For accessibility reasons, these Terms & Conditions were translated from German to English. However, the German T&Cs for GEMA members are those that are legally binding.
Thank you for your interest in MusicHub. MusicHub is a service ofMusicHub GmbH, with registered offices in Rosenheimer Straße 11, 81667 Munich, Germany, and with its place of business in Pfuelstraße 5, 10997, Berlin, Germany. The following Specifications of Service, General and Special Terms and Conditions of Business (as of 02.10.2023) shall govern the use of our websites and our services:
MusicHub is an online platform for music creators. It enables the upload, input and storage of files and information relating to musical works and Recordings, in particular audio files, metadata and artwork (hereinafter referred to as “Data”), and the application of various functions for processing, exporting or otherwise using this data (hereinafter referred to as “Tools”). In addition to the Tools, MusicHub offers its members further supporting services in the area of know-how transfer and customer support (hereinafter referred to as “Services”). The scope of MusicHub’s functions and services will continue to evolve – e.g., new Tools and/or Services will be added, but individual Tools and/or Services may also be discontinued after prior notice, the use of which is also subject to these General Terms and Conditions and any additional Special Terms and Conditions. This means, for example, that MusicHub reserves the right to change, terminate or remove content and functions of the individual tools marked as "BETA" without prior notice and/or to discontinue the operation of the individual tools. In addition, the availability of the functions may be individually limited, for example through quotas, so that you have no claim to the use of the contents and functions of the respective tools marked as BETA. You expressly acknowledge and agree that the use of BETA versions of apps and/or web applications is at your own risk and that you bear the entire risk with regard to satisfactory quality, performance, accuracy and effort. The current scope of functions and services of MusicHub’s Tools and Services is hereinafter also referred to collectively as the “Offer”.
Registering and setting up a free account with MusicHub allows music creators to access parts of our Offering as a demo version of our website. For the use of most Tools and Services, however, a subscription or a GEMA membership is additionally required. For some Tools and Services, it may also be necessary to purchase an add-on.
As a GEMA member, registering and setting up your account with MusicHub already allows you to access our current Offer. For the use of new Tools and/or Services, a subscription and/or add-on may be required in the future. For details, please refer to the descriptions of the currently available Tools and Services as well as our General and Special Terms and Conditions.
Within the Library, MusicHub allows you to upload, enter, and save data. The Library is available to you as soon as you register with MusicHub.
Furthermore, it allows you to share your song with others before and after publication via an individual link that you activate. You can deactivate this link at any time directly on the tracks page. The link may only be shared with friends or family in order to receive feedback. If you want to make the link accessible to a larger number of people, you require the necessary rights.
As a GEMA member, MusicHub allows you to send work data to GEMA as part of the Work Declaration Tool, so that the copyright-protected work underlying your track is registered with GEMA and its foreign partner collecting societies, and so that royalty payments related to the use of the work that music users (DSPs, CD manufacturers, promoters, TV/radio stations, clubs, etc.) make to GEMA can be distributed correctly by GEMA to all authors and publishers involved in the work. The Work Declaration requires a GEMA membership; it is available as soon as you register at MusicHub.
As a GEMA member, MusicHub allows you to send soundfiles to GEMA within the GEMA Soundfile Upload Tool. This allows GEMA, with your permission, to monitor where your tracks are played in public (on TV / radio, in clubs or in commercials) in order to process your royalty payments accurately. The Soundfile Upload requires a GEMA membership and is available as soon as you register at MusicHub.
As part of the Release Tool, MusicHub allows you to compile Sound Recordings together with metadata and artwork (collectively, “Recordings”) into a digital release and send it to a Distributor for distribution to selected Digital Service Providers (“DSPs”). The use of the Release Tool for distribution via a distribution partner requires a GEMA membership.
If you choose to release your music through a distribution partner affiliated distributor, separate terms and conditions apply. If you choose to distribute your music via the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION GmbH (“ZEBRALUTION”), the “Special Terms and Conditions Release for Distribution via ZEBRALUTION” apply. If you choose to release your music through the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to Beatport LLC (“Beatport”), the “Special Terms and Conditions Release for Distribution via ZEBRALUTION to Beatport” apply.
The Stats Tool allows you to view and analyse data about the use and distribution of your Recordings, currently in the form of daily trend data of the DSPs that have been selected in the Release Tool for distribution via a distribution partner. The use of the Stats Tool for distribution via a distribution partner requires a GEMA membership.
Within the Balance Dashboard, MusicHub allows you to view the royalties earned from the distribution of your Recordings via one of our distribution partners, as well as request payments to your bank account. The Balance Dashboard is available in the demo version as soon as you register with MusicHub.
The Help Centre provides you with articles, instructions and tips on all MusicHub-related topics. The Help Centre is available in the demo version as soon as you register with MusicHub.
Our Customer Support will assist you via chat with any questions you may have about our Offer and its use. Your entitlement to customer support requires a GEMA membership.
In regular Webinars, we not only explain how to best use MusicHub’s Offer, but also highlight a variety oftopics that are important to music creators. Participation in these Webinars requires a GEMA membership.
In order to improve and constantly develop our Offering, we ask our members about their wishes and priorities via surveys, interviews and focus groups and take these into account when developing our future Tools and functionalities. In this way, we give you the chance to help shape MusicHub. Participation in User Research among users requires a GEMA membership.
