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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please read the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service") carefully. These Terms of Service, as well as the copyright policy (“Copyright Policy”) and the privacy policy, which Copyright Policy and Privacy Policy are incorporated herein by this reference, govern your access to and use of the TuneCore.com website (the “Site”), including any content, information, products and/or services (the “Services”) therein. This is a legal agreement between you and TuneCore, Inc. (“Company”). Company reserves the sole right at any time to modify, discontinue or terminate the Site and Services, or modify these Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and/or the Copyright Policy without notice. All modified terms and/or conditions will be in effect after they are posted on the Site (unless applicable law requires a longer notice period). By continuing to use or access the Site and/or Services after Company makes any such modification, you agree to be legally bound by the revised Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and/or Copyright Policy, as applicable. You may not alter the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and/or the Copyright Policy without Company’s express written consent.

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY USING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY TUNECORE.COM, OR YOUR TUNECORE ACCOUNT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THE COPYRIGHT POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF SERVICE IN THEIR ENTIRETY, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE TUNECORE.COM SERVICES.

1. GRANT OF RIGHTS.

The rights granted hereunder shall include sale of permanent digital downloads, temporary digital downloads, interactive streaming (both tethered and non-tethered), non-interactive streaming (both promotional and fee based) and sale through so-called "disc-on-demand" services. Specific rights are more fully described on the attached fee schedule. YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT COMPANIES LICENSED TO PROVIDE YOUR MATERIALS HEREUNDER MUST BE APPROVED BY YOU.

By clicking the "I Agree" button, you ("you") irrevocably grant to Company, throughout the world and during the Term (as defined below), the non-exclusive right:

YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT USE THE SITE OR SERVICES 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. Company has adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the Accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be infringing the rights of copyright holders. Please see the TuneCore Copyright Policy for further information. You acknowledge and agree that Company may disable access to your account, and/or disable access to any Recordings or any associated materials you provide to Company, in the event that Company receives any claim which, if true, would constitute a violation of your representations and warranties hereunder. You agree that you will not be entitled to any reimbursement for any fees paid by you to Company in the event Company disables access to your account, your Recordings and/or any other materials you provide to Company.

2. RECORDINGS.

The term "Recordings" shall be defined as the sound recordings and audio/visual recordings that you submit to Company at any time. Company reserves the right to reject any materials (including, without limitation, sound recordings, videos and/or artwork) that you submit, in its sole discretion. You agree to submit all Recordings and artwork, at your sole expense, in the format(s) required by Company or its consumer licensees. Technical descriptions of such format(s) will be provided to you upon request. You agree that Company and/or its suppliers will have the right to supplement existing artwork necessary to complete the packaging for Discs-On-Demand. Reasonable efforts will be made to provide you with approval over such artwork, but in the event that you object to any such artwork your only remedy shall be to either (a) provide appropriate replacement artwork, or (b) request prospective discontinuation of delivery of your materials in such manner. In no circumstances shall Company have any liability to you with respect to the quality, sufficiency or other aspect of the creation and delivery of such Discs-On-Demand.

3. PAYMENTS. 4. THIRD PARTY OBLIGATIONS.

You shall be solely responsible for securing and paying for digital phonorecord delivery (DPD), mechanical and any other licenses required from musical composition copyright owners (or their agents) in connection with Company's exploitation of rights hereunder, royalties due to artists, producers and other persons who performed in the making of the Recordings and all payments that may be required under collective bargaining agreements. Outside of the United States, Company customarily requires the digital music service providers (DMSP's) to secure and pay for music publishing licenses (and such license fees may or may not be deducted by the DMSP concerned from the proceeds payable to Company). If any DMSP outside of the United States does not agree to secure and pay for music publishing licenses, Company shall have the right, at its option, to either (i) decline to license such DMSP, or (ii) assume the responsibility to clear and pay for the music publishing licenses required in connection with such DMSP's sales, which license fees Company shall have the right to deduct from amounts payable to you hereunder. To the extent Company is required, or elects (in its sole discretion), to pay any of the foregoing amounts, such payments will be deducted from any amounts otherwise due to you hereunder.

