Questions people ask before signing up
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Rights and data
No. It tells you what the records say and which rule produced each date. Before you spend money on a property, a clearance lawyer still signs it off. BlackSlate makes that conversation shorter.
Public records and open datasets, including Wikidata and the US copyright renewal catalogues. Each date is traced to the rule that produced it, and the record shows which rule that was.
It means nobody has checked the renewal records for that work, so it is neither confirmed free nor confirmed protected. We show it as exactly that and leave the decision to you.
Yes. Rights dates are shown for the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on every record.
Your work
They stay in your account. A Preview Link shows a script to the person you send it to, expires when you say, and you can revoke it at any time.
No. Some features send content to our AI provider to produce a result, under terms that do not allow training on it.
In London, with Supabase. Our sub-processors page lists every provider and where it processes data.
Plans and billing
No. Create an account and read the top five entries free.
Yes, from your account page. Your plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for.
US dollars. Card payments are processed securely by Stripe.
Yes: $290 a year, which is two months free compared with paying monthly.
Writers join BlackSlate for Writers by invitation from a producer who has them on a slate.
Find the next project before anyone else does
Producers and development teams start here. Writers come in through the producer who has them on a slate.