Studio terms and session agreements.
Every booking accepts the Studio Terms. A producer session accepts the Producer Session Terms too: the beat made in the session is not licensed by the booking, the artist has 30 days after it to license the record on the Beat Lease or the Exclusive Beat Licence, and after that the beat goes back to the producer. A writer in the room adds their own agreement. The text accepted in the cart is the text below, and the confirmation email links to it.
- Studio Terms v22 2026-10-23
- Producer Session Terms v22 2026-10-23
- Beat Lease v22 2026-10-23
- Exclusive Beat Licence v22 2026-10-23
- Writer Session Agreement v22 2026-10-23
Studio Terms
These Studio Terms govern every booking of Authxntic Studio. They are between Authxntic LLC, a Delaware limited liability company trading as Authxntic Music Group, Authxntic Studio and Authxntic Records ("Authxntic", "we", "us"), and the person who books ("you", "the Artist"). Requesting a Booking means you accept them.
How the documents fit together. The Session buys you the room, the people in it and the recording you make. It does not by itself give you the right to release that recording. Where a Producer's Beat is used, the Producer Session Terms apply: the Beat made in the Session is not licensed by the Booking; for 30 days after the Session you alone may license the record, on the Beat Lease or the Exclusive Beat Licence; after that the Beat goes back to the Producer, and the record may still be licensed while the Beat is not licensed exclusively to anyone else, as section 8 summarises. A Writer in the room adds the Writer Session Agreement. The model behind all of it is explained at How licensing works.
- Definitions
- Booking and confirmation
- Fees and payment
- Engineer, producer, writer
- Cancellation and rescheduling
- The Room: conduct, guests, damage
- Your material
- The recording, and the right to release it
- Session files and delivery
- Photography and filming
- Records and privacy
- Our warranties, and the limits on our liability
- Indemnity
- Changes to these terms
- General
- Governing law and disputes
1. Definitions
1.1 The "Room" is Studio A at Authxntic Studio, Los Angeles, with its equipment.
1.2 A "Booking" is your reservation of the Room for a Session, requested and confirmed as section 2 describes. The "Session" is the booked hours in the Room with the Engineer, Producer or Writer you choose.
1.3 The "Session Fee" is the total for the room and the Engineer, Producer or Writer booked with it, charged when we confirm the Booking. A "Licence Fee" is paid separately for a beat licence bought after the Session and is never part of the Session Fee.
1.4 The "Recording" is every audio file made during the Session. The "Session Files" are the project files and raw audio we keep afterwards. The "Master" is the final mixed recording of a song. The "Composition" is the song itself: words and melody, and the musical elements of any Beat it is built on.
1.5 The "Beat" is an instrumental a Producer brings to the Session. The "Confirmation" is the email we send when we accept a request.
2. Booking and confirmation
2.1 A Booking starts as a request made on authxntic.com. Your card is authorised for the fees and is not charged. We accept or decline within 24 hours of your request, or by 1 hour before the start time if that is sooner. If we accept, the card is charged and we send the Confirmation. If we decline, or the request expires without a response, the authorisation is released and nothing is charged. A booking made with a code for payment in cash follows the same steps, with nothing held.
2.2 Your request and the Confirmation carry a reference in the form AX-000000-XXX. Quote it in any email about the Session.
2.3 A request must start at least 2 hours after it is made. The minimum Booking is 3 hours and the maximum in one Booking is 12 hours, in whole hours from the chosen start time.
2.4 The Session runs from the booked start to the booked end. Time lost by a late arrival is still booked time. Time past the booked end is by agreement in the Room, charged at the same hourly rate in whole hours, and paid before you leave.
2.5 The calendar on the site shows the Room's live availability. A slot is held while a request is pending and by a confirmed Booking.
2.6 The Room is in a private home. Its address is sent with the Confirmation and is for the people attending the Session. Do not share or publish it.
