Artist Agreement

Effective date: [[EFFECTIVE_DATE]]

This Artist Agreement ("Agreement") is between [[OPERATOR_NAME]], [[OPERATOR_ADDRESS]] ("Bitrate") and the artist account holder ("you"). It applies in addition to the Terms of Use.

1. What Bitrate is

Bitrate is a service you use to host and share your music. Bitrate is not a record label, publisher or manager and does not acquire ownership of your recordings or compositions.

2. Your content and warranties

2.1 "Your Content" means audio, artwork, titles and metadata you upload.

2.2 You warrant that, for everything you upload:

• you own it or hold all licences and permissions needed, including for any samples, featured performers and compositions;
• uploading it and granting the licence in section 3 does not infringe anyone's rights or any law;
• the information you provide about it (title, credits, explicit flag) is accurate.

2.3 You are responsible for rights in both the recording (master) and the underlying composition. If a collecting society or another party controls part of those rights, you must have authority to upload.

3. Licence to Bitrate

You grant Bitrate a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable licence to host, store, transcode, reproduce, display and stream Your Content on Bitrate, and to create technical copies and previews needed to operate the service. Bitrate does not sublicense Your Content to third parties except service providers acting on its behalf. The licence ends when you remove Your Content or close your account, subject to reasonable backup periods and legal-retention obligations.

4. Removal and disputes

4.1 You may remove Your Content at any time.

4.2 Bitrate may remove or disable content after a valid notice under Copyright and notice-and-action, or where required by law or the Community Guidelines. You can contest a decision using the counter-notice process.

4.3 Accounts that repeatedly upload infringing content may be terminated.

5. Indemnity

[[INDEMNITY_CLAUSE — counsel to draft; must be fair under EU rules for unfair terms]]

6. Payments

Bitrate does not currently pay royalties or distribute your music to other services. If that changes, separate terms will apply and you will be asked to accept them.

7. Term and termination

This Agreement lasts while your artist account is active. Either party may end it by closing the account or notifying the other at [[LEGAL_CONTACT_EMAIL]]. Sections that by nature should survive (warranties, indemnity, removal) continue.

8. Governing law

[[GOVERNING_LAW]]. Mandatory consumer-protection rules continue to apply if you act as a consumer.

9. Contact

[[OPERATOR_NAME]], [[OPERATOR_ADDRESS]] — [[LEGAL_CONTACT_EMAIL]].