Copyright and Rights Policy

1. Users Are Solely Responsible for Uploaded Content

Broadcasters and their authorized managers independently choose and direct every sound, image, name, description, and other item they upload, select, share, or use through SoundSlap. As between SoundSlap and the user, the user is solely responsible for that material and for ensuring that its upload, storage, monetization, broadcast, public performance, display, and other configured use are lawful.

Users may upload or use material only when they created it or possess every copyright, neighboring right, license, permission, consent, and other authorization required for the intended use. This responsibility includes sound recordings, musical compositions, film or television audio, game audio, performances, artwork, trademarks, names, voices, likenesses, privacy rights, publicity rights, and contractual rights. A user relying on fair use or another legal limitation or exception is responsible for having a good-faith legal basis before uploading or using the material.

Each uploader must also comply with Twitch's DMCA Guidelines, Twitch's other applicable policies, and all applicable laws. SoundSlap does not grant rights in third-party material or excuse a user from Twitch's separate copyright process, strikes, account restrictions, or other enforcement.

Uploading, selecting, sharing, or enabling content is the user's own representation that the content and every configured use are authorized. The uploader is the content provider and bears responsibility for claims, royalties, license fees, permissions, reporting duties, disputes, damages, and other consequences arising from that content. SoundSlap's acceptance or playback of a file does not shift that responsibility.

2. No Routine Screening, Verification, or Endorsement

SoundSlap provides technical upload, storage, transcoding, library, Extension, preview, and overlay tools. SoundSlap does not routinely pre-screen every upload, continuously monitor all user activity, independently verify ownership, or obtain licenses on a user's behalf. The technical acceptance, processing, availability, or playback of material is not legal clearance, approval of ownership, endorsement, or authorization.

Users must not assume that material is lawful merely because SoundSlap has not restricted it or because another user uploaded it. SoundSlap may use moderation tools and may review, investigate, reject, restrict, or remove material at its discretion, but doing so does not transfer responsibility for user content from the uploader to SoundSlap.

Nothing in this policy or the Service creates a contractual duty for SoundSlap to proactively monitor, screen, investigate, identify, license, or prevent user content. SoundSlap may moderate or remove material, but voluntary moderation does not make SoundSlap the creator, speaker, owner, licensor, sponsor, or guarantor of user-supplied content.

3. Reporting a Violation of Rights

SoundSlap accepts reports concerning copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, name, voice, likeness, impersonation, unlawful personal information, and other rights. A rights holder or authorized representative who believes material available through SoundSlap violates a right may send a report with the subject "Rights Report" to soundslap.stream@gmail.com.

A sufficiently specific rights report should include:

1. A reasoned explanation of the right allegedly violated and why the reported use is unauthorized or unlawful.
2. The exact SoundSlap URL or other information sufficient to locate the material, such as the sound name, sound code, uploader, and Twitch channel.
3. Identification of the protected work, identity, mark, image, voice, information, or other subject of the complaint, with supporting documentation when available.
4. The reporting person's name, authority or relationship to the rights holder, and an email address where the reporter can be contacted.
5. A statement that the reporter believes in good faith that the information in the report is accurate, complete, and not submitted for an abusive or improper purpose.

Reports concerning a Twitch livestream, VOD, clip, channel page, or other material controlled by Twitch should also be submitted through Twitch's DMCA process. SoundSlap cannot remove material from Twitch systems.

4. Review, Restriction, Removal, and Disclosure

SoundSlap may review a sufficiently specific report and may immediately disable a sound, artwork item, public-library listing, alert, upload function, account, or related feature before, during, after, or without completing a review. SoundSlap may request information, preserve records, contact an uploader, forward a report or supporting material to affected users or service providers, and take any action it considers appropriate under the Terms or applicable law.

SoundSlap may reject, edit technical metadata, remove, unlist, or disable reported material; restrict public sharing or uploads; suspend or terminate an account; report conduct to Twitch, service providers, or authorities; or keep material permanently disabled. Receiving, investigating, restricting, or removing material is not an admission that infringement occurred, that SoundSlap controlled the uploader's conduct, or that SoundSlap is liable for the material.

Uploading content creates no right to continued hosting, availability, playback, distribution, or access. To the maximum extent permitted by law, SoundSlap reserves the right to reject, restrict, disable, unlist, or permanently remove any audio, artwork, listing, alert, or related account feature at any time, for any reason or no stated reason, with or without notice. SoundSlap does not provide a contractual counter-notice, appeal, reinstatement, or restoration process and has no obligation to preserve or restore removed material. Users must keep their own original and backup copies and accept this removal authority as a condition of uploading and using the Service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, SoundSlap is not liable for good-faith restriction, removal, non-restoration, or disclosure undertaken under this policy.

5. No Right to Continued Hosting or a Particular Decision

A report does not require SoundSlap to conduct a judicial investigation, determine ownership, resolve a licensing dispute, preserve evidence for a private party, provide legal advice, disclose confidential information without lawful process, or reach a particular result. SoundSlap may rely on the information available to it and may choose the action, timing, scope, and duration it considers appropriate.

Users have no contractual right to require notice before removal, contest a decision, force restoration, recover a removed file from SoundSlap, or continue using the Service after a restriction. SoundSlap may decline to process incomplete, unverifiable, duplicative, abusive, or bad-faith reports.

6. Repeat Violations and User Accountability

SoundSlap may warn, restrict, suspend, or terminate users who repeatedly or seriously violate intellectual property or other rights. SoundSlap may consider reports, available evidence, court orders, admissions, repeat uploads, attempts to evade restrictions, severity, risk, and other relevant circumstances. SoundSlap is not required to wait for a fixed number of reports before acting when immediate or permanent restriction is appropriate.

Upload certifications and related account, sound, and enforcement records may be retained to administer this policy, resolve disputes, establish user responsibility, comply with law, and respond to valid legal process. SoundSlap may disclose available uploader information when required by a subpoena, court order, or other lawful process, or when otherwise permitted by the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

7. Good-Faith Reports, Cooperation, and Misuse

Reports must be submitted in good faith. Reporters should consider ownership, licenses, consent, authorization, fair use, and other applicable limitations or exceptions before submitting a report. A person is responsible for false statements, material omissions, impersonation, fraudulent authority, harassment, or misuse of the reporting process and may be liable under applicable law for resulting harm.

Users must reasonably cooperate with SoundSlap concerning rights reports involving their content, including by providing available evidence of authorization when requested. Failure to cooperate may result in restriction or permanent removal regardless of whether a court has made a final determination.

8. Contact and Reservation of Rights

Copyright questions and rights reports may be sent to soundslap.stream@gmail.com using the subject "Rights Report." This email is also the contact for questions about this policy.

SoundSlap reserves every right, remedy, defense, limitation, immunity, and protection available under contract and applicable federal and state law. Nothing in this policy is an admission that SoundSlap is responsible for user content, has a duty to monitor it, or waives any protection available for third-party content or good-faith moderation.