Creator Terms
Effective August 28, 2026
These terms explain how HumanLore works with creators, in plain language.
HumanLore is a trade name of Lemedo IT, Inc., a Texas corporation. If we select you, you will receive a full Creator Agreement before you commit to anything. That agreement is what binds us. This page tells you what is in it.
1. What the words mean
Creator — you, an individual aged 18 or older who applies to and participates in the HumanLore program.
Raw Capture — the video, audio, transcripts, and session records produced when you demonstrate and explain your skill.
Skill Asset — the structured work HumanLore creates from your Raw Capture: task structure, motion and technique data, decision points, success criteria, failure conditions, and robot-executable formats. The Skill Asset contains no biometric information.
Marketplace — the HumanLore platform where validated Skill Assets are made available to robot operators and licensees.
Net Licensing Revenue — money HumanLore actually receives from licensing your Skill Asset, less: refunds and chargebacks; sales, use, VAT, or similar transaction taxes; payment-processing fees; and third-party distribution or robot-integration fees directly attributable to that license.
No other deduction is permitted. HumanLore's own costs — capture, processing, adaptation, validation, platform, staff, marketing, and legal — are never deducted from Net Licensing Revenue.
2. What you keep
You keep full ownership of your underlying knowledge, skill, methods, techniques, name, likeness, brand, reputation, original materials, and any intellectual property you owned before participating.
You remain free to practice your skill, teach it, sell it, film it, publish it, and run your business exactly as you did before. Participating in HumanLore does not restrict your trade.
3. What you grant us
You grant HumanLore the right to record you performing and explaining your skill, and to process, structure, adapt, validate, market, sublicense, and distribute the resulting Skill Asset.
HumanLore owns the Skill Asset it creates from your Raw Capture.
We want to be plain about this, because it matters. You own the skill. We own the recording of it — in the same way a musician owns their songwriting and a label owns the master recording. What protects your interest in that asset is your revenue share, your attribution, and your right to withdraw. All three are set out below.
4. How we build your Skill Asset
Turning a recording into something a robot can perform requires machine learning. You grant HumanLore the right to:
- Process, annotate, and structure your Raw Capture
- Train, fine-tune, and evaluate machine learning models using it
- Run those models to generate, adapt, and validate robot-executable behaviors
- Test the result in simulation and on physical robots
What we will not do
- We will not use your recordings to generate skills that substitute for licensing yours. Models trained on creator data are used to build, adapt, validate, and operate Skill Assets. Every skill in our Marketplace comes from a named creator who shares in its revenue. We do not and will not publish synthetic or generalized skills with no human behind them.
- We will not sell, license, or supply your recordings — or any model trained on them — to anyone else as training data.
- Our service providers are contractually prohibited from training their own models on your recordings.
Shared learning
Your recordings help us improve the general capability of our systems: how well they understand human movement, timing, tools, materials, and physical work. That improved capability makes every capture faster and every Skill Asset better, including yours. Other creators' recordings improve the models that build yours in the same way.
This general capability is separate from your skill itself. It does not reproduce your technique, and it does not change your 50% share of what your skill earns.
If capability ever generalizes beyond individual skills
If we develop capability that generalizes beyond what any individual creator demonstrated, we will not commercialize it without returning to affected creators with a compensation structure and obtaining their agreement.
What we cannot undo
If you withdraw, we delete your Raw Capture and stop issuing new licenses. Models already trained cannot be un-trained, and we will not tell you otherwise. What we can promise is that no model is used to reproduce your skill after you leave, that any model component trained specifically on your recordings is deleted with them, and that no Skill Asset of yours is licensed after withdrawal beyond the licenses already issued.
5. Exclusivity
For three years from the date we accept your Skill Asset, you agree not to license substantially the same skill for robot training or robot skill licensing through any other platform.
This is narrow on purpose. It does not touch teaching, performing, filming, publishing, video, in-person instruction, or running your business. It applies only to licensing your skill for robots.
After three years, exclusivity ends automatically and your agreement continues on a non-exclusive basis.
Early release. If your Skill Asset generates no licensing revenue for 24 consecutive months, exclusivity ends on your request. We hold exclusivity while we are actually monetizing your skill. If we are not, you are free.
Optional buyout. You may end exclusivity early by reimbursing our documented capture and development costs for your Skill Asset plus 15%. We will give you that figure in writing at any time on request. This is an additional option, not a requirement — the early release above costs you nothing.
6. What you are paid
You receive 50% of Net Licensing Revenue that HumanLore receives from licensing your Skill Asset, for the term of your agreement.
Payments. Quarterly, within 45 days of quarter close, once your balance exceeds $25. Once a year we pay out every balance regardless of size — no earnings are held back for being small.
Visibility. You get a live earnings dashboard showing licensing activity as it happens, not just at quarter end.
Statements. Every payment comes with a statement showing gross licensing revenue, each deduction by category, and how your share was calculated.
Records and audit.
- Any creator may request supporting records for any statement, free, within 12 months of receiving it
- Creators earning over $10,000 in a calendar year may commission one independent audit per year, at their own cost
- If an audit finds a discrepancy over 5% in your favor, we pay for the audit and correct the shortfall
Taxes. You participate as an independent party, not an employee or contractor. You are responsible for your own taxes, and we will issue tax documentation as required.
