IMPORTANT LEGAL STATUS AND USE

This Policy serves four distinct functions: (1) notice of ownership and reserved rights; (2) contractual website-use restrictions when incorporated into and accepted under the Company’s Terms of Use; (3) rules for written licenses and permissions; and (4) internal operating standards for Company personnel, contractors, guests, vendors, and productions.

A publicly posted policy does not, by itself, guarantee a binding contract against every person who encounters Company content. Contract claims are strongest where a user receives reasonably conspicuous notice and affirmatively agrees to the Terms of Use, or where a separate signed agreement incorporates this Policy. Copyright, trademark, right-of-publicity, privacy, unfair-competition, fraud, and other statutory or common-law rights may apply independently of contract.

Nothing in this Policy eliminates rights, exceptions, immunities, or defenses created by applicable law, including fair use, First Amendment protections, news reporting, commentary, parody, or other legally protected conduct. The Company does not concede that any particular use qualifies for an exception.

1. SCOPE, ACCEPTANCE, AND INCORPORATION

This Artificial Intelligence, Voice-Cloning & Digital Replica Restrictions Policy (“Policy”) applies to November 8 Studios, LLC, its brands, productions, websites, podcasts, social-media accounts, audiovisual works, publications, files, feeds, downloads, and other materials (“Company Materials”).

For users of Company websites, applications, feeds, or services, this Policy is incorporated into the Company’s Terms of Use. By accessing or using a service after receiving legally sufficient notice of those Terms, or by clicking an acceptance mechanism, the user agrees to comply with this Policy. If there is a conflict, a separately signed agreement controls over this Policy, and the Terms of Use control over this Policy unless the signed agreement states otherwise.

No oral statement, silence, course of dealing, failure to object, platform availability, technical accessibility, or public posting creates an AI-training, voice-cloning, digital-replica, endorsement, publicity, trademark, or sublicensing right.

2. DEFINITIONS

“Artificial Intelligence” or “AI” means computational systems, models, software, agents, or services that generate, classify, predict, transform, synthesize, retrieve, recommend, analyze, imitate, or otherwise process content or data, including generative AI, machine learning, foundation models, large language models, multimodal models, speech models, and automated agents.

“Digital Replica” means a newly created, generated, simulated, altered, or manipulated audio, visual, audiovisual, or interactive representation that is readily identifiable with a real individual, including a replica of that person’s voice, face, image, likeness, gestures, mannerisms, or performance.

“Voice Clone” means synthesized, converted, generated, transformed, or manipulated speech intended or reasonably likely to sound like, be confused with, or evoke the identifiable voice of a person.

“Company Identity Elements” means the Company’s names, trade names, logos, marks, slogans, artwork, trade dress, program titles, domain names, account names, signatures, formats, intros, outros, and other source-identifying elements, including November 8 Studios, LLC, Frayed, and “The warning signs before tragedy.”

“Protected Person” means Bobbi Short and any Company owner, host, guest, employee, contractor, performer, contributor, or representative whose voice, image, likeness, performance, or persona appears in Company Materials.

“Training” includes pretraining, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, alignment, evaluation, benchmarking, testing, red-teaming, retrieval-augmented generation, embedding creation, indexing, model distillation, synthetic-data generation, prompt-library creation, and dataset curation.

“Commercial Purpose” includes advertising, merchandising, subscriptions, lead generation, fundraising, promotion, endorsement, sponsorship, monetized distribution, model or product development, internal enterprise advantage, or any use connected to trade or business.

3. OWNERSHIP AND RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

Except for third-party materials used under license or applicable law, Company Materials are owned by or licensed to November 8 Studios, LLC and may be protected by copyright, trademark, trade-dress, contract, right-of-publicity, privacy, anti-fraud, unfair-competition, and other laws.

