Terms of Use
1 – Definition
Musicliv.com is a service provided by MusicLiv (“musicliv”, “us”, “our”, “we”).
These Terms of Use govern your use of musicliv.com and all its players, tools, applications, data, software, APIs, and all other services provided by MusicLiv (the “Services”).
These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy and any other terms specific to one of these documents, constitute a legally binding Agreement (the “Agreement”) between You (“You”, “User”, “Your”), registered as Artist (“Artist”) or Label (“Label”), and MusicLiv in connection with your use of the Site and Services (together, the “Homepage”).
2 – Terms and Conditions
- 2.1 – Acceptance of Terms of Use
Please read these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy . If you do not accept any of the provisions of these documents, you should not use the Homepage. By accessing or using the Homepage, registering an account, or to view, access, stream or upload any information or content from or to the Homepage , you represent and warrant that you have read and understood the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy , will abide by them, and that you are either 18 years of age or older, or if you are 13 years of age or older and have a parent(s) ‘or legal guardian(s)’ permission to use the Homepage.
- 2.2 – Changes to Terms of Use
We reserve the right to change, modify, replace or otherwise modify these Terms of Use at any time. And it’s your responsibility to check this page from time to time for updates.
When we make any updates to these Terms of Use, we will inform you by sending a message to your account MusicLiv and/or an email to the email address you provided to us. You will have no obligation to continue to use the Homepage after such notification, but if you do not terminate your account, your continued use of the Homepage will constitute the your acceptance of the revised Terms of Use.
- 2.3 – Data protection, privacy and Cookies
All personal information you provide to us in connection with your use of the Homepage are collected, stored, used and disclosed by MusicLiv in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Furthermore, in common with most of the online services, we use cookies to help us understand how people are using the Homepage, so that we can continue to improve the service we offer. The use of cookies and how to disable cookies, are explained in our Cookies Policy. By accepting these Terms of Use and using the Homepage, you also accept the terms of the Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy.
3 – Specifications of the Homepage
3.1 – Description of the Homepage
Registered users of the Homepage can submit, upload and send audio & Video files, text, photos, images, graphics and other content, data or information (“Content(s)”), which will be stored by MusicLiv under the direction of those registered users, and can be shared and delivered by such registered users using the tools and features provided as part of the Homepage and accessible through the Site and elsewhere. The Homepage also allows registered users to interact with each other and allows any user of the Site or of some Services (which may or may not be registered users of the Homepage) to view and share content uploaded and made available by registered users.
We may, from time to time, release new tools and resources on the Site, release new versions or introduce other services and/or functions for the Homepage. Any new services and features will be subject to these Terms of Use, as well as any additional conditions of use that we can release to those specific services or features.
3.2 – Your use of the Homepage
If you register to use the Homepage and subject to strict compliance with these Terms of Use, MusicLiv grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable and non-transferable right and license to use the Homepage to use the content uploaded and posted to the Site, to listen audio Content streamed from the Homepage and to share audio Content using the features of the Homepage where these functionality have been enabled by the user who uploaded the Content in question (the “Uploader”).
Moreover, MusicLiv grants, and subject to your strict compliance with these Terms of Use, a limited, personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable and non-transferable right and licence to:
- (3.2.1) submit, upload or post Content to Homepage strictly as permitted in accordance with these Terms of Use and all applicable terms posted on the Site from time to time;
- (3.2.2) participate in the areas of community and communicate with other community members of MusicLiv strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use;
- (3.2.3) use other services provided as part of the Homepage strictly as permitted in accordance with these Conditions of Use and all terms applicable to such services from time to time.