HumanLore never charges you. Not to apply, not to participate, not to record, not to enter the Marketplace. We fund capture, processing, robot adaptation, validation, marketplace development, and legal work, and we recover those costs only from our own share.
You bring decades of mastery. We bring the capital, the capture system, and the licensing rail. Neither of us earns anything until your skill does.
7. Your name on your work
Your Skill Asset is attributed to you by name in the Marketplace unless you ask for an approved alternative — a pseudonym, a business name, or no attribution at all.
You can change your attribution preference at any time. It applies to new listings immediately and to existing listings within 30 days.
8. What you promise us
By participating, you confirm that:
- You are 18 or older
- The skill is yours to teach — it is not owned by an employer, not covered by a confidentiality or non-compete agreement, and not subject to anyone else's intellectual property rights
- You will demonstrate safely and comply with the law, licensing, and safety requirements of your trade
- Anyone else appearing or audible in your recordings has signed the release we provide, and you have submitted it
- Nobody under 18 appears in your recordings
- The information in your application is accurate
If any of this turns out not to be true, we may remove your Skill Asset from the Marketplace and end your agreement.
9. How long it lasts, and how to leave
Term. Your agreement runs from acceptance until 10 years after your Skill Asset is first licensed, or 15 years from acceptance, whichever comes first.
Renewal. After the term, the agreement renews automatically in 5-year increments. We will notify you at least 120 days before each renewal, and you have 90 days to decline.
Stopping participation. You can stop participating at any time, immediately, with no notice required.
Withdrawing your Skill Asset. You may withdraw with 60 days' written notice. When you withdraw:
- We stop issuing new licenses immediately
- We issue no renewals on existing licenses
- Licenses already issued run to their contracted end, and you continue to receive your 50% share on those licenses until they expire
- We delete your Raw Capture within 30 days, subject to our Biometric Data Policy
How long the tail can be. No license we issue to an operator runs longer than three years without renewal. Since we issue no renewals after you withdraw, the longest any existing license can continue is three years from your withdrawal date.
What we cannot recall. Where a Skill Asset is deployed on a robot's local systems, we cannot technically recall it, and we will not tell you otherwise. Where delivery is cloud-based and the license permits, we revoke at the next renewal point.
10. If you die
Your right to receive licensing revenue passes to your estate for the remaining term of the agreement. Your executor should contact us with documentation. Your attribution stays as you set it.
11. When we can end it
We may end your agreement for cause if you become unresponsive for 60 days, repeatedly miss agreed requirements, demonstrate unsafely, breach these terms, give us false information, or cannot produce a usable recording despite reasonable support from us.
If we end your agreement for cause, you still receive your share of revenue from licenses already issued.
12. If you leave and we work with someone else
When your agreement ends, HumanLore may work with other creators on skills in the same category. Your technique remains yours, and nobody owns a trade.
What we commit to: any replacement skill is captured from that creator's own demonstration. We do not use your recordings, or model components trained specifically on your recordings, to reconstruct your technique for someone else. A replacement is a new capture from a new person, not a copy of yours under a different name.
13. What we cannot promise
There is no established market today for licensing human-taught skills to humanoid robots. We cannot promise that your skill will be published, licensed, or earn anything. Being selected for capture is not a promise of publication — a recording can meet our requirements and still fail robot validation.
Read What We Can't Promise before you decide anything.
14. Confidentiality
We treat your Raw Capture as confidential. We will not publish it or disclose it outside HumanLore except as needed to create, validate, and license your Skill Asset, or where the law requires. Our commercial terms with licensees are confidential to us.
15. If we disagree
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas.
First, we talk. Before either of us starts a formal proceeding, the other gets written notice and 60 days to resolve it. Send yours to [email protected]. A person will respond. Most disputes end here.
Small claims stays open. You can always bring a claim in small claims court instead. That right is never waived.
Then arbitration. If 60 days pass without resolution, disputes are resolved by individual arbitration under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, not in court and not as a class action.
Where. Dallas County, Texas — or by videoconference, at your election. You never have to travel to arbitrate with us.
Costs. We pay arbitration filing fees above what it would have cost you to file in court.
Coordinated claims. If 25 or more substantially similar claims are filed within 90 days, they proceed in batches of up to 50, one arbitrator per batch, with early batches informing resolution of the rest.
You can opt out. Within 30 days of signing your Creator Agreement, email [email protected] and say you're opting out of arbitration. Nothing else changes, and it does not affect your participation in any way.
16. If HumanLore is acquired or closes
If we are acquired, your agreement transfers on identical terms. Your revenue share, attribution, and withdrawal rights survive unchanged. We will not sell Skill Assets to anyone who will not honor these terms.
If we cease operating, exclusivity ends immediately, we destroy all Raw Captures, and we will either transfer Skill Assets to a successor on these same terms or return them to you.
17. Changes
We may update these terms. Material changes to your revenue share, ownership, or attribution do not apply to existing agreements without your written consent. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before other changes take effect.
Contact
Lemedo IT, Inc. d/b/a HumanLore 2216 W Walnut Hill Ln Irving, TX 75038