As of 25.11.2025
For accessibility reasons, these Terms & Conditions were translated from German to English. However, the German T&Cs are those that are legally binding.
MusicHub GmbH (registered office: Rosenheimer Straße 11, 81667 Munich; business address: Pfuelstraße 5, 10997 Berlin) (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or ‘we’) operates an online platform for music creators (hereinafter referred to as “MusicHub”) at the websites www.music-hub.com and www.joinmusichub.de. MusicHub enables the publication of songs on streaming platforms and their promotion. The following provisions (as of 25.11.2025) apply to the use of the various services offered by MusicHub:
(1) These General Terms and Conditions apply to all services offered on MusicHub. For specific services on MusicHub, the Special Terms and Conditions also apply (see B.). These General Terms and Conditions apply to such services as well, unless otherwise specified in the Special Terms and Conditions.
(2) By registering, you agree to the applicability of these General and Special Terms and Conditions without limitation.
(1) Recordings refers to the audio recordings you have made available via our release tool, along with metadata and artwork.
(2) DSP refers to Digital Service Provider.
(3) Lyrics are the song lyrics provided via the Lyrics Tool, including metadata and any annotations.
(4) Lyrics Partners are the operators of websites, apps, search engines or other digital media platforms that publish the song lyrics; DSPs; or so-called lyric aggregators who supply the aforementioned companies with verified and licensed Lyrics.
(5) Public Domain Recordings are recordings for which the exlusive neighbouring rights have expiered.
(6) Consumer means you, to the extent that your use of MusicHub services cannot be primarily attributed to your commercial or self-employed professional activity.
(1) The use of MusicHub services requires registration. Registration is available in German and English.
(2) You may register if you are 18 years or older. If you are not yet 18 years of age, you may only register with the prior consent of your legal representatives. This consent must be provided to us in writing upon request.
(3) You may also register on behalf of multiple persons (e.g., a band) or a company. In this case, you warrant that you have the authority to act on behalf of such entity.
(4) If you are a GEMA member, registration occurs through your first login using your GEMA credentials on MusicHub. Upon agreeing to our General and Special Terms and Conditions and clicking “Log in with GEMA credentials,” your account will be created.
(1) The services and tools offered on MusicHub are listed in the Specification of Services. The Specification of Services indicates whether a subscription, GEMA membership, and/or add-on is required to use the respective services or tools. We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions for the use of services and/or tools.
(2) We are constantly developing the scope of our services. We therefore reserve the right to discontinue, change, or add services in whole or in part after prior notice.
(3) Certain services and tools are marked as “BETA.” These are subject to a test phase. With regard to these services and tools, we reserve the right to limit use to a certain number of users and to change or discontinue the service or tool in whole or in part without prior notice. You have no entitlement to use services or tools marked as “BETA.”
(1) You are obligated to comply with the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions and, where applicable, the Special Terms and Conditions. You must ensure that third parties whom you commission or who act on your behalf or in a manner that is to your benefit (e.g., marketing or PR agents, music distributors, record companies) also comply with the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions and, where applicable, the Special Terms and Conditions.
(2) You are obliged to treat your account details and passwords as confidential and to protect them from being accessed by third parties. If you notice any unauthorised use of your account, you are obliged to notify our support team immediately at the email address support@music-hub.com.
(3) You are responsible for ensuring that your master data, in particular your address, tax ID number, small business status, and withholding tax exemption, is always up to date on the MusicHub platform.
(4) You warrant that you are the owner of all rights to the uploaded or entered content required for use in MusicHub or that you have obtained the appropriate permission from all other rights holders. Rights that have been transferred to GEMA or another collecting society for fiduciary management are not covered by this warranty. All rights to all data remain with you or the rights holders, and you remain the exclusive owners of all corresponding copyrights, ancillary copyrights, and other rights. You, however, grant MusicHub the right to use the data to the extent necessary to provide the respective services. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, rights to commercial exploitation of the data are only granted to MusicHub if you use a corresponding tool and only to the extent described in the applicable Special Terms and Conditions.