- The above licenses are subject to your strict compliance with these Terms of Use including, without limitation, the following:
- (3.2.4) you are not allowed to copy, rip or capture, or groped to copy, rip or capture any audio from the Homepage or any part of the Homepage or Content;
- (3.2.5) you are not allowed adapt, copy, republish, make available or otherwise communicate to the public, display, perform, transfer, distribute or otherwise use or exploit any Content on or from the Homepage, except where such Content is your Content, or (ii) as permitted in these Terms of Use;
- (3.2.6) you are not allowed to use any Content in any way that is designed to create a separate content service or that replicate any part of the Homepage offering;
- (3.2.7) you are not allowed to use by scraping or similar techniques to aggregate, reuse, republish or otherwise make use of any Content;
- (3.2.8) you are not allowed to use any technique or take advantage of any services, automated or not, intended to misrepresent the popularity of Content in Homepage or to misrepresent your activities on the Homepage, including without limitation to the use of bots, botnet, scripts, plugins, extensions or other automated means to register accounts, log in, add followers to your account, play content, follow or stop other users, send messages, or otherwise to act on your behalf, in particular where such activity takes place in a multiple or repetitive fashion. You must not offer or promote the availability of such techniques or services to other users of the Homepage;
- (3.2.9) You are not allowed to alter or remove, attempt to alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or legal grounds contained in, or appear, the Homepage or any Content that appears on the Homepage (other than your Content);
- (3.2.10) You are not allowed, and not allow any third party to, copy or adapt the object code of the Site or Services, or reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, modify or groped to discover any source code or object of any part of the Homepage, or bypass or circumvent groped or copy any copy protection mechanism or access any rights management information pertaining to Content;
- (3.2.11) You are not allowed to use the Homepage to upload, post, store, transmit, display, copy, distribute, promote, make available or communicate to other users or to the public:
- any Content that is offensive, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, that promotes violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, incites hatred on grounds of race, sex, religion or sexual orientation, or is otherwise objectionable in MusicLiv’s reasonable discretion; or
- any information, content or other material that violates, copying, misappropriaties, or infringes the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademark rights, rights of privacy or publicity, confidential information or other rights; or
- any content that violates, breaches or is contrary to any law, rule, regulation, court order or otherwise is illegal or unlawful in MusicLiv’s reasonable opinion; or
- any material of any kind that contains viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, malware, bots, bomb, worm or other harmful or malicious, or that could overburden, impair or disrupt the Homepage or servers or networks that are part of, or connected to, the Homepage, or that could restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Homepage; or
- any unsolicited advertising or unauthorized advertising, promotional messages, spam or any other form of solicitation;
- (3.2.12) you are not allowed to commit or engage in, or encourage, induce, encourage, or promote any conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law or regulation;
- (3.2.13) you are not allowed to rent, sell or rent access to the Homepage, or any content on the Homepage;
- (3.2.14) You are not allowed to deliberately impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, for example, by registering an account in the name of another person or company or label, or sending messages or operate in the Homepage with the name of another person or company or label;
- (3.2.15) you are not allowed to stalk, exploit, threaten, abuse or harass another user or any MusicLiv’s employee;
- (3.2.16) you are not allowed to use or attempt to use another person’s account, password or other information, unless you have explicit permission and written permission by that person;
- (3.2.17) you are not allowed to sell or transfer, or offer to sell or transfer, any account MusicLiv to third parties without the prior written consent of MusicLiv;
- (3.2.18) you are not allowed to collect or groped to collect personal information, or any other kind of information about others, including, without limitation, through any form of spidering or scraping;
- (3.2.19) you are not allowed to violate, circumvent or groped to violate or circumvent the security measures of the data used by MusicLiv or any Uploader; access or groped to access data or materials not intended for use; access, or groped to access, a server or account that you are not authorized to access; groped to scan or test the vulnerability of the MusicLiv’s server, system or network or groped to violate MusicLiv’s security procedures or data authentication; groped to interfere with the Site or the Services by any means, including, without limitation, hacking MusicLiv’s server or system, submitting a virus, overloading, mail bombing or crashing. Without limitation to any other rights or remedies of MusicLiv under these Terms of Use, MusicLiv reserves the right to investigate any situation that seems to involve one of these and may report such matters, and co-operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who have participated in such violations.
You agree to comply with the above conditions, and acknowledge and agree that MusicLiv has the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your account, or take such other action as it deems necessary in case of violation of the conditions laid above or any of the other terms of these Terms of Use. This may include taking legal action and / or reporting offending users to the competent authorities.
3.3 – Changes to the Homepage and Accounts
MusicLiv reserves the right at any time and for any reason to suspend, discontinue or terminate providing access to the Homepage or any part thereof, temporarily or permanently, and whether in its entirety or in relation to individual territories only. In the event of any permanent or temporary suspension, interruption, cessation or termination of access, MusicLiv will use reasonable efforts to notify registered users of such a decision, if possible, in advance.
You agree that MusicLiv and its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders will not be liable to you or any third party for any changes or modifications to the Homepage or any Service that MusicLiv may make from time to time, or for any decision to suspend, discontinue or terminate the Homepage, Services or any part or parts thereof, or your possibility to use or access the same from or within any territory or territories.
You will have no obligation to continue to use the Homepage following any such notification of changes, but if you do not terminate your account, the continued use of the Homepage will constitute your agreement to the revised Terms of Use and Homepage.
