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D23 Press Site – Terms of Use

Last updated: August 11, 2026

The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiary and affiliated entities (collectively, “Disney” or “we” or “us”) are pleased to provide to you the D23 press site (this “Site”).  Your use of this Site, including information, text, artwork, graphics, logos, images, photos, videos, audios, tools (e.g., video/audio players), and other content, material, products, services, elements, functions and features provided or made available on this Site (collectively, the “Services”), is subject to and governed by these Terms of Use (these “Terms”).  Please take a moment to carefully read through these Terms.  

ANY DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US, EXCEPT DISPUTES RESOLVED IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT OR RELATING TO THE OWNERSHIP OR ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, MUST BE RESOLVED BY INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION.  PLEASE READ THE ARBITRATION PROVISION (SECTION 9. BELOW) AS IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THESE TERMS.

  1. Users

The Services are intended for use by employees of the news, press, and entertainment media outlets based in the United States who are at least 18 years of age (each, a “User” or “you”), for bona fide news reporting, press and editorial purposes in connection with D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event (“D23”).

  1. Binding Contract

These Terms, which include and incorporate any additional or supplemental terms that may accompany the applicable Services, constitute a binding contract between you and Disney concerning use of the Services.  By using the Services, you represent to us that you have read, understood, and expressly agree to be bound by these Terms.  If you do not agree to any of these Terms, you may not use the Services.

Other than as expressly stated herein, there are no third-party beneficiaries of these Terms.

IMPORANT NOTE: These Terms do not apply to any of the consumer-facing sites of Disney, including but not limited to, Disney.com, D23.com, ABC.com, ABCNews.com, ABC7.com, Hulu.com, DisneyPlus.com, FXNetworks.com, Freeform.com, NationalGeographic.com, etc.  Your use of those sites is subject to and governed by the Disney general terms of use located at https://disneytermsofuse.com/.

  1. Changes to These Terms

We may make changes to these Terms from time to time and for many reasons, including to reflect updates to the Services or changes in law.  If we make a material change to these Terms, it will be effective thirty (30) days following either our dispatch of a notice to you or our posting of the amended Terms through the Services.  You are responsible for regularly checking the Services for changes to these Terms.  By continuing to use the Services you will be deemed to have agreed to and accepted changes to these Terms.  If you do not agree to our changes to these Terms, you must discontinue using the Services.  Our customer service representatives are not authorized to modify any of these Terms, either verbally or in writing.

  1. User Accounts

The Services may include areas or features that allow or require you to register an account.  By registering such an account, you warrant that any account information you provide and maintain is accurate, current and complete, including your contact information for receiving notices and other communications from us.  You agree not to impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, including using another person’s information or identity, or provide false information about yourself.  You agree that we may take steps to verify the accuracy of information you provide, including contact information.

You agree that you will not share your account or account information with others.  Shared access to the Services is prohibited; when registering accounts, each User must register separately.  You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of your account username and password, and you are responsible for all activities under your account.  You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your username, password or other account information, or of any other breach of security that you become aware of involving your account on the Services.

You consent to receive notices, including agreements, disclosures, and other communications, electronically from us at the email address you have provided.  You agree that these electronic notices satisfy any legal requirements that such communications be in writing.

  1. Access and Use of the Services

5.1   User License.  Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to:

  1. access and use the Services only for as long as the Services are made available to you by us; and
  2. for any material included in the Services that is made available by us for Users to download or otherwise make copies for later use (collectively, “Downloadable Material”), download, make, view and use copies of such material without modification or alteration of the contents thereof;

in each case of the foregoing, solely for bona fide news reporting, press and editorial purposes related to D23 (“User License”).

You understand that the above User License is a license agreement and not an agreement for sale or assignment of any rights in the Services, including any Downloadable Material included in the Services.  You also understand that the above User License is automatically revoked and terminated in the event you violate any of these Terms.

You further agree that: (i) we may, in our sole discretion, impose usage limitations on any Downloadable Material included in the Services, including, without limitation, a limitation on how long you may use such material, and you will abide by such limitations upon receipt of notification from us (which notification may be provided via email or by other means we consider reasonable or appropriate); and (ii) if we make a request to you to discontinue use of any Downloadable Material included in the Services, you will immediately comply with such request.

