Content Moderation Policy

ColabLoop is not open publishing. An account cannot upload a single file, or send a collaboration request, until a person at ColabLoop has manually reviewed it against the BeatStars profile the producer claims. There is no automated approval path and no way to skip the queue. This is the first and strongest moderation layer: it keeps bots, scraped catalogues and throwaway accounts out before content exists.

Every audio file is fingerprinted against a third-party database of commercial recordings before it is published.

• A match is rejected automatically. The file never becomes visible to anyone else, and the upload is returned to the producer's quota.
• A clean result publishes the loop.
• If the check cannot complete — the provider errors or times out — the file is held, not published. We never fail open on copyright.

Held files go to a queue that a human reviews by hand, where they can be re-checked, published or rejected.

Being straight about the limits, because overstating them would be its own kind of dishonesty. The check compares audio against released commercial recordings. It does not detect an uncleared sample that never appeared on a release, it does not establish who owns a file, and it does not analyse lyrics or spoken content for hate speech, abuse or anything illegal. Those depend on reports from people.

Anyone can report a loop, a message or an account through our contact page. Copyright complaints follow the process in the Copyright and DMCA Policy.

• A person reviews every report — there is no automated takedown triggered by reports.
• We aim to respond within two business days.
• We may remove content while we review it, if leaving it up risks real harm.
• We tell the producer what was removed and why, unless the law prevents us.

Enforcement is proportionate, and it escalates:

• Remove the individual loop, stem or message.
• Warn the producer and explain what rule was broken.
• Revoke verification, which blocks uploading and requesting while leaving the account intact.
• Suspend the account.
• Close the account permanently. Repeated copyright infringement ends access — unused upload quota is then forfeited.

Where a rule looks like it was broken by accident, we would rather ask first than act first.

If we removed something or restricted your account and you think we were wrong, reply to the message we sent you, or write to us through the contact page. A person will look at it again — ideally not the one who made the original call. For copyright removals specifically, the counter-notice route in the DMCA policy is the formal path and it has its own timelines.

Chat inside a collaboration is private to the two producers in it. We do not read it routinely and we do not scan it. We will look at a specific conversation if one of the two people in it reports the other, or where we are legally required to.