4 – Registration, Accounts and Content
- 4.1 – Your Account on MusicLiv
When You register to use the Homepage, you will provide us with your email address and you can choose an username and a password for your account. You must make sure that the email address you provided is and remains valid. Your e-mail address and other information that has chosen to provide about yourself will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy .You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your username and password, and you will remain liable for any use of your username and password, and all activities emanating from your account, whether or not such activity was authorized by you.If your user name or password is lost or stolen, or if you believe that your account has been accessed by unauthorized third parties, you are advised to notify MusicLiv in writing, and should change your password as soon as possible.We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, remove or reassign some usernames and permalinks in certain circumstances, as determined by us in our sole discretion, and may, with or without notice, suspend or terminate your account if the activities occur on that account that, in our sole discretion, would or could constitute a violation of these Terms of Use, or infringement or violation of third party rights or any applicable laws or regulations.You may terminate your account at any time, as described in the Termination (section 11 of these Terms of Use).
- 4.2 – Your Account and User Name as Artist or Label
When you register to use the Homepage, you will choose an User name (as Artist or Label based of your registration) for your account. This name, after registration, can not be changed by the user and represents the user for all the duration of the account. The name isn’t univocal; in case there are more user with the same name, the user may decide to differentiate his profile in the appropriate section of the Homepage, with the inclusion of more information that refer to his profile or to close the account and open a new one with a new name. The User can write an email (from the email address with the user has registered to MusicLiv and with all his account info) to MusicLiv at the address report(at)musicliv.com or open a support ticket to request the change of his User Name for reason of more user with the same name; the change request will be only for the User Name and only in the small part of the name that makes it different in cases of homonyms names. MusicLiv reserves the full right, in its sole discretion, to accept or reject such request made by You. As Label, You cannot request the change of Label name when the Label has already started to distribute releases with MusicLiv distribution. Label name is univocal for MusicLiv distribution; in this case the Label with anonymous name (alerted by MusicLiv) has to change in a new Label name before to start to distribute.
- 4.3 – Your Content
Any and all audio & video file, text, photos, images, graphics and other content, data or information that you upload, generate, store, transmit, send, exchange or make available to or via the Homepage (the “Content(s)”) , is owned and controlled exclusively by You, not by MusicLiv.
MusicLiv does not claim any ownership rights in the Content, and expressly acknowledge and agree that your Content remains your solely responsibility.
Subject to the conditions set out in your use of the Homepage you do not have to upload, store, distribute, broadcast, transmit, display, perform, make available or otherwise communicate to the public any Content to which you do not hold the necessary rights. In particular, any unauthorized use of copyrighted material by Content (whether by reproduction, distribution, modification, adaptation, public display, public performance, preparation of derivative works, making available or otherwise communicate through the Homepage) may constitute a violation of third party rights and is strictly prohibited (as described also in Your use of the Homepage, section 3.2). Such violations may result in termination of your access to the Homepage (as described in the section 7 of these Terms of Use) and can also result in civil or criminal prosecution by or on behalf of the owner of the rights in question.
We may, from time to time, invite or provide the means to provide feedback on the Homepage and the ownership of your Content, and in such circumstances, any feedback and responses will be considered non-confidential and MusicLiv we will have the right, but not the obligation, to use such feedback without restrictions.
The Artist can upload on the Homepage only audio content that is, on his own responsibility, a single audio track of the user; the Homepage not permit the upload of audio set that contain more than one track (for example set, DJ sets, live band recording…). These audio Content must be removed by the Artist once he has concluded a music distribution agreement with a Label (both internal to MusicLiv with Bid or external); these audio Content will still be automatically removed after the end of one year from the date of upload of the same audio Content.
MusicLiv is not liable if the Artist does not remove the Content after concluding a distribution agreement with a Label and MusicLiv reserves the right, but not obligation, to remove such Content even without any authorization of the Artist.
5 – License, Warranty, Liability, Responsibility and Indemnification
- 5.1 – Grant of License
- By uploading or posting your Content to the Homepage, starts an automated process to convert and direct MusicLiv to store your Content on our servers, where you can check and authorize the use, reproduction, transmission, delivery, public display, provision and other communication to the public of the contents on the Homepage and elsewhere with the Services. To the extent that is necessary to provide MusicLiv with any of the hosting services above, to take any of the tasks set out in these Terms of Use and / or to allow the use of the Homepage, you grant such licenses to MusicLiv on a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully paid basis.
- By uploading content to the Homepage, it also grants a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid license to other users of the Homepage, and to operators and users of other websites or platforms which your Content has been shared with the Services, to use, copy, republish, transmit or otherwise provide, publicly display, adapt, prepare derivative works, compile, make available and otherwise communicate to the public, your Content using the features of the Homepage from time to time, and within the parameters set by you using the Services. You can limit and restrict the availability of some of your Contents to other users of the Homepage, and to users of the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in these Terms of Use grants you no rights to any other user of the Homepage or any name, logo, trademark or service mark owned uploaded by you as part of your content (for example, but not limited, the image of the profile).
