Project Sea Silent

Intellectual property framework

How sponsorship negotiations are structured · Media 20-20 LLC · July 2026

This framework sets the default positions Project Sea Silent brings to every sponsorship negotiation: what the project owns, what sponsors own, what can be licensed, and which terms are open for discussion. Publishing it up front keeps negotiations fast and predictable — both sides know the shape of the deal before the first call. Project Sea Silent is owned and operated by Media 20-20 LLC; "the project" throughout refers to Media 20-20 LLC, which holds all project-owned intellectual property.

This page is a negotiation framework, not a contract and not legal advice. Definitive sponsorship agreements are drafted and reviewed with counsel.

IP inventory & default ownership

IP asset	Default ownership	What sponsors can license
"Sea Silent" name, logo, and trade dress	Project (Media 20-20 LLC) — not negotiable	Naming-rights and co-branding licenses for a defined term
Build content — video, photography, documentation	Project — not negotiable	Reuse of defined clips featuring the sponsor's product, with attribution
Integrated vessel design and replication blueprint	Project — not negotiable	Named placement in the published design and bill of materials; case-study rights
Performance and efficiency data	Project	Tiered access: first-access windows, component-level data, case studies
Sponsor components and their underlying IP	Sponsor — integration transfers nothing	N/A — remains sponsor property
New inventions arising during the build	Project by default	License terms negotiated case-by-case; ownership of blueprint-critical inventions is never transferred

Core principles (not negotiable)

The project retains ownership of the Sea Silent brand, all build content, and the integrated vessel design. Sponsors license rights; ownership is never transferred.
Sponsors retain full ownership of their products and underlying IP — installation, content features, and blueprint inclusion transfer nothing.
Editorial independence: sponsors receive factual-accuracy review of segments featuring their product, not script or edit approval.
Honest data: performance results are published as measured. Sponsorship buys access and association — never the numbers.
Naming rights are term licenses, not ownership.
No blanket exclusivity — only narrowly scoped, separately priced per-category terms.
Patent filings precede public disclosure: potentially patentable inventions are filed as provisionals before the content that discloses them is released.

How negotiations run

Three steps, designed to close in weeks: tier selection from the sponsorship prospectus, a two-page term sheet covering the negotiable variables (naming-rights term, category exclusivity, content usage, data access, logo placement), and a definitive agreement drafted by counsel from the executed term sheet. Anything not raised at term-sheet stage takes the default position. The full framework document, including the negotiable-terms table and new-inventions policy, is available to prospective sponsors on request.