To the extent that Company permits you to select certain tracks from your TuneCore catalog to distribute free to fans or distribute directly through your own website, you agree that you will be solely responsible for any of the above referenced third party payment obligations resulting from such deliveries.

5. WARRANTIES; REPRESENTATIONS; INDEMNITIES.

You warrant and represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, you have the right and authority to enter into this agreement and to grant to Company all rights specified; all of the Recordings, including, without limitation, any sampled third party material embodied therein, artwork, metadata, videos and any other materials furnished by you to Company or relating to the Recordings are owned or controlled by you and the use thereof as described or contemplated herein and/or on the Site shall not infringe on the copyrights, trademark rights or other rights of any person or entity; and that Company shall have the right to exploit same in any manner hereunder free from adverse claim and without any obligation to make any payment of any nature to any person or entity, other than the amounts payable to you hereunder. You shall defend and indemnify Company and any of its affiliates (including any directors, members, officers, employees and other representatives) and hold them harmless against any third party claims or expenses and losses resulting from breach, or a claim which if true would constitute a breach of the foregoing warranties, these Terms of Service, and/or the Copyright Policy, including reasonable attorneys' fees and litigation expenses.

Company shall give you prompt notice of any claim which is subject to the foregoing indemnification obligation and you shall defend Company at your expense with counsel approved by Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld). If a claim is made Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to remove or disable access to the Recordings and/or any associated materials that are the subject of such claim, and/or to withhold payment of any monies due hereunder in an amount reasonably related to the claim and potential expenses. Any settlement of any claim shall be subject to Company's prior written approval.

6. COMPANY FEES.
In consideration of the services rendered hereunder, you shall pay to Company the fees described on the Fee Schedule, which may be amended from time to time by Company without notice to you. All music and videos delivered by Company require that you purchase an annual fee-based subscription. You expressly agree that Company is authorized to deduct your annual subscription fees, any applicable tax and other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the TuneCore service directly from your TuneCore account (your share of Net Income) or charge such fees to any alternate payment method (such as a valid PayPal account, credit card or debit card) (each, a “Payment Method”) you provided to Company. You are solely responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes, and assessments arising out of any use of your TuneCore account by you or anyone else using your account. If you notify Company in writing that you are canceling your annual subscription for one or more of your albums or videos, no further annual fees will be charged to your TuneCore account or alternate Payment Method for those albums or videos. All cancelled albums and videos will be removed from the applicable digital Internet consumer stores (e.g., "iTunes" and "Rhapsody"). You will not be entitled to reimbursement of any applicable pre-paid fees with respect to any cancelled albums or videos. It is your responsibility to notify Company if your Payment Method has changed by making the appropriate changes to your TuneCore account settings. If you do not provide a valid Payment Method your service may be disconnected or interrupted.

7. TERM.
These Terms of Service shall apply at all times while you utilize the Site or the Services.

8. CONFIDENTIALITY.
You acknowledge and agree that in the course of negotiating and transacting business with Company, you may become aware of certain otherwise confidential information related to Company’s business and business practices. Except to the extent that such information is otherwise generally available to third parties or is required to be divulged by operation of law, you agree to keep such information confidential. You hereby expressly agree that Company will have the right to provide information relative to the sales of your Recordings hereunder to third parties, to aggregate such information in charts and other comparative informational materials, and to disseminate the same in any manner.

9. OTHER AGREEMENTS.
You acknowledge that in providing the services and payments hereunder, Company will be required to enter into certain sublicensing agreements with various consumer outlets. You agree that the terms of these Terms of Service shall be subject to any applicable terms and conditions of such other agreements Company enters into with respect to such sublicensees. You expressly acknowledge that certain of such sublicenses may, with respect to motion pictures, require that your materials be made available on their stores at certain times and in certain formats relative to the availability of such materials elsewhere in the marketplace. To the extent that such requirements are not met, the individual sublicensees may have the right to discontinue the availability of said materials in their store(s). Company will, upon your written request, provide you with the current specifics of such requirements.

