These Terms govern your use of icreate (the "Platform"). By creating an account, subscribing, or publishing, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Platform.
1. Eligibility & accounts
You must be at least 13 years old to use icreate. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for any activity on your account. You may use a handle that does not match your legal name; see the Privacy Policy for how pseudonymous accounts work.
2. The Service
icreate is a directly-funded audio publishing platform. Creators upload audio posts; listeners subscribe to individual creators via monthly slot allocations; creators are paid monthly. The Platform does not run ads inside audio streams, does not optimize for watch-time, and does not personalize discovery based on opaque behavioral inference.
3. Subscriptions, slots, and payment
Creators
A Creator subscription is $5.56 per month, billed monthly, and gives you the ability to upload audio posts and accept slot allocations from listeners.
Listeners
A Listener subscription consists of two recurring charges plus a one-time setup fee at signup:
- Platform access — $1.30 per month (or $7.78 every six months / $15.56 per year). Funds storage, streaming, AI inference, and operations.
- Creator follows — $1.15 per month per creator you follow. A mandatory minimum of two creator follows applies at signup, so the smallest listener bill is $1.30 + ($1.15 × 2) = $3.60/month recurring. AI-disclosed creator tiers, when live, are offered at a discounted per-follow rate.
- One-time transaction fee — a separate $0.31 line item is attached to the first Stripe Checkout to cover Stripe's per-transaction fixed fee. Renewals do not repeat it.
How a creator follow pays the creator
Of every $1.15 you pay for a creator follow, $1.00 funds the creator directly, $0.10 funds the creator's affiliate referrer (if any), and $0.05 funds the Tip Jar. Creator payouts are made monthly via Stripe Connect. The per-follower storage deduction previously applied at payout time is retired as of June 15, 2026; creators now receive their full share. AI-disclosed creator follows, when live, split similarly with a smaller per-follow amount.
Dynamic Free Access Pass — Section 2.AA
Unsubscribed visitors (new listeners) are granted a mechanical data pass consisting of one (1) hour of total cumulative playtime OR one (1) full content episode per individual creator, whichever metric is greater. Upon exhaustion of this consumption metric, the Platform's automated billing system will restrict further access to that specific creator's library; no further media playback, transcript access, or interactions will be permitted until a valid subscription tier is established for that creator.
4. Cancellation & the 30-day creator notice period
You may cancel any slot or your entire listener subscription anytime from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle — for the remainder of that cycle the creator continues to receive their $1.00 share, and your access continues. This is a deliberate design choice: it guarantees creators a predictable month of income after a listener departs and eliminates incentives to optimize for retention through dark patterns.
Slots that are mid-cycle when you cancel enter a "notice period" state. At the end of that period the slot ends, no further charges accrue, and the creator's share for the closed cycle is included in their next monthly payout. See the Refund Policy for refund eligibility.
4.Z Platform Removal and Prorated Billing Credit
- Allocation of Leftover Balances. In the event that your subscription to an individual creator is terminated or revoked mid-billing cycle — whether by the creator via the dashboard or due to automated conversational escalations — you will not receive a cash or credit-card refund.
- Automatic Prorated Deduction. The Platform's automated billing architecture will calculate the exact monetary value of the remaining unconsumed days in that billing cycle. This calculated amount will be automatically converted into an internal Platform Credit.
- Application to Next Invoice. This credit will be applied directly to your next master billing cycle invoice, reducing the total amount owed for your ongoing subscription packages.
- Non-Transferability. Platform Credits hold no real-world cash value, cannot be withdrawn to a bank account or credit card, and are entirely non-transferable. Credits are forfeited if the master account is terminated for systemic Platform policy violations.
4.5 Intellectual Property & DMCA Policy
User Warranties. By uploading, submitting, or distributing audio, video, text, or metadata (including transcripts) to or through the Service, you affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or possess the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to utilize and authorize the Platform to use all copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights in and to your submission.
Designated DMCA Agent. If you are a copyright owner or an authorized agent thereof and believe that any content hosted on our Service infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Designated Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) for further detail):
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material (specifically requiring the exact URL or URLs of the content);
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
- 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; and
- 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.
