Saying Our New Creator Coverage Engagement Program

Replace: A whole lot of creators shared their enter with the Coverage Staff, and Patreon’s up to date tips at the moment are dwell. You’ll discover among the workforce’s key learnings, knowledgeable by this suggestions, additional down on this put up.

Creators, through the years we’ve heard a number of suggestions from you about Patreon’s person tips and insurance policies. We all the time try to be creator-first in our selections and right this moment, we’re excited to announce a brand new Creator Coverage Engagement Program to construct further belief and transparency in our policymaking.

The purpose of our new Creator Coverage Engagement Program is to make sure Patreon’s insurance policies are clear, simple to grasp, and developed with transparency and inclusivity. This system will embrace quarterly livestreams with our Coverage Staff the place you will get to know the folks behind the insurance policies, ask questions, and share suggestions. It is going to additionally embrace a devoted channel on our Discord server to work together with our Coverage Staff at any time. By these channels, creators can present commentary and suggestions round future quarterly coverage updates, as we goal to create an open dialogue with you to make sure our insurance policies are creator-friendly and our decision-making course of is clear.

To kick off this system, we invite creators to have interaction immediately with Patreon’s Coverage Staff as we refine our tips across the following subjects:

Teen Creators: Creativity doesn’t begin if you flip 18, and teenage creators are rapidly discovering that Patreon is one of the best platform to attach with their followers. As extra teen creators be a part of Patreon, we’ll proceed to guard them. This replace will preserve youthful creators protected by disallowing any energetic solicitation, grooming, or exploitation of a teen creator for sexual functions.

Well being, Hygiene, and Consumables: We’ll make clear our consumables language to particularly disallow merchandise made for ingestion (meals, liquids, medicines, and dietary supplements) whereas permitting for lotions, perfumes, and different sorts of topicals which can be made to be utilized exterior of the physique.

18+ Creations (Mature Themes): We wish to give creators better readability round works we view as containing mature themes for the needs of being labeled “Patron-only,” versus works that may be made accessible to all audiences. This proposed replace would additionally make clear that non-explicit again nudity is allowed, together with sure non-sexualized nudity within the type of classical art work and well being training.

Merchandise Trademark and Copyright: This coverage will particularly define the sorts of IP that creators can embrace on merchandise produced by means of Patreon. We initially launched this coverage language in a assist middle article, and are planning to include it into our tips with this replace.

Harmful Organizations (Felony Pasts): No person’s excellent, and we all know that some folks have been on the unsuitable aspect of the regulation. Going ahead, we are going to specify that people with a legal file who’ve served restitution are allowed to share their works on Patreon, so long as they don’t create campaigns tied to the exercise for which they have been convicted. All insurance policies will proceed to stop violent and harmful terrorist teams from creating on Patreon.

We invite you to affix us on Thursday, April 22 for a dwell Q&A with the Coverage Staff or join workplace hours with our Head of Creator Coverage Engagement. You may also electronic mail CreatorPolicy@Patreon.com to share your suggestions on these proposed coverage updates, be a part of a future creator-policy roundtable, or be added to our subsequent coverage occasion checklist. We plan to finalize and implement these coverage updates into our Neighborhood Tips on Could 12, 2021.

Our Coverage Staff is dedicated to empowering creators to achieve new audiences with their work by means of Patreon. We hope our Creator Coverage Engagement Program will present the readability and transparency that creators deserve. We look ahead to participating with you within the weeks forward as we proceed to construct a protected and inclusive platform to energy the creator financial system collectively!