The Smart-Link Tool is a Tool that helps you promote your music. The Smart-Link generates all links to your release after it has passed the quality check, so that you can share it with your fans and promote your music. The use of the Smart-Link Tool requires a GEMA membership.
The MusicHub Academy contains a range of e-learning videos tailored to the needs of the MusicHub Community. There you will find information on the topics of music promotion, music marketing, release strategies and much more. Access to the MusicHub Academy requires a GEMA membership.
As part of the MusicHub Promo Partners Service, MusicHub offers you various discounts and special offers for promotional services from participating partner companies ("Promo Partners"). The use of the MusicHub Promo Partners Service requires a GEMA membership and is available to you as soon as you register with MusicHub. If you use the services of a Promo Partner within the framework of this Service, the general terms and conditions of the respective Promo Partner apply. MusicHub is not involved in the contractual relationship between the Promo Partner and you and is therefore not liable for faulty or omitted services, and other damages caused by it.
The Bio Page is a Tool that helps you promote your music. The Bio Page is a customisable mini website where you can add your artist bio and photo, links to your music, social media, contact information and more. The Bio Page is available to you as soon as you register with MusicHub. If you use content for which rights of use must be obtained for publication on the Internet (such as images and texts), you warrant that you have all the necessary rights. In addition, you grant MusicHub these rights of use, in particular the right to store the relevant content and make it publicly available, for use on your Bio Page.
As part of the MusicHub Radio Pitching Service, MusicHub will submit songs selected by you with the information provided by you via a promotion partner to broadcasters and their service providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for promotion purposes. In order to use this Service, a corresponding add-on must be purchased. You can only have one of your songs sent to promotion partners per purchased add-on. However, you have the option of purchasing several add-ons for different songs.
By booking an add-on you transfer to MusicHub the rights of use to the song selected by you which are necessary for the provision of the Service, in particular the right to transmit, upload and temporarily store the song to the promotion partner and to reproduce it for this purpose. You also grant MusicHub the right to transfer these rights of use to the promotion partner for the purpose of transferring them to the broadcasters and their service providers. The decision as to whether the songs selected by you are used lies solely with the broadcasters. MusicHub therefore does not guarantee that the broadcasters will actually use the songs selected by you as a result of booking this Service. We would like to point out that the broadcasters themselves are responsible for the licensing and corresponding remuneration of their music use.
a. The General Terms and Conditions apply to all uses of the Offer provided on our websites www.music-hub.com and www.joinmusichub.de.
b. Certain Tools and Services of MusicHub are subject to additional, separate Special Terms and Conditions. In order to use such Tools and Services, you must accept these Special Terms and Conditions. All provisions of these General Terms and Conditions also apply to these Tools and Services, unless otherwise specified in the Special Terms and Conditions.
a. Requirements for registration and account setup:
b. Registration process / account setup:
a. The use of certain Tools and Services is only possible within the scope of a subscription. The subscriptions offered, the Tools and Services contained therein as well as the respective costs are published at https://www.music-hub.com/de/angebot-gema-mitglieder. All price quotations on our website are gross prices including statutory VAT and other price components; if the registered office is in another EU country and the VAT ID number or tax domicile is outside the EU, different prices may apply.
b. With successful registration according to section B. II., you are entitled to use the Tools and Services that can only be used with a subscription. As a GEMA member, you receive this status as a subscription user free of charge.
c. As long as you are registered with MusicHub as a GEMA member, you will retain the status of a subscription user. If you no longer wish to use the Tools and Services, you can cancel your subscription at any time by clicking on "Cancel subscription" in the account area under "Subscription plan".
d. If you are a consumer (i.e., a natural person who usesour Offer for a purpose that cannot be attributed to your commercial orself-employed professional activity), you also have the right of withdrawal asdescribed in F. in accordance with the statutory provisions.
a. The use of certain Tools and/or Services requires the purchase of an Add-on. Depending on the conditions of the Tool or Service, the booking of the Add-on is possible in addition to the subscription or independently of the conclusion of a subscription. Certain add-ons are not available for all subscriptions.
b. The conclusion of the purchase of an add-on takes place in your account area. There you can select the corresponding Add-on under "Add-ons" by clicking the "Add" button. After entering your personal data, selecting the payment method and entering the payment details, you will be redirected to our payment provider by clicking on the "Proceed to checkout" button to complete your purchase. The completion of the respective Add-on will then be confirmed to you by e-mail.
c. The term of the Add-on depends on the respective Tool or Service that you book. The respective term is specified in the terms of the respective Tool or Service. If the booked Add-on has an unlimited term, you can cancel it at any time with a notice period of 3 working days to the end of the current month. The notice of termination must be sent to the e-mail address support@music-hub.com. The timely receipt of the notice of termination is decisive for compliance with the notice period.
d. If you are a consumer (i.e., a natural person who uses our Offer for a purpose that cannot be attributed to your commercial or self-employed professional activity), you also have the right of withdrawal as described in F. in accordance with the statutory provisions.
