Acceptable Use & Copyright

Last updated 1 August 2026

Bright Side is a positivity-first platform. That is not decoration — it is the product, and it is the standard this policy holds you to. Below: what you may not broadcast, and how copyright complaints work in both directions.

1. What you may not do

Do not use Bright Side to:

• Break the law, or help anyone else break it.
• Broadcast content that sexualises children, in any form. This is the one thing we report to the authorities rather than merely remove.
• Harass, threaten, stalk or incite violence against anyone, or organise others to do so.
• Publish hate speech targeting people for race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.
• Record or broadcast someone without the consent the law where they are requires — see recording other people.
• Share someone's private information without permission, including addresses, phone numbers and documents.
• Stream content you have no right to stream — films, television, sport, or music you are not licensed for.
• Impersonate another person or organisation, or misrepresent your affiliation with one.
• Spread deliberate falsehoods about elections, or medical misinformation likely to cause physical harm.
• Run scams, phishing, pyramid or investment fraud.
• Distribute malware, or attack the service — scraping, credential stuffing, denial of service, probing for vulnerabilities, or working around usage limits.
• Resell studio access, or share one login among several people in place of team seats.

2. Music and third-party content

Music is the most common way a good show gets a strike, so it is worth stating plainly: a licence to listen is not a licence to broadcast. A personal streaming subscription does not give you the right to play music in your show, and there is no exemption for short clips, for crediting the artist, or for saying "no copyright intended".

The consequences land on you rather than on us — a muted stream, a claimed video, or a strike on your own channel. Use music you have licensed for broadcast, music that is genuinely licence-free, or the sound effects and intro music we provide.

3. Backdrops, sounds and studio assets

Your plan lets you use the backdrops, sound effects and intro music we supply inside productions you make with Bright Side, including ones you monetise.

It does not let you extract, redistribute, resell or relicense them as standalone assets, or use them outside Bright Side productions.

4. How we enforce this

Depending on what happened and whether it repeats, we may remove content, end a live show, suspend an account, or close one.

Except where the breach is serious — anything illegal, anything harming people, or an attack on the service, where we act immediately — we will tell you what the problem is and give you a chance to fix it. If you think we got it wrong, reply and say so. We would rather reverse a bad call than defend one.

5. Reporting copyright infringement

If you own a copyright and believe something here infringes it, send a notice to our designated agent containing all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you are complaining about, with enough detail — a URL is best — for us to find it.
4. Your address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

We act on complete notices promptly and tell the person who posted the material that we have done so.

Please do not send a notice for material you do not own or are not authorised to act for. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), knowingly misrepresenting that something infringes can make you liable for damages, including legal costs.

6. Filing a counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or that the use was authorised, you may send a counter-notice containing:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material and where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number.
5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district — or, if you are outside the United States, any district where we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the complainant.

We forward valid counter-notices to the original complainant. If they do not file a court action within 10 to 14 business days, we may restore the material.

7. Repeat infringers

We close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, as the law requires. Notices that we act on are recorded against the account. Notices withdrawn by the complainant, or successfully answered by a counter-notice, do not count.

8. Reporting anything else

To report abuse, harassment, or anything on this page that is not a copyright matter, email support@brightsidestreams.com. Tell us what you saw and where, and we will look at it.

If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. We are not an emergency service and cannot act at that speed.