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Intellectual property

Solvespace Contributor Agreement

Effective date: 6 September 2026
Document type: Intellectual property assignment and licensing framework
Parties: The individual or entity submitting a solution (“Contributor”) and Solvespace

This Contributor Agreement (“Agreement”) applies when you submit code, models, documentation, designs, datasets, or other work product (“Work”) in a Problem Room, canvas proposal, or related Git-backed artifact.

1. Purpose

Solvespace operates a dual-sided marketplace. Enterprise sponsors post outbound research-and-development challenges and source inbound, audited solutions. To license or redistribute verified Work to those sponsors, Solvespace requires a clear chain of title. This Agreement creates that chain.

2. Assignment of rights

Subject to Section 4 (Background IP) and Section 5 (Open-network exceptions), Contributor hereby assigns to Solvespace all right, title, and interest in and to the Work created on the Platform for a given problem, including copyrights, sui generis database rights, and transferable industrial-design rights, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Where local law does not permit assignment of moral rights, Contributor waives enforcement of moral rights against Solvespace and its enterprise licensees to the extent waivable, and otherwise agrees not to assert moral rights in a manner that blocks commercial redistribution contemplated by this Agreement.

3. Commercial redistribution and sublicensing

Solvespace may:

  • internally evaluate, audit, and package the Work;
  • grant enterprise sponsors a commercial license to use, modify, and deploy the Work for the stated challenge and related internal operations;
  • incorporate the Work into a compiled deliverable, investment-readiness dossier, or inbound-innovation catalog; and
  • sublicense the Work to the corporate sponsor of the originating challenge and to subsequent inbound licensees under written order forms.

Contributor acknowledges that bounty payments, if any, are consideration for the Work and for this assignment, and that no additional royalty is due unless a separate written revenue-share addendum is executed.

4. Background intellectual property

Contributor retains all rights in pre-existing tools, libraries, models, and know-how (“Background IP”). Contributor grants Solvespace and the applicable enterprise sponsor a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use Background IP solely as required to exercise rights in the Work. Contributor must disclose Background IP that is encumbered by third-party copyleft, patent, or confidentiality terms before merging a canvas proposal.

5. Open-network rooms

For problems that are not enterprise NDA challenges and are marked public, Contributor may elect an open license at submission time (for example, Apache-2.0 or MIT). If no election is made, the assignment in Section 2 applies. Solvespace will not re-license publicly elected open-source Work under a proprietary enterprise catalog without Contributor’s additional written consent.

6. Representations

Contributor represents that:

  • the Work is original or Contributor has sufficient rights to assign or license it;
  • the Work does not knowingly infringe third-party intellectual property;
  • any third-party or open-source components are identified in the canvas or repository;
  • Contributor has authority to bind any entity on whose behalf the Work is submitted; and
  • Contributor will not insert hidden telemetry, backdoors, or unauthorized training-data leakage.

7. Enterprise NDA challenges

Work created inside an NDA-protected room is confidential. Contributor shall not publish, open-source, or present that Work externally without written authorization from the corporate sponsor and Solvespace Legal Operations.

8. Moral-rights courtesy credit

Where commercially reasonable, Solvespace and sponsors may credit named contributors (for example, Elena Okonkwo or Marcus Hale) in internal dossiers. Credit is courtesy, not a condition of assignment.

9. Remediation

If a third-party claim arises, Contributor will cooperate in replacing or removing the affected portion of the Work. Solvespace may withhold or claw back bounty amounts that have not yet been released from escrow if the Work is found to be infringing or vandalized.

10. Contact

Questions regarding this Agreement: legal@solvespace.com. Designated Legal Representative: Stanislau Chykiliou, Legal Operations.