a. If a paid subscription or add-on is required for the use of certain Tools or Services, the resulting costs (Fees) are shown in our price list. We reserve the right to adjust the fees for the subscriptions and Add-ons in the future, in particular, due to internal cost increases or extended functions and services; you will receive a corresponding notification at least 30 days in advance, and you have the right to cancel your subscription or add-on within 30 days of receipt of the notification. If you do not make use of your right to cancel or do not object to the change in the contributions within 30 days of receipt of the notification of the changed contributions, the new contributions will also apply to you. The date of receipt of the objection is decisive for the calculation of the period. We will point out this legal consequence to you separately in the notification of the changed premiums. If you object to the change of the fees in due time, we would like to point out that we are entitled to terminate your account and/or your existing subscriptions with us.
b. Fees are due at the beginning of each subscription or add-on period. You are responsible for maintaining a valid means of payment with sufficient funds in your account at all times. If we are still unable to collect the fees, we may, at our option, block your access to the Tools and Services included in the subscription you have booked, or maintain access and send you a reminder to your registered email address. If we are repeatedly unable to collect the fees, we may block your account and, after a further reminder, terminate it extraordinarily, with the consequences described in section B. VIII. c. of the General Terms and Conditions. We may set off any outstanding contributions against any claims you may have against MusicHub.
c. We offer payments by credit card and PayPal as payment methods and, for the subscription, also the SEPA direct debit procedure. We use the payment provider Stripe, Inc. (hereinafter: "Stripe") to process payments, so that payments are processed via Stripe subject to the Stripe terms of use, which can be viewed at https://stripe.com/en-gb-de/legal/ssa. We accept all credit card providers that are supported by Stripe. For the payment, you enter your payment details. With the conclusion of the respective subscription, you finally trigger the payment process according to the selected payment method. You will receive an invoice for your purchase in digital form, which will be sent to you by Stripe. Any credit card fees will be borne by MusicHub, any transaction fees for payment by bank transfer (e.g. due to different currencies or locally different accounts) will be borne by you.
a. The use of MusicHub for purposes that violate applicable laws or the rights of third parties, or with fraudulent intent, is not permitted. In particular, it is not permitted to,
b. The use of MusicHub is subject to our Community Guidelines that may be modified or amended from time to time, updated version of which can be found at https://intercom.help/music-hub/en/articles/6092131-the-musichub-community-guidelines. This includes rules that prohibit abuse, insults, harassment, threats and any form of hate speech towards our employees and service providers as well as towards other MusicHub users.
c. It is noted that the non-permitted uses are prohibited from being conducted by you and/or as a result of actions taken by any third party, including, but not limited to, marketing and/or public relations agent(s), music distributor(s), record company or any individual and/or entity acting on behalf of a user or in a way through which the user may benefit. Users of MusicHub may be liable to such third-party violations. Accordingly, you are encouraged to inspect the operation of any individuals or companies, the marketing and/or promotion of which are hired, employed, authorized or otherwise encouraged by you in relation to your music.
d. If MusicHub, at its sole good faith discretion, has reasonable grounds to suspect that non-permitted use or non-permitted uses have been conducted by you or any third party and through which you have generated and/or may generate revenues from sales and/or streams and/or any other benefit(s), we reserve the right to (1) block, suspend, or to terminate your account extraordinarily and/or remove any or all of the content from our platform and/or the DSPs, with the consequences described in section B. VIII. c. of the General Terms and Conditions; (2) withhold the transfer of any payment or income to your account; (3) block access to the withdrawal of funds from your account until the inspection of the suspect and any additional and/or related proceedings have been resolved to our satisfaction; (4) forfeit any and all funds from your account in the event our inspection will lead to the conclusion of the occurrence of non-permitted use(s).
You warrant and represent that you are the owner of all rights in the uploaded or entered Data that is required for use in MusicHub, or that you have obtained the corresponding permission from all other authorised parties. Rights which have been transferred to GEMA or another collecting society for fiduciary administration shall not be covered by this warranty. All rights in and to all Data shall remain reserved to you or the rightsholders, and you shall remain the exclusive owner of all corresponding copyrights, neighbouring rights and other rights. You do, however, permit MusicHub the use of the Data to the degree required to provide the respective services. Rights for the commercial exploitation of the Data shall, in deviation from the previous sentence, only be granted to MusicHub if you use a corresponding Tool, and only to the extent described in the Special Terms and Conditions applicable thereto.
a. Your MusicHub account will continue to exist until it is terminated by either party with 3 months' notice to the end of the month. To cancel your account, please send an email to support@music-hub.com.
b. If you release your music via a distributor affiliated as a distribution partner, MusicHub will take your Recordings down via the distributor as soon as your account is terminated, as revenue sharing and billing via MusicHub is no longer possible after the expiration of the notice period. You have the possibility to view the royalties received by MusicHub between the receipt and the effective date of the cancellation in the Balance Dashboard until the expiration of the cancellation period and to have them paid out to you. When the termination becomes effective, you waive your right to claim revenue sharing for all billing amounts made available in the Balance Dashboard but not requested for payment.
c. The right of extraordinary termination for cause shall be reserved to you and MusicHub. MusicHub may terminate your account without notice, in particular in the case of an infringement of your obligations arising from the provisions of sections B. II. to VII. of these General Terms and Conditions as well as the warranties arising from the Special Terms and Conditions, as well as block and delete your access. In this case, MusicHub will contact you via your stored e-mail address in order to pay any outstanding revenue share to you.
