Terms of Service
Effective date: 25 October 2026 (first effective 10 August 2026)
Notice of amendment (effective 25 October 2026): We have amended §1, §6 and §7 so that we may keep “AI-generated material” — such as images newly generated by AI — and use it for other partners' productions and for AI training. This amendment applies from the moment you agree to the amended terms inside the service.
These terms govern your use of ShortUs, an automated short-form video service operated by FASTVIEW CO., LTD. (business registration number 619-87-00936, CEO Park Sang-woo) (“we”, “us”).
By signing up for or using the service, or by connecting a channel, you agree to these terms. How we handle personal data is set out separately in our Privacy Policy.
Where we have signed a separate agreement with a partner, that agreement prevails over these terms to the extent they differ.
1. Definitions
Partner: a business or individual that has entered into a service agreement with us or signed up for the service and supplies source content (“partner” or “you”).
Source content: any material a partner supplies to the service — articles, scripts, images, video — regardless of how it is supplied: file upload, direct text entry, or designating a URL on an external website or video platform.
Output: the short-form video the service automatically produces from source content, including captions, AI narration, and composed visuals.
AI-generated material: images and other material newly generated by the service's AI following a partner's instructions (prompts). It does not include source content supplied by the partner, any part that contains or transforms that source content, or voice that clones the voice of the partner or a third party.
Distribution platform: an external service to which we support publishing outputs (YouTube, MSN, TikTok, and others).
Connected channel: the partner's own channel on a distribution platform, connected to the service via OAuth or similar, or a channel we registered in the partner's name at the partner's request.
2. What the service does
We automatically produce 9:16 short-form videos from the source content a partner supplies, and publish the outputs the partner has approved to the partner's own connected channel.
Production includes script rewriting, AI narration (TTS), caption generation and alignment, visual composition, rendering, and automated quality checks.
We do not operate a partner's channel on their behalf, and we never publish an output without the partner's approval under §10 — per-item approval, or prior consent to automated publishing.
3. Paid plans and billing
We offer partners paid subscription plans — Creator, Pro, and Studio — at the prices shown on our service pages (VAT included).
Paid subscriptions renew automatically every month, and are charged automatically to the registered payment method on each billing date unless the partner cancels. Payment is processed by automatic card billing using the card the partner registers.
If we change our prices, we will give notice before the next billing date. A change to payment terms that is unfavourable to the partner, such as a price increase, applies only if the partner separately and explicitly agrees to it (§12).
4. Cancellation and refunds
A partner may schedule a cancellation at any time. Scheduling a cancellation does not end access immediately — the partner may keep using the service until the end of the current billing period. Scheduling a cancellation alone does not refund any amount already paid.
Within 14 days of the payment date, a partner may withdraw and receive a full refund; even if credits were used during this period, nothing is deducted from the refund. After 14 days, a partner may terminate early and receive payment amount × (1 − credit usage rate for that billing period). Withdrawal and early termination are requested through Contact us in the service, and we refund within 3 business days of the request. Once the refund is completed, the subscription ends immediately. See our Refund Policy for full eligibility criteria and process.
5. Ownership of source content
All copyright and other rights in source content remain with the partner (or its rightful owner). These terms do not transfer any ownership of source content to us.
6. Scope of the licence you grant us
The partner grants us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to the source content, limited to what is necessary to provide the service. Specifically: to store and copy it; to adapt it (create derivative works) by editing, summarising, or translating it for short-form production; to generate captions and AI voice; to encode; and to publish approved outputs to the connected channel.
The licence lasts only for the term of the agreement and ends when the agreement ends or the partner disconnects the channel (outputs already published are handled under §10).
We do not use source content or outputs for our own marketing, promotion, case studies, or portfolio — anything outside providing the service. If we ever want to, we will obtain the partner's separate written consent first. (AI-generated material and the instructions used to create it are governed by §7.)
