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Alex Dunlap Verified account @AlexDunlapNFL · 1d

The Catapult Film Room is great for for getting more access to coaches film for people, but if you are a content creator and already have a good source for college All-22 you probably are going to want to just stick with that. No Big 10 or Big 12 teams but the worst part is the terms of service. They are long, so I asked Claude to read it and tell me what it means for people using the service for content creation:

If you’re a content creator thinking about using it for clips, breakdowns or analysis, here’s what it says. Not legal advice, just a close read.

Personal, noncommercial use only. “Any commercial or business related use” is banned, whether or not you profit. Watching film there to prep paid columns, shows or products could be a breach before you share anything.

You can’t capture anything. That means no downloading, recording, screen-capturing or photographing Content, even temporarily. There’s no exception for short clips or single frames. You can’t even post screenshots of the app itself.

You can’t share anything, anywhere. Posting any Content, “or any part of it,” to social media, websites, messaging apps or another person is prohibited.

Catapult owns your telestrations. They have to stay inside the app, and anything “based on, derived from, or incorporates the Content” is assigned to Catapult. That wording is broad enough to raise questions about written analysis too.

Also prohibited: using the Content to “facilitate, support or promote gambling,” putting any of it into AI tools, and scraping its stats.

Penalties: immediate termination with no refund, injunctions without a bond, actual damages, their attorneys’ fees, and statutory damages under the Copyright Act. Those statutory damages run $750 to $30,000 per work infringed, and up to $150,000 per work if the infringement is willful, with no proof of loss required. It’s per work (likely per game), not per clip, and the work generally has to be registered. You also have to cover their costs with no cap, while their liability to you is capped at $100.

Who can come after you: their content licensors can enforce the terms against you directly. IP disputes skip arbitration and go to court in Boston. The terms also mention watermarking, so assume anything that leaks can be traced back to you.

Fair use won’t save you here. It’s a defense to copyright claims, not to breach of contract. Even if a clip would count as fair use, you agreed not to post it.

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