Terms & Content Rules

1. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 16 and legally able to accept these terms.
• Use accurate account and release information and keep access to your sign-in method secure.
• One person may operate different original AI artist names, but must not impersonate real people or mislead listeners about identity or ownership.
• You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless you report unauthorised access promptly.

2. What may be uploaded

OUTERLIGHT is for original AI-created or AI-assisted music that the uploader is legally allowed to distribute. You must own, control or otherwise have sufficient permission or licence to distribute the audio, lyrics, artwork, samples, voices and other submitted material through OUTERLIGHT.

Do not upload:

• copied or unlicensed music, samples, lyrics, artwork or recordings;
• an unauthorised clone or impersonation of a real person’s voice or identity;
• material that falsely claims to be by, endorsed by or connected with another artist or organisation;
• illegal, exploitative, hateful, threatening, deceptive or child-endangering content;
• malware, hidden executable content, corrupted files or anything intended to damage or bypass the service;
• spam, duplicate flooding or content submitted to manipulate streams, charts, recommendations or moderation.

Explicit content must be marked accurately. OUTERLIGHT may apply age or visibility controls and may reject content that creates an unacceptable safety or legal risk.

3. Your ownership and platform licence

You keep ownership of your eligible content. By submitting a release, you give OUTERLIGHT a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process, encode, stream, display and promote that release only as necessary to operate and present the OUTERLIGHT service.

The licence ends when the release is removed from the service, except to the limited extent copies must temporarily remain in backups, security systems, moderation records or records required by law. Such retained copies will not remain publicly available solely because they are retained.

You confirm that the submission is truthful, that you have the required rights and that OUTERLIGHT can rely on those confirmations during review.

4. Platform revenue and possible future creator payments

There is currently no creator-payment or royalty programme, and the initial public launch will not automatically create one. Introducing subscriptions, upload fees, advertising or another source of platform revenue would not by itself give creators a right to payment.

OUTERLIGHT currently covers the costs of building the music library and operating the free beta. If storage, streaming, security, moderation, development or other operating costs become too high to continue on that basis, OUTERLIGHT may introduce reasonable upload fees, subscriptions, usage limits or other paid plans. Any charge would be explained before it starts, would apply only from a future date and would require the affected user to accept it before being charged. OUTERLIGHT will never charge users retroactively for earlier free-beta use.

Until OUTERLIGHT clearly announces that a separate creator-payment programme has begun, any platform revenue belongs to OUTERLIGHT. It may be used for taxes, payment-processing fees, infrastructure, storage, security, moderation, development, reserves, operation of the service and reasonable operator compensation.

OUTERLIGHT may introduce a creator-payment programme only if it decides that doing so is financially sustainable. Any such programme would use separate terms, would apply only from its announced start date and would not pay for earlier streams. OUTERLIGHT does not promise that such a programme will be introduced.

5. Review, reports and moderation

• OUTERLIGHT keeps a pre-publication review process. Releases may also be checked before or after publication using automated rules, technical detection tools and/or human review.
• These checks may help identify suspected copyright infringement, impersonation, prohibited content, manipulation, security risks or other policy violations.
• Users and rights holders can report a specific release through OUTERLIGHT Support for copyright, impersonation, illegal content, safety concerns, misleading information or another policy violation.
• A reported or automatically flagged release may be temporarily hidden while it is reviewed. A flag or report does not automatically prove wrongdoing or result in punishment.
• OUTERLIGHT may approve, reject, restrict, hide or remove content and may suspend an account where reasonably necessary to protect users, rights holders or the service.
• Where reasonably practicable and legally permitted, OUTERLIGHT will tell the affected creator the main reason for a restriction or account action and explain any available way to contest it through OUTERLIGHT Support.

6. Fair listening

Do not use bots, automated browsers, emulators, click farms, proxy rotation, coordinated accounts, forced loops, playlist stuffing or other methods to create artificial plays or engagement. Suspicious activity may be held for review and excluded from public totals. Network similarity alone is not treated as proof of abuse.

7. Beta availability

OUTERLIGHT is under active development. Features may change, pause or be removed, and the service may occasionally be unavailable. Offline files can become unavailable when rights, accounts or releases change. Creators should retain their own original copies of music, artwork and other submitted material.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, OUTERLIGHT is not responsible for losses caused solely by temporary service interruptions, beta software errors, loss of non-essential statistics or removal of beta features. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or consumer rights that cannot legally be excluded.

8. Ending use and deleting an account

You may stop using OUTERLIGHT at any time and may request permanent account deletion through the app or the Account Deletion page. Associated releases are removed from public access. Limited information may temporarily remain where necessary for security, fraud or abuse prevention, moderation disputes, legal obligations or backups.

OUTERLIGHT may restrict or close an account for serious or repeated violations, security threats or legal requirements.

9. Responsibility and applicable law

You are responsible for your uploads, rights confirmations and use of the service. Nothing in these terms removes consumer rights or other protections that cannot legally be excluded. These terms are governed by Dutch law, without taking away mandatory rights you may have under the law where you live.

10. Operator, contact and changes

Questions, rights concerns and appeals can be submitted through OUTERLIGHT Support or sent to [email protected]. Material changes will receive a new effective date and, where appropriate, an in-app notice.

OUTERLIGHT is currently operated by Jan Jacobs in the Netherlands as an individual free-beta project. OUTERLIGHT is not currently registered as a business and therefore does not yet have a KVK or VAT number. Registration and business contact details will be added before commercial operation begins where they are legally required.