Copyright Policy

KollabMe, operated by Kollaborate Networks LLC

Last updated: November 2, 2026

Applies to the KollabMe mobile application and any KollabMe website, together the Services.

What this policy is
Our role: a venue, not a rights administrator
Designated Copyright Agent
Before you send a notice
How to report copyright infringement
The six required elements of a takedown notice
What we do when we receive a notice
What happens after a takedown
Counter-notification: getting your content back
Repeat infringers, strikes, and account termination
Misrepresentation — 17 U.S.C. § 512(f)
Music-specific rules
Trademark, name, image, likeness, and impersonation
Rightsholders outside the United States
Records, privacy, and transparency
Minors
Relationship to our other terms
Changes to this policy
Contact summary

1. What this policy is

KollabMe is a marketplace and social platform for music-industry creatives — artists, producers, musicians, studios, venues, photographers, videographers, and fans. Members upload and share audio, video, images, and text across the Services, including:

Discover, where members match with other creatives;
the Green Room feed, where members post gigs, collab calls, gear and studio listings, showcases, and beats;
the beat marketplace, where producers post beats with audio previews and buyers send licensing requests that are negotiated through the in-app Collab flow and chat;
direct messaging, including file and audio sharing; and
profiles, including avatars and portfolio media.

Almost all of that content is uploaded by members, not by us. Kollaborate Networks LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others and requires every member to do the same: only post material you created, own, or have the rights to share.

This policy explains how to tell us about material on the Services that you believe infringes your copyright, how a member whose material was removed can dispute that removal, and what happens to members who infringe repeatedly. It is written to follow the notice-and-takedown procedure in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (the DMCA).

This policy is part of, and incorporated into, the KollabMe Terms of Service. It is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether something is infringing, talk to a lawyer before you file — a notice carries sworn statements and real legal exposure (see Section 11).

2. Our role: a venue, not a rights administrator

This is the most important thing to understand before you contact us.

KollabMe provides the venue and keeps the record. We do not decide who owns what.

We host listings, messages, files, and the record of agreements members reach with each other. When a producer and a buyer negotiate a beat license through a Collab, KollabMe stores what was agreed, when, and between whom.
We are not a party to any license, sale, work-for-hire, collaboration, or split arrangement between members. The agreement is between those members.
We do not adjudicate ownership disputes. We cannot and will not determine who wrote a topline, who owns a beat, whether a sample was cleared, whether an exclusive was properly transferred, or what a percentage split should be. Those are questions for the parties, their lawyers, or a court.
We are not a rights administrator. We are not a publisher, label, distributor, PRO, or collection society. We do not register works, clear samples, administer or collect royalties, verify credits, or police the Services for infringement on your behalf.
We do not monitor uploads for infringement. We have no obligation to, and we do not, proactively screen or fingerprint uploaded audio. We act on notices we receive and on our own review of reported material.

What we do do is respond to properly submitted copyright notices under this policy, remove or disable material where required or appropriate, keep an internal record of those actions, and terminate repeat infringers.

Nothing in this policy makes KollabMe the arbiter of your rights, and nothing in it obligates us to resolve a dispute between two members who both claim the same work. Where a dispute is genuinely between members, our answer will be that the members must resolve it between themselves — while we still honor any valid DMCA notice or counter-notice we receive.

3. Designated Copyright Agent

Send all copyright notices, counter-notifications, and related legal correspondence to our Designated Copyright Agent:

Entity	Kollaborate Networks LLC
Attn	Copyright Agent, KollabMe
Mailing address	2321 Sir Barton Way, Suite 140 #1148 Lexington, KY 40509 United States
Email	copyright@kollabme.com
Phone	(859) 710-6927

Email is the fastest and preferred channel. Use the subject line DMCA Copyright Notice or DMCA Counter-Notification so it routes correctly.

The copyright@kollabme.com address and the phone number above are for copyright and intellectual-property matters only. Anything else — account problems, billing, safety reports, general questions — goes to support@kollabme.com, and copyright notices sent there may be delayed while they are routed to the Agent.

This agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office and appears in the Office’s public directory of designated agents at dmca.copyright.gov.

4. Before you send a notice

A DMCA notice is a sworn legal document, not a complaint form. Please check the following first — it will save you exposure and save us both time.

