Terms and Conditions – BeatCentral

Use of the website: Registered users of BeatCentral.de can sign up for a subscription to access, use and download our beats. The instrumentals can be used for creating songs or other content. Other types of media on the website are not allowed to be used.
Prohibition on sharing data or links: Users are not allowed to share or duplicate any data or links from this website with third parties.
Copyright infringement: Users are not allowed to infringe on any copyright or intellectual property rights related to the content on the website, especially the audio files.
Automatic contract renewal: Users automatically sign up for a contract starting with the first payment of the subscription. The contract is renewed every month until the costumer cancels the subscription. The user loses all rights to the instrumentals with the end of the membership.
Membership tiers: Each membership tier is associated with the following rights and limitations. Gold members can use and download the mp3 version of the instrumentals for up to 1 million streams, 5000 sales/downloads, 1000 non-profit performances, and beats can be played in 1 radio station. Diamond members can use and download the mp3 and wav version of the instrumentals for up to 2 million streams, 10000 sales/downloads, 2000 non-profit performances, and beats can be played in 2 radio stations. Platinum members can use and download the mp3 and wav version of the instrumentals for unlimited streams, unlimited sales/downloads, unlimited non-profit performances, and beats can be played in unlimited radio stations.
Payment and subscription terms: The cost of the subscription is subject to change by the owners of the website. Costumers will be informed accordingly and have the right to cancel their subscription. User will be billed monthly. The subscription will last as long as the user doesn’t cancel or the website owners decide to cancel the user’s subscription.
Termination: The user’s subscription will be terminated immediately for violation of the terms and conditions, surpassing any of the purchased membership tier thresholds or non-payment. As a consequence, all the rights to the provided media are terminated. The website owners reserve the right to terminate or suspend a user’s membership at any time, for any reason, without prior notice or explanation.
License Agreement: In return for payment of the subscription fee, the Producers of BeatCentral.de grant a non-exclusive license to the user (referred to her as “Artist”) to use the provided musical work (referred to here as “Beat” or “Instrumental”) to create recordings (the “Tracks” or “Songs”). The Artist shall have the right to commercially release the Track by any and all means, throughout the world, subject to these terms.
This license is valid from the first payment of the subscription fee. After the Termination (see 7) the license will automatically end and the Artist will be required to extend the term to by paying an additional fee or taking such other steps as required by the Producer. Further during the Term the Artist’s usage of the Beat shall be limited to the limits (“Thresholds”) mentioned in 5.
The Artist agrees that the Producer shall have a fifty percent (50%) share of the publishing in the Track and shall receive publishing income directly from the applicable Collection Society.
The Artist agrees that he/she will register the Producer’s interest, on the Producer’s behalf, at the collection society in the Artist’s home territory to ensure that mechanical and performance royalties are collected throughout the world. The Artist shall use the Producer’s membership number.
The Producer and the Artist shall each administer their respective shares of the publishing in the Track. Any sync licenses for the Track must be pre-approved by the Producer.
The Producer shall have the right to receive neighboring rights income as a performer on the Track directly from the applicable Collection Society. The Artist agrees that he/she will register the Producer’s interest on the Producer’s behalf with the collection society in the Artist’s home territory that that administers neighboring rights income throughout the world. The Artist shall use the Producer’s membership number.
The Producer warrants and represents the following:
1. that they are the owner of the copyright in the Beat;
2. that he/she has the right to enter into this Agreement and to grant all the rights which he grant herein;
3. the Beat does not infringe the rights of any third party;
4. that all necessary consents under law are granted to the Artist
5. that he/she waives any and all so called moral rights.
6. all necessary publishing licenses will be made available to the Artist in respect of the Track free of charge for use by the Artist in connection with non-monetized advertising and/or promotion of the Track.
The Artist warrants that and represents the following;
1. that they have the right to enter this agreement
2. that the Track shall not infringe the rights of any third party
3. that they shall comply with all the obligations and limitations set out in this agreement.
The Artist agrees to ensure that the Producer is credit on the on the metadata and packaging or promotion of the Track as follows “Produced by [insert producer name]”, for example “Produced by Mari” or “Produced by Juicy”.
The Artist agrees to indemnify the Producer and hold him/her harmless from all claims, losses and expenses including reasonable legal fees arising out of or resulting from a claimed breach of the Artist’s warranties, representations and obligations in this agreement.
If in the description the Beat is stated to contain an uncleared sample then Artist agrees that they will take steps to obtain all clearances of the sample prior to release the of Track. The Artist shall also take steps to clear the publishing sample. The Artist shall indemnify the Producer from all losses and costs arising from any claims from third parties concerning the Artist’s failure to take the required steps.
The Artist acknowledges that the Producer shall retain ownership of the copyright in master and the underlying composition the Beat and shall have the right to grant separate licenses thereof to other artists.
The Artist acknowledges that the payment for this license is non refundable. If the Artist fails to comply with any obligation hereunder the Producer shall have the right on notice to the Artist to terminate this license and all rights shall revert to the Producer. Such termination shall render any further exploitation by the Artist as an actionable infringement of copyright.
The rights granted to the Artist are not assignable or otherwise transferable.
Refunds: All payments for the subscription with monthly payments are non-refundable. In the event that the subscription is cancelled, the subscriber is responsible for cancelling any automatic payments to avoid any future charges. Refunds will only be provided for charges incurred after the cancellation if the subscriber’s account continues to be charged for the subscription despite being cancelled.
Disclaimer of liability: BeatCentral.de and its owners are not liable for any damages or losses incurred by the user or by the use of the provided media.
Governing law: This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the law of Germany. German law governs the terms and conditions, as well as any disputes that may arise between the user and the website.