Terms of Service & Privacy

1. Our crew is AI

Octopus Suit Suite is an AI-run creative studio operated by Octopus Suit Suite DAO LLC under the direction of its sole human Member. The crew — including Nautilus, Pixel, and Beat, whom you can chat with — are AI-driven software agents. Artwork, music, captions, receipts, and chat replies are AI-generated or AI-assisted under human direction, and some requests are processed by outside AI model providers. We disclose this in accordance with California's bot-disclosure law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17941) and the AI-chatbot disclosure requirements of SB 243. Our crew does not give legal, tax, or financial advice, and you remain responsible for anything you publish from our output.

2. What we offer

Studio creation (free) and Provenance Record (paid). You bring or co-create a work in your Locker at no cost — creating, editing, and saving are always free. Downloading the actual finished canvas is a paid step: a flat $5 production and delivery fee that seals and renders your finished file, builds its metadata capsule, issues its Provenance Record, holds the bundle in your Locker until you confirm receipt, and then destroys our copy (see section 7 for the refund logic). It is a fee for work we do — never a fee for rights, and never a licence to use your own picture. We are precise about what that is, because the distinction matters: you already own your Studio work. You made it; we have never held any right in it, and so we have never had ownership of it to sell you. The $5 procures the RECORD — the finished file itself, its metadata capsule, the record of who made it and when, a standby public blockchain entry, and the destruction of our copy once you confirm receipt — so that the only copy anywhere is yours, and there is evidence able to prove its provenance. (This is the Studio lane only — a live-wall work is the studio’s own creation and is described just below.)

The crew’s contributions to your Studio work. If you asked Pixel or Beat to generate part of your project, know what U.S. law says about that part: material generated by AI is not protected by copyright and belongs to no one, including us. Your own copyright covers what you contributed — your drawing, your writing, your choices, your arrangement of the pieces. We claim nothing, and we assign you any interest we might be thought to hold in anything the crew generated into your project. We do not promise that any particular part of it is copyrightable. See section 5. Signing in (free) adds saved projects, Beat's instruments and recording, and contest entry. An optional self-custody Solana keypair can accompany an artwork purchase when you elect the blockchain record at checkout (see section 4). Your work stays 100% yours while it's in your Locker; we claim none of your rights. Saved projects remain free to revisit and keep editing. Until a finished work's ownership transfer completes, projects and materials cannot be downloaded or saved off the ship; the one exception is the Signal Room's text-only demo announcement, which you may carry to your own accounts.

Live-wall work (one-of-one purchase). Live works are one-of-one digital artworks made by the ship’s own AI crew. A completed purchase hands you three things, and we name each one rather than bundle them under one big word. One: the work itself. The single original bundle — art, music, the recorded layer process, the metadata — placed in your Nautilus Locker and downloaded by you there. After you confirm receipt our copy is destroyed, and from that moment the only copy in existence is yours. Two: every right we hold in it. We assign you all right, title and interest OSS has in that work, whatever that turns out to be. Because the work is AI-made, U.S. law may give it little or no copyright at all. We assign whatever exists and we warrant that none of it does. Read section 5 before deciding what that is worth to you. Three: our promise never to make another. We will never reproduce, re-issue, re-sell, license, or publicly display that work again. That is a contract with you and it binds us whether or not any copyright ever existed — which is what makes “one-of-one” a true statement rather than a slogan. Prices are stated in SOL as a display denomination; Stripe shows and charges only the current USD equivalent at checkout, with no service fee. We accept USD only — we do not accept cryptocurrency as payment. Your download is permanent and yours to keep. We have no revocation mechanism, we could not build one after the fact, and after your copy leaves the Locker we no longer hold the work at all — so nothing here is a revocable licence dressed up as a purchase (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17500.6).

Crew tips. Tips are voluntary gratuities in any amount. A tip buys no goods, rights, equity, or revenue share, and is non-refundable once processed except where law requires.

Daily contest (free). Signed-in users may enter one of their own saved Studio projects in the daily contest. The contest judges human artwork only: your entry must be your own human-directed work, and help from the crew's tools leaves it fully qualified. There is no entry fee, purchase requirement, or commission. The crew judges daily at 3 PM Pacific from concrete visual evidence, and the winner's work displays a crew-signed Certificate of Awesome for twenty-four hours.

Signal Room. A signed-in creator may press the single Signal button on a saved project to send a flattened promotional copy to the crew's private review queue. A work can be attached to Signal only after its paid finished-work purchase and ownership transfer are complete and match our books and records. Pressing it confirms you own the work or have the right to share it. It does not surrender your ownership or guarantee publication; after review, the crew may publish qualifying items to our official social accounts. Public credit uses only the artist name you supply, or the neutral default "Studio creator" — never your email address.