Do you actually hold the right? You must be the owner of an exclusive right in the work, or someone formally authorized to act for that owner (a manager, label, publisher, or attorney). Being a featured artist, an engineer, or a co-writer does not automatically mean you control the copyright, and a collaborator’s disputed claim is not the same thing as ownership.

Which work do you mean? A beat, a master recording, and a musical composition are three different things, and they can have three different owners. Say which one you are claiming.

Did you license it? If you sent the uploader a lease, sold them an exclusive, did a work-for-hire, or agreed on a collab in chat, the use may be authorized — even if you now regret the deal. A dispute about the terms of a license you granted is a contract dispute, not infringement, and a takedown notice is the wrong tool for it.

Is it fair use or otherwise lawful? You must consider whether the use is a fair use, a licensed use, or otherwise permitted by law before you swear to a good-faith belief that it is not authorized “by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.” Commentary, criticism, and certain transformative uses may be lawful. Failing to consider this can itself be a misrepresentation.

Is this really a copyright issue? If your complaint is about someone using your name, your logo, your photo, your voice, or pretending to be you, that is handled under Section 13, not the DMCA.

Would a message solve it faster? Many disputes on KollabMe are between people who already know each other. Where it is safe and appropriate to do so, contacting the uploader directly is often faster than a formal notice. This is a suggestion, not a requirement, and it is never required before filing.

5. How to report copyright infringement

There are two ways to reach us. Both go to the same place. The in-app flow is the fastest and the one we recommend for anything posted in the Green Room or the beat marketplace, because it attaches your notice directly to the exact item and sends it straight into our review queue.

5.1 In the app (fastest)

Open the post, beat, message, or profile you are reporting.
Tap the ⋯ menu, then Report.
Choose Copyright / IP.
For a post or beat, the app then shows a copyright-notice form. It is required — a copyright report against a post will not submit without it.

The in-app form captures:

Field	What it is	Required
Full legal name	Your typed legal name, which serves as your electronic signature	Yes
Email address	How we and, where required, the uploader reach you	Yes
The copyrighted work	A description of the work you say was infringed (e.g. “my beat Midnight, released 2024”)	Yes
Link to the original work	A URL where your work can be heard or seen	Optional but strongly recommended
Good-faith statement	A confirmation that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law	Yes
Accuracy and authority statement	A confirmation, under penalty of perjury, that your information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner	Yes
Additional details	Free text — timestamps, the section copied, prior correspondence	Optional

Because you file the report from the item itself, the material you are reporting is identified automatically, which satisfies the “identify the infringing material” element. You do not need to paste a link to it.

The in-app form does not collect your mailing address or phone number. If we need them to process your notice or to forward it, we will ask you by email. If you would rather provide full contact details up front — or if you are filing through counsel — use the email route in Section 5.2 instead.

Important limitation. The structured copyright-notice form appears for posts and beats. Reports against a direct message or a user profile can be flagged as “Copyright / IP” in the app, but that flag alone is a report to our moderation team, not a complete DMCA notice. For material in a message, profile, or avatar, send a full written notice to the Designated Copyright Agent under Section 5.2.

5.2 By email or mail (formal notice)

Send a complete written notice containing all six elements in Section 6 to:

Email: copyright@kollabme.com — subject line DMCA Copyright Notice
Mail: Kollaborate Networks LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, 2321 Sir Barton Way, Suite 140 #1148, Lexington, KY 40509, United States

Mail is accepted but slow. If your claim is time-sensitive, email it.

Use this route if you are represented by counsel, if you are filing about a large number of items at once, if you are filing about a message or profile, or if you want a complete written record of your notice.

5.3 A notice that is missing elements

If a notice does not substantially comply with § 512(c)(3), we may not be able to act on it, and it may not trigger our obligations under the DMCA. Where a notice is incomplete but includes enough for us to contact you, we will normally tell you what is missing so you can resubmit. We are not obligated to chase incomplete notices.

6. The six required elements of a takedown notice

The DMCA requires six things. Here is each one in the statute’s terms, and what you should actually write.

