INTELLIGENT DANCE MARKET · LICENCES

IDM Creator Licence (creator-v1)

Summary

In one paragraph: Non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence for one track, for whoever controls the paying wallet (an agent may use it for its principal): use it in your own online videos, social posts, streams and podcasts, monetized on the platforms too, as an individual creator or a small business (the revenue limit is in the full text). Not allowed: ads and client work (that is Commercial), reselling or sharing the audio as audio, Content ID or any fingerprint registration, claiming authorship, training AI models.

Record holders: whoever holds the IDM Records NFT of a track gets the Commercial licence for that track, which includes everything here, free, for as long as they hold it (commercial-v1, section 4.3).

You may:

• put the track in your own videos, shorts, reels, streams, podcasts, social posts, presentations and websites;
• earn from that content through the platforms (ad revenue share, creator funds, tips, memberships);
• cut, loop, fade, speed up, slow down and mix the track inside your content;
• use it in as many pieces of your own content as you like, on any platform, for as long as you like.

You may not:

• use it in ads, in work for a client or a brand, in games, apps, TV, radio or film: that needs the Commercial licence;
• use it if you (or the company an agent works for) earned USD 100,000 or more in the last 12 months: buy Commercial;
• upload or share the track on its own, or as the main thing in a video or stream (music-only uploads, mixes, playlists, still-image or visualiser videos, radio-style streams);
• register the track with YouTube Content ID or any audio fingerprint service, or claim other people's use of it;
• say you made the track, or register it with a collecting society or a distributor;
• use it to train, fine-tune or test AI models.

Proof: your licence record at https://theidm.fun/api/music/licences/<licence id> and the payment transaction on chain. Credit is appreciated, not required: Music: IDM Records — Track #N (theidm.fun).

Full text

1. Who is who

1.1 Label. "The label", "we" and "us" mean IDM Records (in full: IDM Records — Intelligent Dance Market). Contact: @theidmfun on X, or intelligentdancemarkets@gmail.com.

1.2 Licensee. "You" and "the licensee" mean the person or organisation that controlled the paying wallet when the payment was made. If an AI agent or other software made the purchase, the licensee is the person or organisation the agent works for (its principal). One purchase has exactly one licensee.

1.3 Paying wallet. The blockchain address that signed the payment for this licence.

1.4 Track. The recording named in the licence record by its catalog number (IDM-NNNN) or, for a studio track (made for the shop, with no record NFT), by its studio number (IDM-Snnn), in every file we deliver for it (WAV, MP3), and its free preview.

1.5 Licence record. The record we publish at https://theidm.fun/api/music/licences/<licence id>. It names the licence id, the product, this licence version, the catalog number, the paying wallet, the price, the network and the settlement transaction.

1.6 Content. A work you make in which the track plays together with other material that is the main subject: picture, video, speech, gameplay, other sound. Examples: a video, a podcast episode, a live stream, a social post.

1.7 Platform. A website, app or service that hosts and shows content to the public, such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Twitch or a podcast host.

2. What you may do

2.1 Use in your own content. You may synchronise the track with your content and publish that content on your own channels, on any platform: online videos, short-form videos, live streams and their recordings, podcasts, social posts and stories, your own websites and blogs, presentations, and school, university or non-profit projects.

2.2 Earn from it. Your content may earn money through the platform's own programmes: ad revenue share, creator funds, tips, channel memberships and subscriptions to your own channel.

2.3 Edit it. Inside your content you may cut, loop, fade, change the tempo or pitch of the track and mix it with speech and other sound.

2.4 How much. Any number of pieces of your own content, any number of platforms, no limit on views or plays.

2.5 Creator limit. This licence is for individual creators and small businesses. It covers you only while your total revenue (all sources, platform payouts included) over the last 12 months is under USD 100,000. For an agent, this is the revenue of its principal. Above the limit, use the Commercial licence. Content published while you were under the limit may stay up.

2.6 Not in this licence. These uses need the Commercial licence:

• advertising: an ad for a product, service or brand, and any content you pay to promote (paid media, boosted posts);
• work made for or on behalf of a client, an employer or a brand, or published on their channels;
• games, apps and other software;
• film, TV, radio and other broadcast, cinema and video-on-demand services;
• playing the track in shops, venues, events or on hold lines.

3. What you may not do

3.1 No audio on its own. Do not sell, give away, upload, stream or share the track or its files on their own, or as the main content of anything: music-only uploads, uploads with a still image or a visualiser, mixes, playlists, radio-style streams, music streaming and download services, ringtones, sample or sound libraries. Do not put the files where other people can download them.

3.2 No products made of the music. Do not use the track in anything sold or given away where the music is a main part of its value: music releases, music NFTs or other tokenised media, karaoke, alarm or notification sounds.

3.3 No Content ID. Do not register the track, or content in which it can be heard, with YouTube Content ID or any other audio fingerprint service, and do not claim or monetise other people's use of the track.

3.4 No claim of authorship. Do not say that you wrote, produced or own the track. Do not register it with a collecting society (such as ASCAP, BMI, PRS or GEMA), a distributor or a library as your work.

3.5 No AI training. Do not use the track to train, fine-tune, test or evaluate an AI or machine-learning model, and do not put it in a dataset for that. This needs the separate AI training licence (https://theidm.fun/licences/ai-training). Editing your content with software, AI tools included, is fine, as long as you do not hand the track over for training.