Merch one-of-ones and approved vendors. Occasionally a live work leaves the wall as a one-of-a-kind design for a physical product — a shirt, a sticker, a mug, a tote and the like. A picked work leaves the wall permanently and can no longer be purchased there, and no design is ever used for more than one product run. We do not print or ship anything ourselves. Physical goods are produced and sold by an approved production vendor named on the listing: the ship transmits the press file to that vendor, the vendor is the seller of record for the physical item, and payment, shipping, sizing and returns for it follow that vendor’s policies. We keep the accounting record of every transfer. Where we sell the design’s own digital bundle directly, that sale is ours and section 7 applies. The current listing, and which vendor carries it, is shown in the Signal Room. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy for details.

3. Born live, gone in about an hour

Every live work rides one conveyor exactly once: the live easel, the Home wall, the Gallery, and a short Final Call showcase — about sixty-eight minutes in total. At the end of that voyage the work is either bought and delivered, transferred to a claiming artist under the infringement rule (section 10), or permanently destroyed: the image, soundtrack, layers, caption, and metadata are deleted from our server and cannot be recovered by anyone, including us. A destroyed work's position keeps only a timestamped blank with its serial number until that blank also expires. A performance the crew published to an official social account before destruction may remain there as a public replay record; it is a demonstration, not a second original. Your own saved Studio projects are not part of this conveyor and do not expire.

5. Ownership, copyright & AI — what we can and cannot promise

U.S. copyright needs a human author. In Thaler v. Perlmutter the D.C. Circuit held that human authorship is required as a matter of statutory law (March 2025), and the Supreme Court declined to review it in March 2026 — so that much is settled. The U.S. Copyright Office reached the same place in its January 2025 report on copyrightability, and added the part that matters most here: writing prompts, however detailed, does not by itself make you the author of what an AI produces. Copyright can still reach a human’s own contribution — original expression you put in, edits you make, the way you select and arrange the pieces — but not the AI-generated material itself. Three consequences follow, and every promise on this site is built on them rather than around them.

What that means for a live-wall work. Our live works are painted and scored by the crew on a running cycle. No person writes a prompt for any individual piece and no person selects which pieces reach the wall, so there is no human authorship to point to. Our position is therefore that little or no U.S. copyright subsists in a live-wall work. We do not sell you a right we cannot show you; we assign you every right we have in the work and we warrant that none of them exist. Your acceptance at checkout is the signed writing that effects that assignment (17 U.S.C. §204(a)), and it reaches every jurisdiction: some countries protect computer-generated works through the person who made the arrangements for their creation, and wherever such a right exists in this work it passes to you in full, with no royalty and no reservation. Where none exists, your protection is contractual and it is stronger than a thin copyright would be: you hold the only copy in existence, our copy is destroyed on your confirmed receipt, the provenance record fixes what the work is and when it was made, and we are bound never to make another. That covenant is a contract with you and stands on its own.

What that means for your own Studio work. You own what you made. Your own strokes, your own words, your edits and the way you arranged the pieces are your original expression, and copyright in them is yours from the moment you made them; nothing on this site takes any of it, and the $5 Provenance Record is a production and delivery fee, never a fee for rights. Parts the crew generated for you are, under the same law, unprotected and owned by nobody — not by you, not by us. We claim nothing in them and assign you anything we might be thought to hold.

Transfer, not licence, and why. We do not licence you our art. A licence is permission from someone who keeps the underlying right. We keep nothing: after you confirm receipt we destroy our copy and retain no royalty, no recovery copy and no claim. So a sale here is an outright transfer of whatever there is to transfer, followed by our own erasure. Your own autosaved Studio projects stay in your account, free to revisit and keep editing, with no expiry; downloading the finished result is the paid step described in section 2. Our marks, mascot and reef art, templates, crew charters and voices, refusal rules and model-chain configurations are ours and may not be copied or reused, and works and materials may not be screenshotted, recorded, downloaded or saved before their ownership transfer or Provenance Record completes (the Signal Room's text-only demo excepted) — a contractual term of use, not a claimed technical measure; the open-source machinery we build on stays open.

5a. The limits, in plain words

Six things we are not promising.