5.2   Ownership.  You acknowledge and agree that: (i) Disney owns and retains all rights in and to the Services and all portions thereof, including all Downloadable Material; (ii) the Services and all portions thereof, including all Downloadable Material, are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws in the United States and in other countries and jurisdictions; (iii) Disney does not transfer title to any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) to you, and nothing in these Terms grants you any title or ownership right or interest whatsoever in or to any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material); and (iv) while you may own the physical media on which the Services or portions thereof (including any Downloadable Material) are made available to you, Disney retains full and complete ownership of the Services and all elements and portions thereof (including all Downloadable Material).

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all names, marks, titles, logos, symbols and identifiers of Disney, including, without limitation, the “Disney”, “D23”, “Disney+”, “Hulu”, “ABC”, “ESPN”, “FX”, “Freeform”, “National Geographic”, “Pixar”, “Marvel”, “Lucasfilm” “Star Wars”, “20th Century Studios”, “20th Television” and “Searchlight Pictures” names and associated logos and designs, as well as the names and designs of any fanciful Disney characters, are trademarks of Disney and may not be copied, used or exploited, except as expressly permitted under these Terms or otherwise authorized in writing by Disney.

5.3   Restrictions on Your Use of the Services.  You acknowledge and agree that you shall not (nor shall permit, abet or aid others to) do any of the following, and that your full compliance with these restrictions is a condition to the User License that is granted to you under these Terms:  

  • use, create, develop, modify, prompt, fine-tune, train, test, benchmark or validate the Services, or any portion thereof, with any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology (“AI Tool”), in any media format or channel now known or hereafter devised.
  • transfer any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) to a person or entity for purposes unrelated to your bona fide news reporting, press or editorial use in connection with D23;
  • use, display, publish, distribute, disseminate, transmit, broadcast, or otherwise exploit any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) for any commercial purpose (including, without limitation, for merchandising);
  • sell, lease, monetize, archive, alter, duplicate, retransmit or redistribute any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material);
  • sublicense, assign or otherwise transfer the User License that is granted to you under these Terms;
  • edit, modify or alter any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material), including, without limitation, by removing identification, copyright or other proprietary notices from any of the Services or any portion thereof, or by framing, mirroring, or utilizing similar techniques;
  • create derivative works (in any format or medium) of or from any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material), including, without limitation: montages, mashups, memes, GIFs, reels, remixes (for example, by using stitching or duetting features on TikTok), carousels, and other social media content; screen savers, wallpapers, desktop themes, and other digital backgrounds; digital stickers; emojis; greeting cards, posters, calendars, signage, displays, and other merchandise items, whether in physical or digital form;
  • use any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) in a manner that is derogatory or defamatory to Disney or to any person, entity, product, service or brand depicted or identified in any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material);
  • use any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) in any unlawful manner or for any unlawful purpose, including, without limitation, to violate or infringe upon any rights (whether statutory or common law) of others, to impersonate, and/or to falsely suggest our approval, sponsorship or endorsement of or association or affiliation with another person, entity, product, service or brand.
  • circumvent, bypass, defeat, disable, or otherwise tamper or interfere with any content protection, digital rights management, access control (including geo-filtering), information security, cybersecurity, firewall, or similar systems, mechanisms, tools or technologies contained or utilized in or associated with any of the Services or any portion thereof;
  • access, monitor, copy or extract any of the Services or any portion thereof using a robot, spider, script, or other automated means, including, for the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of creating or developing any AI Tool, data mining or web scraping or otherwise compiling, building, creating or contributing to any collection of data, data set or database (other than for a public search engine’s use of spiders for creating search indices to the extent not disallowed by Disney, including through the applicable robots.txt files or NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW meta-tags);
  • damage, disable, disrupt, overburden, impair, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, introduce virus, malware, ransomware, spyware, or other malicious or harmful material into, or gain unauthorized access to any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) or to any Disney servers, computer networks, software, hardware, databases, or User accounts; or
  • access or use any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) in any other manner that is inconsistent with these Terms.

