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9. Royalty Free Music Licenses

9.1 Music Basic License

9.1.1. This type of license allows you to use purchased composition for one end product. The basic license allows you to make 10 000 Copies of downloaded or physical products (e.g. apps, DVDs, video games, audiobooks). The Music Basic License grants you, the purchaser, an ongoing, non- exclusive, commercial, worldwide license to make use of the musical work (Item) you have selected, on the following terms. Show More...

    9.1.2. You are licensed to use the Item in one of the following ways (Allowed Use), in a single application (a single product or project):
    a. synchronization with an audio-visual or audio-only work, to create one End Product that incorporates the Item as well as other things, so that it is larger in scope and different in nature than the Item;
    b. specific direct playback uses, which are background music for one event, venue or location, one company’s private on-hold music system, or one personal mobile ring-tone.
    “Examples of End Products for Music Basic License: websites, DVDs, audiobooks, games, apps, corporate videos, online videos (YouTube, Vimeo etc), web promos, social media, live performances, Indie Films.”

    9.1.3. The license includes the right to utilize the Item through communication to the public (performance), display, distribution, and reproduction (but not through Broadcast). Read the next clause for some limitations, and see later clauses for things that are not Allowed Uses.
    – keep calm: free or commercial, monetized or not, for-profit or not-for-profit – we don’t mind as long as it’s one Allowed Use! All our Music licenses are “single application” licenses for one product, one use or one project
    9.1.4. Allowed Uses have these limitations:
    – For digitally downloaded or physical End Products, there is a limit of 10,000 copies.
    – Broadcast use is not allowed.
    – For films, the film may not be theatrically released. (To avoid confusion, use in an Indie Film is an Allowed Use.)
    – For P.R.O. Music, public performance rights are not included with this license.
    “There are other licenses which don’t have these limits (e.g. for mass reproduction, wider broadcast, and theatrically released film).
    Examples of physical or downloaded products are DVDs, downloaded podcasts, downloaded games, apps and downloaded e-books. See the “Definitions” section to understand what Indie Film and Broadcast means.”

    More details about what can you do with Music Basic License
    9.1.5.
    Apart from the limitations in clause 4, there are no restrictions on views or impressions of an End Product containing the Item. For example, there can be unlimited Internet views or page impressions of an End Product.
    “Example: your home video uploaded to a user-generated video-sharing platform goes viral and gets over 1,000,000 views. Relax and enjoy the fame, you’re still covered by this license.”
    9.1.6. You can create one End Product for a client, and you can transfer that single End Product to your client. This license is then transferred to your client.
    9.1.7. You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership of the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 2.
    9.1.8. You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership of the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 2.
    “Examples: you can edit, loop or stretch a music track to suit your project. You can’t create a remix of a music track and claim or register it as your own song. See clause 19 for more information about ownership rights in the Item.”
    More details about what you can’t do with Music Basic License
    9.1.9.
    Although this is a “single application” license, under one license you may make allowed variations of an End Product and distribute an End Product through multiple mediums.
    Examples of allowed variations: “cut down” versions of a single web promo; language translations of a single video.”
    9.1.10.
    This is a “single application” license for one Allowed Use, so you will need a separate license for each different Allowed Use.
    9.1.11. You can’t re-distribute the Item as a musical item, as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items (such as an audio compilation), and even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for free.
    “Examples: You can’t modify a music track and distribute it on a music CD. You can’t add lyrics over the top of a music track and sell it as your own song on iTunes. You can’t use a music track in your internet radio service.”
    9.1.12. You can’t use the Item in applications allowing an end user to customise a digital or physical product to their specific needs, such as “on demand”, “made to order” and “build it yourself” applications. You may use the Item in these ways only if you purchase a separate license for each final product created using the Item.
    “Examples of this specific “single application” requirement: Online video or animation rendering services, “build your own website” services, photo slideshow creators, and e-card generators. You will need one license for each product created by a customer, or contact us to discuss.”
    9.1.13. 
    You must not permit an end user to extract the Item and use it separately from an End Product.
    9.1.14. You can’t claim trademark or service mark rights over the Item within an End Product.

    9.2 Music Broadcast License (1 Million)

    9.2.1 Use in one end product, free or commercial. Most web uses. 10,000 copy limit for a downloaded or physical end product. Plus up to 1 million broadcast audience.  The Music Broadcast License (1 Million) grants you, the purchaser, an ongoing, non-exclusive, commercial, worldwide license to make use of the musical work (Item) you have selected, on the following terms. Show More...

