Community Guidelines

Publish only work and media you made, own or have permission to share, in the way you share it: a short preview of a song needs the same permission as the whole song. Attributed remixes must keep their source connection. Do not impersonate creators or misrepresent authorship.

An asset post can be downloaded, or opened in an editor, by anyone who can see it, so post an asset only if others may use it that way.

Do not post anything illegal. No harassment, bullying or threats; no hate against people for who they are; no sexually explicit content, and nothing sexual involving a child or anything else that puts a child at risk; no violence or dangerous acts, and nothing that encourages self-harm or suicide; no scams, phishing, harmful links or malicious downloads; and no sharing someone's private information.

Sonic Weaver is for people aged 13 and older, so keep what you post suitable for them.

Do not automate fake views, likes, follows, comments, reports, or trending activity. Avoid repetitive promotion and deceptive links.

Comments are checked as they are posted. A comment is refused, with the reason, when it holds links while they are switched off, email addresses, stock self-promotion phrases or heavy repetition, or repeats your own earlier comment, and words on a list we keep are blanked out or refused. Post your work to the community instead of promoting it in comments.

Add support links only to your own pages on the providers the profile form accepts, and keep them honest: say nothing about where the money goes that is not true. Never ask for payment details in comments or messages. Support links can be reported like any other content.

Block creators you do not want to interact with. Report posts, comments, profiles, assets or support links with a clear reason. Do not use reports to retaliate or suppress legitimate criticism. To report illegal content without an account, use the notice form.

Every report and notice is reviewed by hand. Reporting something does not remove it, and the number of reports does not decide the outcome.

A few checks run on their own. A comment is refused, with the reason, when it holds a link while links are switched off, an email address, a stock self-promotion phrase or heavy repetition, when it repeats your own earlier comment, or when it would be more than 3 comments from you on one post in 10 minutes. A word from a list we keep is blanked out of a comment, or the comment is refused, whichever we have chosen. Uploads are checked for their type and contents before they are kept. Posted music is compared with files from upheld copyright cases, and a match is only sent for review by hand. If we switch it on, a complete copyright notice about a post mutes that post's music while the notice is reviewed; the notice form says whether that is on. No strike, removal or ban is ever decided automatically.

We may hide or remove posts, comments, profiles, files and support links, and suspend accounts. Decisions and report outcomes appear in the notification inbox.

When we confirm that something broke these rules, we may hide or remove it and may add a strike to the account. You get a message in your inbox saying what we decided, which rule it broke, why, and how to appeal. A first strike brings a 24-hour community limit: you cannot post, comment, follow members or ask to join private channels, but you can still browse, listen, use the editors, save and export your work, and report or block. A second strike opens a review of the account, and a third leads to a decision whether to ban it; a ban happens only when we approve it by hand. A strike counts for 90 days after it is given. For the most serious harm, such as content that sexually exploits a child or a credible threat of violence, we may suspend an account at once, without earlier strikes.

If you think a decision about your content or account is wrong, open Account standing in your settings and choose Appeal next to the decision, within 180 days of the decision. Each appeal is reviewed by hand, and you get the result in your inbox. If an appeal succeeds, the strike is removed and the content comes back where it can. If your account is suspended and you cannot sign in, write to us through the contact page with your username.

Post music, images, fonts, video and lyrics only if you made them, own them, or have permission from everyone who owns them. A short preview needs the same permission as a full song.

If you believe something on Sonic Weaver uses your work without permission, send a notice through the notice form. You do not need an account. Each notice is reviewed by hand. We may take no action, hide or remove the content, and add a copyright strike to the member's account, and we tell the member what we decided, why, and how to send a counter-notice from their settings.

Sonic Weaver is operated from Canada. When a notice meets the requirements of Canada's Copyright Act, we forward it to the member who posted the content, as that law requires, and keep the records that identify them for as long as it requires.

Members who repeatedly post work they do not have the rights to are banned, once we approve the ban by hand. Copyright strikes count on the same ladder as every other strike, and an appeal or a successful counter-notice removes the strike.

This is Sonic Weaver's own notice process. It follows the notice-and-notice rules of Canada's Copyright Act and the notice-and-action approach used in the UK and the EU. It is not the process of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Sonic Weaver has not registered a designated agent with the US Copyright Office. We accept and review notices from anywhere, including notices written in that format.