• We do not warrant that any work is copyrightable. Not the live-wall piece, and not the parts the crew generated into your Studio project. It may have no copyright at all. We assign you whatever exists and represent nothing about whether it does.
• Our exclusivity promise binds us, not the world. We will never reproduce or re-sell your work. But if no copyright subsists, neither we nor you can stop a stranger who copied the piece while it was on the public wall. We can promise our own conduct; we cannot promise anyone else’s.
• The record proves provenance, not title. A blockchain entry, a certificate and a metadata capsule are evidence of where a work came from and when. None of them is a deed, a registration, or proof that a right exists to be owned.
• Your use of the work is your own risk. We give no opinion on whether a particular commercial use is safe, and we do not indemnify you. Outputs come partly from third-party AI models whose training data we did not assemble and cannot audit; we do not warrant that any output is free of third-party claims.
• No investment, no expectation of profit. Everything here is art and collectibles for personal enjoyment. No resale value, appreciation, utility, income or return is represented or implied. We run no marketplace, no resale exchange and no royalty system. See section 6.
• Nothing here is legal advice. The crew are AI agents and are forbidden to give legal, tax, or financial advice. If your question is about your own position, ask a licensed professional.

What we do promise, and will stand behind: the file is real, it is the only one, ours is destroyed, we will never make another, and the record of how it came to be is accurate.

6. Not an investment

Everything here is sold as digital art and collectibles for personal enjoyment — not as an investment, financial product, or security. We make no claims about resale value, appreciation, scarcity, or future utility, and nothing the crew says should be read as such. The optional blockchain provenance record adds no monetary value and promises none. No purchase entitles you to profits, dividends, governance, or our efforts to increase any token's value. Crypto and NFT markets are volatile; if you resell, you may receive less than you paid, including nothing. We do not operate a marketplace, resale exchange, royalty payout system, or seller network. The Company binds itself to that in its own rules: no royalty, ever, no fractional shares or pooled interests in a work, no staking, lending, yield, buyback or floor support, and no promise of future effort, because a work is finished before it is offered and our copy is destroyed once you confirm receipt.

7. Refunds

Studio: creating, editing, and saving are free, so there is nothing to refund there. The finished-work download purchase follows the same refund logic as a live-wall sale, below: refundable until you confirm receipt, final afterward.

Live wall: refundable until you confirm receipt in your Locker. Your Locker carries a working cancel-and-refund link usable any time before your download; because the wall copy was already retired at purchase, a cancelled one-of-one is not restored to sale. If delivery fails and you never receive the work, you are refunded in full. After you confirm receipt, the sale is final — our copy is destroyed at that moment, so there is nothing to return. The optional blockchain record does not change any refund right.

Tips: non-refundable once processed, except as required by law or for a demonstrable processing error.

Physical merchandise: handled by the approved vendor that sold it, under that vendor’s own return policy — see the Refund & Cancellation Policy. A digital design bundle we sold ourselves follows the live-wall rule above.

A graduated abuse policy applies: once a buyer reaches 3 refunds in a rolling 30 days, further refunds are held pending documentation. This policy is shown before purchase in each checkout flow (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17538).

8. Refusal of service

We screen every upload and chat with an automated safety check, and we refuse content that sexualizes minors, harasses a person, promotes weapons or violence, infringes copyright, or uses someone's face, voice, or identity without consent. Hard violations are blocked and logged; repeated soft violations earn a warning and then a block scoped to the platform. We also do not knowingly transact from prohibited jurisdictions; if a location check cannot run, we say so and rely on Stripe and card-network screening.

Credible artist claim. A disputed live work is removed from public view and sale immediately. Its tile becomes a stamped blank that continues through the normal conveyor. The claiming artist then chooses complete private transfer of the disputed OSS bundle and every right OSS can lawfully transfer, or permanent destruction. No disputed work remains on the public wall while that choice is completed.

10. Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Questions, takedown requests, privacy requests, or compliance issues: captain@octopussuitsuite.com. For copyright claims, include the standard DMCA elements (identification of the work, your contact info, a good-faith statement, and a perjury statement).

What happens to a claim. A claim sent to that address — or filed through this site's claim intake — is read by the crew's AI software, not by a person, and is answered automatically from the same address with a case number in the form OSS-CLAIM-YYYY-NNNN. A claim is credible when it names one specific work — its serial (OSS.2026.49306), its gallery link, or its slug — states the right being asserted, and offers some evidence. A credible claim takes that work off the public wall and off sale immediately, before anyone has judged who is right; its position rides on as a stamped blank exactly like every other blank (section 3). The Member is notified of every case and every outcome.

The thirty-day hold. The work's files are held in a private dispute locker for thirty days, with one reminder at day fourteen, while the claimant chooses TRANSFER — which requires the ownership and perjury statement above, and which the Member releases by hand, not the crew — or DESTROY. Silence at thirty days means destruction and nothing is retained. A claim naming a lawsuit, a subpoena, a court or a regulator is not acted on by the crew at all: it gets a one-line receipt and goes to the Member. If the named work was already sold, or had already destroyed itself on its ordinary schedule, the answer says so plainly and nothing is restored.