    9.2.2 You are licensed to use the Item in the following way (Allowed Use), in a single application (a single product or project):
    (a) Synchronization with an audio-visual or audio-only work, to create one End Product that incorporates the Item as well as other things, so that it is larger in scope and different in nature than the Item.
    Examples of End Products for Music Broadcast License: TV and radio advertisements, TV series, and “made for TV/cable” films.
    Our Music Broadcast License is all that’s needed for some specific “direct playback” uses, like background music for one event, venue or location, one company’s private on-hold music system, or one personal mobile ring-tone.

    9.2.3 The license includes the right to utilise the Item through communication to the public (performance), display, distribution, and reproduction. Read the next clause for some limitations, and see later clauses for things that are not Allowed Uses.
    Relax: free or commercial, monetized or not, for-profit or not-for-profit – we don’t mind as long as it’s one Allowed Use! All our Music licenses are “single application” licenses for one product, one use or one project

    9.2.4 Allowed Uses have these limitations:

    1. For digitally downloaded or physical End Products, there is a limit of 10,000 copies.
    2. For Broadcasts, there is an audience size limit of 1 million (where audience size means the maximum number of people the Broadcast has the potential to reach).
    3. For films, the film may not be theatrically released. (To avoid confusion, use in an Indie Film is an Allowed Use).
    4. For P.R.O. Music, public performance rights are not included with this license. See clause 14 for more details.

    There are other licences which don’t have these limits (e.g. for mass reproduction, wider broadcast, and theatrically released film).
    Examples of physical or downloaded products are DVDs, downloaded podcasts, downloaded games, apps and downloaded e-books. See the Definitions” section to understand what Indie Film and Broadcast means.

    More details about what can you do with Music Broadcast License

    9.2.5 You can make an unlimited number of copies of the End Product. You can distribute the End Product through multiple media (subject to the limitations in clause 4) or make it available online with unlimited Internet views or page impressions.
    Example: your home video uploaded to a user-generated video-sharing platform goes viral and gets over 1,000,000 views. Relax and enjoy the fame, you’re still covered by this license.

    9.2.6 You can create one End Product for a client, and you can transfer that single End Product to your client. This license is then transferred to your client.

    9.2.7 You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership to the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 8.2.2.2.
    Examples: you can edit, loop or stretch a music track to suit your project. You can’t create a remix of a music track and claim or register it as your own song. See clause 19 for more information about ownership rights in the Item.

    9.2.8 Although this is a “single application” license, under one license you may make allowed variations of an End Product and distribute an End Product through multiple mediums.
    Examples of allowed variations: “cut down” versions of a single advertisement; distribution of a TV series on DVD.

    More details about what you can’t do with Music Broadcast License

    9.2.9 This is a “single application” license for one Allowed Use, so you will need a separate license for each different Allowed Use.

    9.2.10 You can’t re-distribute the Item as a musical item, as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items (such as an audio compilation), and even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for free
    Examples: You can’t modify a music track and distribute it on a music CD. You can’t add lyrics over the top of a music track and sell it as your own song on iTunes. You can’t use a music track in your internet radio service.

    9.2.11 You can’t use the Item in applications allowing an end user to customise a digital or physical product to their specific needs, such as “on demand”, “made to order” and “build it yourself” applications. You may use the Item in these ways only if you purchase a separate license for each final product created using the Item.
    Examples of “on demand”, “made to order” or “build it yourself” applications: online video or animation rendering services, “build your own website” services, photo slideshow creators, and e-card generators. You will need one license for each product created by a customer, or contact us to discuss.

    9.2.12 You must not permit an end user to extract the Item and use it separately from an End Product.

    9.2.13 You can’t claim trademark or service mark rights over the Item within an End Product.

    9.3 Music Mass Reproduction License

    9.3.1. Use in one end product, free or commercial. Most web uses. Up to 1 million broadcast audience. Plus unlimited copies of a downloaded or physical end product.
    The Music Mass Reproduction License grants you, the purchaser, an ongoing, non-exclusive, commercial, worldwide license to make use of the musical work (Item) you have selected, on the following terms.  Show More...

    9.3.2 You are licensed to use the Item in the following way (Allowed Use), in a single application (a single product or project):
    Synchronisation with an audio-visual or audio-only work, to create one End Product that incorporates the Item as well as other things, so that it is larger in scope and different in nature than the Item.
    Examples of End Products for Music Mass Reproduction License: audiobooks, DVDs, downloaded podcasts, downloaded games, apps and downloaded e-books.
    Our Music Standard License is all that’s needed for some specific “direct playback” uses, like background music for one event, venue or location, one company’s private on-hold music system, or one personal mobile ring-tone.