(1) Access to certain services and/or tools requires a subscription, add-on, or a combination thereof. The services and/or tools included in our subscriptions or add-ons, fees, and conditions are current in our service directory at https://www.music-hub.com/en/offer-gema-members. All prices are gross, including VAT and other price components. Prices may differ for residents, businesses, or tax entities outside the EU.
(2) You can purchase a subscription or add-on in your account area. There, under “Subscription plan,” you can select the appropriate subscription or add-on using the “Add” button. After entering your personal details, selecting your payment method, and entering your payment details, you will be redirected to our payment provider by clicking on the “Proceed to checkout” button to complete your purchase. You will then receive an email confirming your subscription or add-on.
(3) The duration of the subscription or add-on depends on the respective service for which you purchase the subscription and is specified in the service description. If the subscription or add-on you have purchased has an indefinite term, you can cancel it at any time with 3 business days' notice to the end of the current month. The cancellation can be done from within "Subscription plan" section of your account by clicking on "Cancel plan" or “Cancel add-on”. Alternatively, you can email support@music-hub.com, specifying the subscription or add-on to be canceled. The timely receipt of the notice of cancellation is decisive for compliance with the notice period.
(4) If you, as a consumer, purchase a subscription or add-on, you are entitled to the right of withdrawal described in E. in accordance with the statutory provisions.
(1) The costs for using our services as part of a paid subscription or add-on are based on the information in our current price list.
(2) We accept credit card and PayPal payments as payment methods for all services. SEPA Direct Debit is only supported for existing users who have not yet switched their payment method. Payments are processed by our payment provider Stripe Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Stripe”) in accordance with its terms of use, which can be viewed at https://stripe.com/en/ssa. We accept all institutions as credit card providers that are supported by Stripe. To make a payment, enter your payment details. By completing the respective subscription or add-on, you finally trigger the payment process according to the selected payment method. The invoice will then be generated by Stripe and sent to you in digital form. MusicHub will cover any credit card fees incurred by MusicHub. You are responsible for any transaction fees incurred when paying by bank transfer (e.g., due to different currencies or locally different accounts).
(3) The fees are due at the beginning of the subscription or add-on period. If payment is not made on time, we will, at our discretion, either block your access to the service booked with the subscription or add-on, or maintain access and send a reminder to your registered email address. If you repeatedly fail to pay the fee on time, we will block your account and, after sending a further reminder, terminate it extraordinarily, with the consequences described in Section A. 12. (3) of the General Terms and Conditions. We will offset any outstanding fees against any claims you may have against us.
(4) We reserve the right to adjust the fees for subscriptions and/or add-ons in the future, in particular due to internal cost increases or expanded functionality and services. In this case, we will inform you at least 30 days in advance. Any adjustment to the fees requires your consent. If you do not agree to the adjustment within 30 days of notification, we will cancel your subscription and/or add-on at the end of the respective month.
(1) If you use a service from us in which you receive a share of the revenue, we will make the respective settlement amount available in the “Balance Dashboard” in MusicHub.
(2) The “Balance Dashboard” also shows you the total amount of amounts that have been settled but not yet paid out.
(3) Unless you are subject to unlimited tax liability in Germany, we are entitled to withhold and pay withholding tax on your income, unless you provide us with a valid exemption from the Federal Central Tax Office in due time.
(4) The requested amount will be paid out free of charge to the bank account you specified within 14 days. We reserve the right to charge fees for transfers outside the euro zone or for the use of payment methods other than bank transfer. The amount of the respective fees will be displayed when you select the payment method.
(1) Our offer is aimed at music creators. Therefore, only music recordings you have created yourself may be distributed via MusicHub. The distribution of public domain recordings via MusicHub is therefore not permitted unless you were the owner of the exclusive neighbouring copyrights before they expired.
(2) We reserve the right to refuse or discontinue the distribution of AI-generated music at our sole discretion. We and/or the DSPs may label AI-generated content as such in any manner and/or distinguish it from non-AI-generated content in any manner or offer it separately.
