Vendor Agreement & Music Licence

1. Grant of licence

You grant the Platform a non-exclusive, sublicensable licence for the territory of India (extendable by territory grants you control) to:

• host, transcode and stream your recordings and display their artwork, metadata and artist profiles;
• make your recordings available to approved partner applications — including social-media and short-video apps — where users may attach 15–60 second clips of your music to their posts and videos, without any further per-use approval from you;
• promote your catalogue within the Platform and partner applications, including in charts, search and editorial placements.

Once a track is approved, this licence operates freely and automatically: neither the Platform nor a partner application needs to ask again before each use. In return, the Platform enforces the boundaries in section 3 on your behalf.

2. Your warranties

You warrant that, for every track you submit, you control both the sound recording (master) and the underlying composition, and that no prior assignment — including to a copyright society under s.19(8) of the Copyright Act 1957 — conflicts with this grant. A track failing either side is rejected, not partially accepted.

3. What partner applications may not do

• No download, export or redistribution of your audio outside the app experience.
• Clips are stored by reference — partners never receive a copy of your master.
• No use in territories you have not cleared; clearance is deny-by-default.
• No standalone commercial or brand-campaign use without a separate written licence.

4. Claims, withdrawal and disputes

If a valid rights claim is upheld against a track, every clip of it is muted at once, platform-wide. You may withdraw a track at any time; withdrawal mutes its existing clips. Where a recording is shown to belong to another vendor, the Platform may transfer its ownership after review, preserving its history.

5. Payment, tax and term

Royalties accrue per your commercial schedule and are reported in your dashboard. Payouts require a verified PAN; withholding follows s.194J of the Income-tax Act. This Agreement runs until your account closes; sections 3 and 4 survive for content already in circulation. It is governed by the laws of India.

6. Platform's role and reliance on your declarations

Music operates as an intermediary: it hosts, reviews and distributes recordings solely on the strength of the rights declarations and documents you submit. Approval of a track is a review of your evidence, not an independent guarantee of ownership, and does not transfer any liability for the truth of your declarations from you to the Platform. The Platform observes the due-diligence and takedown obligations applicable to intermediaries under the Information Technology Act 2000 and rules thereunder.

7. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Platform, its operators, and its partner applications against all claims, damages, penalties and reasonable costs (including legal costs) arising from: (a) any breach of your warranties in section 2; (b) any third-party claim that a recording you submitted infringes copyright or any other right; (c) any inaccuracy in the tax or identity information you provided. This indemnity survives the removal of the recording and the termination of this Agreement.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss (including lost profits or lost opportunities), and its total aggregate liability to you under this Agreement is capped at the royalties actually payable to you for the twelve months preceding the claim. Nothing limits liability that cannot be limited under Indian law.

9. Moderation discretion

The Platform may reject, suspend, mute or remove any recording at its sole discretion — including on receipt of a credible rights claim, a society-conflict indication, or a legal notice — without prior notice to you and without liability. Quota slots are restored where this Agreement or the Platform's published processes say so.

10. Changes, severability, jurisdiction

The Platform may amend this Agreement by publishing a new version; continued uploading after notice of the new version constitutes acceptance for subsequent uploads. If any clause is held unenforceable, the remainder stands. This Agreement is governed by the laws of India and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts at the Platform's registered office.