MusicHub is liable for damage caused by slight negligence only in cases of breach of material contractual obligations to the amount of the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Material contractual obligations are those whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of a contract possible in the first place and on whose compliance the contracting parties may regularly rely. Beyond that, MusicHub shall be liable to you without limitation in the event of intent and negligence, culpably caused damage resulting from injury to life, limb or health, in the event of a contractually assumed guarantee or fraudulently concealed defects. In other respects, liability is excluded unless a strictly mandatory statutory liability regardless of negligence or fault takes action or MusicHub is liable due to a guarantee regardless of negligence or fault.
In the event of a culpable breach of your obligations arising from these General Terms and Conditions, in particular sections B. II. to VII., as well as the obligations arising from the Special Terms and Conditions, in particular the warranties contained therein, you are obliged to compensate MusicHub for the resulting damage. Beyond that, you are obligated to indemnify MusicHub, upon first request, against all third-party claims resulting thereof, including reasonable court fees and legal fees.
German law shall apply to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction for all disputes between the parties is Berlin.
The respective current Specifications of Services, as well as General and Special Terms and Conditions, contain all arrangements between the parties; any collateral agreements shall require MusicHub's written confirmation in order to be valid. In the event that individual provisions of the Specifications of Service or General and Special Terms and Conditions are invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions; in such cases, the parties shall be obligated to agree upon a valid provision that comes as close as possible to the invalid provision.
In the event of changes in the law, changes in MusicHub's legal circumstances, changes in case law, changes in the scope of rights management due to extended service tools, technical changes and extensions of functionalities, MusicHub reserves the right to amend the General Terms and Conditions as well as the Special Terms and Conditions for the various tools and services (individually and collectively referred to as "Terms and Conditions"). MusicHub will inform you of any changes to the Terms and Conditions by notifying you of the amended sections. You have the right to terminate your account within 14 days of receiving such notice. If you do not make use of your right of termination or do not object to the change of the Terms and Conditions within 14 days after receipt of the notification of the amended Terms and Conditions vis-à-vis MusicHub, your consent to the amended Terms and Conditions shall be deemed granted. The date of receipt of the objection shall be decisive for the calculation of the deadline. In the event that you fail to object or terminate the contract in due time or at all, the Terms and Conditions in their amended version shall become an integral part of the contract. MusicHub shall make separate reference to this legal consequence when notifying you of the amended Terms and Conditions.
If you have queries regarding the Terms and Conditions, please write an e-mail to legal@music-hub.com. Please understand that, due to the Rechtsberatungsgesetz [German Act on Legal Advice], we are not allowed to provide any general legal advice and that we are only available to answer queries regarding the Terms and Conditions sent to this address.
As part of the Release Tool, MusicHub allows you to send sound recordings (sound recordings provided via the Release Tool, together with metadata and artwork, hereinafter referred to as “Recordings”) to a distributor for distribution to selected Digital Service Providers (“DSPS”). Please note that the distribution of your Recordings to the DSPs is not done by MusicHub but by the distributor. In addition to the General Terms and Conditions, the following Special Terms and Conditions apply to your Recordings for distribution via the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION – conditional on your use of the Release Tool for distribution of your Recordings by ZEBRALUTION.
a. MusicHub cannot guarantee that the selected DSPs will include your Recordings in their services, as this decision is reserved to the latter in the relevant licensing agreements between ZEBRALUTION as MusicHub's distribution partner and the DSPs. MusicHub’s distribution partner ZEBRALUTION further reserves the right not to distribute Recordings to DSPs if, in the view of ZEBRALUTION, such distribution is likely to breach provisions of the contracts with the respective DSP or to damage the relationship between ZEBRALUTION and the DSP.
b. A rejection of a release is made by the DSPs in particular if this release already exists in their offer, as otherwise the overview for the end-user is impaired and there is a risk of conflicts between the different suppliers. If you thus want to distribute your Recordings via MusicHub’s distribution partner ZEBRALUTION and they have already been released once before, you must ensure that you have a take-down notice for the respective release via the previous distributor or the label which released the Recordings previously.
c. In the event that your Recordings are rejected for the aforementioned reasons, MusicHub shall endeavour to communicate the respective justifications and possible solution approaches to you.
a. MusicHub is a platform for music creators and therefore the distribution option is also reserved for self-created music Recordings.
b. Public domain recordings are recordings for which the exclusive rights have expired. Major DSPs do not allow the delivery of public domain recordings by licensors who are not originally involved in the production, as they only want to make one official version of such recordings available. The distribution of so-called “public domain recordings” is therefore not permitted via MusicHub if you were not the owner of the exclusive rights before their expiry.
c. The distribution of Recordings that do not consist exclusively of music may be rejected by ZEBRALUTION; this applies in particular to audiobooks, radio dramas as well as recordings with noise. While such content may be accepted by some DSPs, they are usually subject to special data formats and delivery rules that cannot be accommodated by MusicHub. The decision about the distribution of such Recordings is therefore left to the decision of ZEBRALUTION in each individual case.