• Audio recordings, podcast episodes, scripts, transcripts, narration, research compilations, written commentary, photographs, artwork, graphics, video, music, sound design, editing, arrangement, and production elements;

• Company Identity Elements and the goodwill associated with them;

• Copyright-management information, credits, metadata, notices, watermarks, identifiers, and source information;

• Protected Persons’ names, voices, images, likenesses, performances, signatures, and personas to the extent owned, licensed, or protected by law.

All rights are reserved. No implied license is granted for AI Training, biometric processing, voice replication, digital-replica creation, endorsement, merchandising, dataset construction, model evaluation, or commercial exploitation.

4. PROHIBITED AI TRAINING AND DATA USE

Unless expressly authorized by a written agreement signed by an authorized representative of the Company, no person may knowingly use, reproduce, download, scrape, ingest, copy, store, cache, parse, label, annotate, segment, tokenize, embed, index, transmit, disclose, sell, license, or otherwise process Company Materials for AI Training or for development, operation, testing, evaluation, or improvement of an AI system.

• Creating or supplementing datasets, corpora, vector databases, knowledge bases, benchmarks, evaluation sets, synthetic datasets, prompt libraries, or retrieval systems;

• Training or fine-tuning speech-recognition, speech-synthesis, voice-conversion, text, image, video, avatar, recommender, search, or multimodal systems;

• Using Company Materials as inputs, references, conditioning data, exemplars, style references, or targets to generate substantially similar material, imitate a Protected Person, or reproduce Company Identity Elements;

• Using automated agents, crawlers, scrapers, browser automation, bulk downloaders, feed harvesters, or API extraction to acquire Company Materials for prohibited purposes.

This section states the Company’s lack of consent and contractual conditions. It does not purport to decide whether an unlicensed use is independently lawful under copyright or other law; the Company expressly reserves the right to contest such use.

5. VOICE-CLONING AND SOUND-ALIKE RESTRICTIONS

Without prior, specific, written authorization, no person may create, commission, distribute, publish, transmit, advertise, sell, license, perform, or use a Voice Clone of a Protected Person.

• Replicating or simulating vocal identity, timbre, cadence, inflection, accent, phrasing, pronunciation, emotional delivery, or other identifiable vocal attributes;

• Generating speech that falsely states or implies that a Protected Person made, approved, endorsed, narrated, participated in, or is responsible for content;

• Creating a “sound-alike,” synthetic host, voice skin, voice model, conversion preset, text-to-speech profile, interactive voice bot, or downloadable voice asset associated with a Protected Person;

• Using even a short sample, isolated phrase, outtake, voicemail, episode excerpt, livestream, interview, or social-media clip to construct, test, validate, or operate a voice model.

A disclaimer does not cure an otherwise prohibited use, eliminate confusion, or create consent. Parody, commentary, news reporting, and other protected uses remain governed by applicable law, but must not falsely imply source, sponsorship, endorsement, or authenticity.

6. DIGITAL REPLICAS, DEEPFAKES, AVATARS, AND SYNTHETIC PERFORMANCES

Without prior written authorization, no person may create or exploit a Digital Replica of a Protected Person, including an AI avatar, synthetic presenter, manipulated interview, facial reenactment, photorealistic image, motion replica, interactive persona, holographic or virtual performance, or combined voice-and-likeness simulation.

Prohibited uses include fabricated statements, fake interviews, synthetic podcast episodes, false confessions, false endorsements, deceptive advertisements, simulated professional opinions, impersonated fundraising, fraudulent solicitations, manipulated sexual or intimate content, and any use reasonably likely to mislead a person regarding authenticity, participation, approval, affiliation, or source.

7. PUBLICITY, LIKENESS, PERSONA, AND BIOMETRIC RESTRICTIONS

No license is granted to use a Protected Person’s name, voice, signature, photograph, image, likeness, distinctive appearance, gestures, mannerisms, persona, or other indicia of identity for a Commercial Purpose.

• Creating voiceprints, face templates, biometric identifiers, authentication profiles, identity-matching systems, emotion-recognition profiles, or forensic reference sets;

• Using a Protected Person’s identity to advertise, endorse, sponsor, promote, recommend, or imply approval of a product, service, political message, cause, investment, donation request, or organization;

• Registering, trafficking in, or using domain names, account names, handles, metadata, keywords, or model names that impersonate or falsely suggest affiliation with a Protected Person or the Company.

