Terms of use.

About these terms

CopyCat is run by [the operator's legal name and address]. These terms are an agreement between you and CopyCat. By using CopyCat (the website, the dashboard, the OBS dock or the overlay) you agree to them.

How CopyCat handles personal information is in the privacy policy.

What CopyCat is

CopyCat reads tagged donation messages aloud on live streams in cloned voices of people who agreed to it. A donor starts their message with a voice tag like [nova], and the streamer's overlay plays it in that voice, with an AI-voice label.

• Invite-only for now. Accounts come from invite links, as a free trial for a set number of days or a complimentary account. CopyCat doesn't take payments yet.
• When a trial ends, the account moves to a free tier. What the free tier includes is still being decided and will be set out here.
• Paid plans will come later, with their own terms and prices shown before you're ever charged.
• CopyCat is new and changing. Features may be added, changed or removed.

Your account

• You log in with your Kick account. One CopyCat account per person.
• Keep your Kick account secure. You're responsible for what's done with your login.
• Only use log in with a code with a code shown on your own screen. Entering a code someone sent you logs them in as you.
• If you think someone else got into your account, log out everywhere you can and email CopyCat.
• You must be at least 13, or older if that's the minimum age for an online account where you live (it's 16 in some countries). Logging in with Kick also means meeting Kick's own minimum age.

Your channel and team

• A channel's owner can invite admins and moderators. Each logs in with their own account and joins only by accepting the invitation.
• You're responsible for who you invite and for what they do on your channel. Every action is recorded in the channel's activity log.
• Only connect donation accounts (Streamlabs, StreamElements, Kick) that you control.

Voices and consent

A cloned voice belongs to a real person. CopyCat only works with their consent.

• Only add or share a voice if the speaker has agreed to it being used that way. If you share it, you're confirming that they have.
• The speaker must be 18 or older. Voices of people under 18 can't be added or shared on CopyCat, even with a parent's permission. A voice found to belong to someone under 18 is taken down.
• Making a voice available to anyone on CopyCat needs the speaker's consent recorded first.
• A voice's owner decides which channels can use it, and can take it away from any channel at once.
• CopyCat can take any voice down everywhere at any time, for example after a takedown report.
• If your voice is on CopyCat without your permission, request a takedown.

The AI-voice label

Every message read in a cloned voice shows an AI voice label on the overlay. It's on for every channel by default.

A channel's owner or team can turn it off for their channel. If you do, you're responsible for making sure viewers aren't misled into thinking the real person said those words, and for following your streaming platform's rules on AI content.

What isn't allowed

Don't use CopyCat to:

• use a voice without the speaker's consent
• impersonate someone, or make it look like a real person said something in order to deceive or defraud anyone
• harass, threaten or bully anyone, or spread hateful content
• do anything illegal where you or the people involved are
• get around a takedown, a block or a voice being taken away, for example by adding the same voice again
• break or probe CopyCat's security, overload it, or use someone else's account

Streams and donations

• Streamers are adults responsible for their own streams and for their platforms' rules.
• Word filters and the character limit help, but they're the streamer's choice, and CopyCat doesn't check messages by hand before they're read.
• CopyCat never handles money. Tips go through the streamer's donation platform, and refunds are between the donor, the streamer and that platform.
• A message can arrive late, or be shown as text when its voice can't be ready in time. Nothing is guaranteed to be read aloud.

Takedowns and suspension

To protect people, CopyCat can take a voice down, take a voice away from a channel, or suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. CopyCat will usually say why, unless that would put someone at risk or break the law.

Anyone can report a voice used without permission on the takedown page.

Who owns what

• You keep the rights you have in what you add, such as voice recordings and your filter lists.
• You give CopyCat permission to store and use them only to run CopyCat for you and the channels you choose.
• CopyCat's software, name and cat logo belong to CopyCat.
• CopyCat makes no claim to the audio it generates, and won't act against anyone for using it outside a stream. The speaker's rights in their own voice still apply, so use it in ways they'd agree to.

The service as it is

CopyCat is an early, invite-only service. It may have outages, and it's provided as it is, without promises that it will always be available or free of mistakes.

[Disclaimers and limits of liability, for a lawyer to write.]

Leaving CopyCat

• You can stop using CopyCat at any time. Disconnect your donation accounts from the dashboard, and email CopyCat to have your account deleted.
• When an account is deleted, the voices it owned are taken down everywhere. They're never handed to anyone else.

Changes and the law

These terms will change as CopyCat grows. The date at the top shows the latest version, and account holders will be told about important changes before they take effect.

Governing law and where disputes are handled: [to be decided].

Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@copycat.expert.

Help using CopyCat: help@copycat.expert.

Reporting a voice: the takedown page.