Last updated: 12 July 2026
AnimStream (the "Platform", "we", "us", "our") is an online marketplace operated by SourceArt Ltd, registration number HE456555, Evagora Pallikaridi 38, 8010 Pafos, Cyprus, VAT ID CY60052461U (the "Company"). The Platform lets creators ("Vendors") offer digital content — including animations, sound effects, music, themes and collections (each an "Asset") — for licensing, and lets users ("Buyers") license and use that content in their livestreams and broadcasts. "User" means any person who accesses the Platform, whether a Vendor, a Buyer or a visitor.
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the Platform. By creating an account or using AnimStream you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform. Additional rules referenced here — in particular our Privacy Policy — form part of these Terms.
Point of contact (Art. 11–12 DSA): for communications from authorities and from Users regarding these Terms, content or the Digital Services Act, contact legal@animstream.com (in English or German).
You must be at least 18 years old and have full legal capacity to enter into binding contracts. By using AnimStream you represent that you meet these requirements and that all information you provide is true, accurate and kept up to date.
You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us without delay at legal@animstream.com if you suspect unauthorised access. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms in accordance with Sections 16 and 18.
AnimStream is a marketplace and technical service provider. For Vendor Assets, the licence contract for the content is concluded directly between the Buyer and the relevant Vendor; the Company acts solely as intermediary and as payment facilitator (via Stripe — see Section 8) and is not itself a party to that licence contract. For Platform Assets, the Company is the contracting seller and bears the seller's obligations directly.
The identity of the seller (the Vendor, or the Company for Platform Assets) is shown on each Asset and store page, and for Vendors a link to their legal notice (Impressum) is provided, before purchase. The Company does not pre-screen every Asset for legality or ownership and, except as set out in Section 13, is not responsible for Vendor Assets; responsibility for each Vendor Asset lies with the Vendor that uploaded it.
On a completed purchase, the Buyer receives a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide licence to display and use the licensed Asset in the Buyer's own livestreams and broadcasts for the duration of the Buyer's account. Media Assets may be used solely via the AnimStream Embed Link; themes are made available inside AnimStream Studio; and a collection grants access to its included Assets. Unless the Vendor expressly grants broader rights in writing, the Buyer may not:
The licence is personal to the Buyer. For a material or repeated breach of this Section, or any circumvention or sharing of protection measures, the licence and the related Embed Link may be suspended or terminated in accordance with Section 16; for a first, minor and curable breach we will give notice and a reasonable opportunity to remedy it before terminating. Termination of the licence does not affect the Company's or the Vendor's other remedies.
Animations, sound effects and music are delivered exclusivelythrough AnimStream Embed Links that stream the Asset into broadcasting software such as OBS, Streamlabs or similar. Themes are delivered through the Buyer's AnimStream Studio account, and collections unlock their included Assets. We do not provide downloadable source files of any Asset. This model protects Vendors against theft and unauthorised redistribution of their work and is a core feature of the Platform, not a defect.
Embed Links are bound to the licensee's account and may be access-controlled, token-signed and time-limited. Sharing an Embed Link with, or enabling access by, any person who has not licensed the Asset is a material breach of these Terms. The Company may revoke or rotate Embed Links where it detects abuse, sharing or circumvention.
Before any purchase, every Asset provides a concrete preview, including an interactive or live preview where appropriate, so that the Buyer can assess the Asset in full prior to licensing it. By purchasing, the Buyer confirms having had the opportunity to review the preview and that it adequately represents the Asset.
Vendors set a Vendor List Price for Vendor Assets. The Vendor authorises the Company, acting as marketplace intermediary and on the Vendor's behalf, to determine the Transaction Price by applying Platform Promotions to any current or future Vendor Asset without separate approval for each campaign or Asset. A Platform Promotion may reduce the Vendor List Price by between 0% and 100%. Vendors cannot opt individual Assets out of Platform Promotions. The Company sets the reference and Transaction Prices for Platform Assets.
Prices shown to consumers are inclusive of any applicable value added tax (VAT). Any promotional reference price, discount, eligibility, validity period and material condition is displayed clearly before purchase. The total payable, including any separately displayed fees and taxes, is shown before you confirm a purchase, and you place a binding order with an obligation to pay only by activating the clearly-labelled order button. Where a promotional price has been personalised for you using automated decision-making, the checkout identifies that fact before you place the order. Completed purchases are never repriced retroactively. Chance-based Drops are additionally governed by the Promotion Rules, including their published odds and no-purchase requirement.
Payments are processed by Stripe. By transacting on the Platform you also agree to the applicable Stripe terms. To receive payouts, a Vendor must accept the Stripe Connected Account Agreement and complete Stripe's verification. For Vendor Assets the Company retains a platform commission of 15% of the Transaction Price actually charged and remits the remaining 85% to the Vendor via Stripe Connect, according to the payout schedule shown in the Vendor dashboard. The split is always calculated after Platform Promotions, never from the Vendor List Price. At a 100% reduction no cash proceeds, Company commission or Vendor payout arise. For Platform Assets the full Transaction Price is the Company's revenue.