1. Your signature. Statute: a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. In practice: type your full legal name. In the in-app form, the name field is your electronic signature. In an email, type your full name at the bottom. If you are signing for someone else — an artist, a label, an estate — say who you represent and in what capacity.

2. Identify your work. Statute: identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if multiple works at a single site are covered by one notice. In practice: name the work and be specific about which right you hold. “My composition Midnight (I am the sole writer)” or “the master recording of Midnight released 2024-03-11 on Spotify, ISRC if you have it.” A link where we can hear it makes this far more useful. If you are claiming many works at once, a list is acceptable — but each entry still has to be identifiable.

3. Identify the infringing material and where it is. Statute: identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it. In practice: if you filed in the app from the item itself, this is handled automatically. If you are emailing, give us the poster’s username, the post or beat title, and a link or screenshot. For a message, give the username of the sender and the approximate date and time. “Somewhere in the Green Room” is not enough for us to act on.

4. Your contact information. Statute: information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address. In practice: full name, email, mailing address, and phone. Understand before you send it that we may forward your notice, including this contact information, to the person who uploaded the material — the DMCA process is not anonymous. See Section 15.

5. The good-faith statement. Statute: a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. In practice: copy this sentence: “I have a good faith belief that the use of the material described above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.” Before you write it, actually consider whether you licensed the use and whether it might be fair use.

6. The accuracy and authority statement, under penalty of perjury. Statute: a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. In practice: copy this sentence: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.” “Under penalty of perjury” is not decoration — see Section 11.

A notice missing any of elements 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6 is not a valid DMCA notice.

7. What we do when we receive a notice

New copyright reports alert our team as soon as they are filed. A human reviews every one.

When we receive a notice that substantially complies with § 512(c)(3), we will respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified. We may also, at our discretion:

ask you for more information before acting, if the notice is unclear or incomplete;
decline to act on a notice that does not substantially comply with § 512(c)(3), after telling you what is missing where we can;
remove material on our own initiative under our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, independent of any DMCA notice; and
take no further action on repeat submissions of a notice we have already addressed.

Removing material in response to a notice is not a determination that infringement occurred. It is the response the DMCA calls for, and it is deliberately reversible through the counter-notification process in Section 9.

How quickly we act. We act on complete copyright notices expeditiously, as the DMCA requires. In practice we aim to make a first decision within 2 business days of receiving a complete notice, and to acknowledge a counter-notification within the same window. A complex claim can take longer; if it does, we will tell you rather than leave you waiting.

8. What happens after a takedown

When we act on a copyright notice, the following happens. This describes the process we have actually implemented, not an aspiration.

The material is disabled. The post, beat, or file is removed from the Green Room, from search, and from the marketplace. It stops being publicly reachable.

The action is recorded. Every takedown, restoration, strike, and termination is written to an internal, append-only moderation record capturing who acted, what was acted on, the reason, the legal basis (here, DMCA § 512), the originating report, and the timestamp. This record is how we support restorations and repeat-infringer decisions, and how we can show a consistent, non-arbitrary process.

The uploader is notified. The member whose material was removed receives an in-app alert and a push notification as soon as we act. The notice states the reason, whether a copyright strike was recorded and how many strikes the account now has, whether the counter-notification route applies, and, for a beat, whether the listing can be fixed and listed again. The reason also stays on the removed listing where the member can re-read it. Where required or appropriate, we forward a copy of the notice — see Section 15.

A strike may be recorded. If the report carried a complete, sworn copyright notice and we resolved it as a valid takedown, we record a copyright strike against the uploader’s account. A report flagged as “Copyright / IP” that does not carry a sworn notice can still result in removal, but does not produce a strike. See Section 10.

Licenses sourced from that beat are cancelled. This is the one that matters most in the marketplace. If the removed post is a beat, every licensing Collab that originated from it — pending, accepted, awaiting the completion handshake, or already delivered — is cancelled and marked as rescinded, and delivery of files through the Services stops. Both the producer and the buyer are notified in-app and by push notification. Money, if any changed hands, is settled directly between those two members; KollabMe does not hold, process, or refund it. See Section 12.3.

Restoration is possible. Removed material can be restored by us — following a valid counter-notification, a retraction from the claimant, or our own conclusion that the removal was a mistake. Restorations are recorded the same way takedowns are.