Nothing in this section claims ownership of facts, ideas, general styles, or attributes that the law does not protect. The restriction targets unauthorized exploitation of identifiable persons, protected expression, source identifiers, confidential material, and contractual rights.

8. COMPANY NAME, MARKS, BRAND, AND FORMAT USE

Company Identity Elements may not be used in a way that is likely to cause confusion, mistake, deception, dilution, false affiliation, false endorsement, or passing off.

• Do not label synthetic or third-party material as an official Company episode, clip, transcript, account, production, statement, or release;

• Do not place Company logos, marks, titles, visual identity, taglines, episode art, or credits on AI-generated content without written permission;

• Do not create confusingly similar accounts, domains, channels, merchandise, podcasts, newsletters, applications, bots, or AI assistants;

• Do not use Company Identity Elements as model names, chatbot personas, voice names, downloadable assets, marketplace listings, or prompt-pack branding.

Accurate nominative references to the Company or its productions may be permitted by law when reasonably necessary to identify the subject and when the use does not imply sponsorship or endorsement.

9. IMPERSONATION, DECEPTION, AND FALSE ATTRIBUTION

No person may use AI, synthetic media, altered media, or Company Materials to impersonate the Company or a Protected Person; materially misrepresent affiliation, approval, sponsorship, employment, or authorization; falsify statements or evidence; or facilitate fraud, harassment, extortion, identity theft, defamation, privacy invasion, or consumer deception.

No person may remove, alter, conceal, falsify, or replace credits, ownership notices, copyright-management information, watermarks, provenance data, authenticity indicators, or metadata where doing so violates law or a binding agreement.

10. LIMITED PERMITTED USES

Subject to the Terms of Use and applicable law, the Company generally permits individuals to listen to official episodes, view publicly available pages, share official links, and make limited quotations for legitimate commentary, criticism, scholarship, news reporting, or other lawful purposes.

No permitted use authorizes Voice Cloning, Digital Replicas, deceptive impersonation, biometric extraction, bulk dataset creation, model Training, removal of notices, false endorsement, or commercial exploitation. Permission to access content is not permission to ingest it into an AI system.

11. WRITTEN AI AND SYNTHETIC-MEDIA LICENSES

The Company may grant a limited license only through a signed written agreement that identifies the licensed materials, authorized technology, permitted purpose, territory, duration, users, model or vendor, security measures, compensation, approval rights, disclosure obligations, deletion duties, audit rights, ownership of outputs, and post-termination obligations.

Unless a signed license expressly states otherwise:

• The license is nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable, revocable for breach, and limited to the named project;

• No model weights, embeddings, voice models, datasets, replicas, outputs, or derivatives may be retained after expiration or termination;

• No use may imply endorsement or authenticity, and all approved synthetic content must carry clear, proximate disclosure;

• The licensee must maintain reasonable security, provenance records, access logs, and incident-response procedures;

• The licensee must promptly remove unauthorized outputs, notify the Company of misuse, cooperate with takedowns, and certify deletion upon request;

• No rights are granted to Company Identity Elements, confidential information, third-party content, or any person’s publicity rights beyond the express license.

12. GUEST, EMPLOYEE, CONTRACTOR, AND VENDOR REQUIREMENTS

Any Company guest, employee, contractor, performer, editor, producer, researcher, designer, platform, hosting provider, or vendor who receives or creates Company Materials must comply with applicable written agreements and this Policy.

• No recording, outtake, raw file, isolated vocal stem, photograph, biometric data, likeness, script, transcript, or confidential material may be submitted to an AI service except as expressly approved in writing;

• No person may authorize a third party to clone, model, train on, or replicate another participant’s voice, likeness, performance, or persona;

• Contractors must disclose all AI tools used on Company work, obtain written approval before use, comply with confidentiality and data-retention requirements, and assign or license deliverables as required by their contract;

• Vendors must not use Company data or content to train generalized models, improve services for others, create advertising profiles, or develop unrelated products;

• Upon termination or request, recipients must return or securely delete Company Materials and any unauthorized derived data, subject to lawful record-retention obligations.