(3) The DSPs reserve the right to decide whether to include your recording in their offerings. We therefore cannot guarantee that the DSPs you select will include your recordings in their services. DSPs will reject a release in particular if the recording is already available in their offering. In this case, you must first ensure that the previous distribution partners through whom the recordings were previously released take down the corresponding release.
(1) It is prohibited to use MusicHub and the services and/or tools we offer in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of third parties and/or constitutes fraudulent or otherwise impermissible manipulation (“unauthorised use”).
In particular, it is prohibited to:
a) Upload content to MusicHub or otherwise publish it via our platform,
aa. that violate the rights of third parties, in particular intellectual
bb. that are unlawful, harmful to minors, discriminatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, fraudulent, or glorify violence
cc. that violate people's privacy
dd. that contain viruses or other harmful components
ee. Upload or store content other than your own on MusicHub, unless you have been expressly authorised to do so by the respective rights holders;
ff. Manipulate or otherwise alter our offerings and services, or delete content other than your own;
gg. remove any copyright notice or other notices, product identifications or comparable information from the website and the Offer there;
(2) The use of MusicHub is also subject to our Community Guidelines, the updated version of which can be found at https://intercom.help/music-hub/en/articles/6092131-the-musichub-community-guidelines. The Community Guidelines contain rules that prohibit abuse, insults, harassment, threats, and any form of hate speech toward our employees, service providers, and other MusicHub users. We reserve the right to change or supplement these guidelines from time to time.
(3) Any unauthorised use as defined in paragraph 1 and any violation of our community guidelines as defined in paragraph 2 shall also be considered a violation of these General Terms and Conditions.
(1) It is prohibited to use means and/or methods that involve artificially inflating streaming numbers and/or manipulating content usage activity on DSP platforms in a fraudulent or manipulative manner. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of hacked or non-authentic accounts, fake profiles, bots, software, automated processes, virtual private networks, streaming farms, or shared accounts.
(2) If we have reasonable suspicion that streaming fraud has been committed by you or a third party, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and/or remove individual or all content from our platform and/or the DSPs. In addition, we reserve the right to withhold payment of any remuneration to your account until the investigation of the suspicion and all additional and/or related procedures have been completed to our satisfaction.
(3) If our review concludes that streaming fraud has occurred, we reserve the right to retain all funds in your account.
(1) Your MusicHub account will remain active until you or we terminate it with three months' notice to the end of the month.
(2) You can cancel your account by sending an email from your registered email address to support@music-hub.com.
(3) Both you and MusicHub have the right to terminate the contract for good cause. Good cause shall include, in particular, a serious breach of these General Terms and Conditions and, where applicable, the Special Terms and Conditions. In the event of termination for good cause, we will contact you via your registered email address to pay out any outstanding revenue shares to you.
(4) If your GEMA membership ends, your account will initially remain active, but you will no longer be able to log in via the “GEMA Login.” In this case, please contact our support team at support@music-hub.com, who will convert your account and explain how to create your own MusicHub password so that you can log in via the normal access for non-GEMA members. Please note that your continued use of MusicHub is subject to the terms and conditions for non-GEMA members and that access to certain tools and services requires a subscription. If you wish to cancel your MusicHub account when you leave GEMA, the above rules apply.
(1) MusicHub shall be liable in all cases of contractual and non-contractual liability for intent and gross negligence in accordance with the statutory provisions. In other cases, we shall only be liable – unless otherwise specified in paragraph 2 – for breach of an obligation whose fulfillment is essential for the proper performance of our services and on whose compliance you may regularly rely (so-called cardinal obligation), limited to compensation for foreseeable and typical damage. In all other cases, our liability is excluded, subject to the provision in paragraph 2.
(2) Our liability for damages resulting from injury to life, limb, or health and under the Product Liability Act remains unaffected by the above limitations and exclusions of liability.
(1) These General Terms and Conditions, as well as the applicable service descriptions and Special Terms and Conditions, contain all agreements between the parties. Any ancillary agreements require written confirmation by MusicHub to be valid.
(2) Should individual provisions of these General Terms and Conditions or the Special Terms and Conditions be invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. In such a case, the parties undertake to agree on a valid provision that comes as close as possible to the invalid provision.