7. Ownership of outputs
An output is a derivative work of the source content, and rights in the output belong to the partner.
However, the elements we supply — the software, rendering engine, design templates and presets, fonts and graphic assets — remain owned by us or their rightful owners. The partner receives only the right to use them as embedded in the output, and may not separate and reuse them outside the service.
Third-party licensed material embedded in an output — such as background music — may be used only within the scope that material's own licence permits.
The partner may use AI-generated material freely in its outputs. We keep AI-generated material together with the instructions (prompts) and generation information used to create it, and may use them on a non-exclusive, royalty-free basis to provide and improve the service, to produce outputs for other partners, and to train and evaluate our AI models. This permission continues after the partner deletes the material or the agreement ends. We do not disclose the original text of the instructions to other partners, and if we receive a report that AI-generated material infringes someone's rights, we delete that material without delay. We do not use AI-generated material for promotion or marketing.
8. Partner warranties and responsibility
The partner warrants that: (i) it has the right to supply the source content and to grant the licence in §6; (ii) the source content does not infringe any third party's copyright, likeness, trademark, or publicity rights; and (iii) it holds the rights needed for any music, footage, images, or fonts contained in the source content.
If a third party asserts rights over source content or an output derived from it, resolving that claim is the partner's responsibility, and the partner will indemnify us and compensate us for losses caused by a breach of the warranties above, including reasonable costs of defence. We will notify the partner as soon as we become aware, and may suspend or retract the affected output.
These warranties apply however the source content is supplied — file upload, direct text entry, image URLs, and designating a URL for a video on an external platform (such as YouTube) or for an article or image on an external web page. The URL method may only be used for content the partner owns or is licensed to use, and responsibility for the rights involved in fetching and using that content rests with the partner who supplied the URL. The partner may be asked to confirm consent to this inside the service. The URL method is a best-effort feature that may be limited without notice due to the external platform's or website's policies or technical circumstances; uploading the original file is the recommended path for reliable production.
Where the partner chooses to include third-party licensed material we make available — stock footage, fonts, music — in an output, it is the partner's responsibility to check that the material's licence terms (such as restrictions on commercial use of material showing identifiable people or trademarks) fit the partner's intended use. Fonts, images, and video the partner uploads are source content and covered by the warranties above.
9. Disclosure of AI-generated content
Outputs contain synthetic media — AI narration, captions, and composed visuals. When we publish to YouTube we declare the presence of synthetic media as the platform's policy requires; on other distribution platforms we offer the platform's own labelling option (such as TikTok's AI-generated content label) for the partner to select at publish time. Responsibility for meeting a distribution platform's synthetic-media labelling requirements rests with the partner as the owner of the connected channel.
We do not fact-check source content. If an output misrepresents the source or is otherwise unsuitable, the partner can request changes before approving, refuse approval, or retract it after publication under §10.
10. Publishing to distribution platforms, and take-down
An output is published to the connected channel only after the partner approves it. Approval is given either per output, or — where the partner has explicitly opted in when setting up automated publishing — as standing consent to automated publishing of outputs that pass our automated quality checks; that consent can be withdrawn at any time.
How a published output is taken down differs by platform. On YouTube we set it back to private (retract) at the partner's request at any time, and the partner may also delete it directly in YouTube Studio. On MSN, take-down means deletion from the feed; it cannot be undone, and the same output cannot be republished. On TikTok the service cannot retract a post; the partner deletes it directly in the TikTok app.
As the operator of the connected channel, the partner must comply with each distribution platform's terms and policies (including the YouTube Terms of Service). We likewise comply with each platform's API services terms and related policies.
If publishing is delayed or becomes impossible for reasons outside our control — platform policy changes, API limits, channel enforcement — we will inform the partner.
11. Prohibited use
Partners must not: supply content that infringes another's rights; use the service to spread false or manipulated information; reverse-engineer or copy the service; place abnormal load on it through automated means; or use it in ways that breach the policies of YouTube or any other distribution platform.