5.4   Export Controls. You may not access or use any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) in violation of United States export control and economic sanctions requirements.  By using any of the Services or any portion thereof, you represent and warrant that you will comply with those requirements.

5.5   Termination of Access. We may terminate, suspend, block, disable, or otherwise deny, restrict or limit your access to any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material), including your account (if any), if required by law, or for any reason, including without limitations, if we have reason to believe or suspect that you have accessed or used any of the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material) in violation of these Terms.

  1. Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitations of Liability; Indemnity

THE SERVICES AND ALL PORTIONS THEREOF (including any Downloadable Material) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” AND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENMERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, DISNEY DOES NOT MAKE, AND HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMMS, THE FOLLOWING WARRANTIES: (A) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILTY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (B) ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE AND NONINFRINGEMENT; AND (C) ANY WARRANTIES THAT ANY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PORTION THEREOF (including any Downloadable Material) WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, OR WILL BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE OR USABLE IN ANY PARTICULAR LOCATION OR AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME, OR WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCUATE OR ERROR FREE, OR WILL BE CORRECTED OR UPDATED, OR WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES AND OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF REVENUES, AND LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) ANY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PORTION THEREOF (including any Downloadable Material), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) ANY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PORTION THEREOF (including any Downloadable Material), EXCEED FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US $50).

YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD HARMLESS DISNEY FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, EXPENSES (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS), AND OTHER LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO: (A) YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) ANY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PORTION THEREOF (including any Downloadable Material); AND/OR (B) ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OR BREACH OF THESE TERMS BY YOU.  DISNEY RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT OUR OWN EXPENSE, TO EMPLOY SEPARATE COUNSEL AND ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF ANY MATTER OTHERWISE SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU.

  1. Submissions and Unsolicited Ideas Policies

Our long-standing company policy does not allow us to accept or consider unsolicited creative ideas, suggestions or materials.  In connection with anything you submit to us – whether or not solicited by us – you agree that creative ideas, suggestions or other materials you submit are not being made in confidence or trust and that no confidential or fiduciary relationship is intended or created between you and us in any way, and that you have no expectation of review, compensation or consideration of any type.

  1. Claims of Copyright Infringement

Notifications of claimed copyright infringement and counter notices must be sent to our designated agent:

Attn: TWDC Designated Agent
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521, USA
Phone: +1 818-560-1000
Fax: +1 818-560-4299
Email: designated.agent@dig.twdc.com

We will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Services that are reported to our designated copyright agent, in accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) or, as applicable, other laws.  These notices must include the required information set forth in the DMCA and described in detail here.

  1. BINDING ARBITRATION

PLEASE READ THIS PROVISION CAREFULLY—YOU ARE AGREEING TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND DISNEY THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION.

You and Disney agree to resolve, by binding arbitration, all Disputes (including any related disputes involving The Walt Disney Company, its subsidiaries, or its affiliates) except for: (i) any claim within the jurisdiction of a small claims court; and (ii) any dispute relating to the ownership or enforcement of intellectual property rights. Such intellectual property disputes shall be heard in a state or federal court located in the borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, and you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating such action.  “Dispute” includes any claim, dispute, action, or other controversy, whether based on past, present, or future events, whether based in contract, tort, statute, or common law, between you and Disney concerning these Terms or the Services or any portion thereof (including any Downloadable Material).  Any Dispute shall be settled by binding arbitration before one single arbitrator.  The arbitration shall be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures, and the single arbitrator shall be selected by the parties or, if that is not possible, by JAMS.  Each party shall bear its own attorney’s fees.

  1. Additional Provisions
  1. Choice of Law. These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and the laws of the United States, without giving effect to any conflict of law principles.
  2. Severability. If any provision contained in these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions contained in these Terms.
  3. Survival. Any provisions contained in these Terms which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms shall survive such termination.
  4. Waiver. No waiver by us of any provision contained in these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and our failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.