a. In order to enable ZEBRALUTION, as MusicHub's distribution partner, to distribute your Recordings to the DSPs, you grant MusicHub a non-exclusive, worldwide license to digitally exploit your Recordings, which is limited in time to the duration of your membership in MusicHub and is transferable to ZEBRALUTION and through ZEBRALUTION to the DSPs. MusicHub accepts this grant of rights. The grant of rights shall, in particular, include the right to reproduce, distribute, making available to the public and broadcast the Recordings, including the statutory right to claim and collect royalties for these uses, provided that they have not been exclusively assigned to a collective management organisation, but exclusively as a so-called transitory right, which only DSPs and their service providers and end consumers are entitled to exercise, but not MusicHub or ZEBRALUTION itself. The aforementioned grant of rights includes, in particular, the use of the Recordings in the course of streaming, download, social media and other digital services subject to the use of a variety of business models such as purchase, subscription, or usages financed by advertising or by other means. A description of the respective offer of the DSPs which further specifies the permitted uses can be accessed in MusicHub at https://intercom.help/music-hub/en.
b. Provided that you did not grant permission in MusicHub for a world-wide distribution, but for the distribution to take place in a limited territory, the grant of rights to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION and by them to the DSPs shall only be made for the respective countries.
c. DSPs or their service providers may reformat or shorten your Recordings, e.g., by encoding into another audio format or making available of audio samples, in the case of YouTube Music by creating a so-called “Art Track” video where a still image of the cover artwork is added to your Recording, but only insofar as it does not constitute an “edit” (“Bearbeitung” as defined in the German Copyright Act).
d. Something else applies in cases where the business model of the DSP requires editing e.g., because the Recordings are intended for synchronisation (combination) with User Generated Content such as videos. Such uses are further detailed in the description of the offer of the DSPs under https://intercom.help/music-hub/en and you have the opportunity to exclude such offers from distribution. If you decide to provide your Recordings for Distribution by the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to DSPs with such business models, you also grant MusicHub the respective editing right as a transitory right for further transfer to ZEBRALUTION and subsequent exploitation by the DSPs and their users.
e. The DSPs have the right to advertise the Recordings with the name, logo, biography and discography of the artist as well as the title, cover, artwork and video of the Recording in all media without creating the impression of a personal endorsement of the artist and you grant MusicHub the relevant rights in a retransferable manner to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION and through ZEBRALUTION to the DSPs.
f. MusicHub shall also have the right to advertise Recordings as described above in C. III. e. unless you inform us at support@music-hub.com that you do not want this to happen.
g. You grant MusicHub the right to make editorial adjustments to the metadata if requested by the streaming services.
a. You may take your Recordings down at any time without notice of any reason through the distributor by sending an email to support@music-hub.com, in which case, a so-called “Takedown Notice” will be sent by MusicHub to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to all DSPs selected by you with the request to remove the respective Recordings from the service.
b. If your GEMA membership ends, your entitlement to the distribution services also ends, i.e. the sending of your Recordings via the distribution partner to the DSPs selected for Distribution. You have the possibility to conclude a new subscription regarding these distribution services according to the terms and conditions for non-GEMA members. This must be done in due time before the end of the GEMA membership. In this case your recordings will remain available through the distribution partner. If you do not complete your subscription in time before your entitlement expires at the end of your GEMA membership, this will result in your Recordings being taken down via the distribution and will no longer be available on the DSPs.
c. Furthermore, MusicHub is entitled to take your Recordings down via the distributor, with or without termination of your account, if you violate the General Terms and Conditions, especially sections B. II. to VII., or these “Special Terms and Conditions Release for Distribution via ZEBRALUTION”, especially section C. VI. This means, MusicHub can take your Recordings down in particular, if the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION or one of the DSPs selected by you reject them, or if rights of third parties are claimed, or if the Recordings may violate legal regulations.
a. You will receive a “Royalty” calculated as a percentage of the Net Distribution Income (defined as gross royalty income less VAT) of the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION from the exploitation of your Recordings by ZEBRALUTION in the amount of ninety per cent (90%).
b. Royalties allocated to your Recordings will be reported to you by MusicHub via the “Balance Dashboard” in MusicHub, promptly after the receipt of the DSPs’ reports and after processing by the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION. The full amount of reported Royalties that have not been paid out yet will also be shown in the dashboard. In principle, you can request the payment of a partial or total amount at any time. However, you must have a balance of at least €5.00 on your Balance Dashboard before you can request a payout. This minimum amount does not affect your claim to payment of the respective remaining amount upon termination of your membership with MusicHub. A further precondition for a payment of the amounts is that there are no rights on our part to withhold this amount, for example due to outstanding membership fees or other claims of MusicHub against you.
c. To ensure that the credit note is correct from a tax perspective, you are responsible to keep your master data in MusicHub up-to-date at all times, in particular regarding your residence, tax number, small business status and withholding tax exemption. In the event that you are not subject to unlimited tax liability in Germany, MusicHub is entitled to retain and pay withholding tax on your income, except in cases where you provide us with a valid exemption from the German Federal Central Tax Office (in German, “Bundeszentralamt für Steuern”).
e. The payment of the requested amount shall take place within 7 days, free of charge, to your SEPA account. For international bank transfers outside the Euro area and for the use of other payment methods such as PayPal which are planned for a later date, we reserve the right to charge fees which will be shown to you when you select the respective payment method.