Our Designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is:
Attn: Copyright Compliance Agent
Email: copyright@iamaudio.blog (or copyright@iamvideo.blog, as applicable)
Address: on file with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory.
Takedown and Counter-Notification Process. Upon receipt of a valid, structurally compliant DMCA notice, the Platform will expeditiously remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and notify the uploading user. If you are a user whose content was removed and you believe the removal was a result of mistake, misidentification, or falls under statutory Fair Use, you may submit a written Counter-Notification to our Designated Agent containing: (i) your physical or electronic signature; (ii) identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled (the exact URL); (iii) a statement under penalty of perjury that you 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; and (iv) your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if you are located outside of the United States, the Federal District Court for the Eastern, Middle, or Western District of North Carolina, as applicable), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of such person.
If a valid Counter-Notification is received, the Platform will forward it to the original complaining party. Pursuant to federal law, the Platform will restore the disabled content within 10 to 14 business days following receipt of the Counter-Notification, unless our Designated Agent receives formal notice that the original complaining party has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the user from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the Platform.
Repeat Infringer Policy. In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable laws, the Platform maintains a strict policy terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at the Platform's sole discretion, the accounts of users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. The Platform may also, at its sole discretion, limit access to the Service and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
5. Content ownership & license
You retain all rights to content you upload. You grant the Platform a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, stream, transcode, transcribe, cache, and display your content for the purpose of operating the Service. You may delete any of your content at any time; doing so terminates the license for that content.
6. Acceptable use
You agree not to upload content that is unlawful, infringes others' rights, contains child sexual abuse material, incites violence, constitutes targeted harassment, or otherwise violates applicable law. We may remove content that violates these standards.
7. Termination
You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or place the Platform or its users at material risk. Where suspension is for a safety-rule violation, you will receive notice and a path to dispute the decision.
8. Declaration of Content Independence — Common Carrier Defense
Where icreate facilitates direct relationships between independent businesses and creators (for example, any future advertiser marketplace), the Platform operates as a common carrier and conduit only. Specifically:
8.1 No third-party indemnification
The Platform holds zero liability, financial responsibility, or operational oversight for the execution, payment, performance, or failure of any brand deal, sponsorship, or commercial agreement brokered between a Creator and an external party. Disputes between a Creator and a sponsor must be resolved between those parties.
8.2 Anti-interference guarantee
The Platform's discovery and matchmaking systems are blind to any advertising or sponsorship relationship a Creator may have. A Creator with a million-dollar brand deal receives the exact same algorithmic treatment as a Creator with no commercial partnerships.
8.3 Non-modification clause
Creators may not be required, by the Platform or by any commercial counterparty operating within the Platform, to alter their pedagogical rigor, soften their critiques, or modify their independent perspective to accommodate advertiser sensibilities. Advertisers purchase co-presence with independent creators as-is and hold zero editorial power.
9. Editorial sovereignty
Content formatting and algorithmic matchmaking weights are entirely insulated from advertiser or sponsor preferences. The Platform's default position in any external brand dispute is solidarity with the Creator:
- We will not entertain corporate grievances regarding a Creator's independent thought, framing, or opinions.
- We will not review, pause, or investigate a Creator based on outside advertiser pressure unless the complainant proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the Creator has violated explicitly documented community safety rules.
- If a brand alleges that a Creator's nuanced critique or personal opinion "hurts their brand image," we will dismiss the complaint under this provision. Advertisers enter the ecosystem with the clear understanding that they are buying space next to independent minds, not corporate puppets.
10. Direct relationship recourse
Because brand partnerships are negotiated directly and exclusively between an independent business and a Creator, the Platform recognizes only one legitimate recourse for an advertiser who no longer wishes to support a channel: terminate the direct contract with that Creator. The Platform will not act as intermediary, arbitrator, or censor on behalf of corporate entities. Pulling funding is a legitimate business decision; it carries zero standing to impact the Creator's status, monetization, reach, or algorithmic distribution platform-wide.
11. Disclaimers & limitation of liability
The Platform is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for any loss of profits, goodwill, data, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service.
12. Changes
We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced via email or in-app notice. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in North Carolina.