(3) We reserve the right to amend these General Terms and Conditions and the Special Terms and Conditions in the event of changes in the law, changes in the legal circumstances of MusicHub, changes in case law, changes in the scope of rights management through expanded service tools, technical changes, and enhancements to functionality. We will inform you of any changes to the Terms and Conditions by notifying you of the amended provisions. We will ask for your consent to the changes when you next log in to your MusicHub account. If you do not agree to the changes within one month of our notification, we have the right to terminate your account at the end of the following month.
(4) German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction for all disputes between the parties is Berlin.
If you have any questions about the terms and conditions, please send an email to legal@music-hub.com. Please understand that, due to the Legal Advice Act, we are not permitted to provide general legal advice and are only available at this address for questions relating to the terms and conditions.
We offer you the option of distributing your recordings to selected DSPs via a distributor as part of the release tool. Please note that the distribution of your recordings to the DSPs is not handled by MusicHub, but by the distributor. For releases distributed through our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, the following Special Terms and Conditions apply in addition to the General Terms and Conditions, subject to your use of the Release Tool for the distribution of your recordings through ZEBRALUTION:
(1) Our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION reserves the right not to distribute recordings to DSPs if, in ZEBRALUTION's opinion, such distribution would violate the terms of the agreements with the respective DSP or damage the relationship between ZEBRALUTION and the DSP.
(2) ZEBRALUTION may also reject the distribution of recordings that do not consist exclusively of music. This applies in particular to audiobooks, radio plays, and recordings containing sounds.
(3) If your recordings are rejected by a DSP or our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, we will communicate the reasons for this to you and suggest possible solutions.
(1) For the purpose of distribution, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to digitally exploit your recordings, limited to the duration of your membership with MusicHub and transferable to ZEBRALUTION and, through ZEBRALUTION, to the DSPs. This granting of rights includes, in particular
a) the right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available, and broadcast the recordings, including the statutory participation claims arising from these rights, insofar as these have not been exclusively transferred to a collecting society. Only the DSPs and their service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise these rights.
b) the right to use the recordings in the context of streaming, download, social media, and other digital services using a wide variety of business models such as purchase, subscription, free advertising, or other forms of financing
c) the right to reformat or shorten the recordings, provided this does not constitute editing, e.g. by encoding them into a different audio format or providing audio samples
d) the right to combine the recording with a still image of the cover artwork or to produce a so-called “art track” video with the recording
e) the right to promote the recordings in all media using the name, logo, biography, and discography of the performers, as well as the title, cover, artwork, and video of the recording, without giving the impression of a personal endorsement by the performers
f) the right to make editorial adjustments to metadata if requested by the DSPs
g) the right to edit your recordings if the business model of the respective DSP requires editing, e.g. because the recordings are to be used in connection with user generated content such as videos. You can refuse to transfer this right by excluding such offers from distribution. If you decide to have your recordings distributed by the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to DSPs with such business models, you grant us a transitory right to transfer this processing right to ZEBRALUTION and subsequent use by the DSPs and their users.
A description of the respective DSP offerings, which further specifies the permitted uses, can be found on our website at https://app.music-hub.com or https://intercom.help/music-hub/en.
(2) We accept the granting of rights described above.
(3) If you have restricted distribution to certain countries, rights will be granted to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION and, through them, to the DSPs only for the countries you have selected.
(4) You have the right to object to the promotion of your recordings by us by sending a message to support@music-hub.com.
(1) You warrant that
a) all audio files sent to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION via the release tool are recordings within the meaning of our General and Special Terms and Conditions,
b) the information about the recordings, co-authors, or contributors is accurate and complete,
c) you are the owner of the rights and authorisations necessary for the purpose of distribution and are not prevented by any other obligation from granting us these rights,
d) no rights that could impair the exercise of the aforementioned rights have been or will be transferred to third parties,
e) the publication, distribution, marketing, promotion, and exploitation of the recordings do not violate any legal provisions or infringe on the rights of third parties,
f) you have any third-party rights to the recordings, including the rights of performing artists, vocalists, musicians, speakers, sound engineers, mixers, remixers, artistic producers, sound recording producers, event organisers, broadcasters, and other contributors and rights holders, in a transferable manner, and that you will pay all parties involved appropriate remuneration,
g) all samples contained in the recordings, if any, have been cleared with the owners of the relevant ancillary copyrights and copyrights, and any payments to these original rights holders will be borne by you,
(2) Rights that have been transferred to GEMA for fiduciary management are not covered by these guarantees.