a. You know best who has contributed to your Recordings and whether the rights in your Recordings have already been assigned before. MusicHub, the distributor and the DSPs must be able to rely on you in this respect.
b. You therefore warrant and represent to MusicHub that
This means in particular that
c. Rights which have been assigned to GEMA for fiduciary management shall not be covered by this warranty.
d. The indemnification clause in section B. X. of the General Terms and Conditions of MusicHub shall also apply for the aforementioned warranties.
a. The DSPs are generally responsible for licensing the copyrights to the works underlying your Recordings from the relevant collecting society or music publisher.
b. If you are also involved as a composer, lyricist or in any other capacity in the works underlying your Recordings, a separate report of the amounts paid by the DSPs for the use of the works will be made directly through your collecting society or music publisher - this report is not subject to your legal relationship with MusicHub.
c. In case you wish to make Recordings of other people's works available for download in the U.S., you must obtain the necessary license for "Digital Phonorecord Deliveries" (downloads) in accordance with the industry practice and legal situation in the U.S. and pay the corresponding "Mechanical Royalties" (copyright fees) to the rights holders.
d. Should the copyrights to the works underlying your Recordings not be held by a collecting society or music publisher, you indemnify MusicHub, ZEBRALUTION and the DSPs from any claims by third parties.
MusicHub iscommissioned by GEMA to send song lyrics (the song lyrics provided via the Lyrics Tool together with metadata and including any annotations hereinafter referred to as "Lyrics") to so-called "Lyrics Partners"; the Lyrics Partners may be operators of websites, apps, search engines or other digital media offerings that publish song Lyrics, or DSPs as defined in the Specifications of Services of the Release Tool, or also so-called song Lyrics aggregators that supply the aforementioned companies with verified and licenced song Lyrics. For the distribution of song Lyrics - conditional on your use of the Lyrics-Tool - the following Special Terms and Conditions apply in addition to the General Terms and Conditions.
a. MusicHub cannot guarantee that the Lyrics Partners will include your Lyrics in their services. MusicHub also cannot guarantee that the Lyrics Partners will remove from their services Lyrics provided by third parties (suchas fans as so-called "User Generated Content") that do not match your Lyrics. However, MusicHub will use reasonable efforts to make the official Lyrics provided by you available in the most important and relevant places with the help of Lyrics Partners. You can find out which Lyrics Partners we supply in the Help Center under FAQs.
b. The focus of our Lyrics Tool is the distribution of your song Lyrics to enable fans on many different platforms to engage with your song Lyrics. Wherever revenue is generated from the publication of your Lyrics, GEMA agrees to appropriate royalty share of such revenue. As we have no influence on the licensing agreements between GEMA and Lyrics Partners, we do not guarantee monetisation by the Lyrics Partners and distribution of revenues for all conceivable uses.
a. Within the scope of your Deed of Assignment concluded with GEMA, you have granted GEMA the graphic rights to the text of your Lyrics for interactive online uses exclusively for the fiduciary administration in accordance with § 1 h) para. 2 of the Deed of Assignment. Accordingly, you do not have to grant MusicHub any rights if you have written the Lyrics either entirely yourself or exclusively with other GEMA members, and none of you has withdrawn the graphic rights from GEMA. In this case, MusicHub will only deliver your Lyrics to the Lyrics Partners technically, the licensing of the graphic rights to Lyrics Partners, however, is done by GEMA.
b. If you have withdrawn the graphic rights to your Lyrics from GEMA, or if other lyricists are involved in the creation of the Lyrics who are not members of GEMA or have withdrawn the graphic rights from GEMA, the following applies to these parts of the work: You grant MusicHub a non-exclusive, worldwide licence, limited in time to the duration of your membership with MusicHub and transferable to the Lyrics Partners, to exploit the graphic rights to these parts of the Lyrics. MusicHub accepts this grant of rights. The granting of rights includes, in particular, the right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available and broadcast the Lyrics, including the statutory participation claims arising from these rights, unless these have been exclusively assigned to a collecting society, but exclusively as a so-called transitory right, which only Lyrics Partners and their service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise, but not MusicHub itself. The aforementioned grant of rights also includes, in particular, the use of the Lyrics within the scope of streaming, download, social media and other digital services, including the synchronization with sound and video recordings, and the connection with the name, logo, biography and discography of the performers as well as the title, cover, artwork and video of recordings of the underlying work, using a wide variety of business models such as purchase, subscription, usages financed by advertising or by other means.
c. You also allow the Lyric Partners to convert the Lyrics into languages other than the original language. Such conversions may only reproduce the meaning of the original Lyrics word for word and may not represent "translations" in the sense of an artistic adaptation taking into account the rhythm etc. of the associated composition; the creation of an adaptation in the sense of a copyrighted work is therefore not permitted to the Lyrics Partners during the conversion.
a. A claim for a take-down of Lyrics does not exist in principle, as the Lyrics Partners acquire the right to use all Lyrics of the GEMA repertoire via licence agreements with GEMA. Should you nevertheless wish to attempt a removal of a Lyric from all offerings, you can send an e-mail to support@music-hub.com; in this case MusicHub will send a so-called "Take-Down-Notice" to all Lyrics Partners with the request to remove the affected Lyrics from the service. We cannot guarantee the "take-down" for the legal reasons described above.
