Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Ermias Genet, an individual based in New York City, who runs Skene (“we”, “us”). By creating an account or using Skene, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy.

Who can use Skene

You must be at least 18 to use Skene. By creating an account, you confirm that you are. Keep your sign-in details secure; you're responsible for what happens in your account.

Your scripts and takes

You keep all rights to the scripts you bring in, the edits you make and the takes you record. You let us store, process and show them to you, including sending scripts to our AI provider to format them, only to run Skene for you.

Only bring in scripts you have the right to use: your own writing, sides you were given for an audition or production, or a copy you may use for your own rehearsal. Skene is for private rehearsal, not for sharing or publishing other people's work.

Only record people who have agreed to be recorded, such as a reader who knows they're in the take. Sides you're given may come with conditions from a production or casting office, such as keeping them confidential; following them, and sending your takes only where you mean to, is up to you. We may limit how many takes, or how much video, an account can keep.

Using Skene fairly

Please don't:

• break the law or infringe anyone's rights, including recording anyone without their permission;
• try to get around limits, invitations or security checks, or access other people's data;
• overload, scrape, reverse engineer or disrupt the service;
• use Skene to build a competing product, or to send anything harmful.

The service

Skene is new and changing. AI formatting can make mistakes, so check your script before relying on it. We may add, change or remove features, and if we introduce paid plans we'll tell you before anything is charged.

Emails from us

By creating an account, you agree that we may email you about your account (sign-in links, security and account notices, changes to these terms). In the United States, you also agree to emails about Skene (new features, plans and subscriptions, and offers); everywhere else, those come only if you ask for them. You can turn off news and offers anytime, in your profile or from the link in each email; account emails continue while you have an account. See the Privacy Policy.

The beta

Skene is in beta. Joining the waitlist doesn't guarantee a place: we choose testers to cover different kinds of actors, and the beta is free. Expect rough edges, and features that change or go away. During the beta, each tester can bring in a limited number of scripts read by AI (Final Draft and Fountain files don't count), and daily limits still apply.

As our Privacy Policy explains, Skene records how it's used during the beta. If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them to improve Skene without owing you anything for them, and you're not obliged to send any. When the beta ends, we'll tell you what happens next for your account before anything changes.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the service or others at risk, including the account of a repeat copyright infringer (see Copyright below).

Removing content

If we remove a script or take, or restrict an account, we'll tell you what we did and why, which rule or law it was based on, and how to object, unless the law or an ongoing investigation prevents it. To object, reply to that message or email privacy@skene.studio, and we will review it.

Reporting illegal content

Anyone can report content in Skene they believe is illegal by emailing privacy@skene.studio. Explain why it's illegal, where it is (for example, the script's or take's title and the account it's in, if you know), your name and email, and confirm the report is accurate and made in good faith. We'll confirm we received it, review it promptly and tell you what we decided. Copyright reports follow the process in the next section.

Authorities, users and the public can contact us at privacy@skene.studio, in English. This is our single point of contact for the EU Digital Services Act.

No warranty

Skene is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose. Keep your own copies of scripts and takes that matter to you (any saved take can be exported).

Skene helps you prepare; it doesn't promise any result. We don't guarantee that using it will get you an audition, a callback or a role, or any other success in your career.

If you live in the EU, the UK or another place whose consumer laws give you rights that can't be waived by contract, such as the right to a service that works as described, nothing in these terms limits those rights.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, profits or opportunities, and our total liability for any claim about Skene is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the past 12 months or US$50.

These limits don't apply to liability for our gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or to anything else the law doesn't allow to be limited. Some places don't allow these limits at all, so they may not apply to you.

Copyright

We respect copyright and respond to notices of claimed infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe a script in Skene infringes your copyright, send our designated agent a written notice that includes:

• your physical or electronic signature, or that of the person authorised to act for the owner;
• the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;
• the material you believe infringes it, with enough detail for us to find it;
• your name, address, phone number and email;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

Designated agent: Skene Copyright Agent, 367 St Marks Ave #1111, Brooklyn, NY 11238, (347) 699-0502, privacy@skene.studio.

When we receive a valid notice, we remove or disable the material and tell the account holder. If you believe material of yours was removed by mistake or misidentified, you may send our agent a counter-notice with your signature; the material removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address and phone number, with your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your address (or, outside the US, any district where we may be found) and to accept service from the person who sent the notice. We then forward it to that person and may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless they tell us they've filed a court action.

Repeat infringers. We close the accounts of users who, in appropriate circumstances, are repeatedly the subject of valid copyright notices. Sending a false notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be heard in the state or federal courts in New York County, New York. If you're a consumer living outside the United States, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may also bring a claim in its courts.

Changes

We may update these terms. We'll update the date below and tell you before a significant change takes effect; continuing to use Skene afterwards means you accept the new terms.

Contact

Ermias Genet, New York, NY, privacy@skene.studio.

Last updated November 6, 2026.