Restoring a beat reinstates the licenses we cancelled. When we restore a listing we removed, the licensing Collabs that were rescinded because of that removal are reinstated, and both parties are notified. A Collab a producer cancelled themselves, or a listing a producer removed themselves, is not affected by this.

A note on how this reaches you. Notification of a takedown arrives as an in-app alert and a push notification. Keep notifications on and check the app — a counter-notification deadline runs whether or not you saw the message.

If your listing is restored. Restoration puts the listing back and reinstates the licenses that were cancelled when it came down. Any money already exchanged remains a matter between the two of you; see Section 12.3.

9. Counter-notification: getting your content back

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification — for example, you own the work, you have a written license, you are the one who commissioned it, or the claimant has the wrong track — you may send a counter-notification.

Do not file a counter-notification to escalate a fight, or because you think the claimant is being unfair. A counter-notification is a sworn statement that carries the same perjury exposure as the original notice, it hands your name and address to the claimant, and it consents to being sued in federal court. If you copied someone’s work, the right move is to leave it down.

9.1 How to file

Send it to the Designated Copyright Agent in Section 3, by email to copyright@kollabme.com with the subject line DMCA Counter-Notification, or by mail. There is no in-app counter-notification form today; email or mail is the channel.

9.2 What your counter-notification must contain

All four of the following are required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3):

1. Your signature. Your physical or electronic signature — type your full legal name.

2. Identify what was removed and where it was. Identify the material that was removed or disabled and the location at which it appeared before it was removed — the post or beat title, your username, and the approximate date it was taken down.

3. A statement under penalty of perjury of good-faith belief. “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.”

4. Your contact information and consent to jurisdiction. Your name, address, and telephone number, plus this statement: “I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located, or, if my address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which Kollaborate Networks LLC may be found, and I will accept service of process from the person who provided the notification or an agent of that person.”

A counter-notification missing any of these four elements is not effective and we will not act on it.

9.3 What happens next — the 10 to 14 business day window

We promptly forward a copy of your counter-notification to the person who filed the original notice, including your name, address, telephone number, and the contents of your statement. This is required by the DMCA. If you do not want the claimant to have your contact information, do not file a counter-notification.
We tell the claimant that we will restore the material in not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days.
If, within that window, our Designated Agent receives notice that the claimant has filed a court action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the Services, we will not restore it.
If we receive no such notice, we will restore the material, ordinarily in that 10-to-14-business-day window. The restoration is recorded in our moderation record.

Business days means Monday through Friday, excluding U.S. federal holidays.

9.4 Limits on restoration

We restore material to the state it was in and, as noted in Section 8, we reinstate the licensing Collabs that were cancelled when the beat came down.
If the material also violated our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines for a reason unrelated to copyright, we may keep it down regardless of the outcome of the counter-notification.
If your account was terminated for repeat infringement, a successful counter-notification on one item does not by itself reinstate the account — see Section 10.4.
If the material is no longer technically recoverable, we will say so.

10. Repeat infringers, strikes, and account termination

Consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Kollaborate Networks LLC has adopted and reasonably implements a policy providing for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the accounts of members who are repeat infringers. This is not boilerplate — it is an enforced, recorded process.

10.1 What earns a strike

We record a copyright strike against a member’s account when both of the following are true:

a copyright report was submitted with a complete, sworn notice — the claimant’s legal name as signature, the identification of the work, and both the good-faith and the under-penalty-of-perjury statements; and
our team reviewed it and resolved it as a valid takedown of that member’s material.

A copyright complaint that is dismissed, withdrawn, or resolved without a takedown does not produce a strike. A “Copyright / IP” flag submitted without the sworn notice does not produce a strike, even if the material is removed for other reasons.

10.2 What a strike does

Each account carries a copyright strike counter and the date of the most recent strike. Both are stored on the account record.
Every strike is written to the moderation record with the reason, the legal basis, the originating report, the acting administrator, and the timestamp.
Each time a strike is recorded, the takedown notice you receive says so and tells you how many strikes your account now has.
A member’s current strike count and full strike history are retrievable by our review team through our administrative tools when assessing a new report against that member. Strikes are cumulative across all of a member’s content and all surfaces of the Services.