3.6 No harmful use. Do not use the track in content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, harassing or sexually explicit, in political ads (for a party, a candidate, an election or a referendum), or in a way that suggests the label endorses you, a product, a political party or a cause.

3.7 No use of our marks. Do not use the names IDM, Intelligent Dance Market or IDM Records, or the IDM logo, as your own brand.

4. One track, one licensee

4.1 This licence covers only the track named in the licence record, and only the licensee. Every other track needs its own licence. Every other person or organisation needs its own licence; a purchase from another wallet is another licence.

4.2 This licence is not attached to an IDM Records NFT. It does not come with an NFT and does not move with one. The holder of a track's IDM Records NFT gets a licence to that track while they hold it: the holder licence in the Commercial licence (commercial-v1, section 4.3), which covers every use here and more.

5. Proof of the licence

5.1 The licence record and the payment transaction on the blockchain are the proof of this licence. Keep your licence id. Anyone, including platforms, clients and viewers, can check the record at its public address.

5.2 The record names a wallet, not a person. To show that you are the licensee, sign a message with the paying wallet. There is no signed certificate (PDF): the licence record and the payment transaction are the proof (5.1). On request through the contact in 1.1, the label confirms a licence.

6. Term, territory and exclusivity

6.1 The licence is perpetual (it has no end date) and worldwide, unless it ends under section 9.

6.2 The licence is non-exclusive. The label keeps every right it does not grant here. It may license the track to anyone else and use it itself (on its stations, radio and streams, as an IDM Records NFT, in its catalog).

7. Credit

Credit is appreciated, not required. The suggested line is: Music: IDM Records — Track #N (theidm.fun), where N is the catalog number. Do not suggest that the label endorses you or your content.

8. No transfer

8.1 The licence is personal to the licensee. You may not sell, transfer, sublicense or assign it. Selling or giving away the paying wallet does not move the licence.

8.2 Platforms and the services you use to make and publish your content (hosting, editing, distribution) may handle the track as far as they need to for that content.

9. Ending the licence

9.1 If you break this licence, it ends 14 days after we tell you, unless you have fixed the breach by then. We may tell you by any reasonable means, including a note on your licence record.

9.2 It ends at once, without a chance to fix it, if you share the audio on its own (3.1), register the track with a fingerprint service (3.3), claim authorship (3.4) or use the track for AI training (3.5).

9.3 When the licence ends, stop all new use of the track. Content published before the breach that is not itself in breach may stay up; take down content you control that is in breach. There is no refund when a licence ends because of a breach.

9.4 Sections 3, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 15 continue after the licence ends.

10. Collecting societies and Content ID

10.1 The label does not register its tracks with any collecting society (such as ASCAP, BMI, PRS or GEMA), with YouTube Content ID or with any other audio fingerprint service. No performance royalties are owed for the track. For a cue sheet, the label gives the track's title, catalog number and length on request through the contact in 1.1.

10.2 If your content gets a claim on the track, write to us (1.1) with your licence id, and we will help you dispute the claim.

11. Machine-made music

11.1 The track is made by the label's software from onchain trading data, without a human composer or performer in the usual sense. In some countries such material has no copyright, or only limited protection.

11.2 This licence is also a contract between you and the label. The label grants it under whatever rights it has in the sound and the recording of the track, and makes no claim that rights exist beyond that. The contract promises (what you may and may not do, and what the label promises) bind you and the label either way. You also get the files and a public record of where the track came from (its provenance).

12. Promises and their limits

12.1 The label promises that it may grant this licence, to the extent of the rights it holds in the track, and that, as far as it knows, the track was made entirely by its own synthesis engine and contains no recordings or samples from third parties.

12.2 Apart from 12.1, the track and the files are provided as they are. The label does not promise that the track is unique to you, that it is protected by copyright, or that it suits a particular purpose.

13. Liability

13.1 The label's total liability to you under this licence is limited to the amount you paid for it.

13.2 The label is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost profit, lost revenue, takedowns or demonetisation.

13.3 Nothing in this licence limits a liability that the law does not allow to be limited, or your rights as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.

13.4 You are responsible for your content. If your breach of this licence causes the label a loss, such as a claim against it, you cover that loss.

14. Refunds

14.1 A sale is final once the files are delivered: the download links were issued and the files could be downloaded.

14.2 If delivery fails (the files cannot be downloaded, and fresh links from the paying wallet do not fix it), write to us (1.1) with your licence id within 30 days of the purchase. If we cannot deliver the files within 7 days, we refund the price in USDC to the paying wallet and the licence ends. Network fees are not refunded.

14.3 The files are digital content, delivered at once. A consumer (a person buying outside their trade or business) who buys on the market page asks for the download to start right away and confirms, before paying: "I want the download to start now. I understand I lose my 14-day right to cancel once it starts." Once the download starts, the 14-day right to cancel ends. AI agents and businesses are not consumers.

15. General

15.1 Versions. Once anything is sold under this version, its text never changes. The label may publish new versions for later sales; your licence stays under the version named in your licence record.

15.2 Whole agreement. This text and your licence record are the whole licence between you and the label.

15.3 Severability. If a part of this licence is invalid, the rest still applies.

15.4 No waiver. If the label does not act on a breach at once, it keeps the right to act later.

15.5 Privacy. The licence record is public. It shows the paying wallet and the payment, not your name.

15.6 Disputes. A question or dispute about this licence is raised with IDM Records first, at the contact in 1.1.