- The licenses granted in this section are granted separately to each item of your Content that you upload to the Homepage. Licenses in relation to audio content and images or text within your account, will end automatically when you remove such Content from your account. The licenses regarding your contributions (for example play, like, follow…) that you make on the Homepage will be perpetual, irrevocable, and will continue notwithstanding any termination of your account.
- Removing content from your account automatically involve the cancellation of the related file systems from MusicLiv server. However, notwithstanding the above, you hereby acknowledge and agree that once the content is distributed on a service connected, MusicLiv is not obligated to ensure the cancellation of Content from any server or systems managed by operators of any connected service, or to request that any user of the Homepage or any Services eliminates any element of your Content.
- Any content other than the your Content is the property of the respective Uploader, and is or may be subject to copyright, trademark rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. This Content may not be reproduced, deliver, transmit, upload, republished, displayed, sold, licensed, made available or otherwise communicated to the public or exploited for purposes other than through the features of the Homepage from time to time and within the parameters established by the Uploader on the Homepage or with the express written consent of the Uploader.
- 5.2 – Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to MusicLiv as follows:
- (5.2.1) Your Content, and all its parts, is an original work by you, or you’ve got all the rights, licenses, consents and permissions to use and to authorize MusicLiv to use the content in accordance with these Terms of Use, including, without limitation, the right to upload, reproduce, store, transmit, deliver, share, publicly display, make available and otherwise communicate to the public your Content, and all its parts through or via the Homepage and any and all Services;
- (5.2.2) Your Content and the availability of the same on the Homepage does not and will not violate the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, intellectual property rights, performers rights, rights of privacy or publicity, or rights in confidential information;
- (5.2.3) You have obtained any and all necessary consents, permissions and/or authorization from any and all persons appearing in your Content to publish the same on the Homepage and via any Services;
- (5.2.4) Your Content is not and will not be illegal, offensive, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, ethnically or culturally offensive, indecent, will not promote violence, terrorism, or illegal acts, or incite hatred on grounds of race, sex, religion or sexual orientation;
- (5.2.5) Your Content does not and will not create any liability on the part of MusicLiv, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns, and their employees, agents, directors, officers and / or shareholders.
- MusicLiv reserves the right to remove Your Content, suspend or terminate your access to the Homepage and/or execute legal remedies, if we believe that any Content you have uploaded violates any of the previous representations or warranties, or otherwise violate any another person’s rights or violates any law, rule or regulation.
- 5.3 – Limitation of Liability
- In no event shall the MusicLiv’s total liability to you under this Agreement exceed the amounts (if any) paid by you to MusicLiv during the previous twelve (12) months for the services giving rise to the claim.
- MusicLiv and its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns, and their respective employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders, shall have no liability for:
- Any loss or damage arising from:
- your inability to access or use the Homepage or any part or parts of it, or to access any Content or any Services via the Homepage;
- any changes that may be made by MusicLiv to the Homepage or any part thereof, or any temporary or permanent suspension or termination of access to the Homepage or any Content in or from any or all of the territories;
- any action taken against you third party rights holder in relation to any alleged violation of the rights of such third party and to the Content or use of the Homepage, or any action taken in the context of an investigation by MusicLiv or any relevant law enforcement authorities regarding the use of the Homepage;
- any errors or omissions in the technical operation of the Homepage, or from any inaccuracies or defects in any Content, or any information relating to the Content;
- your failure to provide MusicLiv with accurate or complete information, or your inability to keep your username or password suitably confidential;
- Any loss or damage to any hardware or software, any loss of data (including your Content), or any loss or damage from any breach of security; and/or
- Any lost profits, or any loss you suffer which is not a foreseeable consequence of MusicLiv violate these Terms of Use. Losses are foreseeable where they could be contemplated by you and MusicLiv when you agree to these Terms of Use, and therefore does not include indirect losses, such as loss of opportunities.
- Any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to your use of the Homepage must be notified to MusicLiv as soon as possible.
- 5.4 – Disclaimer
- The Homepage, including, without limitation, the Site and all Content and Services accessible through or via the Site or otherwise, are provided “as is”, “as available” and “with all faults”.
- MusicLiv uses reasonable endeavours to correct any errors or omissions in the Homepage as soon as practicable once they have been brought to MusicLiv’s attention. However MusicLiv makes no promises, guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever (express or implied) regarding the Site, the Services or any part or parts thereof, or any Content. MusicLiv does not warrant that your use of the Homepage will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Homepage or any part or parts thereof, the Content, or the servers on which the Homepage operates are or will be free of viruses or other harmful components. MusicLiv does not warrant that any transmission of Content uploaded to the Homepage will be secure or that any elements of the Homepage designed to prevent unauthorized access, sharing or download of content will be effective in any and all cases, and does not warrant that your use of the Homepage is lawful in any particular jurisdiction.