10.3 Termination

In appropriate circumstances, we will terminate the account of a member who is a repeat infringer. Termination is a deliberate decision made by an administrator reviewing the member’s strike history — not an automatic consequence of hitting a number, and not something a member can trigger against a rival by filing complaints.

When an account is terminated for repeat infringement:

the account is disabled and can no longer sign in or be interacted with;
all of the member’s posts, including any live beat listings, are removed;
any live licensing Collabs sourced from those beats are cancelled and both parties notified, as described in Section 8; and
the termination, the reason, and the acting administrator are written to the moderation record with a repeat-infringer legal basis.

We may also terminate an account, remove content, or limit features outside this process — for example for a single egregious act of infringement, for a coordinated infringement scheme, for sample-clearance fraud, or for abusing the notice process itself.

Three strikes and the account is terminated. We may act sooner where the infringement is deliberate or large-scale — a member uploading a catalogue of other people’s work does not get two more chances — and we may act later where the picture is genuinely unclear. Three is the number we work to and apply consistently.

When a strike comes off. A strike is removed if the claimant retracts the notice, or if you file a counter-notification and the material is restored with no court action. Otherwise a strike ages off 12 months after the date it was recorded. Termination decisions consider only strikes that are live at the time.

10.4 Appeals and reinstatement

If your account was terminated and you believe that was a mistake, you may submit one written appeal from the screen shown when you sign in; tell us why the decision was wrong. You can also email copyright@kollabme.com with your username, the date of termination, and the reason you believe it was in error. We review the moderation record for your account and tell you the outcome in the app. Reinstatement is at our sole discretion, and we are not obligated to restore a terminated account or its content.

If your account is terminated, the files you uploaded are kept for 90 days so that a counter-notification or an appeal still has something to restore. Files are not deleted while an appeal is open or where a strike has been removed. After that period they are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

An appeal is not a substitute for a counter-notification. If you want specific material restored, file a counter-notification under Section 9.

11. Misrepresentation — 17 U.S.C. § 512(f)

This applies to both sides.

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages — including costs and attorneys’ fees — incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or authorized licensee, or by the service provider.

Both the takedown notice and the counter-notification also contain a statement made under penalty of perjury. A false sworn statement is a criminal matter, separate from any civil liability.

In plain terms:

Do not file a takedown notice on a beat you licensed to someone and now regret leasing, on a collaborator you are in a payment dispute with, on a competitor to knock their listing down, or on material you have not actually listened to. Consider fair use and consider whether you already authorized the use before you swear to your good-faith belief.
Do not file a counter-notification claiming mistake when you know you used someone else’s work without permission, or when your “license” does not cover what you did with it.

We may, in our discretion, refuse to process notices or counter-notifications from a person who has repeatedly submitted materially false ones, suspend the accounts of members who abuse this process, and share the record of those submissions with the affected party or with a court.

12. Music-specific rules

KollabMe is a music platform, and most copyright questions we see are music questions. This section states how we handle the common ones. None of it changes Section 2: we apply this policy, we do not decide who owns the underlying rights.

12.1 Uncleared samples and interpolations

When you upload a beat, track, stem, or any audio to KollabMe, you represent and warrant that you own or have cleared every element in it — including every sample, loop, interpolation, replayed melody, drum break, vocal chop, acapella, and any third-party sound recording or composition.

Producers posting a beat to the marketplace must affirmatively confirm at upload that they own or have licensed all rights to the beat, including any samples, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. That confirmation is a representation you are making to us and to every buyer.

A beat listing also asks whether the beat contains samples and whether they are cleared. Answer it truthfully. A beat containing a sample that is not cleared must not be listed for license. If a listing tells us, or we otherwise learn, that a sample in it is not cleared, we remove the listing under our Terms, and the producer can list it again once they hold written clearance. Disclosing an uncleared sample to buyers does not make it licensable.

Things to be clear about:

A sample pack license is not a clearance for a copyrighted record. Royalty- free packs cover the pack’s own content. They do not cover a chop of a commercially released song.
“I changed it enough” is not clearance. Neither is pitching it, chopping it, filtering it, or replaying it — an interpolation of a copyrighted composition still requires permission from the publisher, and a replayed part avoids the master claim but not the composition claim.
Two clearances, not one. A recorded sample usually implicates both the master recording and the underlying composition, which are frequently owned by different parties.
“Type beat” is a genre label, not a license. Naming a beat after an artist does not give you rights in that artist’s music, and may raise separate trademark and right-of-publicity issues (see Section 13).