(1) You can take down your recordings at any time and without giving a reason by sending an email to support@music-hub.com. We will then send a “take-down notice” via our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION to all DSPs selected by you, requesting that the recordings in question be removed from the respective service.
(2) When your GEMA membership ends, you have the option of taking out a new subscription for these distribution services in accordance with the terms and conditions for NON-GEMA members. You must do this 1 month before the end of your GEMA membership. In this case, your recordings will remain available on the DSPs via the distribution partner. If you do not take out a subscription in time before the end of your GEMA membership, your recordings will be recalled via the distributor and will no longer be available on the DSPs.
(3) Furthermore, we are entitled to take down your recordings from the DSPs via the distributor if you violate the General Terms and Conditions, in particular Sections A. 2. to 11., or these Special Terms and Conditions, in particular Section B. 3. We may take down your recordings in particular if the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION or one of the DSPs you have selected rejects them, if third-party rights are asserted, or if the recordings violate legal provisions.
(1) You will receive a percentage share of the net proceeds (defined as gross license revenues minus sales tax) of the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION from the exploitation of your recordings by ZEBRALUTION in the amount of ninety percent (90%). We will settle the revenue share attributable to your recordings promptly after receipt of the reports from the DSPs and processing by the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION.
(2) You warrant that we, the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, and the DSPs shall not be required to make any payments other than those specified herein in connection with the acquisition, exercise, and exploitation of contractual rights.
(3) You can request a partial or full payout at any time. The minimum payout amount is €5 (five euros); your entitlement to a payout of the remaining balance upon termination of your membership remains unaffected by this requirement. We may refuse to make a payout if we have rights to retain this amount, for example due to outstanding contributions, fees, or other claims against you.
(1) The DSPs are generally responsible for licensing the copyrights to the works underlying your recordings.
(2) If you are also involved in the works underlying your recordings as a composer, lyricist, or in any other capacity, the corresponding remuneration for the use of the work will not be settled by us, but by the institutions you have commissioned to manage your rights (e.g., collecting society, music publisher).
(3) If you also want to make recordings of third-party works available for download in the USA, you must obtain the necessary license for “digital phonorecord deliveries” (downloads) in accordance with industry practice and the legal situation in the USA and pay the corresponding “mechanical royalties” (copyright fees) to the rights holders.
(4) If the copyrights to the works underlying your recordings are not administered by a collecting society or music publisher, you shall indemnify MusicHub, ZEBRALUTION, and the DSPs against any claims by third parties.
We are commissioned by GEMA to send the lyrics of GEMA members to so-called “Lyrics Partners.” You can find out which lyrics partners we supply in the Help Centre under FAQs.
For the distribution of song lyrics, the following Special Terms and Conditions apply in addition to the General Terms and Conditions, depending on your use of the Lyrics Tool:
(1) We do not guarantee that Lyrics Partners will include your lyrics in their services, nor that Lyrics Partners will remove lyrics provided to them by third parties (such as their users as so-called “user-generated content”) from their offerings, even if these do not match your lyrics. However, we will endeavour to work with our lyrics partners to make the lyrics you provide publicly available.
(2) If your rights to the song lyrics are administered by GEMA, the remuneration for the use of your lyrics is based on the license agreements between GEMA and the lyrics partners. We have no influence on these agreements and therefore cannot guarantee remuneration from the Lyrics Partners or a distribution of income for all conceivable uses of your lyrics.
(3) If your rights to the song lyrics are not administered by GEMA, we will endeavour to obtain an appropriate license share of revenues if these are generated by the publication of your song lyrics. However, we cannot guarantee monetisation by the Lyrics Partners or distributions of remuneration to MusicHub for all conceivable uses.
