Standard Royalty Free License

Our standard license

Our standard license gives you, the purchaser, the right to use and distribute our music as part of your own projects. You may use our music for one to one therapeutic work, promotional film/video/DVD, web- and Flash sites, advertising, training/instructional materials, and other similar media uses.

The license lasts for 100 years from the date of purchase, and the territory is: world-wide.

Mass production

A limitation of our standard license is that you may only sell, use or give away up to 1,000 copies of any product containing our music in any calendar year. To make more than 1,000 copies or uses of a product containing our music in any calendar year, you will need a Mass Production License which is available by contacting us directly.

The Mass-production license requirement applies to music tracks and music loops only.

You may not trade in the music, i.e. to sell it as a music track, include it on a music CD for sale, offer it for sale or licensing through a web site, or other means of trading in the music as a music product.

Derived works

You are not allowed to create derived works of our music. What this means is that if you are a musician, music producer, rapper, singer etc, you cannot buy our music, add your own voice/instruments, and then treat that as your own music. What you are doing then is to create new music that is partially built on our music. This is known as "creating derived works" and it is not allowed.

You are however allowed to use our music as background music and add your voice over the music in products such as healing/meditation tapes, self-help tapes, audio-books and similar. Here, even though you have added your voice over the music, you have not created new music based on our music - you haven't created derived musical works - so these uses are fine.

Acceptable Uses

Training Films, Web sites, therapeutic multimedia or CDROM, video, DVD (up to 1,000 copies included in standard license), yoga/meditation tapes or CDs, workout/aerobics tapes/CDs, audio books, TV programmes, trade show presentation, telephone on-hold (see below), PowerPoint presentation, advertisement/commercial, etc. Up to 1,000 copies per year under standard license. More copies requires a Mass Production License.

Use of our music without mixing it with other media

Our license is for one company or person to use our music within their own media, such as web site, film, advertisement, animation, game, etc. It is not a license to simply duplicate our music as it is.

We are sometimes asked whether it is acceptable to license music from us, put that music on a music CD, and sell or give away that CD as a promotional gift. The answer to this is:

• If you are creating a music CD to give away for free as a promotional gift (for example, you want to include a free music CD as a bonus gift to somebody who buys a product from you, or just as a gift to your clients), this use is not covered under our standard license. Contact us for further information if this is something you wish to do.
• If you add your voice over the music (say, a therapy CD or self-help CD with spoken words mixed over the music), this is acceptable under our Standard license. Just be sure to get the correct Mass Production License if you performor record more than 1,000 copies or impressions in a calendar year.

Broadcasting

Broadcasting (TV/radio) is not included with our standard license. Should you feel our music is right for this type of project, please contact us for further information.

Theatrical release

The standard license enables you to use our music in training or group events of unlimited size where you are adding spoken words over the top of it. In instances where a fee has been charged it must not be for the sole appreciation or broadcasting of the music alone. Each participant in such a group event will count toward the 1,000 use limit per calendar year.

Second owner rights

You may store our music in any format and on any device. However the Royalty free license is limited to the original licensee and any subsequent right to use our music, purchased as part of an MP3 player or similar device is notcovered.

Editing/changing the music

You may edit our music (fade, crop, cut, stretch, loop) etc. to fit your required cue lengths.

You may however not use our music as a basis on which to create new music. (See “You may not create derived works” above).

Credits

You are not required to credit us for the music. It is however generally considered to be good practice to always credit the composer.

Refund policy

After you have placed an order, you may cancel any item that you have not yet downloaded and get a refund. If you wish to cancel a purchase of one or more items, simply use the cancellation process described in the email that is automatically sent to you when you place an order. This must be done before the product is downloaded.

Like other shops that sell downloadable products, we do not refund or exchange any product that has been downloaded. Once the download has taken place, the purchase is final.

Disclaimer of consequential damages

Harmonix Systems Ltd and it's web domain www.SoundboardUK.com are under no circumstances liable for any damages, consequential or incidental, arising out of the use of the audio or inability to use the audio including without limitation, computer failure, work stoppage or any other damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some states and countries do not allow the exclusion for limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.

Limitation on liability

Harmonix Systems Ltd and it's trading domain www.SoundboardUK.com shall in no event be liable to a sum that exceeds the actual price paid for the license.

If you have any questions on how you may or may not use our music, please contact us.

Termination and Revocation

The license contained in this Agreement will terminate automatically without notice from Harmonix Systems Ltd if Licensee fails to comply with any provision of this Agreement. Upon termination, Licensee must immediately (i) stop using the Licensed Material; (ii) destroy or, upon the request of Harmonix Systems Ltd, return the Licensed Material to Harmonix Systems Ltd; and (iii) delete and remove the Licensed Material from Licensee's premises, computer systems and storage (electronic or physical).