Content standards

Last updated: 30 October 2026

These are the rules for everything people put on Ceylo: songs and films sent through Studio, artist and film pages, reviews, playlists, and questions and answers on talent pages. They apply to members, creators and talent alike. A person at Ceylo reviews every release before it goes live, and reads every question and answer before anyone else sees it, so things can take a little time.

Be decent to people

Write the way you would if the person you are talking about were in the room. Criticism of the work is always fine. Contempt for the person is not.

Not allowed: insults, abuse, threats of any kind, bullying, pile-ons, and sexual comments about someone's body or private life.

No hate

Nothing that attacks or demeans people for their ethnicity, religion, caste, nationality, language, gender, sexual orientation, disability or similar. Nothing that stirs up hatred or violence between communities. This applies to song lyrics, titles and cover art as much as to reviews.

Nothing that puts a person at risk

Do not ask for, or publish, anyone's home or work address, phone number, personal email, school, regular places, travel plans or where they will be at a particular time. That goes for talent, their families, crew, and anyone mentioned in a song.

The test we apply: could a stranger use this to find this person? If the answer is maybe, it does not go out.

Children

No sexual content involving anyone under 18 — ever, in any form, including AI-generated images, lyrics or audio. We remove it, close the account and report it to the authorities. Asking a minor to contact you, here or anywhere else, also ends an account immediately.

Sexual and violent content

No pornography, and no sexual content involving real people without their consent. Songs and films with strong language, sexual themes or violence must be honestly marked for maturity when you send them, so we can keep them away from kids profiles and listeners who did not choose them. We may decline anything we think goes too far for Ceylo.

Music: originals only

• Send only your own original songs. No covers, remixes, interpolations, soundalikes of a particular song, or uncleared samples, even if you credit the original artist or keep it short.
• No voice clones. A song must not clone or imitate the voice of any real person, living or dead — not a singer, not a public figure, not a friend. We accept synthetic AI voices only, for now.
• No impersonation. Do not present a song as being by an artist who did not make it, use another artist's name or image, or set up an artist page that could be mistaken for someone else.
• Label AI honestly. Tell us truthfully how much of the song was made with AI, which tools, whose voice, and which plan of the tool. We show this as a credit. A misleading answer is a reason to take a song down.
• Only use tools that let you. Many AI tools' free plans do not allow commercial use, and the tool may own the song. If yours does not allow it, do not send it.
• Cover art, artist photos and lyrics follow the same rules: yours, or cleared for you to use.

Films and everything else you upload

Upload only what you own or have cleared: footage, music on the soundtrack, photos, posters, headshots. A popular song under a clip is not cleared by crediting the artist, by keeping it short or by not making money from it. If you are unsure, ask us before you upload.

Be who you say you are

Do not pretend to be someone else, claim a relationship with talent or an artist that you do not have, or say you speak for a studio, production or employer unless you do. A page marked as claimed belongs to the real person, and we would rather leave a page unclaimed than give it to the wrong one.

No links or contact details in questions and answers

Questions and answers on talent pages are plain text: no links, email addresses, phone numbers or social handles. Talent and artists can put their own links on their own page, where we review them.

No spam, no gaming the charts

• No advertising or self-promotion on other people's pages.
• No second accounts to praise yourself or make a page look busy.
• No buying, swapping or faking plays, likes or follows, and no asking others to stream on repeat to move the charts. Plays that look like this are not counted, and we may remove the song.

Nothing illegal

Nothing that breaks the law in Sri Lanka or where you are, including defamation, fraud, scams, and content that promotes terrorism or serious crime.

What happens when a rule is broken

Most problems are ordinary. A review, question or release that does not pass is declined with a reason pointing to the rule it broke. A song or film may be taken down, and creators may get a strike on their Studio account; three upheld strikes close it. The serious rules — children, threats, putting someone at risk, voice clones — do not get three chances.

If you think we got it wrong, reply to our email. A person reads that too.

Reporting something

Anyone can report anything on Ceylo, including things we approved and should not have. For a song, use Report a track. For anything else, use the report link where there is one, or the contact form. For copyright, see Copyright & takedown.