(1) If you wrote the lyrics entirely yourself and have not withdrawn the graphic rights to your lyrics from GEMA, it is not necessary to grant us any rights. The same applies if you wrote the lyrics exclusively with other GEMA members and none of you have withdrawn the graphic rights from GEMA. In this case, we will only deliver your lyrics to our Lyrics Partners for technical purposes. The licensing of the graphic rights to the lyrics partners is handled by GEMA. Furthermore, you are not entitled to request the return of your lyrics, as the lyrics partners acquire the right to use all song lyrics in the GEMA repertoire through their license agreements with GEMA.
(2) If you have withdrawn the graphic rights to your lyrics from GEMA, or if other lyricists who are not GEMA members or who have withdrawn the graphic rights from GEMA were involved in the creation of the lyrics, the following applies:
You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license, limited to the duration of your membership with us and transferable to Lyrics partners, to exploit the graphic rights to the lyrics using a variety of business models such as purchase, subscription, free advertising or other forms of financing.
This granting of rights includes in particular
a) the right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available, and broadcast the lyrics, including the statutory participation claims arising from these rights, insofar as these have not been exclusively transferred to a collecting society. Only the DSPs and their service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise these rights, but not us or our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION.
b) the right to use the lyrics in connection with streaming, downloading, social media, and other digital services, including synchronisation with sound and video recordings,
c) the right to link the lyrics 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,
d) the right to translate the lyrics into languages other than the original language, provided that this translation only reproduces the meaning of the original lyrics word for word and is not an adaptation or artistic rewriting
We accept the granting of rights described above.
(1) You warrant that
a) the information provided about the lyrics, in particular the information about the lyricists, is accurate,
b) you are the owner of the rights and authorisations required for the purpose of distribution, and you are not prevented by any other obligation from granting us these rights,
c) no rights that could impair the exercise of the aforementioned rights have been or will be transferred to third parties, and
d) the publication, distribution, marketing, promotion, and exploitation of the lyrics do not violate any legal provisions (in particular, laws for the protection of minors or criminal laws) or infringe on the rights of third parties.
(2) Rights that have been transferred to GEMA for fiduciary management are not covered by these guarantees.
(1) You may - subject to Section 2. (1) of these Special Terms and Conditions - have your song lyrics removed from all offers by sending a notification to support@music-hub.com. We will then send a “take-down notice” to all Lyrics partners requesting that they remove the lyrics in question from their service.
(2) We are also entitled to take down your lyrics if you violate the General Terms and Conditions, in particular Sections A. 2. to 11., or these “Special Terms and Conditions for Distribution of Lyrics,” in particular Section C. 3. We may take down your lyrics in particular if third-party rights are asserted or if the lyrics may violate legal provisions.
(1) If your rights to the lyrics are administered by GEMA, the distribution of the income generated from the use of your lyrics is based on GEMA's distribution plan. Once GEMA has included this distribution in its regular operations, settlement will be made via GEMA's normal distribution process. Until regular operations for the distribution of graphic rights commence, GEMA can settle the revenue share attributable to your lyrics via the “Balance Dashboard” in the MusicHub platform shortly after receiving and processing the reports from the Lyrics Partners.
(2) If your rights to the lyrics are not administered by GEMA, you will receive a percentage share of the net proceeds (defined as gross license proceeds minus sales tax) from MusicHub from the graphic exploitation of your lyrics in the amount of ninety percent (90%).
(3) You guarantee that we and our Lyrics Partners will not have to make any further payments in connection with the acquisition, exercise, and exploitation of the contractual rights other than the payments specified here.
The release tool allows you to send recordings to a distributor for distribution to Beatport. Please note that your recordings are distributed to Beatport not by MusicHub, but by the distributor.
For distribution to Beatport via the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, the following Special Terms and Conditions apply in addition to the General Terms and Conditions, subject to your use of the Release Tool to distribute your recordings through ZEBRALUTION:
We reserve the right not to distribute recordings to Beatport if such distribution is likely to violate the terms of our agreement with Beatport or damage our relationship with Beatport. If we reject your recordings, we will communicate the reasons for doing so and possible solutions to you.