A valid notice against a beat containing an uncleared sample is handled like any other takedown, including the license-cancellation consequences in Section 12.3. Selling a beat you know contains an uncleared sample is a serious violation of our Terms and can result in immediate termination independent of the strike process.

12.2 Beat licensing disputes

Beat licenses on KollabMe are negotiated between a producer and a buyer through the Collab flow and chat. KollabMe stores the record of what was agreed. That is the whole of our role.

We do not resolve disputes about license terms. Whether a lease was exclusive or non-exclusive, whether the stream cap was exceeded, whether the term expired, whether an exclusive was properly transferred, whether a beat should have been taken off the market after an exclusive sale, whether the buyer paid, whether the producer delivered the stems, what the split should be — all of that is between the producer and the buyer.

A contract dispute is not a DMCA claim. If you granted a license and the other party breached it, that is a breach-of-contract matter. Filing a takedown notice over it risks § 512(f) liability. We process every notice that substantially complies with § 512(c)(3); where a notice appears on its face to concern the terms of a license the claimant granted, we may ask the claimant to confirm that they have considered whether the use was authorized before we act.

We do act where the claim is genuine infringement — including where a producer sold an exclusive and the material is being used by someone with no license at all, or where a beat was uploaded by someone who never had rights in it.

What we can do, and will do on request from either party to a Collab, is confirm the record of what was exchanged through the Services — the messages, the terms recorded in the Collab, and the timestamps. That record is evidence for the parties or a court to use; it is not our ruling on who is right.

We will produce that record in response to valid legal process, or where both members consent. We do not hand one member the other’s messages on request alone — that record contains the other person’s words and contact details, and Section 12 of our Privacy Policy governs it.

12.3 What happens to a buyer’s license when the beat comes down

Read this before you buy or sell a beat on KollabMe.

If a beat is removed following a copyright notice, every licensing Collab that originated from it is cancelled. That includes requests that are pending, accepted, awaiting the completion handshake, and already delivered. Both the producer and the buyer receive a notification that the license was cancelled because the beat was removed.

What that means for each side:

Buyers. Your license through KollabMe ends. Stop using the beat. Continuing to release, distribute, or monetize a track built on removed material is your own exposure, and we cannot indemnify you against it. Any money you paid the producer is between you and the producer — see below.
Producers. A takedown that cancels your buyers’ licenses is a direct consequence of the ownership warranty you made at upload. You are responsible to your buyers for what you sold them.

KollabMe does not hold, process, or refund payments between members. Payments for beat licenses are arranged and made directly between the producer and the buyer, outside the Services. When a license is cancelled because the underlying beat was removed, our notification tells both parties to settle any payment directly with each other. We do not issue refunds, mediate refund demands, hold funds in escrow, or guarantee that a producer will pay a buyer back.

Restoration reinstates the cancelled licenses. If the beat is later restored, for example following a valid counter-notification, the Collabs we cancelled are reinstated and both parties are notified.

We do not process member payments, so we cannot issue or reverse a refund, and we do not decide who owes whom. Between the members: a producer who licensed material they had no right to license has breached the warranty in Section 27.2 of the Terms of Service, and the buyer’s remedy is against that producer. A producer who refuses to make it right may lose access to the Services — that is a decision about platform access, not a ruling on the debt.

12.4 Producer tags

A producer tag — the vocal or sonic signature dropped into a beat — is part of the producer’s uploaded work.

Do not remove, mask, edit around, or filter out another producer’s tag from a beat you did not create rights in. Doing so is both a violation of our Terms and strong evidence of deliberate infringement, and it may itself violate 17 U.S.C. § 1202 (removal of copyright management information).
Do not use another producer’s tag on your own work. Passing your beat off as another producer’s is impersonation under Section 13 and may infringe the recording of the tag itself.
Tagged previews are normal and expected. Producers commonly post tagged previews and deliver untagged files only on license. Whether an untagged version is included, and on what terms, is part of the deal between the producer and the buyer — it is not something KollabMe sets, verifies, or enforces.
If a buyer received untagged files and the license is later cancelled, the license to use those files ends with it. See Section 12.3.

