Terms of use

Makwete is a music platform built and run by SYSTEMLUP (PTY) LTD (“SystemLup”). In these terms, “we” and “us” mean SystemLup, and “you” means anyone who visits Makwete or has an account.

By using Makwete, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.

• You sign up as a listener or an artist. Give a real email address you can open.
• Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account. If you think someone else has used it, change your password on the Account page and tell us.
• Platform Owners are artists SystemLup has promoted to curate other artists. SystemLup runs the platform and reviews anything an owner doesn't.

• Makwete is for personal listening and watching. Don't copy, download, re-upload or sell what you hear here.
• Signed-out visitors can hear the Top 10. Everything else needs an account.
• Likes help songs rise in the Top 10 and shape artists' stars. Like what you genuinely enjoy. Don't use extra accounts or tricks to push a song up.

• You keep ownership of your songs, videos, podcasts, pictures and words.
• By uploading, you allow SystemLup to store your work and play it to Makwete users, and to show your name, picture, covers, Inspiration and About on Makwete, within the privacy setting you choose. This permission ends when your work is deleted, except for copies that briefly remain in backups.
• Only upload work you made or have the rights to share, including any samples, beats or footage in it. Don't upload anything hateful, violent, sexually explicit, or that breaks the law or someone else's rights.
• Every upload and profile is reviewed before it goes public. SystemLup, or your Platform Owner, may approve or reject it, and SystemLup may remove work at any time, especially after a copyright complaint.

• Owners review only the artists who chose them, fairly and without asking for payment or favours.
• Owners never see which listeners activated them, and must not try to find out. SystemLup reviews an owner's own work.
• SystemLup may change an artist's owner, or end someone's owner role.

• The Studio uses AI to break down your lyrics, suggest beat directions and build FL Studio packs (MIDI files, a Piano Roll script and a production brief). It's a creative assistant: you decide what to use.
• Artist DNA: the Studio learns your sound from what you like, pass on and send back (a MIDI export and, if you choose, your FL Studio project), and from notes you add. Sending back a final version is free. Only send back versions you made or have the right to share. You can start your Artist DNA fresh at any time.
• Credits: SystemLup grants Studio credits to Platform Owners, and to artists without an owner. Owners share credits with the artists who chose them. Shared credits belong to the artist and can't be taken back. Credits have no cash value, can't be sold or exchanged, and don't expire for now. If an action fails, its credits are returned.
• Your work stays yours. You keep ownership of your lyrics and of what you make from Studio suggestions. Only paste lyrics you wrote or have the right to use.
• Suggestions are starting points and may look like ideas other people have had. Check them before you release anything. Don't use the Studio to copy another artist's songs or sound.

Your liked songs, playlists and the Platform Owner you activate are visible only to you. Your email is never shown on Makwete. Artists choose who sees their Inspiration and About. You can see and change these on your Account page. We use your email only to run your account, for example sign-in, confirmation and delete confirmation emails. The Privacy policy explains this in full.

• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and remove work that does. Where we reasonably can, we'll tell you why.
• Makwete is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and your work safe, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of errors. As far as the law allows, SystemLup isn't responsible for losses caused by outages, lost files, or what other users upload.
• Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer law.

We may update these terms as Makwete grows. When we make important changes, we'll update the date at the top and let you know on Makwete. Using Makwete after a change means you accept the new terms.

Questions, rights complaints or account problems: write to rampelwahulisani@gmail.com.