- 5.5 – Indemnification
You expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MusicLiv, its successors, assigns, affiliates, agents, directors, officers, employees and shareholders from and against any and all claims, obligations, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from:
- (5.5.1) any breach by you of these Terms of Use;
- (5.5.2) any third party claims of infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights or breach of privacy resulting from the hosting of your Content on the Homepage, and/or your provision of the same for the other users of the Site and/or the actual use of the Content by other users of the Homepage, or related Services in accordance with these Terms of Use and the parameters set by the user with respect to the provision and sharing of Content;
- (5.5.3) any activity related to your account, whether by you or any other person accessing your account with or without your consent.
6 – Third Parties
- 6.1 – Websites and Services
- The Homepage may provide you with access to third-party sites, databases, networks, servers, information, software, programs, systems, directories, applications, products or services, including, without limitation, related external Services.
- MusicLiv does not have or maintain any control over external Services, and is not, and cannot be responsible for their content, operation or use. By linking or otherwise providing access to any external Services, MusicLiv makes no representation, warranty or endorsement, express or implied, with respect to the legality, accuracy, quality or authenticity of the content, information or services provided by such external services.
- You are solely responsible for taking all the necessary precautions to protect yourself from fraud when using external services, and to protect your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other harmful or destructive content and materials that can be included or may resulting from any Services.
- MusicLiv disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for damages resulting from the use of the Services, and you irrevocably waive any claim against MusicLiv regarding the content or operation of the Services.
- 6.2 – Assignment
- MusicLiv may assign its rights and its obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, to third parties at any time and without notice, including, without limitation, any person or entity acquiring all or substantially all of the assets or business of MusicLiv. You may not assign this Agreement or the rights and obligations of hereunder, in whole or in part, to any third party without the prior written consent of MusicLiv.
- 6.3 – Rights
- These Terms of Use are not intended to give rights to anyone except you and MusicLiv. This does not affect our right to transfer our rights or obligations to a third party, as described in section 6.2 Assignment.
7 – Additional Information of Content
- 7.1 – Responsibility for content
- You acknowledge and expressly agree that MusicLiv (7.1.1) stores Content and other information at the direction, request and with the consent of its users, (7.1.2) acts only a passive role and/or host for uploading, storage and delivery of such Content, and (7.1.3) does not play any active role and gives no assistance in the presentation or the use of the Content. You are solely responsible for all of your Content that you upload, post or deliver to, or through the Homepage, and to the extent permissible by law, MusicLiv excludes any liability with regard to all Content (including your Contents) and activities of its users about it.
- You acknowledge and expressly agree that MusicLiv cannot and does not review the Content created or uploaded by its users, and neither MusicLiv nor its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders has no obligation, and does not undertake or assume any obligation, to monitor the Homepage for Content that is not appropriate, that does or may violate the rights of third parties or has otherwise been uploaded in violation of these Terms of Use or any applicable law.
- MusicLiv and its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders disclaim, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any liability which may arise from any Content uploaded by users to the Homepage, including, but not limited to, claims for breach of intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or publicity rights, any claims related to the publication of defamatory, pornographic, obscene or offensive, or any claims related to the completeness, accuracy, validity or reliability of all the information provided by users of the Homepage. By using the Homepage, you irrevocably waives the right to assert any claim against MusicLiv or one of its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers or shareholders.
- 7.2 – Blocking and Removal of Content
- Notwithstanding MusicLiv has no legal obligation to monitor the Content on the homepage, MusicLiv reserves the right to block, remove or delete any Content at any time, and to limit or restrict access to any Content for any reason and without liability, including, without limitation, if we have reason to believe that such Content does or may violate third party rights, has been transmitted or sent in violation of these Terms of Use or any applicable law, or is otherwise unacceptable to MusicLiv.
- Please also note that individual uploaders have control over the audio Content that they store in their account from time to time, and may remove any or all of the audio Content or other Content without notice. You have no right of continued access to any particular item of Content and MusicLiv shall have no liability in the event that you are unable to access an item of Content due to its removal from the Homepage, whether by MusicLiv or the relevant Uploader.
- 7.3 – Infringers
- MusicLiv may suspend or terminate your access to the Homepage if MusicLiv determines, in its reasonable discretion, that you have violated these Terms of Use.