VAT on digital services.For sales to EU consumers, VAT on this electronically-supplied content is due in the consumer's country of residence; prices are shown VAT-inclusive for the applicable jurisdiction, and VAT is accounted for via the EU One Stop Shop (OSS) or by the party that is the supplier of record under applicable law. Each party is responsible for its own taxes: Vendors are solely responsible for declaring and paying any taxes (including income tax and, where applicable, VAT) on their payouts and for issuing any invoices required of them by law.
Chargebacks.If a payment is reversed, charged back or refunded after a payout has been made to a Vendor, the Company may recoup the corresponding amount (including the Vendor's share) from current or future Vendor payouts.
Assets are digital content supplied immediately on purchase. Where you purchase as a consumer, you expressly request and consent (by ticking the confirmation at checkout) to immediate provision of the Asset before the end of any statutory withdrawal period and you acknowledge that you thereby lose your statutory right of withdrawal once provision has begun, in accordance with EU Directive 2011/83/EU and its national implementations. Provision is deemed to begin when the Embed Link is made available to your account. We confirm this request to you on a durable medium (purchase email).
Because a full preview, including a live preview, is available before every purchase, and because Assets are supplied immediately, purchases are generally final and the Company does not itself process refunds. Refund or chargeback requests are handled through Stripe; please contact Stripe directly rather than the Company. Stripe may, at its discretion, contact the relevant Vendor regarding the request. A discretionary refund is not guaranteed and remains subject to the decision of Stripe and/or the Vendor.
Section 9.2 does not affect your mandatory rights as a consumer. If an Asset is faulty, not as described, or otherwise does not conform to the contract, you are entitled — under EU Directive 2019/770 on digital content and its national implementations — to have the Asset brought into conformity, to a proportionate price reduction, or to terminate the contract for that Asset with a refund, in the order and on the conditions provided by law. For continuously-supplied access via Embed Link, the seller is responsible for conformity for as long as access is provided.
For a Platform Asset, claim conformity remedies from the Company at legal@animstream.com. For a Vendor Asset, claim from the Vendor in the first instance. If the Vendor does not respond within 14 days or the issue is not resolved, you may escalate to the Company, which will use reasonable efforts to assist, including facilitating a Stripe refund where appropriate.
Vendors are fully and solely responsible for every Asset they upload, list or sell. By uploading an Asset the Vendor represents and warrants that:
Where an Asset is created with artificial intelligence tools, the Vendor is responsible for ensuring that the AI models and tools used permit commercial use and resale on online marketplaces of the resulting output. It is at all times the Vendor's responsibility to verify that the models they use license their output for commercial sale.
The Company additionally offers its internal AI Studio. For content generated through the AI Studio, the Company ensures that the underlying models are selected so as to permit commercial use and resale. However, the Vendor remains responsible for the content itself — including the prompts used, the resulting output and its legality, originality and non-infringement — whether the Asset is created with the AI Studio or with the Vendor's own tools.
The Company operates a review and moderation process and makes reasonable efforts to detect and prevent unlawful or infringing content. However, the Company cannot and does not guarantee that all such content will be detected or prevented. Review by the Company does not constitute approval of an Asset, does not warrant its legality, and does not relieve the Vendor of any responsibility. The Vendor must independently ensure that every Asset complies with all applicable laws and these Terms.
The Vendor grants the Company a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transcode, watermark, stream, display, distribute and promote the Asset on and through the Platform (including in previews and marketing) for the purpose of operating the service. The Vendor retains ownership of the Asset.
The Vendor expressly authorises the Company to offer and conclude the corresponding licence transaction at the Transaction Price on the Vendor's behalf. This authority covers every current and future Vendor Asset and every Platform Promotion described in Section 2, including site-wide and eligibility-based campaigns, and does not require campaign-by-campaign or Asset-by-Asset approval. The Company may select the audience, timing, duration, presentation, discount and frequency of a Platform Promotion and may reduce a Vendor List Price by up to 100%.
The Vendor acknowledges that Platform Promotions proportionally reduce both the Company commission and the Vendor payout because both are calculated from the Transaction Price. A 100% Platform Promotion is a free licence transaction and produces no Vendor payout. The Vendor may request a transaction statement identifying the Vendor List Price, promotional reduction, Transaction Price and resulting payout; the Company retains those values in its transaction and campaign records. The Company designs Platform Promotions to improve discovery, conversion, sales volume and aggregate marketplace revenue, but does not guarantee any minimum number of sales or any particular revenue for an individual Vendor.
The Vendor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, officers, directors and employees from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) any Asset the Vendor uploads or sells, (b) any breach of the Vendor's warranties in this Section, or (c) the Vendor's violation of any law or third-party right. This obligation survives termination.