10. BAR CODES AND UNIVERSAL PRODUCT CODES.
Company provides free bar codes and UPCs to all of its customers. These are for the use of the customer only and may not be transferred or resold. If transferred or resold, Company will charge you $25.00 per bar code or UPC, plus any revenue made by you from such transfer or resale. Company may deduct such charges from any fees owed to you.

11. MISCELLANEOUS.
The Site and Services may be used and accessed solely for lawful and non-commercial purposes. You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and foreign laws, treatises and regulations in connection with your use of the Site and Services. In addition, without limitation, you agree that you will not do any of the following while using or accessing the Site or Services:

12. FEE SCHEDULE.
Retail Pricing as of July 21, 2010:

SINGLE FEES (one song): Ringtone FEES (one ringtone): ALBUM FEES: ONE TIME FEES: BARCODES AND UPCs:
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION FEES:
MUSIC VIDEO FEES
 0 to 5:59 min6 to 11:59 min12 to 20 min
Standard Definition$110.00$166.00$255.00
High Definition$211.00$352.00$550.00

FILM DISTRIBUTION FEES
Standard Definition$750.00
High Definition$1057.00

FILM RESUBMISSION RATES
DurationStandard DefinitionHigh Definition
45 to 60 minutes$185.00$458.00
61 to 75 minutes$205.00$511.00
76 to 90 minutes$225.00$565.00
91 to 105 minutes$240.00$600.00
106 to 120 minutes$255.00$635.00
121 to 140 minutes$268.00$670.00

 

TUNECORE COPYRIGHT POLICY

TuneCore respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, TuneCore will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the TuneCore service that are reported to the TuneCore Designated Copyright Agent identified in the sample notice below.

Notice of Infringement
If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the TuneCore service (the "Service") by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to the TuneCore Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of Notice as described below, TuneCore will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged use from the Service and/or termination of the applicable TuneCore user’s account.

DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement ("Notice"):

  1. Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or - if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice - you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
  2. Identify the material you claim is infringing (or the subject of infringing activity) and to which access should be disabled.
  3. Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
  4. Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:
    - "I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."

    - "I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed."
  5. Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to TuneCore's Designated Copyright Agent:

Copyright Agent
TuneCore, Inc.
45 Washington Street, P.O. Box 256
Brooklyn, NY 11201
copyright@TuneCore.com

Notice of Wrongful Removal of Material
If you are a TuneCore user and you believe that material you have uploaded to the TuneCore Service has been wrongfully removed, you may file a counter-notification. If you did not have all of the rights to post the material at issue, you MUST NOT submit a counter-notification. Under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

After TuneCore receives your counter-notification, TuneCore will forward it to the party who submitted the original claim of copyright infringement. Please note that when TuneCore forwards the counter-notification, it includes your personal information. By submitting a counter-notification, you consent to having your information revealed in this way. TuneCore will not forward the counter-notification to any third party other than the original claimant. After TuneCore sends out the counter-notification, the claimant must then notify TuneCore within 10 business days that he or she has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material in question. If TuneCore receives such notification TuneCore will be unable to restore the material. If TuneCore does not receive such notification, TuneCore may reinstate the material.

DMCA Counter-Notification ("Counter-Notification"):

  1. Identify the work that has been removed from the TuneCore service.
  2. Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
  3. Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:

    - “I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district in which my address is located, or if my address is outside of the United States, the judicial district in which TuneCore is located, and will accept service of process from the claimant.”

    - “I am the TuneCore user that uploaded the material in question to the TuneCore service. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.”
  4. Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Deliver this Counter-Notification, with all items completed, to TuneCore's Designated Copyright Agent:

Copyright Agent
TuneCore, Inc.
45 Washington Street, P.O. Box 256
Brooklyn, NY 11201
copyright@TuneCore.com