Ownership model
The per-team setting choosing who owns newly submitted items - creator retains (the default; the submitting user owns their items) or team retains (the team owns them; plan-gated, requires each invitee's acknowledgment of ownership terms, and blocks plan downgrades while in effect).
Overview
A team’s ownership model decides the default owner of every item submitted within
it. Under creator retains (creator_retains, the default when a team is created
without an explicit choice), each new item is owned by the person who submitted it
and follows them if their membership ends. Under team retains (team_retains) the
team itself owns new items, matching organizations whose work product belongs to
the organization; it requires the team-retained item ownership
entitlement (paid tiers), every invitee must explicitly
acknowledge the ownership terms before joining, and a plan downgrade that would
strip the entitlement is blocked while any team-retains team remains. A team may
switch from creator retains to team retains only while it holds no items, the
reverse switch is never allowed, and personal teams always use creator retains.
See item ownership versus authorship for the
full model and ownership for the per-item rights holder.