Stripping a producer tag to use a beat is handled through the ordinary process in this policy — the material comes down on a valid notice and a strike attaches where Section 10.1 is met. It is not a separate, automatic termination offence. Where it is done at scale or to resell the work as your own, we treat it as deliberate infringement and may terminate immediately.

12.5 AI-generated content

AI tools are part of how music gets made now. KollabMe does not prohibit AI- assisted work. It does prohibit using AI to take someone else’s rights.

Disclose it. If a beat, track, vocal, image, or video you post to KollabMe was generated in whole or in substantial part by an AI tool, say so — in the listing description, and to any member you license it to or collaborate with before the deal is done. A buyer licensing a beat, and a collaborator agreeing to work with you, are entitled to know.

You still make the same warranty. Posting AI-assisted work does not lower the bar in Section 12.1. You represent that you have the rights to everything you post, including any material that went into generating it and any output that reproduces a protected work.

What is not allowed on KollabMe:

Voice cloning without consent. Do not post audio using an AI-generated or AI-converted imitation of a real, identifiable person’s voice — an artist, a member, or anyone else — without that person’s written permission. This is a right-of-publicity and, depending on the material, a copyright issue; either way it is a Terms violation and we will remove it.
Output that reproduces a protected work. An AI-generated stem that reproduces a recognizable portion of a copyrighted recording or composition is treated exactly like an uncleared sample.
Passing AI output off as another creator’s work, including using a real producer’s tag or name on AI-generated material.
AI-generated likenesses of a real person, including in cover art, avatars, or video, without permission.

Ownership of AI output is unsettled. Purely AI-generated material may not be protectable by copyright in the United States. That is a matter of law, not platform policy, and it may affect what you can license and what a takedown notice you file is worth. We do not advise members on it.

Reports of undisclosed AI content, AI voice cloning, or AI-generated likenesses go through the same in-app reporting flow. If the claim is about a real person’s voice or likeness rather than a copyrighted work, use Section 13.

How this is enforced. Every beat listing and portfolio track carries an AI-origin answer: All me, AI-assisted, or AI-generated. Buyers see it before they license. Set it accurately. A listing whose answer does not match the audio is removed, and the producer can list it again once the answer is corrected. Failing to disclose is a violation in itself — it does not become one only because someone complained.

12.6 Collaborators, stems, and shared works

The hardest cases on a collab platform are two members who both contributed to one work and now disagree.

If you and another member made something together and they posted it without your permission, understand what a DMCA notice can and cannot do. We will process a valid notice. We will not decide whether you are a co-author, what your split is, whether an oral agreement existed, or whether the session file makes you a co-owner. Under U.S. law a co-owner of a joint work generally may license the work non-exclusively without the other’s consent, subject to accounting — which means a notice filed by one collaborator against another can be legally wrong even when it feels unfair.

Put it in writing at the start. Agree the splits, the ownership, and who can post what, before the session — not after the song does numbers.

13. Trademark, name, image, likeness, and impersonation

The DMCA covers copyright only. For anything else, contact the same agent at copyright@kollabme.com with a clear description of your right and the material at issue.

Trademark — misuse of your name, logo, or brand as a mark. Tell us the mark, the registration number if you have one, the goods or services it covers, and where the misuse appears.
Name, image, likeness, and voice — use of your photo, your likeness, or an imitation of your voice, including AI-generated versions, without permission.
Impersonation — an account pretending to be you, your act, your studio, or your venue. This can also be reported in-app: open the profile, tap ⋯, then Report, and choose the impersonation reason.
Intimate images shared without consent — an intimate image or video of you, including one generated or altered by AI, posted without your consent. Report it in-app or email support@kollabme.com with the subject Intimate image removal; we remove it within 48 hours of a complete request. Section 30 of the Terms of Service describes the process.

We handle these under our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines rather than the DMCA. There is no counter-notification process and no 10-to-14-business-day restoration window for a non-copyright claim; removals and restorations are at our discretion.

