, or legally compliant for any specific use.
You are responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving all transcripts, captions, translations, exports, and other generated outputs before relying on or publishing them.
If you do not want your media processed by AI transcription or automation services, do not upload that media for transcription or AI-powered processing.
5. Purchases, Subscriptions, and Cancellation
Some features may require payment or a subscription. Prices, included features, usage limits, export options, credits, and plan availability may change over time.
When paid plans are available, payments may be processed by third-party payment processors such as Stripe. You agree to provide accurate billing and account information and authorize the applicable payment processor to charge your selected payment method.
Subscriptions may automatically renew unless canceled before the end of the current billing period. You may cancel through your account settings or by contacting us if account cancellation tools are not yet available. Unless required by law or expressly stated otherwise at purchase, payments are non-refundable and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid term.
We may correct pricing errors, refuse transactions, limit plan access, or modify free and paid features as the product develops.
6. Intellectual Property
Except for User Content, the Services and all related software, source code, workflows, designs, interfaces, databases, captions tools, rendering systems, graphics, text, branding, names, logos, and proprietary technology are owned by or licensed to 42 Lines Media and are protected by intellectual property laws.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Services for your personal, educational, creative, or internal business purposes.
You may not copy, resell, redistribute, reverse engineer, decompile, modify, scrape, clone, exploit, or commercially repurpose the Services or any proprietary part of the platform without prior written permission from 42 Lines Media.
If you send us feedback, suggestions, ideas, or improvement requests, you grant us permission to use them without compensation or restriction.
7. Prohibited Activities
You agree not to:
Upload or process content you do not have permission to use.
Use the Services for unlawful, infringing, abusive, deceptive, harmful, exploitative, or discriminatory purposes.
Upload malware, malicious files, tracking mechanisms, or content designed to disrupt systems.
Attempt to bypass usage limits, paid features, watermarks, security protections, authentication, or access controls.
Reverse engineer, copy, scrape, overload, probe, or interfere with the Services or related infrastructure.
Create accounts through bots, scripts, or false identities.
Use the Services to violate another person’s privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or data protection rights.
Use outputs in a way that misleads people, impersonates others, or violates platform rules or applicable law.
8. Privacy
Your use of the Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, share, and retain information. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
The Services are hosted in the United States and may use providers located in the United States or other countries. By using the Services, you understand that your information may be processed in those locations as described in the Privacy Policy.
9. Copyright Complaints
We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe content available through the Services infringes your copyright, contact us with enough information to identify the work, the allegedly infringing material, your contact details, and a statement that you believe the use is unauthorized.
We may remove or restrict access to content, suspend accounts, or take other action when we believe infringement or misuse has occurred. Submitting false or misleading copyright claims may create legal liability.
10. Availability and Changes
The Services are provided as a developing software platform. We may update, modify, suspend, discontinue, rename, limit, or remove features at any time. We may also perform maintenance or experience outages caused by infrastructure, third-party providers, software errors, or other issues.
We do not guarantee that the Services will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or compatible with every browser, device, file type, operating system, or social media platform.
11. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, 42 Lines Media disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, and reliability.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, 42 Lines Media and its owners, employees, contractors, partners, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, content errors, publishing errors, takedowns, missed deadlines, or business interruption.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to the Services will be limited to the greater of the amount you paid to us for the Services during the six months before the claim arose or $120 USD. Some laws do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so some of these limits may not apply to you.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless 42 Lines Media from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, expenses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from your User Content, use of the Services, violation of these Terms, violation of law, or violation of another party’s rights.
12. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to conflict of law principles.
Before filing a formal claim, you and 42 Lines Media agree to attempt to resolve disputes informally for at least thirty (30) days after written notice. If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, it may be brought in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, unless another forum is required by applicable law.