- If we receive a valid notification by a third party in accordance with our reporting processes or applicable law that any of the Content you uploaded violates the copyrights or other rights of such third party, or if we believe that your behavior is inappropriate and violates our Terms of Use, we will send you a warning to this effect. Any user receiving this warning is liable to have access to the Homepage immediately terminated.
There will also suspend or terminate your account without notice if ordered to do so by a court, and / or in other appropriate circumstances, as determined by MusicLiv at its discretion.
8 – Bid
Bid is a service that allows users to agree each other to distribute a track, through the acceptance of a bid of royalties percentage, the exchange of the agreement signed and the sending of the audio file for distribution. The users, at the moment of the acceptance of the agreement in the bid service, guarantee that the percentage of royalties in the bid is the same at the percentage of royalties in the agreement signed by the users and guarantee that this condition is in accordance with all the conditions of the contract signed by the parties for the distribution of the track. In case that the Label distribute that track with MusicLiv distribution, that percentage, accepted by the parties in the bid, will be used by MusicLiv to count the sales royalties for the involved users and that percentage of royalties can not be changed under any circumstances after agreement of the parties in the Bid.
MusicLiv has no liability for the negotiations and the agreements reached between the two parties through the use of Bid service. MusicLiv only offers the Bid service and it is not and cannot held liable in any way if one of the parties does not respect the agreement of the negotiations. MusicLiv does not guarantee for any of the two parties regarding the agreements reached through the use of Bid service. MusicLiv only guarantees the division of the royalties from the MusicLiv distribution in the exact percentages indicated in the Bid service and accepted by the parties.
9 – Distribution, Stores and Royalties
- 9.1 – Distribution
- The rights granted hereunder shall include the sale of Recordings (the sound recordings and audiovisual recordings that you submit to MusicLiv at any time that, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to reject any materials including, without limitation, Recordings, images and/or artwork that you submit) by, without limitation, permanent digital downloads, temporary digital downloads, interactive streaming, non-interactive streaming, cloud services and so-called “disc-on-demand” services.
- You irrevocably grant to MusicLiv, throughout the world and during the term, the right:
- to sell, copy, distribute and otherwise exploit the Recordings by all means and media (whether now known or existing in the future) through any and all Consumer Stores (website and online platform that sell music to the end consumer with download or streaming service) now operational or hereafter available;
- to collect all income deriving therefrom; and
- to use the name(s), photographs and likenesses, artwork images, biographical and other information provided by you or the artists whose performances are embodied on the Recordings in connection with the Recordings and MusicLiv’s general business.
- If that the Label decides to not distribute more its Recordings with MusicLiv, the Label must proceed with the Takedown (a request to delete the release from stores) for all releases distributed with MusicLiv distribution; only after removing all of its catalog of Recordings by MusicLiv, the Label is free to distribute again its Recordings with a new third party distribution service. The Takedown costs 14,90€ for each release; MusicLiv is not responsible for any delay or miss cancellations from the stores after the request of Takedown.
- In case that the artwork of the release doesn’t respect the related guidelines of distribution, MusicLiv reserves the right to: require the relative changes to the Label before to publish on sale the release or to publish on sale the release, in its sole discretion and without notice, using as artwork the logo of the Label.
- Each track distributed by the Label must have an unique ISRC code; this code can be entered by the Label or be provided for free by MusicLiv, which still remains the owner. MusicLiv has no responsibility on such codes entered by the Label that it assumes the total responsibility and rights to use of these codes. MusicLiv reserves the right to reuse previously assigned codes in case of Takedown required by the Label.
- Each release distributed by the Label must have an unique UPC/EAN code; this code is provided for free by MusicLiv, which still remains the owner. MusicLiv reserves the right to reuse previously assigned codes in case of Takedown required by the Label.
- 9.2 – Stores
- You and MusicLiv agree that the Internet consumer stores and the Territories licensed to exploit your Recordings hereunder must be approved by You before the first release to distribute with MusicLiv distribution. The Label, before the first release with MusicLiv distribution, will select the stores where want to go to sell its Recodings; the Label’s selection, according with the list of our download and streaming stores, will be confirmed by MusicLiv to the Label with a communication, by email or with an internal system developed by MusicLiv, and determines that the Recordings will never be offered on sale where you have unselect stores from our list, but the Recordings will be offered on sale in new stores not available at the moment of the confirmation in our list without the consent of the Label. Each store, despite the Recordings sent to release, reserves the right to decide to publish on sale or not the Recordings; MusicLiv has not responsibility on this and the Label accepts that will not have any claims with MusicLiv about this decision of the store. After the first release with the MusicLiv distribution, the Label cannot modified the list of the stores selected for the distribution. By using MusicLiv distribution you grant to MusicLiv the exclusive right to distribute your Recordings on the store and the country you selected and confirmed before the first release. MusicLiv reserves the right to change and modified that list of stores without notice and in its sole discretion.