Assets may be created using AI. Vendors must accurately disclose AI involvement where required by applicable law (including Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU AI Act) and must not misrepresent the origin or nature of an Asset. Where the law requires AI-generated or manipulated content to be marked in a machine-readable format, Vendors must ensure such marking is applied.
You must not upload, sell, distribute or use content that:
You must not scrape, reverse-engineer, overload, or attempt to circumvent the security or access controls of the Platform.
All Platform materials other than user-submitted Assets — including the website design, brand, logos, text and software — are the property of SourceArt Ltd and are protected by law. You may not copy, modify or distribute any part of the Platform without our written consent.
If you believe an Asset infringes your rights or is illegal, send a notice to legal@animstream.com with (a) identification of the protected work or the alleged illegality, (b) the URL of the Asset, (c) your contact details, and (d) a statement, made in good faith, that the use is unauthorised or unlawful. We operate a notice-and-action mechanism (Art. 16 DSA): we will review valid notices, may remove or disable the Asset, and will provide the affected Vendor with a statement of reasons and an opportunity to appeal (see Section 18). We maintain a repeat-infringer policy: Vendors who repeatedly upload infringing or illegal content will, after warning, be suspended and ultimately terminated.
We may moderate, refuse, remove, de-list or restrict an Asset, and suspend or terminate an account, only on objective grounds, namely: (a) breach of these Terms; (b) a requirement of applicable law or a valid order of an authority; (c) a substantiated infringement or illegality notice; or (d) a need to protect Users, Vendors or the Platform from imminent harm or security risk. Except where the law or an authority requires immediate action, or in cases of illegality or imminent harm, we will give the affected User a statement of reasons and, for Vendors, a prior opportunity to remedy the issue. Affected Users may appeal under Section 18.
Except as required by law, the Platform itself is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation of the Platform.
Service-related claims.To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the Platform service. For such service-related claims the Company's aggregate liability shall not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to the Company in the twelve (12) months before the claim, or EUR 100.
Conformity of Platform Assets. The cap above does notapply to, and does not limit, the Company's mandatory obligations as seller of Platform Assets under EU Directive 2019/770 (conformity, and the consumer's remedies of bringing into conformity, price reduction, or termination with refund), nor any other liability that cannot be limited by law.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any mandatory statutory rights of consumers. If you deal as a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected by these Terms.
These Terms apply for as long as you use the Platform. You may stop using the Platform and close your account at any time.
We may suspend or terminate access on the objective grounds in Section 14. For Business Vendors, except where a different course is required by law, justified by repeated breaches, or necessary to address illegality or imminent harm, we will give at least 30 days' prior notice of a termination of all services, together with a statement of reasons, and you may use the complaint procedure in Section 18 before the decision takes effect (Art. 4 Regulation (EU) 2019/1150). A restriction or suspension will be accompanied by a statement of reasons.
On termination your right to use the Platform ceases and Embed Links tied to your account may stop functioning. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 5, 8–10, 13, 15, 18 and 19) survive termination.
We may update these Terms. For Business Vendors we will send proposed changes on a durable medium, normally by email, at least 15 days before they take effect and will allow a longer period where reasonably necessary for technical or commercial adaptations. Changes do not apply retroactively. A Business Vendor may terminate before the effective date and may waive the notice period only through an unambiguous written statement or clear affirmative action after receiving the proposed change, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150. For material changes affecting consumers we will give reasonable prior notice by email or a prominent Platform notice. Continued use after a validly notified change takes effect constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
Internal complaint handling. You may submit complaints about the Platform, a moderation decision, a suspension or termination, or alleged breaches of our obligations, to legal@animstream.com. We will acknowledge a complaint within a few working days and provide a reasoned written decision within a reasonable period, free of charge.
Appeals against moderation (Art. 20 DSA). If we remove or restrict your Asset or account, you may appeal within six months of being informed; appeals are reviewed by a person (not solely automated means) and you will receive a reasoned decision. You may also refer the matter to a certified out-of-court dispute-settlement body and to the competent Digital Services Coordinator.
Mediation (Business Vendors, Art. 12 Regulation (EU) 2019/1150). Where this obligation applies to the Company, Business Vendors may seek mediation of disputes that the internal complaint process did not resolve. We will identify qualifying, independent mediators and bear a reasonable proportion of the costs of mediation; nothing here prevents either party from bringing court proceedings. (The Company will state whether it relies on the small-enterprise exemption from this obligation.)
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising from them are governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus. The courts of Pafos, Cyprus have jurisdiction. If you deal as a consumer, you also benefit from the mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the country in which you are habitually resident, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.
If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or successor; you may not assign your rights without our consent. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control (including war, government action, cyber-attack, or processor/hosting failure), though this does not affect mandatory consumer rights or payment obligations. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Platform. The English version of these Terms is the authoritative version.
SourceArt Ltd
Evagora Pallikaridi 38
8010 Pafos, Cyprus
E-mail: legal@animstream.com