Terms of Service

Sonic Weaver provides free browser-based visualizer, lyric, cover/Canvas art, SFX, audio-library, and overlay tools. Guest creation and export do not require an account. A username/password account is required for durable cloud saving, community participation, and opening your projects on other devices; music and files you import stay on your device. There are no subscriptions, paid plans, export quotas, or billing entitlements.

You must be 13 or older to make an account, and you confirm that you are when you sign up.

You are responsible for protecting your password, passkeys, recovery codes, and active sessions. Because Sonic Weaver has no outbound email recovery, accounts without an available recovery method may not be recoverable.

You keep every right you have in what you make, upload and post: compositions, generated visuals, background and motion-graphics projects, stems, mastered tracks, exported files and everything else. To run Sonic Weaver, you give Novus Stream Solutions a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide permission to store, copy, process and show what you upload or post, only as far as these two purposes need:

• Your saved projects and private uploads: to store them, back them up, check them for safety and give them back to you. Nobody else sees them unless you share them.
• What you publish, such as posts, comments, your profile and channel, asset posts and albums: to make the copies the service needs, such as the encoded audio copy of the part of a song you chose, a poster image, smaller previews and the fingerprints that compare posts with upheld copyright cases, and to show and stream them on Sonic Weaver to the people their visibility setting allows. That includes the community feed and its rankings, your channel and search on the site, and, for public posts, the link previews other sites show and search engines.

The permission for a project or upload lasts while it is stored, and for a post while it is published. It ends when you delete it, apart from the copies the last section of these terms describes. We do not sell what you post, license it to anyone else, or put it in advertising or on social media without asking you first. SW Agent does not learn from your projects, uploads or posts; what it may learn from is set out below.

If Allow remixes is on for a post, as it is unless you turn it off, other members can make their own copy of its visual settings, never your music or the files you uploaded, and publish their own work from it with a credit that links to your post. Turning it off stops new remixes; remixes already made stay. When you post an asset, such as a picture, a sound, an intro or outro, an effect, a transition or an overlay, anyone who can see the post can download it or open it in their own editor. Post an asset only if you have the right to let others do that.

You must have the necessary rights to audio, fonts, images, video, models, lyrics, templates, trademarks, and other material you upload or publish, for the way you post it. You are responsible for what you post. Sonic Weaver does not check every post, and a post being live does not mean we have checked or approved its rights.

Sonic Weaver engine code, product design, templates, and branding remain proprietary to Novus Stream Solutions. Do not bypass security, distribute malicious files, scrape private content, or use the service to infringe rights. The names of other companies and products appear on Sonic Weaver only to say what a tool works with or where something came from; they belong to their owners, and naming them does not mean they endorse or work with Sonic Weaver.

When you rate an SW Agent answer or send a note with a rating, you let Novus Stream Solutions use that question, answer, rating and note to test and improve SW Agent, including turning them into its test cases. We do not publish them or show them to other members, and the Privacy Policy says how long they are kept and how to delete them. Do not put anyone’s personal information in a note.

When you make a link to a SW Agent chat or answer, you let Novus Stream Solutions show those words to anyone who opens the link until you turn it off. Share only what you have the right to share; the Community Guidelines apply to shared links, and we may turn off a link that breaks them. The Privacy Policy says what a link holds.

When you turn on Help improve SW Agent, you let Novus Stream Solutions keep a record of each SW Agent run while it is on and use those records to test and improve SW Agent, including teaching it from requests that many members asked and turning runs that went wrong into its test cases. We do not publish them or show them to other members, and the Privacy Policy says what is kept, for how long and how to delete it. You can turn it off at any time.

Every music submission requires you to check a box confirming that you own the music you are submitting, including the recording and songwriting. This applies to both full songs and previews. When music posting is available, publishing uploads a separate compressed copy of the song or section you select and permits Sonic Weaver to stream it with that post. Saving a project does not upload your original music.

Automatic checks compare posted files with files previously reviewed on Sonic Weaver. Suspected matches are reviewed by hand. A match is not proof of infringement, and no match is not copyright clearance. Strikes and moderation decisions require review by hand.

Publishing is explicit and creates an immutable revision. Remixes preserve attribution. The Community Guidelines set out what may not be posted, including anything illegal, harassment and threats, hate, sexually explicit content, anything that puts a child at risk, someone's private information, impersonation, scams, malicious files and spam; they are part of these terms. Members can report or block content and creators, and anyone, with or without an account, can report illegal content through 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.

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.

A creator can add links to their own pages on PayPal, Stripe, Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee or Patreon to their profile. A payment through one is made on that provider's site, under its terms, and is between the supporter and the creator. Sonic Weaver is not part of it: we do not handle the money, take a share or see payment details, we do not check who a creator is or what they do with what they receive, and refunds and disputes go through the provider. A support payment buys nothing from Sonic Weaver; anything a creator offers in return is between you and them.

Creators add only links to their own pages and keep them honest, and they are responsible for the provider's terms and for anything they owe on what they receive. We may remove support links that break these terms or the Community Guidelines.

Links to other sites, including those in posts, profiles and SW Agent's answers, go to places we do not run, and those sites' own terms apply there.

SW Agent answers questions, writes and draws for you. Its answers can be wrong or out of date, so check anything that matters before you rely on it. We claim no rights in what SW Agent makes for you. What it makes can resemble existing work, so before you use a name, slogan or logo it suggests, check it against the trademark register where you trade, and check that its domain and social handles are free.

Rendering and export happen locally in your browser and depend on device capabilities. Constrained phones may be limited to 1080p; supported desktop hardware may export up to 4K. Novus Stream Solutions does not guarantee uninterrupted availability, identical hardware performance, or recovery of data that was never durably saved.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that rendering or export will succeed on any particular device, that a published revision stays available, or that the service will be uninterrupted.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Novus Stream Solutions is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for loss of projects, exports, profits, or goodwill. Guest work lives only in your browser and we hold no copy of it, so we cannot restore it. Export anything you want to keep. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. If you live outside Ontario, you keep any protection the consumer law of the place you live gives you that an agreement cannot take away.

You may export or delete your account at any time from your settings, subject to safety, moderation, backup, and legal retention. Additive migration and compatibility records may remain during a rollback window. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or the Community Guidelines, as the Community rules section above describes, and we tell you why and how to appeal.

When we change these terms, we change the date at the top of this page. We tell signed-in members about a significant change in their inbox and in the changelog before it takes effect, unless a change is needed at once for safety or by law. If you keep using Sonic Weaver after a change takes effect, the new terms apply; if you do not agree with them, you can stop using it and delete your account.

Appeal a moderation decision from Account standing in your settings, as the Community rules section above describes. Our other contact details are on the contact page.