Translation Notice: This is a Claude-assisted translation of the lawyer-reviewed German End-User License Agreement (dated 2026-05-20). The German text is the authoritative contract version and was provided with this English translation in the same delivery. This English translation is provided for understanding purposes only. By accepting this EULA, the Tester accepts the German source text. Any divergence between the German and English versions shall be resolved in favor of the German version.

End-User License Agreement (EULA) — aaf-Prep Closed Beta

Preamble — Closed Beta Notice

This End-User License Agreement („EULA“) governs the use of the software aaf-Prep during the closed beta testing phase („Closed Beta“). The software is provided free of charge to selected industry users in film audio post-production — including employed and freelance sound editors, picture editors, and related professional groups — for testing purposes, in order to gather practical experience from professional use prior to the public release.

Section 1 Contracting Parties

This EULA is entered into between:

(hereinafter referred to as „Provider")

and

the Tester of the Closed Beta version of the software, who has received an individual license key for activation through personal invitation by the Provider (hereinafter „Tester“).

Section 2 Subject Matter and License Grant

(1) The subject matter is the free of charge provision of the software aaf-Prep in the Closed Beta version for testing by the Tester.

(2) The Tester acknowledges that a guaranteed availability, correctness, completeness, or up-to-dateness of the software during the Closed Beta phase is not promised. The software is in the closed testing phase prior to the public release. It may contain errors, instabilities, unexpected behavior, and incomplete functionality. In particular — but not exhaustively — the Provider points out the following risks to the Tester:

a) Risk of data loss / faulty export: Processed AAF files may, in individual cases, be exported incompletely, incorrectly, or not at all. Original files must never be overwritten, and the software must not serve as the sole backup copy for the underlying original media.

b) Limited and changeable availability: The software may be changed or restricted in its functional scope during the Closed Beta phase.

c) No productive single-source use: The Provider recommends that the Tester use the software in productive workflows only when flanked by his own backup and verification mechanisms (backups, intermediate copies, manual spot checks).

(3) The Provider grants the Tester a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right of use to the software for personal and professional testing. The right of use is not geographically restricted and is valid for the duration of this contract.

(4) Simultaneous use of the software on multiple devices based on the same license key is excluded.

(5) The Tester is entitled to commercially exploit work results created with the software. Passing on the software itself, the license key, or granting sub-licenses to third parties is not permitted.

Section 3 Term and Termination

(1) The agreement is concluded for an indefinite period. It may be terminated by the Provider with one month's notice to the end of any calendar month, and by the Tester at any time without notice. Section 314 of the German Civil Code (BGB) remains unaffected. Termination requires text form (German legal concept; includes email and written form).

(2) Upon the end of this agreement, the license key is deactivated; the software cannot subsequently be used further.

(3) Termination does not affect work results already created by the Tester with the software; the Tester may continue to use these beyond the end of the Closed Beta phase.

Section 4 Request for Confidentiality

(1) The Provider requests the Tester not to disseminate information about not-yet-public functions, errors, workflows, and the visual appearance of the software outside the Tester circle until the public release — in particular not in social media, trade publications, streams, or publicly accessible industry forums.

Section 5 Feedback and Reviews

(1) If the Tester provides feedback to the Provider — in particular error reports, improvement suggestions, feature requests, reviews, bug reports, or workflow suggestions („Feedback“) — the Tester grants the Provider a right of use unlimited in time and territory, free of charge, transferable, and sublicensable thereto.

(2) The right of use includes in particular the right to modify, further develop, implement in the software, incorporate into later versions, and commercially exploit in subsequent versions.

(3) The Tester waives claims to attribution and compensation in connection with the Feedback. The Provider is not obliged to implement the Feedback. The Provider is not obliged to inform the Tester about the status of implementation or to provide responses to the Feedback.

Section 6 Restrictions

The Tester is prohibited from:

a) Reproducing the software in whole or in part, to the extent that this is not necessary for intended use or is permitted by law;

b) Decompiling, disassembling, reverse engineering, or otherwise reconstructing the source code of the software in whole or in part, unless exceptionally permitted under Section 69e of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) (establishment of interoperability);

c) Renting, leasing, sublicensing, or otherwise transferring the software to third parties;

d) Passing on the license key or using it jointly with third parties;

e) Circumventing, deactivating, or manipulating protection mechanisms of the software — in particular the license validation and the activation limit;

f) Removing or altering copyright notices, trademarks, or other proprietary rights notices of the Provider in the software.

Violations of these restrictions entitle the Provider to early termination of the Beta license under Section 3(2) with immediate effect, without prejudice to further statutory claims.

Section 7 Warranty and Liability

(1) Apart from the injury to life, body, or health, the parties are liable to each other only for intentional or grossly negligent breaches of duty.

(2) The limitation of liability under paragraph 1 does not apply to the breach of cardinal duties (cardinal obligations / „Kardinalspflichten“ in German law). However, liability is limited to damages typically foreseeable for this type of contract.

(3) Mandatory statutory liability remains unaffected.

Section 8 Applicable Law and Place of Jurisdiction

(1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to this agreement, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

(2) If the Tester is an entrepreneur within the meaning of Section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), a legal entity under public law, or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with this agreement is Cologne (Germany).

Section 9 Final Provisions and Entry into Force

(1) This EULA comes into force as soon as the Tester downloads the software installation file after receiving the individual invitation email from the Provider, to which this EULA is attached as an enclosure. During the subsequent installation, the Tester is asked once again to expressly confirm the EULA by clicking a corresponding button. The obligations and restrictions of this EULA apply from the beginning of the download.

(2) Should individual provisions of this agreement be or become invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remainder of the agreement shall remain unaffected.

(3) There are no oral side agreements. Changes and additions to this agreement require text form (German legal concept; includes email and written form).