A guest-release, contractor agreement, employment agreement, sponsorship agreement, or vendor agreement should separately state ownership, consent, permitted editing, AI use, synthetic-media restrictions, confidentiality, indemnity, and deletion obligations. This Policy supplements but does not replace those signed agreements.

13. COMPANY AI TRANSPARENCY AND INTERNAL USE STANDARD

The Company may use AI-assisted tools for administrative, research-support, transcription, editing-support, brainstorming, accessibility, production, analytics, or other lawful purposes. The Company’s standard is human accountability, source verification, privacy protection, and nondeceptive publication.

• AI output must not be treated as verified fact, legal advice, clinical judgment, or authoritative source without appropriate human review and independent verification;

• Confidential, privileged, sensitive, embargoed, unpublished, guest, victim, minor, employee, or personally identifying information must not be entered into an AI system unless approved and protected by suitable contractual and technical safeguards;

• Materially synthetic audio, video, image, or performance that could reasonably be mistaken for authentic media should be clearly disclosed at or near the point of presentation, unless the synthetic nature is obvious or disclosure would be inappropriate under applicable law;

• The Company will not knowingly publish a Voice Clone or Digital Replica of a real person without appropriate authority, documented consent, and editorial review;

• Human editors remain responsible for accuracy, fairness, rights clearance, final wording, and publication decisions.

Routine tools such as noise reduction, leveling, spell-checking, captioning, transcription correction, compression, color correction, or other nondeceptive technical processing do not necessarily require a public AI disclosure unless they materially alter meaning, identity, or authenticity.

14. NOTICE, REPORTING, AND EVIDENCE PRESERVATION

Suspected unauthorized AI use, voice cloning, digital replicas, fake accounts, deceptive content, trademark confusion, privacy violations, or false attribution should be reported to:

November 8 Studios, LLC
Email: november8studios@hotmail.com
Mail: 11160 Clover Drive, Brookville, Indiana 47012

A report should include the reporter’s name and contact information; the URL, account, platform, product, or file location; a description of the disputed use; screenshots, recordings, dates, and other supporting evidence; the identity of the person or entity responsible if known; and the requested action.

The Company may preserve publicly available evidence, issue platform reports or takedown demands, notify service providers, request account or content removal, send cease-and-desist correspondence, refer suspected fraud or crime to authorities, and pursue available legal or equitable remedies.

15. ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES

Depending on the facts, unauthorized conduct may implicate contract, copyright, trademark, false designation of origin, right of publicity, privacy, defamation, fraud, identity theft, consumer-protection, unfair-competition, anti-circumvention, copyright-management-information, computer-access, or other laws.

To the maximum extent permitted by law and any applicable agreement, the Company may seek temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive relief; impoundment or deletion; actual, statutory, or enhanced damages where authorized; disgorgement of profits; costs; attorneys’ fees where recoverable; corrective notices; account suspension; termination of access or license; and other appropriate relief.

The Company does not impose a fixed liquidated-damages amount in this Policy. Damages and remedies depend on the governing statute, contract, proof, jurisdiction, and facts.

16. PLATFORM, SEARCH, AND TECHNICAL DIRECTIVES

The Company may publish machine-readable or platform-specific signals expressing restrictions on automated access, indexing, model training, or reuse, including robots.txt directives, metadata, content credentials, provenance information, watermarks, access controls, license tags, and contractual API terms.

Technical availability or a crawler’s ability to bypass or ignore a directive does not constitute permission. Technical directives supplement, but do not replace, legally sufficient Terms of Use, licenses, registration, monitoring, and enforcement.

