Metalabel is building a new creative era alongside artists, creators, and collectors to release and support the world we want to see. We provide a platform where creative people can come together to release work, collaborate, and support one another, and where we can all be part of something bigger than just us on our own.
To maintain this space, we have community guidelines that set expectations for what it means to be part of Metalabel.
Core Values
We built Metalabel with a few key ideals in mind:
A creative space: We exist to celebrate and support creative expression across many mediums and forms. We’re not here to be another Amazon or shopping mall. We exist to support creative work.
Mutual support: We believe creative people are stronger together than alone. This support can come from peer creators, or from the collectors and wider scene that supports you. We don’t exclusively support people who are releasing together, but we strongly believe its positive effects.
Context is queen: Context is what creates value for a creative work. Who made it, why, and how are all reasons to care more deeply about somerthing. We provide space to celebrate the context just as much as the work itself if the artist desires.
Transparent economics: Too many artists are taken advantage of with opaque economics. We provide tools that allow artists and creative people to transparently budget, split, and create royalties from their work without the need of external structures.
The power of creativity: We never underestimate the power of creativity. Creativity changes minds, changes lives, changes the world. We operate from a place of deep respect for the creative forces that shape us.
Community guidelines
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Respect & support
- Treat all community members with respect
- Be responsive to collector communications
- Celebrate others' successes
- No harassment, hate speech, or discriminatory behavior
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Fair collaboration
- Be transparent about collaboration terms upfront
- Honor commitments to collaborators in a timely manner
- Credit contributors appropriately
- Use split agreements to ensure fair compensation
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Quality standards
- Take care in presenting your work
- Provide meaningful context and documentation
- Ensure quality in all deliverables to collectors
- Follow through on promised rewards
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Platform usage
- No spam or misleading promotions
- Don't manipulate platform metrics
- Keep private communications private
- Follow release guidelines
Release guidelines
Eligibility requirements
To release work on Metalabel, creators must:
- Complete their profile with accurate information
- Create a Stripe creator account
- Agree to community guidelines
- Promise to fulfill deliverables and rewards
- Have rights to the work they plan to release
Release requirements
Metalabel is a space dedicated to releasing and collecting creative work. We review the first release from any new creator to ensure their work amplifies and contributes to the spirit and purpose of our space.
Our release criteria:
- Creative releases that fit at least one of our creative categories.
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Creative releases that meet Metalabel’s standards, defined as:
- Clear and accurate descriptions
- Clear terms for collectors
- Releasing and supporting a creative piece of work
- Creative work you have the right release and sell
- Respectful of our creative ecosystem
Common reasons for decline:
- General business offerings or services rather than creative work (more below)
- Offers a prohibited or illegal item
- Contains hate speech or seeks to invoke violence against others
- Anything we feel may detract from the overall value of the platform and community (joke/parody content, unrealistic or excessively poor uses of our tool etc)
General business offerings or services
Metalabel exists to release creative work, not to become another Amazon or startup launchpad. While we celebrate creative entrepreneurs, we're not the right home for:
- Standard consumer products without a distinct creative vision or artistic purpose
- Generic services that could be found on Fiverr or Upwork
- Fundraising for conventional business operations
- B2B offerings or professional services disconnected from creative output
- Marketing campaigns masquerading as creative projects
Instead, we focus on releases that manifest a creative worldview, whether through art, music, writing, film, design, or other forms of cultural expression. The line can sometimes blur — we understand many creators run businesses — but the primary purpose of a Metalabel release should be creative expression.
Review process
The last step before a creator publishes their first release on Metalabel is to share it with us for review. During this time our team looks at each release with the criteria above in mind.
We get back to most applicants quickly, and all within 24 hours except weekends.
We notify people via email if their project has been accepted or rejected. We retain the right to remove releases published after the initial review process that do not meet the criteria above.
Reporting
The spirit of these guidelines is to foster a thriving creative community while maintaining high standards. They should be interpreted in service of that goal.
If you encounter a release that you believe violates these guidelines, please report it to hello@metalabel.com.
Metalabel reviews reports on a case-by-case basis. Releases that do not meet our guidelines may be hidden from discovery, or—if illicit, harmful, illegal, or fraudulent—removed from the platform and made unavailable for purchase.