- Is possible that some stores may require particular information of Label before the activation of the distribution in that stores (Stores on request); MusicLiv will provide the User the modules with the information requested. Compilation and resending to MusicLiv of these modules is in total responsibility of the Label. MusicLiv disclaims any liability for the timing and the outcome of the reply of these stores about the request of the Label to distribute its Recordings in these Stores on request.
- If the Label select the streaming store YouTube Audio FingerPrint on MusicLiv distribution list stores, that User confirms that:
- Didn’t use any rights free audio samples or any other sample that User doesn’t own the exclusive right of (sound banks, software sounds, samples, public domain, covers, speeches, etc…)
- Isn’t under Creative Commons License.
- If your Recordings don’t respect these rules, You don’t have to select the option of YouTUbe Audio FingerPrint delivery and You will be unable to monetize your Recordings on that stores; MusicLiv maintains the right to block all releases from the store deliveries that don’t respect these rules.
- You agree that you will not use the Homepage to transmit, route, provide connections to or store any material that infringes copyrighted works or otherwise violates or promotes the violation of the intellectual property rights of any third party.
- You agree that MusicLiv may freeze any and all revenues in your account that are received in connection with Recordings or other materials submitted by you which MusicLiv believes, in its good faith discretion, violate these Terms of Use, and that such revenues will be forfeited by you if MusicLiv determines, in its good faith discretion, they are the result of fraud and/or infringement.
- 9.3 – Royalties
- The Site provides User with different types of statistics, MusicLiv undertakes to update its data for all the types of statistics and to do so on a daily basis. However, MusicLiv is dependent on data being communicated by its third party partners and it can in no way be held liable with regard to these data updates.
- The content provided by the MusicLiv’s partners, and notably the data used for the statistics indicated herein, are used under the exclusive liability of the MusicLiv’s partners.
- MusicLiv will look after updating the royalties reports relative to each User on the basis of the information that it will receive from its partners. The royalties reports updated will therefore indicate the royalties already collected by MusicLiv, the payment of which can then be requested by the User. MusicLiv will show on the user account the net amount (MusicLiv’s actual receipts from Consumer Stores less any tax, fee or other charge related to the Sale of your Recordings) received for the royalties sales from that user with the percentage of withhold for MusicLiv, if due, based on the user account at the moment of the payment request.
- Your royalties are available each quarter, based on the following: 1st Quarter Q1 (January-March), 2nd Quarter Q2 (April-June), 3rd Quarter Q3 (July-September), 4th Quarter Q4 (October-December). The statements of royalties sales will be available in your account within 60 days after each quarter end. On these dates your royalties will be marked as credited to your account and you will therefore be able to request your payment, as described in the section 10.3 of these Terms of Use.
10 – Price and Pay Out
- 10.1 – Account: Basic, Pro, Master
- MusicLiv offers its users 3 types of account: Basic, Pro and Master, each one with different features and services. The relative prices and specifications are available in the Pricing page of the Site. The payment of the fee for account Pro and Master is yearly and authorizes the user to use that type of account for the duration of 1 year from the date of that payment. The payment for the annual renewal of the account Pro or Master will be debited by the amount of user royalties if available or, if not available, it will be required by the payment methods accepted by MusicLiv.
- The final prices of the accounts are the same for all the worldwide users; the possible Vat Tax, where due, will be considered and applied in the final price according with current laws and the state of residence of the user.
- These fees may be amended from time to time by MusicLiv without notice to you. MusicLiv reserves the right to change, at any time and at its own discretion, the number and the types of account offered to users and also the specifications of these accounts, like the features, the services, the price, the duration, the percentage.
- You expressly agree that MusicLiv is authorized to deduct your recurring subscription fees, any applicable tax and other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the Services directly from your account (your share of Net Income) or charge such fees to any Payment Method you provide to MusicLiv. You are solely responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes, and assessments arising out of the use of your MusicLiv account.
- 10.2 – Upgrade of Account
- At the sign up user is registered with Basic account, but it’s free anytime to go Pro or go Master with the payment of the yearly fee. In case that a Pro user decides to upgrade to a Master account, will not be refunded any month not exploited with the Pro account. If the user does not renew the annual fee for Pro or Master account, the oldest contents will be hidden according with the parameters of the Basic account. In case of change from Master to Pro account, the oldest contents will be hidden according with the parameters of the Pro account.