3. Fees and payment
3.1 The rates are the ones shown on the site when you request, in US dollars. The room's hourly rate depends on whether an Engineer, Producer or Writer is booked with it; an Engineer is charged by the hour, and a Producer and a Writer are at no hourly charge. The Session Fee is authorised when you request and charged in full when we confirm, by card through Stripe. With a cash code the whole Session Fee is paid in cash at the Session instead, and nothing is held.
3.2 A Licence Fee is separate from the Session Fee and is paid when a licence is bought after the Session, as section 8 and the Producer Session Terms describe. Nothing for a licence is charged at booking.
3.3 Any sales tax that applies is added at the rate in force.
3.4 A card payment disputed with the card issuer after a Session was delivered is a breach of these terms. We may recover the amount, the dispute fee and our reasonable costs.
3.5 A code that reduces the price reduces the room's fee only, never a person's fee or a Licence Fee. Where we waive the whole Session Fee by a code, the Session is governed by these terms and by the documents for what is booked, the same as any other Session, and nothing about the recording or the composition is agreed separately. The waiver changes only the price.
4. Engineer, producer, writer
4.1 An Engineer is booked by the hour and is in the Room for the Session.
4.2 A Producer brings or makes a Beat and is in the Room at no hourly charge: producers sell beats, and the Beat made in the Session is not licensed by the Booking. The Producer Session Terms say who holds what and how the record is licensed, and section 8 summarises it. One person may be booked as Engineer and Producer, and is charged the Engineer's hourly only.
4.3 A Writer is requested with the Booking, not booked. We confirm or decline the Writer when we answer the request, and the Confirmation says which. If we decline the Writer, the Session goes ahead as booked and you may cancel or move it without charge within 24 hours of the Confirmation, even inside the notice period in section 5. Once confirmed, the Writer Session Agreement applies.
4.4 If someone named on a Booking cannot attend, we tell you as soon as we know and offer a replacement, a new date, or a refund of that person's fee.
5. Cancellation and rescheduling
5.1 To cancel or move a Session, email studio@authxntic.com at least 48 hours before the booked start time. A Session moved with that notice keeps its Fee and takes the new date. A Session cancelled with that notice is refunded in full. You can also cancel with the Cancel button in your Confirmation at any time before the start time; the page shows the refund this section gives, and it is made at once.
5.2 With less than 48 hours' notice the Session is charged at 50% of the Session Fee. Not turning up counts as a late cancellation.
5.3 One move per Booking with notice is free. Further moves are at our discretion.
5.4 If we have to cancel, we offer a new date or refund the Session Fee in full. That is the whole of our liability for a cancellation by us.
5.5 Neither side is in breach for a delay or failure caused by something outside its reasonable control. The Session moves to the first date that works for both sides.
6. The Room: conduct, guests, damage
6.1 The Room is for the people needed for the Session. You are responsible for everyone you bring and for their conduct.
6.2 No smoking or vaping in the Room and no illegal drugs on the premises. We may end a Session for conduct that puts people, the equipment or the building at risk; the Session Fee is not refunded.
6.3 Use the Room and the equipment with care and follow the Engineer's directions on the equipment. Damage beyond normal wear, and any loss of equipment, is charged at the cost of repair or replacement.
6.4 Equipment and media you bring are at your own risk. We are not responsible for loss of or damage to them.
6.5 Our name, marks and photographs of the Room are ours and are not used commercially without our written consent.
7. Your material
7.1 Everything you bring into the Session, lyrics, melodies, beats, samples, files and guest performances, is yours or cleared for the use you make of it. You obtain every consent needed from the people who take part.
7.2 You are responsible for your material. If a claim arises from it, you cover us for the claim and our reasonable costs (section 13).
8. The recording, and the right to release it
8.1 In a room-only or Engineer Session the Recording is yours, and you may release it, once the Session Fee is paid.
8.2 Where a Producer's Beat is used, the Session Fee does not buy the right to release. For 30 days after the Session you alone may license the record: the Beat Lease to release it yourself within its limits, or the Exclusive Beat Licence to hold the Beat alone. The Producer Session Terms say how.
