LEGAL

The short version. LoopBoard is a reference board. It collects images, video and recordings on a canvas so you can look at them while you work. It runs entirely on your computer. We operate no server, host nothing, and never receive your boards. It has no sign-in, stores no credentials, and cannot open anything that is not already publicly viewable without an account. You are responsible for having the right to use the material you bring in. If you are a rights holder with a concern, section 6 tells you how to reach us.

What changed on 26 September 2026. This page now applies to LoopBoard 1.0. Section 3 now mentions file cards, which link to other files on your computer, and section 5 now notes that files that file cards point to are not included in a shared board. Nothing changed in what LoopBoard can or cannot do with online material.

1. What LoopBoard is for

LoopBoard is a tool for collecting and arranging visual reference, the motion-design equivalent of pinning printouts to a wall. Typical use is gathering shots, stills, type treatments, colour and timing references into one canvas while designing something.

It is built for material you are entitled to use: your own footage and photographs, your own screen recordings, client and studio assets you have been given, stock and library media you have licensed, openly licensed material such as Creative Commons works, public-domain works, and material you are reviewing under a copyright exception that applies where you live.

2. What LoopBoard deliberately does not do

These are design decisions, not omissions, and they are verifiable in the shipped application. We state them here because they define the boundaries of what the software is capable of.

No accounts or credentials	LoopBoard has no sign-in, no licence key, and no facility to enter a username or password for any website. It never asks for, stores, or transmits credentials of any kind.
No use of your browser sessions	LoopBoard does not read, import or reuse cookies, tokens or sessions from your web browser. It cannot act as a logged-in version of you on any website.
No access to paywalled or private material	Because of the two points above, the download feature can only reach material that is already viewable to an anonymous visitor. It cannot open subscription-only, members-only, purchased, private or otherwise access-restricted content.
No DRM handling	LoopBoard contains no facility for decrypting, descrambling or otherwise defeating any digital rights management or access control system, and none of its bundled components are configured to attempt it.
No bulk or automated extraction	Downloads are one item at a time, initiated by you, from a link you paste. Playlists, channels, batches and scheduled or automated collection are not supported.
No hosting, sharing or distribution	There is no upload, no cloud storage, no sync, no account, no gallery and no sharing service. We operate no server that receives your content. Nothing you put in LoopBoard is transmitted to us or made available to anyone else by us.
No tracking	No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no usage statistics, no update check. See the Privacy Policy for the complete list of network requests the application can make.

If a future version changes any of this, this page changes with it, before that version ships.

3. Your responsibility for what you bring in

LoopBoard can bring material in from outside your computer: local files, file cards that link to other files on your computer, images dragged from web pages, video and audio downloaded from a link you paste, and recordings of your own screen and microphone.

You are solely responsible for the material you bring in and for having the right to use it in the way you use it. The software cannot assess whether a particular use is lawful, and does not try to.

Some things worth knowing:

• Most material online is protected by copyright. It being publicly viewable, free to watch, or easy to download does not make it free to copy, keep or re-use. Absence of a copyright notice means nothing.
• Personal or reference use is not automatically permitted. Copyright exceptions exist, such as fair dealing under section 52 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, fair use in the United States, and equivalents elsewhere, but they are limited, they differ by country, and they are decided case by case. Do not assume that keeping something for reference always falls inside one.
• A website’s own terms apply separately from copyright. Downloading from a site may breach that site’s terms of service even where copyright would not be infringed. That is a matter between you and that site.
• Licensed and paid material usually comes with conditions. Stock libraries, asset marketplaces and client agreements commonly restrict copying, sharing and redistribution. A licence to use an asset is rarely a licence to pass it on.
• Recording other people has its own rules. Recording calls, meetings, other people’s screens or anyone’s voice may require their consent, and in some places is a criminal offence without it. The rules vary considerably between countries and, in some countries, between states. Check before you record.