b. Furthermore, MusicHub is entitled to take your Lyrics down if you violate the General Terms and Conditions, especially sections B. II. to X., or these “Special Terms and Conditions Release for Lyrics”, especially section D. V. This means, MusicHub can take your Lyrics down if rights of third parties are asserted, or if the Lyrics may violate legal regulations.
a. The distribution of the income resulting from the use of your Lyrics is based on the distribution plan of GEMA. As soon as GEMA has included the distribution of graphic rights in its regular operations, this settlement will take place via GEMA's normal distribution process.
b. Until the regular operation for the distribution of the graphic rights, GEMA can settle the revenue share attributable to your Lyrics via the so-called "Balance Dashboard" in MusicHub, promptly after the receipt and processing of the reports of the Lyrics Partners. The total amount of the settled but not yet paid amounts will also be displayed in the Balance Dashboard. You can request payment of a partial amount or the total amount at any time in the MusicHub; you do not need to send us an invoice for this because we will provide you with a credit note for the requested amount. The minimum amount for a pay out is €5.00 (five euros); your right to a pay out of the remaining amount upon termination of your membership remains unaffected by this requirement. A further precondition for a payment of the amounts is that there are no rights on our part to withhold this amount, for example due to outstanding membership fees or other claims of MusicHub against you.
c. To ensure that the credit note is correct from a tax perspective, you are responsible to keep your master data, in particular your address, tax number, small business status and withholding tax exemption, are always up to date in MusicHub. In the event that you are not subject to unlimited tax liability in Germany, MusicHub is entitled to retain and pay withholding tax on your income, except in cases where you provide us with a valid exemption from the German Federal Central Tax Office (in German, “Bundeszentralamt für Steuern”) in due time.
d. The payment of the requested amount shall take place within 7 days, free of charge, to your SEPA account. For international bank transfers outside the Euro zone and the use of other payment methods such as PayPal which are planned for a later date, we reserve the right to charge fees which will be displayed when you select the payment method.
a. You know best who has contributed to your Lyrics and whether the rights in your Lyrics have already been assigned before. MusicHub, the Lyric Partners and the DSPs must be able to rely on you in this respect.
b. You therefore warrant and represent to MusicHub that
c. The indemnification clause in section B. X. of the General Terms and Conditions of MusicHub shall also apply for the aforementioned warranties.
As part of the Release Tool, MusicHub allows you to send sound recordings (sound recordings provided via the Release Tool, together with metadata and artwork, hereinafter referred to as “Recordings”) to a distributor for distribution to Beatport. Please note that the distribution of your Recordings to the DSPs is not done by MusicHub but by the distributor. In addition to the General Terms and Conditions, the following Special Terms and Conditions apply to your Recordings for distribution via the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION – conditional on your use of the Release Tool for distribution of your Recordings by ZEBRALUTION.
a. MusicHub cannot guarantee that Beatport will include your Recordings in their services, as this decision is left to Beatport. In particular, MusicHub reserves the right not to distribute Recordings to Beatport, if in MusicHub’s opinion, such distribution is likely to violate provisions of the contract with Beatport or to damage the relationship between MusicHub and Beatport.
b. A rejection of a release is made by the DSPs in particular if this release already exists in their offer, as otherwise the overview for the end-user is impaired and there is a risk of conflicts between the different suppliers. If you thus want to distribute Recordings that have been previously released on Beatport, you must first ensure a take-down of the respective release by the previous distributor or by the label which released the Recordings previously.
c. In the event that your Recordings are rejected for the aforementioned reasons, MusicHub shall endeavour to communicate the respective justifications and possible solution approaches to you.
a. MusicHub is a platform for music creators and therefore the distribution option is also reserved for self-created music Recordings.
b. The distribution of so-called "public domain recordings" via MusicHub is not permitted if you were not the owner of the exclusive performance rights before they expired. Public domain recordings are recordings for which the exclusive performance rights have expired.
c. Beatport is a platform that is exclusively limited to electronic music. The distribution of Recordings on Beatport that do not belong to the genres of electronic music listed under https://intercom.help/music-hub/en/articles/7965751-beatport-genres is therefore fundamentally excluded.
a. In order to enable the distribution of your Recordings by ZEBRALUTION as MusicHub's distribution partner to Beatport, you grant MusicHub a non-exclusive, worldwide licence for the digital exploitation of your Recordings on Beatport, limited in time to the duration of your membership with MusicHub and transferable by MusicHub to Beatport. MusicHub accepts this grant of rights. The granting of rights includes in particular the right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available and broadcast the Recordings, including the statutory participation claims resulting from these rights, insofar as these are not exclusively assigned to a collecting society, but exclusively as a so-called transitory right, which only Beatport and its service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise, but not MusicHub or ZEBRALUTION themselves. The aforementioned granting of rights includes in particular the use of the recordings in the context of music streaming (including tethered download) and downloads of the recordings on Beatport - using various business models such as purchase, subscription, free advertising or otherwise financed use. A description of Beatport's offer, which further specifies the permitted uses, can be found in the MusicHub at https://intercom.help/music-hub/de. Provided that you did not grant permission in MusicHub for a world-wide distribution, but for the distribution to take place in a limited territory, the grant of rights to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION and by them to Beatport shall only be made for the respective countries.