14. Rightsholders outside the United States

Kollaborate Networks LLC is a U.S. company and this policy follows U.S. law. We accept notices from rightsholders anywhere. If you are outside the United States, send your notice to the Designated Copyright Agent with all six elements in Section 6 — the elements do not change.

If you file a counter-notification from outside the United States, § 512(g)(3)(D) requires you to consent to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which Kollaborate Networks LLC may be found. See Section 9.2.

Notices from outside the United States. We will consider a well-founded infringement complaint from any jurisdiction. The DMCA process in this policy is the formal route, and it is the one that carries the counter-notification and restoration rights described in Section 9, so we ask that non-US rightsholders use it as well.

15. Records, privacy, and transparency

Your notice is not anonymous. By filing a copyright notice or a counter-notification, you acknowledge that we may provide a copy of it — including your name, email address, and any other information you include — to the other party, and to their counsel. Forwarding a counter-notification to the claimant, including the sender’s name, address, and telephone number, is required by the DMCA.

We keep the record. We retain notices, counter-notifications, and our moderation record of takedowns, restorations, strikes, and terminations. We keep them for as long as needed to administer the repeat-infringer policy, to support restoration and appeal, and to comply with our legal obligations. Handling of personal information is described in the KollabMe Privacy Policy.

We may disclose when legally required. We may disclose notices, account information, and moderation records in response to valid legal process, or where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, the rights of members, or the safety of others.

We do not currently publish copies of notices to the Lumen database or issue a periodic transparency report. If that changes we will say so here before we begin.

16. Minors

KollabMe is available to members aged 17 and older. Members under the age of 18 (or the age of majority where they live) may use the Services only with the consent and involvement of a parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for the minor’s activity on the Services, including anything they upload and any agreement they enter with another member.

A copyright notice or counter-notification is a sworn legal filing. If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must file it on your behalf and must provide their own contact information and signature. A counter-notification also consents to federal court jurisdiction, which a minor generally cannot do alone.

17. Relationship to our other terms

This policy is incorporated into and forms part of the KollabMe Terms of Service, and should be read together with the Community Guidelines and the Privacy Policy. Where this policy and another KollabMe document address the same copyright subject, this policy controls on copyright matters.

Nothing in this policy limits any right or remedy available to Kollaborate Networks LLC, including our right to remove content, suspend features, or terminate an account for any violation of the Terms of Service, with or without a copyright notice.

Nothing in this policy is a waiver of any protection available to Kollaborate Networks LLC, including the safe harbors of 17 U.S.C. § 512 and the protections of 47 U.S.C. § 230.

Governing law and disputes. This policy is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes between you and Kollaborate Networks LLC are subject to the dispute-resolution provisions of the Terms of Service, which provide for binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association seated in Fayette County, Kentucky, include a class-action waiver, and require any claim to be brought within one year of when it arose. Those provisions govern disputes with us; they do not govern a copyright dispute between you and another member, or the federal-court consent you give in a counter-notification under Section 9.2.

Disputes between members — including every beat license, collaboration, split, and payment dispute — are solely between the members involved. KollabMe has no obligation to mediate, arbitrate, refund, or resolve them.

18. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top and post the revised policy in the app and on our website. Material changes will be communicated through the Services. Continued use of the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated policy.

The current version of this policy is always available in the app under Copyright & DMCA, reachable without signing in, and at https://kollabme-legal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/KollabMe+-+Copyright+and+DMCA+Policy.pdf.

19. Contact summary

Purpose	Contact
Copyright notices and counter-notifications	copyright@kollabme.com — subject `DMCA Copyright Notice` or `DMCA Counter-Notification`
Designated Copyright Agent (mail)	Kollaborate Networks LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, 2321 Sir Barton Way, Suite 140 #1148, Lexington, KY 40509, United States
Copyright phone	(859) 710-6927
Trademark, likeness, impersonation	copyright@kollabme.com
Everything else	support@kollabme.com
Fastest route for a post or beat	In-app: ⋯ → Report → Copyright / IP

This policy summarizes how to send Kollaborate Networks LLC a copyright notice and how the notice-and-takedown process works on KollabMe. It is not legal advice. Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a notice or a counter-notification may expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). If you are unsure of your rights, consult an attorney.