Terms of Service

ColabLoop is operated by ColabLoop Ltd, 8700 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. “We”, “us” and “ColabLoop” mean that entity. “You” means the person using the service.

By creating an account you agree to these terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, our Refund Policy and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

ColabLoop is a collaboration workspace for music producers. Producers upload audio files to collaboration projects, discover collaboration opportunities, and send or accept collaboration requests. We provide the software: search, messaging, file hosting, version history, and the tooling around agreeing a split.

We are not a party to any collaboration, agreement or split between producers. We do not act as a publisher, label, rights administrator, or agent, and we do not verify, register or enforce any ownership share you agree with another producer.

ColabLoop does not operate a marketplace and does not process payments between producers. Specifically, and as a matter of how the software is built:

• Audio uploaded to ColabLoop is not listed for sale. There is no price field on a loop or on a collaboration request anywhere in the product.
• Producers never pay each other through ColabLoop. No payment, tip, commission, bounty or fee passes between users.
• There is no seller balance, wallet, escrow, revenue share or payout. No money is ever held by us on behalf of one producer for another.
• You cannot sell, transfer, gift or exchange upload quota with another account, and you cannot redeem it for money.
• Any money you pay is paid to us, for your own use of our software. We keep it. It is never a payment for another producer's work.

What two producers agree between themselves about the ownership of finished work is theirs to settle, entirely separately from anything either of them pays us.

• You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
• You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, and for keeping your sign-in credentials secure.
• Uploading a loop or sending a collaboration request requires a verified producer account. Verification means a person at ColabLoop has manually checked that the BeatStars profile you gave us is yours. It is reviewed by hand — there is no automatic approval — and we may decline or revoke it.
• One account per person. Accounts are not transferable.

Upload quota is a non-transferable usage allowance that permits the account holder to upload audio files to ColabLoop collaboration projects. It is a limited licence to use a feature of our software — not money, not virtual currency, not a stored-value instrument, and not a security.

• Uploading one audio file uses one upload from your quota. Browsing, previewing, sending inquiries, sending collaboration requests, the collaboration workspace, chat, stem uploads and the full-quality download use none of it.
• Quota does not expire and is not subject to a monthly reset.
• If our automated copyright check rejects your upload, that upload is returned to your quota automatically.
• Quota has no cash value. It cannot be withdrawn, sold, transferred, gifted or exchanged between accounts, and it cannot be redeemed for money except as set out in our Refund Policy.
• Quota does not represent funds held by us on behalf of another producer, and it cannot be used to pay, tip or compensate anyone.

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Your purchase is therefore subject to Paddle's own terms in addition to these.

Prices are shown on our pricing page in US dollars and may change. A change never affects quota already added to your account. Quota is added to your account immediately on successful payment. You are paying us for your own use of our software; we retain the full amount, and none of it is passed to another producer.

You retain ownership of everything you upload. You are not transferring your copyright, your master rights or your publishing to us at any point, and we never acquire a right to sell, license or distribute your audio to anyone.

You must have all the rights necessary to upload the audio you upload — see clause 8.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, encode and transmit your audio strictly so we can operate the service: generating the waveform and the shortened preview, running the copyright check, showing your loop in search results, and delivering files to a producer you have accepted a collaboration with. This licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies we must keep for legal or backup reasons.

The full-quality file you upload is never public. It is released only to you and to a producer whose collaboration request you have accepted. What appears publicly is a shortened, lower-quality preview generated by us.

Every upload requires you to confirm, at the time of upload, that the loop:

• was not generated by artificial intelligence;
• does not contain copyrighted material you do not have the right to use;
• is your own original work.

These are your statements, not ours. We record them with a timestamp. Uploading is blocked unless all three are confirmed.

Every upload is fingerprinted against a third-party database of commercial recordings before it goes live. If a match is found the loop is rejected, it never appears publicly, and that upload is returned to your quota automatically.

This screening is a safeguard, not a guarantee. It can miss material, and it can flag material you had every right to use. A loop passing the check is not us confirming that you own it — clause 7 still applies, and repeatedly uploading infringing material may end your access.

Accepting a collaboration request opens a private room for the two producers involved, with chat and versioned stem uploads.

The first time a collaborator downloads the full-quality file, we automatically share both producers' contact and publishing details with each other, because that is the point at which they need them. Those details come from what each of you has entered on your own profile.

Before a collaboration can be marked complete, both producers must separately confirm the split they have agreed. That confirmation is a statement by each of you about what you agreed between yourselves. We record it and we require it — we do not verify it, arbitrate it, register it with any rights body, or take responsibility for it. Registering a split with BeatStars, a PRO, a distributor or anyone else remains entirely your responsibility.

Your use of ColabLoop is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy. Breaking it may cost you access to the service.

You can stop using ColabLoop at any time and ask us to delete your account (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that repeatedly uploads infringing material, or where we are required to by law.

If we close your account for a breach, unused quota is forfeited. If we close it for any other reason, or discontinue the service, we will refund unused quota.

We work to keep ColabLoop available and your files intact, but the service is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will find you a collaborator. Keep your own copies of anything you upload — we are not a backup service.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Subject to that, we are not liable for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost or corrupted data, or for any dispute between you and another producer — including any disagreement about a split, ownership, attribution or payment. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights we will tell you before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction, except where consumer-protection law in your own country gives you the right to bring a claim locally.

Questions about these terms go to our contact page.