b. Furthermore, you grant MusicHub the right to edit your Recordings and grant MusicHub the right to transfer this editing right to Beatport. This grant of rights is limited to the editing of your Recording within the scope of Beatport's offer for the creation of DJ edits (extension of the Recordings without changing them, to enable seamless transitions) as well as for the editing of your Recording by the end users of Beatport (User Generated DJ Remixes). This grant of rights also includes the non-exclusive, worldwide right, limited in time to the duration of the add-on booked by you, to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available and broadcast the arrangements of your Recording, including the legal rights of participation resulting from these rights, as far as these are not exclusively assigned to a collecting society, but exclusively as a so-called right of passage, which only Beatport and its service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise, but not MusicHub or ZEBRALUTION itself. If you have not granted MusicHub worldwide distribution, but only distribution in a limited territory, this grant of rights only applies to the corresponding countries.
c. You authorise MusicHub to grant Beatport the right to promote your Recordings with the name, logo, biography and discography of the artists as well as the title, cover, artwork and video of the Recording in all media without giving the impression of a personal endorsement of the artists.
d. MusicHub shall also have the right to advertise Recordings as described above in E. III. c. unless you inform us at support@music-hub.com that you do not want this to happen.
e. You grant MusicHub the right to make editorial adjustments to the metadata if requested by Beatport.
a. The add-on is booked for a duration of one year.
b. You can cancel the add-on at the end of the term. The terms under B. IV. c apply to cancellation. If you do not cancel the add-on at the end of the term, it will be automatically extended by one year.
a. You may take your Recordings down at any time without notice of any reason through the distributor by sending an email to support@music-hub.com, in which case, a so-called “Takedown Notice” will be sent by MusicHub to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to Beatport with the request to remove the respective Recordings from the service.
b. If you cancel your Beatport add-on or if it expires, all releases will be recalled from Beatport.
a. You receive the net proceeds (defined as gross royalties minus VAT) that MusicHub receives from Beatport from the exploitation of your Recordings (minus a percentage share for Beatport).
b. Royalties allocated to your Recordings will be reported to you by MusicHub via the "Balance Dashboard" in MusicHub, promptly after receipt of the report from Beatport by MusicHub. The full amount of reported Royalties that have not been paid out yet will also be shown in the dashboard. In principle, you can request the payment of a partial or total amount at any time. However, you must have a balance of at least €5.00 on your Balance Dashboard before you can request a payout. This minimum amount does not affect your claim to payment of the respective remaining amount upon termination of your membership with MusicHub. A further precondition for a payment of the amounts is that there are no rights on our part to withhold this amount, for example due to outstanding membership fees or other claims of MusicHub against you.
c. To ensure that the credit note is correct from a tax perspective, you are responsible to keep your master data in MusicHub up-to-date at all times, in particular regarding your residence, tax number, small business status and withholding tax exemption. In the event that you are not subject to unlimited tax liability in Germany, MusicHub is entitled to retain and pay withholding tax on your income, except in cases where you provide us with a valid exemption from the German Federal Central Tax Office (in German, “Bundeszentralamt für Steuern”).
d. The payment of the requested amount shall take place within 7 days, free of charge, to your SEPA account. For international bank transfers outside the Euro area and for the use of other payment methods such as PayPal which are planned for a later date, we reserve the right to charge fees which will be shown to you when you select the respective payment method.
The terms and conditions set out in C. VI and C. VII. apply accordingly for the distribution to Beatport.
If you are a consumer (i.e., a natural person who uses our Offer for a purpose that cannot be attributed to your commercial or independent professional activity), you have a right of withdrawal in accordance with the statutory provisions.
For the right of withdrawal, the provisions that shall apply are listed in the following:
You have the right to withdraw from the contract within fourteen days. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract.
In order to exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us,
MusicHub GmbH
Pfuelstraße 5
10997 Berlin
E-Mail: legal@music-hub.com
by way of an unambiguous declaration (e.g., a letter sent by post, fax or e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from the contract. You can use the attached withdrawal template, which is, however, not mandatory.
To adhere to the withdrawal period, it is sufficient if you send the notification about you exercising the right of revocation prior to the end of the revocation period.
Consequences of withdrawal
If you withdraw from the contract, we must refund all payments we received from you, including delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs which result from you having selected a type of delivery other than the cheapest standard delivery offered by us), without delay and within fourteen days at the latest from your withdrawal from this contract. We will use the same method of payment that you chose for the original transaction, unless something else has been agreed with you; in no event will you be charged with any costs because of this refund.
Withdrawal template
(If you want to withdraw from your contract, please fill out this form and send it back to us)
To:
MusicHub GmbH
Pfuelstraße 5
10997 Berlin
E-Mail: legal@music-hub.com
I/we (*) hereby withdraw from the contract concluded by me/us (*) for the provision of the following service:
Ordered on (*)/ received on (*):
Name of the consumer(s):
Address of the consumer(s):
Signature of the consumer, date (only in case of notification on paper)
(*) Please delete as appropriate
End of the withdrawal policy
For accessibility reasons, these Terms & Conditions were translated from German to English. However, the German T&Cs for GEMA members are those that are legally binding.