12. Changes to the service and these terms; interruptions
We may improve or change the service, and will give notice of material changes in advance.
The service may be interrupted for maintenance, faults, or issues with external services such as YouTube or our cloud providers.
We may amend these terms within the bounds of applicable law. Amendments are announced on the service pages, stating the effective date and the reasons, at least 7 days before they take effect (30 days for material changes or changes unfavourable to partners). A partner who does not agree may stop using the service and terminate before the effective date. Where we have individually notified the partner that failing to object before the effective date will be treated as agreement, and the partner does not object, the partner is deemed to agree to the amended terms. However, changes to payment terms — such as a price increase or a free service becoming paid — apply only if the partner separately and explicitly agrees to them. In addition, where a partner explicitly agrees to the amended terms inside the service, the amended terms apply to that partner from the moment of agreement, regardless of the notice period.
13. Termination, storage and deletion of data
A partner may disconnect a channel or stop using the service at any time.
On disconnection we immediately invalidate that channel's authorisation tokens and delete authorisation data obtained from the distribution platform (YouTube, TikTok, etc.) within 7 days, as set out in our Privacy Policy.
Outputs already published remain on the partner's channel. Publishing records may be retained for dispute handling and audit purposes.
Storage period for finished videos: we keep the video files of outputs made by the service (“finished videos”) on our servers for the following periods: 7 days for accounts trying the service without signing up (“trial accounts”), 30 days on the Free plan, 1 year on the Creator plan, and with no time limit while subscribed on the Pro and Studio plans. For a partner with a separate agreement with us, the period set in that agreement applies.
The storage period is counted from the day the finished video was made. For finished videos made before this provision applies to the partner, it is counted from the day it starts to apply.
When the storage period ends, we delete the finished video file from our servers, and deleted files cannot be recovered. Work records and thumbnail images may remain. Videos published to a distribution platform are not deleted under this provision (taking down a published video is governed by §10).
If a partner cancels a paid plan or changes to a lower plan, we do not delete finished videos or uploaded originals for 90 days from the last payment for the previous plan; after that, the storage periods of the new plan apply.
We show finished videos that are due to be deleted in the service from 7 days before deletion, and do not send a separate notice for each video. Please download any finished video you need to keep within its storage period.
Original files uploaded on the Free plan, and the audio and preview files made from them, are deleted once 30 days have passed from the upload date (the 90-day grace period above applies in the same way). For videos fetched from a YouTube address, we do not keep the original in our storage.
Commencement: the provisions above on the storage period for finished videos take effect on 16 October 2026. They apply to trial accounts from that date. For other partners they apply from the earlier of (1) the moment the partner agrees to the amended terms inside the service, and (2) where we give individual notice under §12, the end of 30 days from the day the partner receives that notice without the partner having objected (a partner who signs up after the effective date agrees to the amended terms when signing up, so they apply from then). A partner may object through Contact us in the service, or by closing their account.
14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
We provide the service with due care, but we do not guarantee that any output will reach a particular view count, revenue, or result.
We are not responsible for the lawfulness of source content supplied by a partner, or for third-party claims arising from it (§8).
To the extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to the service fees the partner paid us in the three months before the claim arose. This limit does not apply to our wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
For periods in which the service is provided free of charge (such as beta testing), we are not liable except in cases of our wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
15. Governing law, jurisdiction, and general terms
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, and the Seoul Central District Court has first-instance jurisdiction over disputes.
Sections 5, 7, 8, 14, and 15 survive termination of the agreement to the extent their nature requires.
These terms are provided in Korean, English, and Japanese; if the translations diverge, the Korean version prevails.
16. Contact
Company: FASTVIEW CO., LTD. (business registration number 619-87-00936, CEO Park Sang-woo). Address: 18F, 396 Seocho-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Questions about the service or these terms: shortus@fastviewkorea.com.