Acceptable Use Policy

Prohibited uses

You may not use SubLive to:

• Record or transcribe a conversation covertly, where participants have not been informed and applicable law requires that they are.
• Monitor or surveil individuals, including employees, without a lawful basis and appropriate notice.
• Process conversations you are not a party to and have no authorisation to process.
• Attempt to identify speakers by their voice, or build voiceprints from output.
• Circumvent minute-balance limits, resell access, or run the service on behalf of third parties without an agreement with us.
• Republish, sell or otherwise distribute transcripts, translations or summaries of material whose rights belong to somebody else.
• Use SubLive as part of an attempt to defeat technical protection on content. It does not do that, and building it into such an attempt breaches this policy.
• Process content that is unlawful in the jurisdiction where you operate.

Streams, lectures and other people's material

SubLive subtitles whatever audio your browser is already playing. Some of that is a conversation you are taking part in — that is the consent question, and it has its own page. The rest is somebody's work: a lecture, a broadcast, a film, a podcast, a paid course.

For that second kind the rule is short. What SubLive produces is there so that you can understand what you are watching. It is not a licence to the material: rights in the speech, in the recording and in the translation made from it do not move to you because a machine wrote it down.

So keep it, search it, study from it. Do not publish it, do not sell it, and do not use it to reconstruct a paid course or a subscription broadcast for other people.

Platforms add their own rules on top of the law, and some of them forbid any reproduction of their material at all. Those rules are between you and the platform. We cannot waive them and do not try to.

Where content is protected technically, SubLive is not handed usable audio and makes no attempt to obtain it. If it does not start on a site, that is usually the reason — and it is not a defect we intend to fix.

Interviews, workplaces and other imbalanced situations

People use subtitles to follow a job interview or a work meeting in a language they are still learning, and that is a use we built for. It also happens to be the setting where the other side has the least practical ability to object, so two things are not negotiable.

Do not use SubLive to build a record of what someone said in order to use it against them. Turn transcript saving off — it is off by default — unless you have a reason to keep the text and the other participants know that you are.

If you are an employer, a recruiter or anyone else with authority over the other participants, telling them afterwards is not consent. Neither is a line in a policy they never read. Ask, before the conversation starts.

Enforcement

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this policy. Where we are legally obliged to report something, we will.

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