- 10.3 – Pay Out
- MusicLiv receives the statement of the files at irregular intervals from the stores. After examination of the supplied figures and the receipt of payment, MusicLiv will show the sales figures and the respective revenues on the User’s provider account minus the stipulated commission for MusicLiv based on your account type. The User can now make a pay out request from his account via the online selected methods of payment (pay out in cash money are not possible). MusicLiv, after all necessary controls, will execute the payment requested by the User in maximum 30 working days from the date of request. Royalties payment from MusicLiv to User is only in Euro. It could be applied a withheld on the amount payable based of the method of payment chosen by the User.
The User is hereby explicitly advised that he only participate with net proceeds. The extent to which VAT is payable depends on the fiscal circumstances in the individual case. MusicLiv expressly reserves the right to adjust the tax treatments in the case of changes of the actual circumstances or the administrative practice of the tax authorities or of law. The User expressly agrees that MusicLiv is also entitled to correct the accounts in the account of User if necessary retroactively. This also applies to other accounting adjustments that are required to correct an initially erroneous factual or legal assessment.
MusicLiv reserves the right to suspend the balance user and the possibility to request a Pay Out in case of violation of these Terms of Use.
11 – Termination
These Terms of Use shall apply at all times while you utilize the Homepage. You may terminate this Agreement at any time, by deleting all your Content from your account, deleting your account and, subsequently, by ceasing to use the Homepage. If a Label distributed releases with MusicLiv distribution, before the deletion of the account is required the Takedown (a request to delete the releases from stores) for all the releases distributed with MusicLiv distribution.
MusicLiv may terminate your access to the Homepage and / or terminate this Agreement at any time, if:
- 11.1 – you are considered an Infringer as described in the section 7 of these Terms of Use;
- 11.2 – you are in violation of any provision of these Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of the following section of this Terms of Use: 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10;
- 11.3 – MusicLiv elects at its sole discretion, to cease to provide access to the Homepage in the jurisdiction where you reside or from which you are trying to access the Homepage, or
- 11.4 – in other reasonable circumstances as determined by MusicLiv at its discretion.
- Once your account has been terminated, any and all Content residing in your account, or pertaining to activities from your account (for example, data relating to the delivery or consumption of your Content), will be permanently removed from MusicLiv, except to the extent that we are obliged or permitted to retain such content, data or information for a certain period of time in accordance with the laws and regulations and or to protect our legitimate business interests. You are advised to save or back up any material that you upload to your account before you terminate your account, as MusicLiv assumes no liability for any material that is irrevocably deleted after the closing of your account. MusicLiv cannot provide you any data files related to activities associated with your account, whether before or after termination or cancellation.
- The provisions of these Terms of Use that are intended by their nature to survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement will survive the termination of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, those sections: 2 (Terms and Conditions), 3 (Specifications of the Homepage ), 4 (Registration, Accounts and Content), 5 (License, Warranty, Liability, Responsibility and Indemnification), 6 (Third Parties) 7 (Additional Information of Content), 8 (Bids), 9 (Distribution, Stores and Royalties), 10 (Price and Pay Out), 11 (Termination), 12 (Agreement and Law), respectively.
12 – Agreement and Law
- 12.1 – Severability
Should one or more provisions of these Terms of Use are found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, such provision(s) shall be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and/or enforceability of the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use, which will remain in full force and effect.
- 12.2 – Entire Agreement
The present Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy , constitute the entire Agreement between you and MusicLiv regarding your use of the Homepage and supersedes any prior Agreements between you and MusicLiv. Any changes to this Agreement must be made in writing.
- 12.3 – Applicable Law and Jurisdiction of the Agreement
- This Agreement is subject to the laws in force in India; you expressly accept, and MusicLiv accepts, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ancona (India) for the resolution of any dispute, action or proceeding arising in connection with this Agreement. This Agreement and its interpretation will be subject exclusively to Indian law.
- The user indemnifies MusicLiv from alleged claims of third parties in accordance with the foregoing warranties and will compensate MusicLiv for any damage and expenses incurred, particularly if third parties claim violation of their rights to files uploaded by the user and/or any other usage user made of the Homepage. The user is required to reimburse MusicLiv for all costs regarding the legal defense including all court and counsellor costs, in particular, but not limited, in case of warnings.
- The Indian version of this Agreement (Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy) is the authoritative version. This translation is provided only for informational purposes and has no legal force. MusicLiv assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the translation; the Indian version of this Agreement is the authoritative version for law, jurisdiction and legal force.
- 12.4 – Disclosure
- The services hereunder are offered by MusicLiv, a company incorporated under the laws of India and with its place of business in Unit No. 19, Inhwa Business Centre, Iris Tech Park, Sector -48, Sohna Road, Gurgaon – 122018, INDIA. You can contact us by sending correspondence to the address above or by email at info(at)MusicLiv(dot)com.