4. What you must not use LoopBoard for

These are conditions of your licence to use the software. Breaching them ends that licence, in addition to whatever other consequences may follow under the law.

You must not use LoopBoard, or any component distributed with it:

• to circumvent, defeat or work around any digital rights management system, access control, paywall, geographical restriction, authentication requirement or other technological protection measure;
• to obtain material you have not paid for where payment is required, or to obtain material restricted to subscribers, members or account holders when you are not one;
• to copy, collect or extract material in bulk, systematically, or by automated means;
• to infringe the copyright, trade mark, design right, database right, moral rights, privacy or publicity rights of any person;
• to record any person, conversation, call, meeting or screen without whatever consent the law where you and they are requires;
• to build, assemble or distribute a collection of third-party material that you are not licensed to distribute, including by sharing a .loopboard file, an exported clip or a recording containing such material;
• to publish, upload, post, sell or otherwise make available to the public any .loopboard file or exported media containing material you do not hold the necessary rights to distribute;
• for any other purpose that is unlawful where you are, or to assist anyone else in any of the above.

We have no technical means of detecting or preventing any of this, and we do not monitor what anyone does with the software. We have no way to. These restrictions exist because they are the terms on which the software is offered, not because they are enforced by it.

5. Sharing boards with other people

A .loopboard file is a single package containing a board and copies of the media on it. Saving one and sending it to someone is a copy and a distribution of everything inside it.

Files that file cards point to are not included.

Before you share one, satisfy yourself that you are entitled to distribute every piece of media it contains. Material that you were licensed to use may well not be material you are licensed to pass on. That is the ordinary position for stock media, asset-library downloads and client-supplied files.

Sharing happens entirely outside LoopBoard, by whatever means you choose. We are not a party to it, we have no visibility of it, and we provide no mechanism for it.

Receiving one. A board file from someone else is a file from an outside source and should be treated as one. LoopBoard performs structural checks on a package before opening it and refuses packages it cannot read as valid, but these checks are a defence against malformed and malicious files, not a guarantee of safety, and you should not rely on them as one. Open board files only from people you trust.

6. If you are a rights holder

We take copyright seriously and would rather hear from you than not.

Please note first what we are and are not able to do. We operate no server that stores, hosts or transmits user content. We have no accounts, no user database and no uploaded material. If a person has used LoopBoard to copy your work, that copy exists only on their own computer and on whatever channel they chose to send it through. We have no access to it, no knowledge of it, and no technical ability to remove it. A takedown request directed at us cannot reach content we have never held.

What we can do, and will:

• consider in good faith any concern that a feature of LoopBoard is enabling infringement of your rights, and respond substantively;
• change, restrict or remove a feature where a concern is well founded;
• correct anything on this website or in the application that misdescribes what is permitted;
• act on any notice that our own materials (our site, our documentation or our marketing) use your work without permission.

Write to copyright@theloopboard.com. Please include enough detail to identify the work and the concern: what the work is, what right you hold in it, and what specifically about LoopBoard you are raising. We aim to acknowledge within 5 working days and to respond substantively within 30 days.

This address is for copyright and rights concerns. General enquiries go to contact@theloopboard.com, and requests for the source code of bundled GPL components to source@theloopboard.com.

7. Reporting misuse

If you believe someone is using LoopBoard in a way that breaches section 4, you are welcome to tell us at copyright@theloopboard.com. Be aware of what we can act on: we have no accounts to suspend, no content to remove and no ability to identify or contact a user. What such a report can usefully do is tell us that a feature is being misused in a way we had not anticipated, which is something we will act on in the design of the software.

8. Relationship to our other terms

This page forms part of the Terms of Use and is binding in the same way. Where this page and the Terms of Use address the same subject, read them together; if they genuinely conflict, the Terms of Use govern.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. If you need to know whether a particular use of a particular work is lawful where you are, ask a lawyer qualified there.

Questions about any of this? contact@theloopboard.com