8.3 If no licence is bought within the 30 days, the Beat goes back to the Producer, and the record is not released without a licence. While the Beat is not licensed exclusively to anyone else, you may still license the record by replying to the Confirmation, for $200 on a lease, or $1,000 on an exclusive less any lease fee you have already paid for the record, credited once, as the Producer Session Terms section 5.2 provides.
9. Session files and delivery
9.1 Delivery is by download link to the email on the Booking, within the time agreed in the Session and otherwise within 14 days.
9.2 What you receive depends on the licence: the mixed WAV on the Beat Lease, and the mixed WAV with the stems on the Exclusive Beat Licence. On a licence bought after the 30 days, it is what the client deal page states before payment, as the Producer Session Terms section 5.2 provides.
9.3 We keep Session Files for 30 days after the Session, then may delete them. Keep your own copy. If you want the multitrack itself, ask before the end of the Session; we may charge for the time to prepare it.
10. Photography and filming
10.1 You may photograph and film your own Session for your own promotion; other people in the Room appear only with their consent.
10.2 We may photograph the Room and, with your consent at the time, the Session, for the Studio's own promotion. Footage we shoot is ours; footage you shoot is yours.
10.3 We may name you, by your professional name, as an artist who has recorded at Authxntic Studio, unless you tell us not to in writing.
11. Records and privacy
11.1 We keep a record of the Booking: name, email, date, hours, what was booked, what was paid and the documents accepted. Card details are held by Stripe, not by us.
11.2 We use the record to run the Session and the business, to send the Confirmation and any notice under these terms, and to account to you under a licence. We do not sell it. Email studio@authxntic.com to see or correct it.
12. Our warranties, and the limits on our liability
12.1 We provide the Room and its equipment in working order, with reasonable care and skill. If equipment fails during a Session and cannot be replaced in the Room, we credit the time lost or refund the Session Fee for the hours lost, at our choice. That is your remedy for a breakdown.
12.2 We are not liable for loss of a Recording or Session Files you did not back up, for a delay outside our reasonable control, or for any indirect loss, including lost income, lost opportunity or lost data.
12.3 Our total liability to you for anything arising from a Session is limited to the Session Fee you paid for that Session.
12.4 Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything the law does not allow us to limit.
13. Indemnity
13.1 You cover us, our people and our contractors against any claim, loss, damage and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from your material (section 7), from your conduct or your guests' conduct in the Room (section 6), or from your breach of these terms.
14. Changes to these terms
14.1 We may update these terms. The version you accepted at booking, named in the Confirmation, is the version that applies to that Session. The current version is always at authxntic.com/studio/terms.
15. General
15.1 These terms, the Confirmation and any licence you accept are the whole agreement for the Session. They replace anything said before booking.
15.2 If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands. A right not exercised is not waived.
15.3 You may not transfer a Booking to someone else without our written agreement. We may transfer our rights to a company that takes over the Studio; your rights are unchanged.
15.4 Notices are by email: to us at studio@authxntic.com, to you at the address on the Booking. A notice is received on the business day it is sent, or the next business day if sent after 6pm Los Angeles time. A cancellation made with the Cancel button takes effect at the moment it is made.
15.5 Ticking the box and sending the request is your electronic signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, and binds you as a written signature would. The Confirmation is our acceptance.
16. Governing law and disputes
16.1 These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, where Authxntic LLC is formed, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing takes away a protection that the law of the state where you live gives you and does not allow you to waive.
16.2 A dispute is raised first by email to studio@authxntic.com, and both sides try to resolve it within 30 days. What cannot be resolved is heard by the state or federal courts in Los Angeles County, California, and both sides accept that jurisdiction. Either side may bring a claim within the small-claims limit in small claims court.
Producer Session Terms
These terms are between Authxntic LLC, a Delaware limited liability company trading as Authxntic Music Group, Authxntic Studio and Authxntic Records, acting as the label ("the Label") and for the producer named on the Booking ("the Producer"), and the person who books ("the Artist"). They are accepted at booking, at no charge, with every producer session.