17. NO WAIVER; SEVERABILITY; CHANGES

Failure to enforce a provision immediately is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing and signed by an authorized Company representative.

If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder will continue in effect, unless the governing agreement requires a different result.

The Company may revise this Policy prospectively. The effective date will be updated when material changes are made. Changes do not retroactively alter a separately signed agreement unless that agreement permits incorporation of updates.

18. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTES

For contractual disputes arising from accepted website Terms of Use or a Company agreement that incorporates this Policy, governing law, venue, arbitration, class-action waiver, limitation period, and other dispute terms are controlled by the applicable Terms of Use or signed agreement.

If no controlling agreement applies, the Company reserves all rights under any jurisdiction whose law applies. This Policy does not attempt to force Indiana law or venue on a person who never formed a contract with the Company.

19. CONTACT FOR PERMISSIONS AND LICENSING

Requests for AI, voice, likeness, replica, clip, brand, transcript, dataset, research, educational, commercial, or other permissions must be sent to november8studios@hotmail.com. A request should describe the requester, materials, technology, intended use, audience, territory, duration, distribution method, monetization, safeguards, disclosures, and proposed compensation.

No use is authorized until a written agreement is signed by an authorized representative of November 8 Studios, LLC.

IMPLEMENTATION CHECKLIST

This Policy is strongest when paired with operational controls. November 8 Studios, LLC should complete the following:

• ☐ Publish this Policy as a dedicated website page and link it in the footer.

• ☐ Incorporate it expressly into the Website Terms of Use.

• ☐ Use an affirmative click-through acceptance mechanism for account creation, downloads, submissions, licensing portals, or other higher-risk interactions.

• ☐ Add an AI/voice/digital-replica clause to guest releases, contractor agreements, vendor agreements, sponsorship agreements, employment documents, and collaboration agreements.

• ☐ Register copyrightable episodes, scripts, artwork, and other priority works with the U.S. Copyright Office as appropriate.

• ☐ Evaluate federal trademark registration for November 8 Studios, Frayed, logos, and key slogans.

• ☐ Maintain original recordings, project files, drafts, publication dates, licenses, releases, invoices, and chain-of-title records.

• ☐ Publish an infringement-reporting page and keep a standardized evidence-preservation and response workflow.

• ☐ Configure robots.txt and available AI-crawler controls, while recognizing they are not complete legal protection.

• ☐ Use visible and embedded ownership notices, metadata, provenance tools, watermarks, or content credentials where practical.

• ☐ Adopt a written internal approval process for any use of synthetic voice, altered likeness, or materially generated media.

• ☐ Have Indiana counsel review the Terms of Use, guest release, contractor agreement, and this Policy together so the documents use consistent dispute, indemnity, venue, and remedy language.

LEGAL RESEARCH NOTES

This Policy was drafted with reference to the following authorities and official materials current through July 18, 2026. These notes are explanatory and are not incorporated as contractual promises.

U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1: Digital Replicas (July 2024). The Office concluded that existing law provides uneven protection and recommended a federal digital-replica right, underscoring the need to rely on a combination of contract, copyright, publicity, trademark, fraud, and state law rather than claiming a single complete federal remedy.

U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 3: Generative AI Training (pre-publication version, May 2025). AI-training questions remain fact-specific, including fair-use analysis. The Policy therefore states lack of consent and contractual restrictions without falsely claiming that every unlicensed training use is automatically unlawful.

Indiana Code, Article 32-36, Right of Publicity. Indiana recognizes a property interest in specified aspects of personality and regulates unauthorized commercial uses, subject to statutory scope and exceptions.

Federal Trade Commission, Government and Business Impersonation Rule and related AI voice-cloning guidance. The FTC has authority against deceptive impersonation and has identified voice cloning as a tool used in fraud. The federal rule addresses government and business impersonation; it should not be described as a complete nationwide private right covering every individual clone.

17 U.S.C. §§ 1201-1203. Federal law separately addresses circumvention of technological measures and certain removal or alteration of copyright-management information, with statutory elements and defenses.