INTELLIGENT DANCE MARKET · LICENCES

IDM Stems, Loops and Samples Licence (samples-v1)

This one text covers stems, loops, cuts and sample packs, construction kits and MIDI packs included. A sample pack has no licence of its own.

Summary

In one paragraph: Non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence for the stems, loops, cuts or sample pack you bought, for whoever controls the paying wallet: use them in your own videos (the Creator scope) and inside new music you make, which you may release and sell. Not allowed: reselling or sharing them as sounds (samples, loops, stems, packs, kits), releasing a remix made only from one track without the label's OK, Content ID or any fingerprint registration, claiming authorship of the sounds, training AI models.

You may:

• use the sounds in your own videos, streams, podcasts and posts, the same way the Creator licence allows a track;
• build new music with them: beats, songs, tracks, remixes, scores, game music, and release, stream, sell, perform and license that music under your own name, with no royalties to the label;
• cut, loop, layer, process and rearrange the sounds as you like inside your work.

You may not:

• sell, give away or share the sounds as sounds: sample packs, loop or stem packs, MIDI packs, construction kits, sound libraries, instruments or presets, DAW templates or project files that contain them;
• release a remix or edit made only from one track's stems or loops as music (streaming, download, sale) without the label's written OK; it may still play in your own videos;
• register the sounds, or music in which they can be heard, with YouTube Content ID or any audio fingerprint service;
• say you made the sounds, or register them with a collecting society as your work;
• use them to train, fine-tune or test AI models;
• use them in ads, client work, games or apps unless the new work is your own music (see 2.3), or you hold the Commercial licence of that track.

Proof: your licence record at https://theidm.fun/api/music/licences/<licence id> and the payment transaction on chain. Credit is appreciated, not required: Sounds: IDM Records (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 Sounds. What the purchase named in the licence record delivers, in every file we deliver for it:

• stems: the separate parts of one track (for example drums, bass, chords, lead, effects);
• a loop or cut: one seamless loop, one cut of a set length, or one "bed" (the track without its lead) of one track;
• a sample pack: the sounds in that pack: loops, one-shots (single hits) and notes of the label's synth voices, cut from one or more tracks or played by the label's own synth, and any MIDI files that come with them (a construction kit is a sample pack; its MIDI files count as sounds in this licence);
• a MIDI pack: a sample pack of MIDI files only (for example chord progressions, bass lines, riffs and drum grooves of one genre). Its MIDI files count as sounds in this licence: play them with your own instruments inside new music you make; the same limits apply to the MIDI files as to any sound.

1.5 Track. A recording in the label's catalog, named 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).

1.6 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 and item (or the pack id), the paying wallet, the price, the network and the settlement transaction.

1.7 Content. A work in which the sounds play together with other material that is the main subject: picture, video, speech, gameplay. Examples: a video, a podcast episode, a live stream, a social post.

1.8 New music. A musical work or recording you make that uses the sounds together with substantial material of your own: new parts, melodies, rhythms, vocals, or a new arrangement. The sounds are an ingredient of it, not the whole.

1.9 Remix. A recording made only, or mainly, from the stems or loops of one track, with little new material.

1.10 Free packs. A pack the label gives away (for example the IDM Free Pack) is licensed under this text to the person or organisation that downloads it, who is then the licensee. A free pack has no paying wallet and no licence record; everything else in this licence applies to it, except the refund terms.

2. What you may do

2.1 In your content. You may use the sounds in your own content in every way the Creator licence (creator-v1, sections 2.1 to 2.5) allows a track, within its revenue limit. Ads, client work, games, apps, film, TV and broadcast need the Commercial licence of the track the sounds come from, unless the sounds are part of your own new music under 2.3.

2.2 Edit and process. You may cut, loop, layer, pitch, stretch, process, resample and rearrange the sounds.

2.3 In new music. You may use the sounds in new music and then release, stream, sell, perform, broadcast and license that new music, anywhere and with no royalties to the label. Others may use your new music under your own terms, for example in their videos, games or ads, as long as they cannot get the sounds out of it on their own.

2.4 Remixes. You may make a remix and use it in your own content under 2.1. Releasing a remix as music (on streaming and download services, for sale, or to a library) needs the label's written OK.

2.5 Collecting societies. You may register your new music with a collecting society or a distributor as your work, for your own contribution. Do not register the sounds on their own or a remix. See 3.2 for fingerprint services.

3. What you may not do

3.1 No resale or sharing as sounds. Do not sell, give away, upload or share the sounds, processed or not, on their own or in any form that lets others use them as sounds: sample packs, loop and stem packs, MIDI packs, construction kits, sound libraries, sampler instruments, presets, DAW templates or project files that contain the sounds, or beats sold as stems that include them unchanged. Do not put the files where other people can download them. Do not upload or stream the sounds or a remix as the main content of anything (music-only uploads, mixes, playlists, radio-style streams), except as 2.4 allows.

3.2 No Content ID. Do not register the sounds, a remix, or new music or content in which the sounds can be heard, with YouTube Content ID or any other audio fingerprint service. If your distributor registers releases with such a service by default, opt your release out. Do not claim or monetise other people's use of the sounds; other buyers use the same sounds.

3.3 No claim of authorship of the sounds. Do not say that you made the sounds or the track they come from. Your own new material in new music is yours.

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

3.5 No harmful use. Do not use the sounds in content or music 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.

3.6 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, or to sell your new music as an IDM release.

4. One purchase, one licensee

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

4.2 Buying the stems or a loop of a track does not license the full track, and buying the full track (Creator or Commercial) does not license its stems or loops.

4.3 This licence is not attached to an IDM Records NFT. It does not come with an NFT and does not move with one. The licence a record holder gets (commercial-v1, section 4.3) covers the full track only, not its stems, loops or samples.

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, distributors and labels you work with, 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. New music you released before a breach, and that is not itself in breach, may stay released after the licence ends (9.3).

6.2 The licence is non-exclusive. The same sounds are sold to other buyers. The label keeps every right it does not grant here and may use the sounds and the tracks itself.

7. Credit

Credit is appreciated, not required. The suggested line is: Sounds: IDM Records (theidm.fun). Do not suggest that the label endorses you or your music.

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. People you make music with may work on a project that contains the sounds, but they get no right to use the sounds outside it.

8.2 Platforms, distributors and the services you use to make and publish your work may handle the sounds as far as they need to for that work.

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 resell or share the sounds as sounds (3.1), register them with a fingerprint service (3.2) or use them for AI training (3.4).

9.3 When the licence ends, stop all new use of the sounds. Content and new music published before the breach that are not themselves in breach may stay up and stay released; take down what 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 or sounds 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 sounds. Your own new music may be registered for your own contribution (2.5). For a cue sheet, the label gives the title, catalog number or item id, and length of what you bought on request through the contact in 1.1.

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

11. Machine-made music

11.1 The tracks and the sounds are 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 sounds and their recordings, 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 they came from (their 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 sounds, and that, as far as it knows, the sounds were made entirely by its own synthesis engine and contain no recordings or samples from third parties.

12.2 Apart from 12.1, the sounds and the files are provided as they are. The label does not promise that the sounds are unique to you, that they are protected by copyright, or that they suit 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 and your music. 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.