    9.3.3 The license includes the right to utilise the Item through communication to the public (performance), display, distribution, and reproduction. You can make unlimited copies of digitally downloaded or physical End Products. Read the next clause for some limitations, and see later clauses for things that are not Allowed Uses.
    – free or commercial, monetized or not, for-profit or not-for-profit – we don’t mind as long as it’s one Allowed Use! All our Music licenses are “single application” licenses for one product, one use or one project

    9.3.4 Allowed Uses have these limitations:

    1. For Broadcasts, there is an audience size limit of 1 million (where audience size means the maximum number of people the Broadcast has the potential to reach).
    2. For films, the film may not be theatrically released. (To avoid confusion, use in an Indie Film is an Allowed Use.)
    3. For P.R.O. Music, public performance rights are not included with this license. See clause 14 for more details.

    This Music Mass Reproduction License allows unlimited copies of downloaded or physical End Products (unlike our Music Standard License which has a limit on these). There are other licenses which have broader rights for broadcast and film for theatrical release. See the “Definitions” section to understand what Indie Film and Broadcast means.

    More details about what can you do with Music Mass Reproduction License

    9.3.5 You can make an unlimited number of copies of the End Product. You can distribute the End Product through multiple media (subject to the limitations in clause 4) or make it available online with unlimited Internet views or page impressions.
    Example: your home video uploaded to a user-generated video-sharing platform goes viral and gets over 1,000,000 views. Relax and enjoy the fame, you’re still covered by this license.

    9.3.6 You can create one End Product for a client, and you can transfer that single End Product to your client. This license is then transferred to your client.

    9.3.7 You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership to the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 9.3.2.
    Examples: you can edit, loop or stretch a music track to suit your project. You can’t create a remix of a music track and claim or register it as your own song. See clause 19 for more information about ownership rights in the Item.

    9.3.8 Although this is a “single application” license, under one license you may make allowed variations of an End Product and distribute an End Product through multiple mediums
    Examples of allowed variations: “cut down” versions of a single film trailer or advertisement; language translations of a single video.

    More details about what you can’t do with Music Mass Reproduction License

    9.3.8 This is a “single application” license for one Allowed Use, so you will need a separate license for each different Allowed Use.

    9.3.9 You can’t re-distribute the Item as a musical item, as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items (such as an audio compilation), even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for free.
    Examples: You can’t modify a music track and distribute it on a music CD. You can’t add lyrics over the top of a music track and sell it as your own song on iTunes. You can’t use a music track in your internet radio service.

    9.3.10 You can’t use the Item in applications allowing an end user to customise a digital or physical product to their specific needs, such as “on demand”, “made to order” and “build it yourself” applications. You may use the Item in these ways only if you purchase a separate license for each final product created using the Item.
    Examples of “on demand”, “made to order” or “build it yourself” applications: online video or animation rendering services, “build your own website” services, photo slideshow creators, and e-card generators. You will need one license for each product created by a customer, or Contact us to discuss.

    9.3.11 You must not permit an end user to extract the Item and use it separately from an End Product.

    9.3.12 You can’t claim trademark or service mark rights over the Item within an End Product.

    9.4 Music Mass Broadcast License (10 Million)

    9.4.1 Use in one end product, free or commercial. Most web uses. Unlimited copies of a downloaded or physical end product. Plus a broadcast audience of up to 10 million. The Music Broadcast License (10 Million) grants you, the purchaser, an ongoing, non-exclusive, commercial, worldwide license to make use of the musical work (Item) you have selected, on the following terms.Show More...

    9.4.2 You are licensed to use the Item in the following way (Allowed Use), in a single application (a single product or project):
    Synchronisation with an audio-visual or audio-only work, to create one End Product that incorporates the Item as well as other things, so that it is larger in scope and different in nature than the Item.
    Examples of End Products for Music Mass Broadcast License: TV and radio advertisements, TV series, and “made for TV/cable” films.
    Our Music Standard License is all that’s needed for some specific “direct playback” uses, like background music for one event, venue or location, one company’s private on-hold music system, or one personal mobile ring-tone.

