Sound Legends Terms and Conditions

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1. This Agreement governs the relationship between Sound Legends, Inc., DBA Soundlegends.com, a Florida Corporation located in Miami, Florida (“Sound Legends”, “us”, “we”, “our”) and you (“you”, “your”, “the Artist”) in respect of any musical works or sound recordings (“Works”) that you submit to us for inclusion in any of the services (“Service”) as defined on www.soundlegends.com, in writing or verbally agreed.
2. In consideration of the sums payable to you or us and the services provided by us pursuant to this Agreement, you grant to us and our licensees a non-exclusive, world-wide license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publicly perform, exhibit, broadcast and transmit and make available the Works for distribution in the Service and for all promotional purposes including without limitation for the purposes of internet radio broadcast, world- wide digital distribution and publishing; and use, reproduce and display in the Service any trademarks, service marks or trade names relating to you and the name and likeness of you and the band/artist whose performances are embodied in the Works.
3. You grant to us (on behalf of yourself) all necessary consents under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (‘Act’) and any modification or re-enactment thereof to enable us to make the fullest possible use of the Works in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement including without limitation any and all consents required under Part II of the Act. The Artist will hold copyright always.
4. Standard Service prices shall be listed at www.soundlegends.com, agree verbally or in writing. Services carried out shall be as listed on www.soundlegends.com at time of purchase. We reserve the right to renegotiate payment amount if additional non-standard services are requested. In such case all prices shall be agreed by both parties in writing and paid in full before commencement. We are not obliged to provide any services above and beyond what has been paid for. Upon third party failure to fulfill service we shall assist with ‘best endeavors’ but are not responsible or liable for such failure.
5. Payment shall only be made if accumulated outstanding earnings exceed $ 25.00 USD. This threshold shall be carried over until such a time as it is attained. Only monies earned within the preceding months shall be paid and only if received from retailer/licensee. About royalty payment to You, any transaction charges shall be passed on. Payment is available by check at a charge of $1.00 USD. Sales figures shall be made available online via a secure login. We are not responsible for third party system failure in this regard.
6. You warrant, agree and undertake both on behalf of yourself that the Works are original to you and have not been copied from any third party; the Works do not infringe any copyright, trademark or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any third party or include any material which are defamatory of any party or obscene; you are not under any disability, restriction or prohibition, whether contractual or otherwise with respect to your right, power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and grant the rights herein expressed to be granted to us and in particular, the Works do not contain any viruses or other programming routines that detrimentally interfere with computer systems or data.
7. You agree to indemnify us in full against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) suffered or incurred by us as a result of your breach of any of the warranties or undertakings in this Agreement, or any claims by any third party including but not limited to claims for payment of outstanding debts for services provided or goods supplied by such third parties.
8. Termination (a) This Agreement may be terminated by you upon 1 day’s written notification (including notification by email) of such termination providing there are no outstanding payments due to us. Written notification of contract termination shall be subject to no take-down fee. It is your obligation to cancel the storage and maintenance subscription at this point. Any further subscription payments shall be forfeited. Upon contract termination We shall cease all exploitation, use and distribution of all your submitted recordings and instruct our partners within 30 days to remove recordings from all platforms. We are not responsible for third-party exploitation after removal instruction. You are responsible for any third-party take-down fees. (b) This Agreement may be terminated by us upon 1 day’s written notification (including notification by email) of such termination providing there are no outstanding Services due to you. Upon cancellation in this regard, we shall instruct our partners within 30 days to remove recordings from all platforms. For any service requiring a subscription we may cancel (at our discretion) the Service without reimbursement if such subscription becomes no longer active. We are not responsible for third-party exploitation after removal instruction. You are responsible for any third-party take-down fees. (c) Refund shall only be given if we are notified in writing within seven (7) business days of account activation.
9. We have the right to terminate this Agreement following any behavior deemed by Us as threatening, disrespectful, unprofessional or otherwise carried out by You or any associated parties.
10. The Artist will submit all content in a Work within a reasonable and pre-agreed time for release and distribution in an agreed format. Upon late submission We shall try best endeavors to perform the agreed Services. We are not obliged to commence Services before receipt of ALL necessary content. Sound Legends is not responsible for third-party failure to make content commercially available.
11. The Artist and representatives shall always refer to available help material before contacting us. This includes all known resources provided by us, including but not limited to help documents, online data, written and oral advice. Subject to our discretion, violation of this will lead to Agreement cancellation after one written warning from us.
12. Each party to this agreement shall keep confidential all information disclosed within the agreement and up to two years after termination.
13. You shall provide accurate contact details for you and/or your representative(s). If supplied payment details are inaccurate any monies paid towards You using these incorrect details shall be forfeited.
14. By signing up to our site you give us permission to sign you up to our mailing list to receive communications from Sound Legends. We will not share these contact details with any third party. You can unsubscribe from this list at any point by emailing support@soundlegends.com, or by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of your email.
15. In the event that we are required to perform any third- party registration on your behalf you grant us permission to act as rights holder for all submitted tracks. This copyright is for purely administrative purposes and is a legal requirement of the registration entity. This does not affect any other copyrights mentioned in this Agreement.
16. A ‘fair usage policy’ applies to the Free iTunes service, which can be enforced at Our discretion. User may upload a maximum of one release, no release may be more than 12 tracks.
17. Neither party shall be liable for failure to perform or delay in performing any obligation under this Agreement if the failure or delay is caused by any circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of god, war, civil commotion or industrial dispute. If such act shall make performance of this Agreement impossible for more than three months shall be treated as frustrated and terminated at that date.
18. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us in respect of the subject matter of it and no terms, obligations, representations, promises or conditions, oral or written, express or implied have been made or relied upon, other than those contained in it. The provisions contained in each clause and sub-clause of this Agreement shall be enforceable independently of each of the others and its validity shall not be affected if any of the others is invalid. If any of those provisions is void but would be valid if some part of the provision were deleted, the provision in question shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to make it valid.
19. This Agreement shall be construed and performed in all respects in accordance with and shall be governed by the laws of Florida, USA and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of Miami- Dade County or if applicable, US Federal courts. In the event of a dispute between the Parties arising out of this deed, they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
20. Unless terminated under clause 7(a), 7(b), 7(c), 7(d) or 15 the term of this Agreement shall be one year from the Effective Date written below and will automatically renew for successive one-year periods unless either Party provides written notice to the other Party to terminate this Agreement at least 30 days before the next anniversary of this Agreement.
21. The Parties agree that no third party will acquire any third-party rights under this contract, and the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Rights) Act 1999 are expressly excluded.