They add to the Studio Terms, which govern the Room and the Session. They say what the Session gives you, who holds what afterwards, and how the record made in the Session is licensed: by you, within 30 days, or after that while the Beat is not licensed exclusively to anyone else, as section 5 provides.
- Definitions
- What the Session gives you
- Who holds what
- Your 30 days of first refusal
- After the 30 days
- Delivery
- Credit
- Warranties and indemnity
- General
- Governing law and disputes
- Acceptance
1. Definitions
1.1 The "Beat" is the instrumental the Producer brings to, or makes in, the Session, composed and owned by the Producer.
1.2 The "Record" is the recording made in the Session over the Beat with the Artist's performance, together with its mixes, edits and versions. The "Master" is the final version of the Record.
1.3 The "Composition" is the song written on the Record: the lyrics, the melody and the musical elements of the Beat.
1.4 The "Producer's Share" is 50% of the Composition, which the Producer keeps on every licence of the Beat for the Record. The other 50% is the Artist's side.
1.5 The "Territory" is the world.
2. What the Session gives you
2.1 The Producer brings or makes the Beat in the Session and works the Record with the Artist for the booked hours, at no hourly charge: producers sell beats, and the Beat is licensed as sections 4 and 5 provide. Engineering is booked by the hour under the Studio Terms, and the Producer may hold that role too.
2.2 The Session Fee buys the Session and the Recording as a demo. It does not buy a licence of the Beat, and it does not by itself give the Artist the right to release the Record.
3. Who holds what
3.1 The Beat, and the production of the Record, belong to the Producer and are held through the Label.
3.2 The Artist's performance on the Record belongs to the Artist.
3.3 The demo Master is held by the Artist and the Label together. Neither releases it, licenses it or publishes it on its own. The Artist may play it privately and share it with the people who would work on the Record; the Label may play it to its own team.
3.4 The Producer keeps the Producer's Share of the Composition. The other 50% is the Artist's side, which the Artist shares with any other writer of the Record: with a Writer booked in the Session as the Writer Session Agreement provides, and otherwise as they agree. Each writer keeps their share and registers it with their own performing rights organisation. The company takes no share of the Composition and does not administer it.
4. Your 30 days of first refusal
4.1 For 30 days after the Session the Artist alone may license the Record. In that time the Label does not offer the Beat to anyone else, and the Producer does not license the Beat for another record.
4.2 The Artist chooses the Beat Lease, a non-exclusive licence to release the Record within its limits for $100, or the Exclusive Beat Licence, under which the Beat is the Artist's alone with no limits, for $500. A lease fee is credited in full against an exclusive taken later.
4.3 To license, the Artist uses the License the record link in the Confirmation, once the Session has taken place: choosing the licence, ticking the box to accept it, and paying the fee on the secure payment page. The licence applies from the day the fee is paid. The Artist may instead ask at studio@authxntic.com.
4.4 The 30 days run from the end of the booked Session, whether or not the Record is finished by then. The Confirmation states the date they end.
5. After the 30 days
5.1 If no licence is bought within the 30 days, the Beat goes back to the Producer on the day they end. The Producer may then license the Beat to anyone, and the Record is not released, by the Artist or by the Label, without a licence.
5.2 While the Beat is not licensed exclusively to anyone else, the Artist may still license the Record by replying to the Confirmation: a lease for $200, or an exclusive for $1,000, against which any lease fee the Artist has already paid for the Record is credited once. The Label sets the licence out on a client deal page, as the custom-deal Beat Lease or the custom-deal Exclusive Beat Licence, at that fee and with the Producer's Share in section 3.4, and it applies from the day the whole fee is paid. Session Files are kept only for the period in section 6.2, so the deal page states, before payment, what the Label can still deliver, and delivery is limited to that.
5.3 When the 30 days end without a licence, the Label takes no ownership of the Master, no share of the Composition and no right to release the Record. The demo Master stays held as section 3.3 provides.
