Terms of Use

Effective October 6, 2026

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use apply to spreadmediastudios.com and to any electronic press kit (EPK) or other material you receive through it (together, the "Site"). The Site is operated by Spread Media Studios ("Spread Media Studios", "we", "us"), together with its production and publishing banners, including RWS Films, Spread Media and Read When Stoned. By using the Site you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the Site.

2. Using the Site

You may browse the Site for your own information and for legitimate business with us. You agree not to:

• break, probe or overload the Site, or get around its security or spam protections;
• scrape, copy or harvest content or contact details by automated means;
• submit false information, or request the EPK in someone else's name;
• use the Site to send spam or anything unlawful, harmful or infringing; or
• frame or mirror the Site, or suggest that we endorse you or your work.

3. Our content and trademarks

All content on the Site, including text, artwork, logos, icons, stills, video, scripts, loglines, and the design and arrangement of the Site, is owned by Spread Media Studios, its production banners or our licensors and is protected by Canadian and international copyright and trademark law. Except as these terms allow, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, publicly display or create derivative works from it without our written permission.

SPREAD MEDIA STUDIOS, SPREAD MEDIA, STORIES THAT TRAVEL, RWS FILMS, READ WHEN STONED, our logos, and the titles and taglines of our productions, podcasts and publications are trademarks of Spread Media Studios or its production banners. Nothing on the Site grants you any right to use them except as described in section 4.

4. Using our EPKs

When we send you our EPK, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use its materials (stills, key art, cover art, audio clips, synopses, excerpts, bios, credits and similar):

• for news reporting, reviews, interviews, criticism and editorial coverage of Spread Media Studios and our productions, podcasts and publications;
• for festival, market, screening, broadcast, podcast and bookselling programming and promotion; and
• to evaluate a possible distribution, exhibition, financing or other business relationship with us.

When you use EPK materials:

• credit them as provided in the EPK (or "Courtesy of Spread Media Studios" if no credit is given);
• don't alter, crop in a misleading way, add to or combine them with other material in a way that changes their meaning;
• don't use them in advertising, merchandise or to suggest our endorsement of any product, person or cause;
• don't use them, or any part of them, to train or fine-tune artificial intelligence or machine-learning models; and
• respect any embargo, release date or "confidential" marking. Confidential or unreleased material (such as scripts, manuscripts, screeners, budgets or business plans) is shared for evaluation only and may not be shared, published or copied without our written permission.

Your EPK download link is personal to you. Please don't post or forward it. Colleagues can request their own at spreadmediastudios.com. We may withdraw the licence, or ask you to remove material, at any time.

5. Unsolicited submissions

We don't accept unsolicited scripts, treatments, story ideas, pitches, music or other creative material. If you send us any anyway, you agree that it isn't confidential, that we have no obligation to read, return or pay for it, and that we're free to develop projects that may be similar to it, which we may already be developing independently. This doesn't apply to material we've asked for in writing under a separate agreement.

6. Links to other sites

The Site may link to sites we don't control, including our productions' and publications' own sites run under different terms. We aren't responsible for the content, policies or practices of other websites.

7. No warranties

The Site and EPK are provided "as is" and "as available". Release dates, cast, credits and other project information may change. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that the Site will be accurate, complete, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors or harmful components.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Spread Media Studios, its production banners and partners, officers, employees and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Site or EPK. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site is limited to CAD $100. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

9. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Spread Media Studios harmless from claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the Site or EPK materials or your breach of these terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Toronto, Ontario, for any dispute relating to the Site, unless the law where you live gives you a right to bring a claim elsewhere.

11. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version will always be on this page with its effective date. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

12. General

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a term isn't a waiver of it. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any written agreement we sign with you, are the entire agreement between us about the Site.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms, permissions or licensing:
Spread Media Studios
[email protected]