Eternie Labs. UGC Guidelines

This English translation is provided for reference only. In the event of any discrepancy between the translated text and the original Japanese Guidelines, the Japanese version shall prevail.

About UGC Guidelines

The "UGC Guidelines" outline the criteria that User-Generated Content (UGC) must adhere to when accepted by websites operated by Kuropen's personal project, "Eternie Labs."

Scope of Application

These guidelines apply to websites where posting or commenting functions are provided, and whose URL domain names end with the following. This is also applied to contents indirectly posted to the websites via server-to-server communication from external websites, such as through Fediverse.

  • eternie-labs.net
  • kuropen.org
  • kuropen.me

Definitions of Terms

  • This Service: Refers to the websites subject to these guidelines.
  • Server Administrator: Refers to Kuropen.
  • Moderator: Refers to the server administrator or a person designated by the server administrator who has content management authority.
  • User: Refers to users who post UGC to this service.
  • Fediverse Server: Refer to Misskey, Mastodon, and other servers capable of server-to-server communication using the ActivityPub protocol.
  • Remote Service: When this service is a Fediverse server, this refers to other Fediverse servers connected to it.
  • Copyright and other intellectual property rights related to information posted on this service shall, in principle, belong to the user who made the post (or to the rights holder other than the user, if such exists, for the posted content).
  • By making a post, the user is deemed to have non-exclusively granted the server administrator the rights of reproduction, public transmission, making transmissible, and adaptation concerning that post. If the posting destination is a Fediverse server, by making a post, the user is deemed to have granted the server administrator the right to sublicense these rights to the operators of remote services. Furthermore, the user shall not exercise moral rights of authorship in relation to these.

Naming Requirements for Posters

On this service, all users are required to set a handle name as their poster name.

This handle name does not need to be a real name, but it must be enough to distinguish the user.

AI-Generated Content Policy

When posting content created by generative AI (including links to such content, except when linking to content posted by others for critique purposes), the following requirements must be met:

  • The person who executed the processing on the generative AI must be the poster themselves.
  • The name of the AI service used to generate the content (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Galaxy AI, etc.) must be disclosed.
  • When posting images or videos altered by generative AI, if there are rights holders other than the poster themselves for the original content, written permission must be obtained from all such rights holders, detailing the content of the alteration process (including prompts if the poster executed it by inputting prompts), and proof of such permission must be attached to the post. However, this does not apply if it is clear that the alteration is permitted by the copyright holder, such as when the original content is under a Creative Commons license and the use of content is in compliance with it.

Prohibited Actions

The following content must not be posted on this service.

Even if a type of content is not explicitly listed here, it may be prohibited if a moderator deems it to be significantly inappropriate.

Violation of Laws and Public Order and Morals

Content that violates Japanese or Singaporean laws or public order and morals must not be posted.

In particular, the following are strictly prohibited:

  • Uploading files that are prohibited from possession or distribution by Japanese or Singaporean law (e.g., computer viruses, child pornography).
  • Acting as an intermediary for gambling, or soliciting customers to gambling establishments (including online casinos, but excluding public sports betting facilities).

Infringement of Others' Rights

Posts that infringe on the rights of others, such as defamation, harassment, copyright infringement, portrait rights infringement, or impersonation, are strictly prohibited.

Discriminatory posts based on the following factors are strictly prohibited:

  • Age
  • Gender/sexual orientation (including biological/genetic, and those changed later)
  • Marital status (including equivalent contracts between same-sex partners)
  • Presence or absence of disability or disease, pregnant or not
  • Race, skin color, nationality, country or place of origin, ethnicity
  • Religion, beliefs
  • Occupation, company or other parties which the person concerns belongs to

Posts that may interfare with the business of others, including photos/videos, which show details of personnel, equipment or operation, of facilities or deployment sites of the military, Self-Defense Forces, police, and other law enforcement agencies, as well as uploading files that were shot/recorded in violation of instructions from facility managers, are also prohibited. (Only permitted for proper whistleblowing.)

Spamming

The following spamming activities or those that encourage them must not be posted:

  • Linking to fraudulent websites like following, or posting images with URLs of fraudulent websites or QR codes containing them.
    • Websites with content that would violate these UGC Guidelines if directly posted to this service.
    • Websites intended to cause harm to individuals in terms of their person, rights, or property, such as the theft of personal information like user accounts.
    • Invitations to closed chats that could be exploited for espionage or by anonymous, fluid criminal groups.
  • Sending a large number of mentions to an unspecified large number of users without legitimate reason.
  • Quoting and using/reposting the body of a post that has a "Community Note" from X, etc., on this service.
  • Actions that are misleading as requests for rescue during a disaster.

It is prohibited to post with automated clients like AI agent browsers. However, it is permitted when you use APIs provided as standard functions, like in Fediverse servers, or otherwise noted.

Political Activities and Recruitment Activities

Using this service for political activities such as soliciting membership for political organizations, or calling for support/opposition, voting/non-voting in public elections, is prohibited.

Furthermore, from the perspective of preventing troubles such as legal violations and promoting crime, using this service for the following recruitment activities is also prohibited:

  • Soliciting membership or seeking donations for religious organizations.
  • Beyond the scope of general communication in friendly relationships, recruiting partners for romance or engagement (including equivalent contracts between same-sex partners; hereinafter the same) on this service, or mediating/brokering romance or engagement using this service.
  • Activities that mediate employment (specifically, activities corresponding to job placement, worker recruitment, or provision of recruitment information as defined by the Employment Security Act).

Need-to-be-Hidden Content

Posts containing the following content must be made using a function to temporarily hide the content if such a function is available at the posting destination.

It is prohibited to make such posts without using such a function, or in places where such a function is not available.

  • Posts requiring age restrictions, such as adult images.
  • Images/videos that may cause photosensitive seizures or other physical or psychological harm.

Handling of Prohibited Actions

Posts that fall under prohibited actions will be deleted.

However, for posts forwarded from a remote service, the effect of this disposition applies only to this service, and posts forwarded to the original remote service or other Fediverse servers will remain.

Furthermore, if the content of a prohibited action is malicious or repeated, the following measures may be taken:

  • Measures to prohibit new posts.
  • Provision of information to the operator of the remote service if the post was forwarded from a remote service.
  • Provision of information to the police and other law enforcement agencies.

Moderators shall have full discretion regarding decisions concerning disposition and its repeal, shall not be liable to users for such decisions, and shall have no obligation to disclose the reasons for such decisions.

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