6. Delivery
6.1 The Label delivers the demo mix of the Record to the Artist within 14 days of the Session. The mixed WAV, and the stems where the licence includes them, are delivered once a licence is bought; on a licence bought after the 30 days, as section 5.2 provides.
6.2 Session Files are kept for 30 days after the Session, as the Studio Terms provide.
7. Credit
7.1 The Record carries the credit "Produced by" the Producer wherever credits appear. An inadvertent failure to credit is not a breach if it is corrected once the Producer tells the Artist.
8. Warranties and indemnity
8.1 The Artist warrants that the Artist's contribution is original or cleared, that the Artist has the right to enter these terms, and that the Artist is at least 18 or has a guardian's written consent.
8.2 The Label warrants on the Producer's behalf that the Beat is original or cleared and owned by the Producer.
8.3 Each party covers the other against any claim, loss and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from a breach of its warranties.
9. General
9.1 These terms, the Studio Terms, the Confirmation and any licence the Artist buys are the whole agreement for the Beat and the Record. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands.
9.2 Notices are by email: to the Label at studio@authxntic.com, to the Artist at the address on the Booking.
10. Governing law and disputes
10.1 These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. Disputes are raised, and heard, as the Studio Terms section 16 provides.
11. Acceptance
11.1 Ticking the box and requesting the Booking is the Artist's electronic signature. The Confirmation is the Label's acceptance, and the Producer's.
Beat Lease
This Beat Lease is between Authxntic LLC, a Delaware limited liability company trading as Authxntic Music Group, Authxntic Studio and Authxntic Records, acting for the producer named on the Booking ("the Producer"), and the person who books ("the Artist"). It is bought after the Session for $100, inside the 30 days the Producer Session Terms give the Artist, separately from the Session Fee.
It adds to the Studio Terms, which govern the Room and the Session. It is the rung that lets you release the record yourself, within limits. If you want the Beat to be yours alone and the limits gone, that is the Exclusive Beat Licence.
- Definitions
- What you are granted
- The limits
- Reaching the cap
- The Composition
- Delivery
- Credit
- The fee, and upgrading to an exclusive
- Warranties and indemnity
- Term and territory
- General
- Governing law and disputes
- Acceptance
1. Definitions
1.1 The "Beat" is the instrumental the Producer brings to, or makes in, the Session, composed and owned by the Producer.
1.2 The "Record" is the recording made in the Session over the Beat with the Artist's performance, together with its mixes, edits and versions. The "Master" is the final version of the Record.
1.3 The "Composition" is the song written on the Record: the lyrics, the melody and the musical elements of the Beat.
1.4 The "Producer's Share" is 50% of the Composition, which the Producer keeps on every licence of the Beat for the Record. The other 50% is the Artist's side.
1.5 The "Territory" is the world.
2. What you are granted
2.1 The Producer grants the Artist a non-exclusive licence to use the Beat in the Record, and to distribute and stream the Record in the Territory, for the Term.
2.2 The Producer keeps ownership of the Beat and continues to license it to other artists. Other records may exist over the same Beat.
2.3 The Master of the Record belongs to the Artist. The Artist releases it, through any distributor, and is responsible for that release and its registrations.
3. The limits
3.1 Streams of the Record across all audio platforms are capped at 100,000 in total.
3.2 One music video may be made and published using the Record. Short clips of the Record posted on social media, such as a teaser, a reel or a story, do not count as that video.
3.3 The Record is not broadcast on radio, terrestrial or satellite, and is not serviced to radio.
3.4 The Record is not licensed for synchronisation in film, television, advertising, games or brand work. Synchronisation needs the Exclusive Beat Licence.
3.5 The Beat is not resold, is not used in another recording, and is not registered as the Artist's own work.
3.6 The Record is not enrolled, by the Artist or by a distributor for the Artist, in a service that identifies and claims matching audio on video or social platforms (a content-claim service). Other records may exist over the same Beat, and such a service would claim them.
4. Reaching the cap
4.1 When the Record passes 100,000 streams this licence is suspended, and the Artist stops distributing the Record until a further licence is bought.
