Saying Our New Creator Coverage Engagement Program

Replace: A whole lot of creators shared their enter with the Coverage Workforce, and Patreon’s up to date pointers are actually reside. You’ll discover a number of the staff’s key learnings, knowledgeable by this suggestions, additional down on this submit.

Creators, through the years we’ve heard numerous suggestions from you about Patreon’s person pointers and insurance policies. We at all times try to be creator-first in our choices and right this moment, we’re excited to announce a brand new Creator Coverage Engagement Program to construct extra belief and transparency in our policymaking.

The aim of our new Creator Coverage Engagement Program is to make sure Patreon’s insurance policies are clear, straightforward to know, and developed with transparency and inclusivity. This system will embrace quarterly livestreams with our Coverage Workforce the place you may get to know the individuals 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 Workforce at any time. By way of 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 interact immediately with Patreon’s Coverage Workforce as we refine our pointers across the following subjects:

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

Well being, Hygiene, and Consumables: We are going to 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 varieties of topicals which are made to be utilized outdoors of the physique.

18+ Creations (Mature Themes): We need to give creators higher 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 schooling.

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

Harmful Organizations (Felony Pasts): No person’s excellent, and we all know that some individuals have been on the flawed facet of the legislation. Going ahead, we are going to specify that people with a prison 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 hitch us on Thursday, April 22 for a reside Q&A with the Coverage Workforce or join workplace hours with our Head of Creator Coverage Engagement. It’s also possible to e mail CreatorPolicy@Patreon.com to share your suggestions on these proposed coverage updates, be 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 Might 12, 2021.

Our Coverage Workforce is dedicated to empowering creators to succeed in new audiences with their work via Patreon. We hope our Creator Coverage Engagement Program will present the readability and transparency that creators deserve. We stay up for participating with you within the weeks forward as we proceed to construct a protected and inclusive platform to energy the creator financial system collectively!