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Attribution & Royalty Policy

This Attribution and Royalty Policy forms part of the MixMatchMusic Terms of Service Agreement and is incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms not defined herein will have the meanings set forth the MixMatchMusic Terms of Service and related policies.

MixMatchMusic believes its community members should be able to profit from their art, whether it's a stem, a musical idea, or a completed song. So, we've developed a system of rights management that is as flexible as you make it.

How your co-authorship rights and royalties are managed at MixMatchMusic

When you contribute music to the Site, as further described in the MixMatchMusic Terms of Service, among other rights, you grant a non-exclusive license to our community to make music with your contributions. Nonexclusive means you can do whatever you want with the contribution outside of the Site. There are two types of MixMatchMusic Users that can use your contributions:

• Registered Users are fans that aren't uploading content, but they are consuming, remixing, and arranging your audio files and other artists' files. Doing so is free as long as the mix or song they make remains on our Site - this is one way we promote music discovery. However, Registered Users pay for using your content when they download what they've made as further described below.
• MixMatchArtists are the other musicians who contribute music to the Site - your potential future co-authors. They may sample and mix your content using the sequencer on our Site. Or, you can give them the option of downloading your music for use in their own music software.

All songs collaboratively made on the Site can be purchased, and when your music finds itself in one of these songs, the goal is for you to get paid then and when your music finds itself in a song that is made and downloaded by a Registered User.

If you allow MixMatchArtists to download (instead of purchase) your contributions, you can customize the license terms that apply to the download. Whatever you choose, all downloads will appear in your transaction log and you'll be notified by email. The default license is that MixMatchArtists get 5 free downloads for every 2 uploads, but please choose whatever makes you feel most comfortable! If you do allow downloads, MixMatchArtists will attribute you when they upload the resulting work; this attribution is reflected in the Site. You'll be notified of this upload both in your transaction log and through email. If you don't allow other MixMatchArtists to download your content into their software, they can use the files the same way as Registered Users, triggering the potential for payments.

If at anytime you want to commercially release a song made on the Site, depending on the terms under which you made your content available, you can just get permission from your co-authors by messaging them. Then, use the Remix Wizard to cultivate and engage a fanbase! For further information regarding the RemixWizard site and service visit our affiliated website located at http://remixwizard.mixmatchmusic.com/

Attribution, Transparency and Getting Paid

MixMatchMusic provides you with the tools and reporting capabilities you need to keep track of your art within the Site, and to see who is doing what with it. You will not watch your music disappear into the vast digital realms of cyberspace to the extent our system can track it!

Attribution. Whenever Registered Users or MixMatchArtists purchase, download, or use your music to make a song, the transaction is recorded in your transaction log and you are notified via email (click here to set up your notifications ). Anytime a song is made using your music, you will automatically be attributedcredited for your work!

Accruing Royalties. Starting on October 1st, 2008 and until further notice, MixMatchMusic Users can purchase content for $1.00 which triggers a payment to you and your co-authors of $0.85 for each dollar spent. See the FAQ on the royalty algorithm to see how the $0.85 is broken up. Under no circumstances will any payment be due to a MixMatchMusic Artist from MixMatchMusic where a download has not occurred and the MixMatchMusic User has not paid for the relevant download.

To check out the royalties you've earned, visit your Royalty Log.

Payment. MixMatchMusic will pass royalties collected (including any tips) on to you quarterly. If the amounts due to a MixMatchArtist in any month are less than $10 then MixMatchMusic may wait to pass the funds until the end of the quarter in which at least $10 is due or at another time to be determined by MixMatchMusic its sole discretion. To set up how you want to receive payment, click here.

Payments due to MixMatchArtists will be delivered by check to the billing address that the MixMatchArtist provides in his or her account profile. All monies provided to MixMatchArtists by MixMatchMusic will be provided by MixMatchMusic in U.S. dollars. You are solely responsible for all costs incurred by you in using the Site and Service and providing your content and determining, collecting, reporting and paying all applicable state and federal sales, income and other taxes. MixMatchMusic will only pass funds on to the MixMatchArtist when MixMatchMusic has actually collected payment from the applicable MixMatchMusic User. MixMatchMusic may institute a chargeback policy as it deems appropriate in the event that the MixMatchMusic User or MixMatchMusic UserÕs bank does not honor a payment obligation or if MixMatchMusic questions its ability to collect funds.

More Good Stuff

One of our community goals is to bring musicians together with each other and with fans. Doing so may create opportunities for you to profit from your stems, random ideas and finished works both on the site, and potentially through off-site licensing/placement opportunities that we'll try to secure (terms and conditions to be determined on a case by case basis). For off-site licensing/placement opportunities you and your co-authors could potentially make 85% from the revenue earned by MixMatchMusic for the licensing/placement! Plus, when a fan really digs your music, he or she can give you a little money in the form of a "tip", and of course you keep 100 percent of that!