4.2 While the Beat has not been sold on an exclusive licence, the Artist may then buy a fresh lease or upgrade to an exclusive: inside the 30 days a fresh lease on the same terms or the Exclusive Beat Licence, and after them either one as the Producer Session Terms section 5.2 provides. A fresh lease is a new licence, and once the Beat is sold exclusive no new licence of it is sold: this lease then stays suspended and runs its course. Nothing already released is clawed back and no penalty is charged for passing the cap.
4.3 We do not monitor the Artist's streams. This clause runs on the Artist's own honesty, and, while section 4.2 allows it, the upgrade is offered to the Artist on request, at the fee section 8.1 sets.
5. The Composition
5.1 The Producer keeps the Producer's Share of the Composition on this licence. The other 50% is the Artist's side, shared with any other writer of the Record as the Producer Session Terms section 3.4 provides.
5.2 Each writer keeps their own share and registers it with their own performing rights organisation.
5.3 The company takes no share of the Composition on a lease and does not administer it.
6. Delivery
6.1 The Label delivers the mixed WAV of the Record within the time agreed at the Session and otherwise within 14 days. Stems are not included on a lease.
7. Credit
7.1 The Record carries the credit "Produced by" the Producer wherever credits appear. An inadvertent failure to credit is not a breach if it is corrected once the Producer tells the Artist.
8. The fee, and upgrading to an exclusive
8.1 If the Artist later takes an exclusive licence of the same Beat, the fee paid for this lease is credited in full against the exclusive fee, so only the difference is payable. The exclusive fee is the one in force on the day it is taken: the fee of the Exclusive Beat Licence inside the 30 days, and after them the $1,000 fee the Producer Session Terms section 5.2 sets. The credit is made once.
8.2 The credit is not limited in time and applies however long the lease has been held.
8.3 The fee is paid when the licence is bought and is not refunded.
9. Warranties and indemnity
9.1 The Artist warrants that the Artist's contribution is original or cleared, that the Artist has the right to enter this agreement, and that the Artist is at least 18 or has a guardian's written consent.
9.2 The Label warrants on the Producer's behalf that the Beat is original or cleared and owned by the Producer.
9.3 Each party covers the other against any claim, loss and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from a breach of its warranties.
10. Term and territory
10.1 This licence runs worldwide from the date it is bought, for as long as the limits in section 3 are observed, and ends if it is suspended under section 4 and no further licence is bought.
10.2 Sections that by their nature continue, including the Composition, credit, warranties and indemnity, survive its end.
11. General
11.1 This lease, the Producer Session Terms, the Studio Terms and the Confirmation are the whole agreement for the Beat and the Record. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands.
11.2 Notices are by email: to the Label at studio@authxntic.com, to the Artist at the address on the Booking.
12. Governing law and disputes
12.1 This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. Disputes are raised, and heard, as the Studio Terms section 16 provides.
13. Acceptance
13.1 Choosing the lease and paying the fee — on the License the record page by ticking the box, or by asking the Label by email — is the Artist's electronic signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. The Label's licence letter, with the receipt, is its acceptance and the Producer's.
Exclusive Beat Licence
This Exclusive Beat Licence is between Authxntic LLC, a Delaware limited liability company trading as Authxntic Music Group, Authxntic Studio and Authxntic Records, acting for the producer named on the Booking ("the Producer"), and the person who books ("the Artist"). It is bought after the Session for $500, inside the 30 days the Producer Session Terms give the Artist; the fee is for the Beat alone and is separate from the Session Fee.
It adds to the Studio Terms, which govern the Room and the Session. It is the rung where the Beat becomes yours alone and the limits in the Beat Lease fall away.
- Definitions
- The licence and the fee
- Exclusivity
- What you may do
- The Composition
- Delivery
- Credit
- Warranties and indemnity
- Term and territory
- Termination
- General
- Governing law and disputes
- Acceptance
1. Definitions
1.1 The "Beat" is the instrumental the Producer brings to, or makes in, the Session, composed and owned by the Producer.
1.2 The "Record" is the recording made in the Session over the Beat with the Artist's performance, together with its mixes, edits and versions. The "Master" is the final version of the Record.