    9.4.3 The license includes the right to utilise the Item through communication to the public (performance), display, distribution, and reproduction. You can make unlimited copies of digitally downloaded or physical versions of the Broadcast End Product. Read the next clause for some limitations, and see later clauses for things that are not Allowed Uses
    Free or commercial, monetized or not, for-profit or not-for-profit – we don’t mind as long as it’s one Allowed Use! All our Music licenses are “single application” licenses for one product, one use or one project

    9.4.4 Allowed Uses have these limitations:

    1. For Broadcasts, there is an audience size limit of 10 million (where audience size means the maximum number of people the Broadcast has the potential to reach).
    2. For films, the film may not be theatrically released. (To avoid confusion, use in an Indie Film is an Allowed Use.)
    3. For P.R.O. Music, public performance rights are not included with this license. See clause 14 for more details.
      This Music Broadcast License (10 Million) allows broadcast to a higher potential audience size of 10 million. Choose the Music Broadcast & Film License for use for an unlimited Broadcast audience or in a theatrical film. See the Definitions section to understand what Indie Film and Broadcast means.

    More details about what you can do with Music Mass Broadcast License

    9.4.5 You can make an unlimited number of copies of the End Product. You can distribute the End Product through multiple media (subject to the limitations in clause 4) or make it available online with unlimited Internet views or page impressions.
    Example: your home video uploaded to a user-generated video-sharing platform goes viral and gets over 1,000,000 views. Relax and enjoy the fame, you’re still covered by this license.

    9.4.6 You can create one End Product for a client, and you can transfer that single End Product to your client. This license is then transferred to your client.

    9.4.7 You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership to the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 9.4.2.
    Examples: you can edit, loop or stretch a music track to suit your project. You can’t create a remix of a music track and claim or register it as your own song. See general clause limitations for more information about ownership rights in the Item.

    9.4.8 Although this is a “single application” license, under one license you may make allowed variations of an End Product and distribute an End Product through multiple mediums
    Examples of allowed variations: “cut down” versions of a single advertisement; distribution of a TV series on DVD.

    More details about what you can’t do with Music Mass Broadcast License

    9.4.9 This is a “single application” license for one Allowed Use, so you will need a separate license for each different Allowed Use.

    9.4.10 You can’t re-distribute the Item as a musical item, as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items (such as an audio compilation), even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for free.
    Examples: You can’t modify a music track and distribute it on a music CD. You can’t add lyrics over the top of a music track and sell it as your own song on iTunes. You can’t use a music track in your internet radio service.

    9.4.11 You can’t use the Item in applications allowing an end user to customise a digital or physical product to their specific needs, such as “on demand”, “made to order” and “build it yourself” applications. You may use the Item in these ways only if you purchase a separate license for each final product created using the Item.
    Examples of “on demand”, “made to order” or “build it yourself” applications: online video or animation rendering services, “build your own website” services, photo slideshow creators, and e-card generators. You will need one license for each product created by a customer, or Contact us to discuss.

    9.4.12 You must not permit an end user to extract the Item and use it separately from an End Product.

    9.4.13 You can’t claim trademark or service mark rights over the Item within an End Product.

    9.5 Music Broadcast & Film License (Unlimited)

    9.5.1 Use in one end product, free or commercial. Most web uses. Unlimited copies of a downloaded or physical end product. Plus an unlimited broadcast audience, or a theatrically released film. The Music Broadcast & Film License grants you, the purchaser, an ongoing, non-exclusive, commercial, worldwide license to make use of the musical work (Item) you have selected, on the following terms.Show More...

    9.5.2 You are licensed to use the Item in the following way (Allowed Use), in a single application (a single product or project):
    Synchronisation with an audio-visual or audio-only work, to create one End Product that incorporates the Item as well as other things, so that it is larger in scope and different in nature than the Item.
    Examples of End Products for Music Broadcast and Film License: theatrically released film, TV and radio advertisements, and TV series.

    9.5.3 The license includes the right to utilise the Item through communication to the public (performance), display, distribution, and unlimited reproduction. You can make unlimited copies of digitally downloaded or physical versions of the Broadcast End Product, there is no limit to the Broadcast audience size, and use in a theatrically released film is permitted. Read the later clauses for things that are not Allowed Uses.
    All our Music licenses are “single application” licenses for one product, one use or one project.
    There are other licenses for more limited uses (eg limited reproduction, smaller Broadcast audiences, and for use in Indie Films). See the Definitions section to understand what Indie Film and Broadcast means.

