Draft · published before payments open

Members' Charter

Draft of 9 November 2026. A Singapore lawyer is checking it before membership opens.

These are the plain-English promises the club makes to its members. The Charter sits alongside the member terms.

1. The club
2. What members get
3. What members vote on
4. How votes run
5. Members' Council
6. Money
7. Reports, ledger and the AI
8. Changes, leaving and refunds

1. The club

1.1 The Movies Club is being set up by THEMOVIESCLUB PTE. LTD., a Singapore company ("the club").

1.2 The club finds, buys, restores and releases films, both new films and classics, and keeps them in a members' library that grows every year. Members help choose which films.

1.3 The club is run by its committee, which the company's directors appoint. The committee is the club's own group, responsible for its money, contracts and public statements; it is not the company's board of directors. Membership does not make you a shareholder or give you a vote on who sits on the committee.

1.4 An AI does much of the day-to-day work: scouting films, writing briefs, running votes and preparing reports. People on the committee approve anything that spends money above set limits, signs a contract or speaks for the club in public.

2. What members get

2.1 A say in the club: the votes set out in section 3.

2.2 The club's films to watch at home on TV, tablet, phone or computer, wherever the club holds the rights, plus member content such as screenings when they run.

2.3 A monthly report and the club ledger: what the club did, why, and what it cost (section 7).

2.4 For Founding Members, a chance to be chosen to serve on the committee (the directors appoint it).

2.5 Membership is paid monthly or yearly and renews until you cancel. The price is shown when you join and is fixed for the period you paid for.

3. What members vote on

3.1 Binding means the club will act on the result, subject only to section 4.3.

4. How votes run

4.1 One member, one vote. Every member in good standing on the day a vote opens can vote.

4.2 Each vote opens with a brief on every option, runs for at least 7 days, and closes on a date set in advance. If fewer than 10% of members vote, the default option published at the start applies.

4.3 The committee may override a binding vote only if acting on it would break the law, breach a contract, or spend more than the budget set for that vote. If it does, it will explain why in the next monthly report, and any member may ask for a refund of the unused part of the period they paid for within 30 days.

5. Members' Council

5.1 Members elect a Council of 3 to 5 members each year, one member one vote.

5.2 The Council can read the full ledger, question the committee, and call a members' consultation on any issue, which the committee must answer in writing within 30 days.

5.3 The Council advises. It does not run the company, appoint the committee or approve spending.

5.4 Council members serve unpaid for one year and can stand again.

6. Money

6.1 Membership is a payment for the club's services. It is not an investment, and it gives no right to profits, dividends, returns or any share of the club or its films.

6.2 Money the club earns, including from a successful film, stays in the club and is reinvested in films and member benefits. Film spending and film income run through the club's film budget, a separate bank account shown line by line in the ledger.

6.3 At least two-thirds of membership fees (after GST and card fees) goes into the film budget, together with all film income. This share can be raised but never lowered. Anything left over from running costs at the end of each year also goes into the film budget, and the ledger shows the real share. The film budget is used only to buy, restore and release films.

6.4 Nothing is ever paid out to the owner: the founder takes no dividends, no share of fees and no percentage of revenue, ever. Once working on the club full time, the founder may take a fixed salary, published in the ledger, paid from running costs and never from the film budget. Any payment to the founder or a company connected to the founder appears in the ledger, with the reason.

6.5 The club pays DogwoofAI for technology under a written contract. Because the founder runs both, this is a declared conflict and its cost appears in the ledger.

6.6 If the club ever offers members a way to invest in a film, it will be separate from membership, through a licensed platform, and members will be told before it starts.

6.7 The club keeps the films it owns. It licenses them to others, but does not sell them off one by one.

7. Reports, ledger and the AI

7.1 Every month the club publishes a report to members: films bought and released, money in and out, votes and their results, and anything the committee overrode.

7.2 The ledger records each action the club takes, including the AI's: what was done, why, and what it cost. Members can read it at any time.

7.3 Before members vote on a film, the club publishes a one-page memo on it, and reviews that memo 12 months after release.

7.4 Members will always know when they are dealing with the AI rather than a person.

7.5 The report and ledger are for members. The club may publish summaries but will not share members' personal data.

8. Changing this Charter, leaving and refunds

8.1 The club can change this Charter only with 90 days' notice to members and a members' consultation first. The committee publishes the results and its reasons.

8.2 Sections 3, 4.3, 6.1 to 6.4 and 6.7, and section 7, can only be changed if members agree in a vote. The club intends to write this protection into the company's constitution.

8.3 Members can cancel at any time, and access runs to the end of the period paid for. Fees are non-refundable except under section 4.3, or if the club closes, when members get the unused part of their period back.

8.4 The club can end a membership for abuse of other members, the films or the club's systems, refunding the unused part of the period paid for.