1.3 The "Composition" is the song written on the Record: the lyrics, the melody and the musical elements of the Beat.
1.4 The "Producer's Share" is 50% of the Composition, which the Producer keeps on every licence of the Beat for the Record. The other 50% is the Artist's side.
1.5 The "Territory" is the world.
2. The licence and the fee
2.1 For the fee of $500, paid separately from the Session Fee, the Producer grants the Artist an exclusive licence of the Beat, worldwide and in perpetuity, to record the Record over it and to exploit the Record in every medium.
2.2 Where the Artist already holds the Beat Lease on the same Beat, the fee paid for that lease is credited in full against this one.
2.3 The fee is paid when the licence is bought and is not refunded.
3. Exclusivity
3.1 From the date this licence is bought the Producer does not license the Beat to anyone else, and withdraws it from every store and listing where it is offered within 7 days.
3.2 Non-exclusive leases of the same Beat granted before this date run their course and are not renewed: a renewal is a new licence, and none is sold once this licence is bought. The Label discloses every such lease to the Artist before the Artist buys, and keeps a register of every lease of each Beat.
3.3 The Producer keeps copyright in the Beat and the share of the Composition in section 5. The Artist does not resell the Beat on its own, license it for another artist's recording, or register it as the Artist's own work.
4. What you may do
4.1 There is no cap on streams, downloads or units.
4.2 The Record may be broadcast on radio and used in any number of music videos.
4.3 The Record may be licensed for synchronisation in film, television, advertising, games and brand work, and the Artist may clear that sync directly, since the Beat is licensed to nobody else.
4.4 The Master of the Record belongs to the Artist, who releases it through any distributor and is responsible for that release and its registrations.
5. The Composition
5.1 The Producer keeps the Producer's Share of the Composition on this licence. The other 50% is the Artist's side, shared with any other writer of the Record as the Producer Session Terms section 3.4 provides.
5.2 Each writer keeps their own share and registers it with their own performing rights organisation.
5.3 The company takes no share of the Composition on an exclusive and does not administer it.
6. Delivery
6.1 The Label delivers the mixed WAV of the Record and its stems within the time agreed at the Session and otherwise within 14 days, once the fee is paid.
7. Credit
7.1 The Record carries the credit "Produced by" the Producer wherever credits appear. An inadvertent failure to credit is not a breach if it is corrected once the Producer tells the Artist.
8. Warranties and indemnity
8.1 The Artist warrants that the Artist's contribution is original or cleared, that the Artist has the right to enter this agreement, and that the Artist is at least 18 or has a guardian's written consent.
8.2 The Label warrants on the Producer's behalf that the Beat is original or cleared, owned by the Producer, and, apart from any earlier lease disclosed under section 3.2, licensed to nobody else.
8.3 Each party covers the other against any claim, loss and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from a breach of its warranties.
9. Term and territory
9.1 The licence is worldwide and perpetual. This agreement runs for the life of copyright in the Beat and the Composition. Sections that by their nature continue survive its end.
10. Termination
10.1 The Producer and the Label may end this licence only if the fee is not paid and remains unpaid 30 days after a written notice. In every other case a breach gives a claim for damages, not a right to end the licence, so the Artist's release is never put at risk by a dispute.
11. General
11.1 This licence, the Producer Session Terms, the Studio Terms and the Confirmation are the whole agreement for the Beat and the Record. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands.
11.2 The Artist may transfer the Master and this licence with it to a label or distributor releasing the Record, and tells the Label in writing when that happens.
11.3 Notices are by email: to the Label at studio@authxntic.com, to the Artist at the address on the Booking.
12. Governing law and disputes
12.1 This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. Disputes are raised, and heard, as the Studio Terms section 16 provides.
13. Acceptance
13.1 Choosing the exclusive and paying the fee — on the License the record page by ticking the box, or by asking the Label by email — is the Artist's electronic signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. The Label's licence letter, with the receipt, is its acceptance and the Producer's.