    9.5.4 For P.R.O. Music, public performance rights are not included with this license. See General Clause limitations.

    More details about what you can do with Music Broadcast & Film License

    9.5.5 You can make an unlimited number of copies of the End Product. You can distribute the End Product through multiple media or make it available online to an unlimited audience.
    Example: your home video uploaded to a user-generated video-sharing platform goes viral and gets over 1,000,000 views. Relax and enjoy the fame, you’re still covered by this license.

    9.5.6 You can create one End Product for a client, and you can transfer that single End Product to your client. This license is then transferred to your client.

    9.5.7 You can modify or manipulate the Item, or combine the Item with other works, to suit your End Product. The resulting works based on the Item are subject to the terms of this license. You cannot claim ownership to the Item, whether it’s in original form or altered under this clause. You can do the things allowed in this clause as long as the end use is an Allowed Use under clause 9.5.2.
    Examples: you can edit, loop or stretch a music track to suit your project. You can’t create a remix of a music track and claim or register it as your own song. See general clause limitations for more information about ownership rights in the Item.

    9.5.8 Although this is a “single application” license, under one license you may make allowed variations of an End Product and distribute an End Product through multiple mediums
    Examples of allowed variations: “cut down” versions of a single advertisement; distribution of a film or TV series on DVD.

    More details about what you can’t do with Music Broadcast & Film License

    9.5.9 This is a “single application” license for one Allowed Use, so you will need a separate license for each different Allowed Use.

    9.5.10 You can’t re-distribute the Item as a musical item, as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items (such as an audio compilation), even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for free.
    Examples: You can’t modify a music track and distribute it on a music CD. You can’t add lyrics over the top of a music track and sell it as your own song on iTunes. You can’t use a music track in your internet radio service.

    9.5.11 You can’t use the Item in applications allowing an end user to customise a digital or physical product to their specific needs, such as “on demand”, “made to order” and “build it yourself” applications. You may use the Item in these ways only if you purchase a separate license for each final product created using the Item.
    Examples of this specific “single application” requirement: Online video or animation rendering services, “build your own website” services, photo slideshow creators, and e-card generators. You will need one license for each product created by a customer, or Contact us to discuss.

    9.5.12 You must not permit an end user to extract the Item and use it separately from an End Product.

    9.5.13 You can’t claim trademark or service mark rights over the Item within an End Product.

    Definitions

    • Indie Film is A film not for general theatrical release. “Indie Film” includes a student film, a film distributed on online user generated platforms, and a film festival screening.
    • Broadcast (a) Traditional television or radio broadcast (e.g. terrestrial, cable or satellite TV, broadcast radio); or (b) Mobile or online substitutes for traditional television or radio broadcast (e.g. mobile TV, IPTV (streaming TV or video-on-demand), streaming radio).
    • you Yourself or your business entity. For an employee acting on behalf of an organisation, that organisation.

    General Clause Limitations

    The Items are either Non-P.R.O. Music or P.R.O. Music.

    1. Non-P.R.O. Music. If the Item is Non-P.R.O. Music, this means it is not registered with any Performing Rights Organizations (P.R.O.s). Non-P.R.O. Music is generally not subject to any additional fees, but it is your responsibility as a buyer to pay any performing rights fees that may apply in your country, which will depend on the rules of your local P.R.O., your local laws, and your use of the Item.
    2. P.R.O. Music. If the Item is P.R.O. Music, this means the author of the item is a member of a P.R.O. and/or the item is registered with a P.R.O. If you intend to use the P.R.O. Music in an End Product that is publicly performed or broadcast, then you may need to obtain additional performing rights from a P.R.O. and be subject to additional fees which are collected by a P.R.O.
    3. Nothing in this license acts as a waiver of any P.R.O. fees.
      For more information on performing rights, and when you may be subject to additional fees collected by P.R.O.s

    You can only use the Item for lawful purposes. Also, you can’t use the item in connection with defamatory, obscene or demeaning material, or in connection with sensitive subjects.
    You must not use the Item in violation of any export laws that apply to you.
    If you breach this license, you will not be required to stop using the End Product, but the author will be entitled to seek any other remedies available against you at law for the breach (if left unremedied), including an award of damages.

    The author of the Item retains ownership of the Item but grants you the license on these terms. You can’t claim ownership of the Item, even if modified under clause 7, for example through content identification systems.

    Example: if you use a music track synced in your video, you can’t claim rights to the music (eg through applying “ContentID” or similar systems to the music in your video).

    This license is between the SoundPlusUA LLC or author of the Item and you. SoundPlusUA LLC has all rights to sell or five the licenses.

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