Copyright and DMCA Policy

We respect copyright and we expect the producers using ColabLoop to do the same. Every upload requires the producer to confirm the audio is their own original work, is not AI-generated, and contains no copyrighted material they lack the rights to use. Every upload is also fingerprinted against a database of commercial recordings before it goes live, and a match is rejected automatically.

Neither of those is a guarantee. When something slips through, the process below is how it gets removed.

Send a notice to support@colabloop.com with the subject line “Copyright notice”. To be actionable it needs:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• The URL of the loop or file on ColabLoop, so we can find exactly what you mean.
• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Please don't send a notice for material you don't own the rights to. Knowingly misrepresenting that something is infringing carries liability for damages under section 512(f) of the DMCA.

• We review the notice, usually within two business days.
• If it is valid, we remove or disable access to the material and tell the producer who uploaded it, passing on your notice.
• We record the removal against that producer's account for the purposes of our repeat-infringer policy.

If your loop was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs your name, address, telephone number and signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed in error, and your consent to the jurisdiction of a court where you live.

We will forward it to whoever filed the original notice. If they don't tell us within ten business days that they have filed a court action, we may restore the material.

Accounts that repeatedly upload infringing material are terminated. We do not operate a fixed strike count in public — the judgment includes whether the uploads look deliberate, whether they continued after a warning, and whether counter-notices were upheld — but repeated valid notices against one account end its access. Unused upload quota on an account closed this way is forfeited, as set out in the Refund Policy.

Worth saying plainly, because it is the most common case here: a loop built on an uncleared sample is infringing even if our automated check didn't flag it, and even if you played it yourself. Passing the screening is not clearance. See our Content Policy for what that means when you upload.