Writer Session Agreement
This agreement is between Authxntic LLC, a Delaware limited liability company trading as Authxntic Music Group, Authxntic Studio and Authxntic Records, acting as the label ("the Label"), the writer named on the Booking ("the Writer"), and the person who books ("the Artist").
It adds to the Studio Terms, which govern the Room and the Session, and is about the Composition only. It does not change the Producer's terms: the Producer Session Terms, and any licence of the Record bought under them, apply unchanged.
- Definitions
- The request and its confirmation
- The Session
- The Composition
- Publishing
- Uses of the Composition
- Credit
- Warranties and indemnity
- Term
- General
- Governing law and disputes
- Acceptance
1. Definitions
1.1 The "Composition" is the song written or completed in the Session: words and melody, and the musical elements of any Beat the Session is built on.
1.2 The "Producer's Share" is the 50% of the Composition that the Producer Session Terms give a Producer whose Beat the Session is built on.
1.3 The "Request" is the Artist's request for the Writer made at booking. The "Confirmation" is the Label's email confirming the Booking under the Studio Terms; it says whether the Writer is confirmed.
2. The request and its confirmation
2.1 The Writer is requested at booking, at no charge. The Label confirms or declines the Writer when it answers the booking request, and the Confirmation says which. Until a Confirmation confirms the Writer this agreement has no effect and the Session goes ahead as booked under the Studio Terms.
2.2 If the Label declines the Writer, the Studio Terms section 4.3 lets the Artist cancel or move the Session without charge within 24 hours of the Confirmation.
3. The Session
3.1 Once confirmed, the Writer works with the Artist in the Room for the booked hours on the Artist's material.
3.2 Ideas the Writer brings that are not used in the Composition stay the Writer's. Ideas the Artist brings that are not used stay the Artist's.
4. The Composition
4.1 The Composition is a co-write. Where a Producer's Beat is part of it, the Producer keeps the Producer's Share, and the Artist and the Writer share the other 50% as they agree in writing. Where no Producer's Beat is part of it, the Artist and the Writer share the whole Composition as they agree in writing. No share between the Artist and the Writer is assumed.
4.2 Each writer keeps their own share and registers it with their own performing rights organisation.
5. Publishing
5.1 The company takes no share of the Composition and does not administer it. The writers keep and register their own shares.
6. Uses of the Composition
6.1 The Artist may record the Composition and release it; a recording built on a Producer's Beat is released only under a licence of the Beat, as the Producer Session Terms provide. The Writer may record it too, but does not release, or license another artist to release, a recording of the Composition until 12 months after the Artist's first release, or 18 months after the Session if the Artist has not released it by then.
6.2 Neither writer registers or releases the Composition under another writer's name or without the credit in section 7.
7. Credit
7.1 The Writer is credited as a writer of the Composition wherever the Composition's credits appear. An inadvertent failure to credit is not a breach if it is corrected once the Writer tells the Artist.
8. Warranties and indemnity
8.1 The Artist and the Writer each warrant that their contribution is original or cleared, that they have the right to enter this agreement, and that they are not bound by a publishing agreement that conflicts with it. Each covers the others against any claim, loss and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from a breach of that warranty.
9. Term
9.1 This agreement runs for the life of copyright in the Composition in each country. Sections that by their nature continue, including publishing, credit, warranties and indemnity, survive its end.
10. General
10.1 This agreement, the Studio Terms and the Confirmation are the whole agreement for the Composition. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands.
10.2 Notices are by email: to the Label at studio@authxntic.com, to the Artist at the address on the Booking, to the Writer at the address the Label holds.
11. Governing law and disputes
11.1 This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. Disputes are raised, and heard, as the Studio Terms section 16 provides.
12. Acceptance
12.1 Ticking the box and completing the booking is the Artist's electronic signature. A Confirmation that confirms the Writer is the Label's acceptance, and the Writer's.
Questions — studio@authxntic.com