Beatport is a platform that focuses exclusively on 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 strictly prohibited.
(1) In order to enable the distribution of your recordings to Beatport by our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license, limited to the duration of the add-on you have booked, which we can transfer to Beatport for the digital exploitation of your recordings on Beatport. This granting of rights includes in particular
a) The right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available, and broadcast the recordings, including the statutory participation claims arising from these rights, insofar as these have not been exclusively transferred to a collecting society. Only the DSPs and their service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise these rights, but not us or our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION.
b) The right to use the recordings for music streaming (including tethered downloads) and downloads of the recordings on Beatport using a variety of business models such as purchase, subscription, free advertising or other forms of financing.
c) The right to edit your recordings, limited to editing your recording as part of Beatport's offer to create DJ edits (extending the recordings without changing them to enable seamless transitions) and to editing your recording by Beatport end users (user-generated DJ remixes). This also includes the right to reproduce, distribute, make publicly available, and broadcast these edits of your recording, including the statutory participation claims arising from these rights, insofar as these are not exclusively transferred to a collecting society, but exclusively as a transitory right, which only Beatport and its service providers and end customers are entitled to exercise, but not MusicHub or ZEBRALUTION itself.
d) The right to promote your recordings in all media using the name, logo, biography, and discography of the performers, as well as the title, cover, artwork, and video of the recording, without giving the impression of a personal endorsement by the performers.
e) The right to make editorial adjustments to the metadata if requested by Beatport
(2) A description of Beatport's offer, which further specifies the permitted uses, can be found in the MusicHub Help Centre under https://intercom.help/music-hub/en.
(3) If you have only granted MusicHub distribution rights in a limited territory rather than worldwide distribution, Beatport will only be granted rights for the relevant countries.
(4) We accept the granting of rights described above.
(5) You have the right to object to the promotion of your recordings by us by sending a message to support@music-hub.com.
(1) You warrant that
a) all audio files sent to the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION via the release tool are recordings within the meaning of our General and Special Terms and Conditions,
b) the information about the recordings, co-authors, or contributors is accurate and complete,
c) you are the owner of the rights and authorisations necessary for the purpose of distribution and are not prevented by any other obligation from granting us these rights,
d) no rights that could impair the exercise of the aforementioned rights have been or will be transferred to third parties,
e) the publication, distribution, marketing, promotion, and exploitation of the recordings do not violate any legal provisions or infringe on the rights of third parties,
f) you have any third-party rights to the recordings, including the rights of performing artists, vocalists, musicians, speakers, sound engineers, mixers, remixers, artistic producers, sound recording producers, event organisers, broadcasters, and other contributors and rights holders, in a transferable manner, and that you will pay all parties involved appropriate remuneration,
g) all samples contained in the recordings, if any, have been cleared with the owners of the relevant ancillary copyrights and copyrights, and any payments to these original rights holders will be borne by you,
(2) Rights that have been transferred to GEMA for fiduciary management are not covered by these guarantees.
(1) You can take down your recordings at any time and without giving a reason by sending an email to support@music-hub.com. In this case, we will send a “take-down notice” to Beatport via our distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, requesting that the recordings in question be removed from their service.
(2) If your add-on expires or you cancel it, your recordings will be taken down from Beatport and will no longer be published there via our distribution partner.
(3) Furthermore, we are entitled to take down your recordings via the distributor from Beatport if you violate the General Terms and Conditions, in particular Sections A. 2. to 11., or these Special Terms and Conditions, in particular Section D. 4. We may take down your recordings in particular if the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION or Beatport rejects them, if third-party rights are asserted, or if the recordings violate legal provisions.
(1) You will receive the net proceeds (defined as gross license revenue minus sales tax) that MusicHub receives from Beatport from the exploitation of your recordings (minus a percentage share for Beatport). We will settle the revenue share attributable to your recordings promptly after receiving the reports from Beatport.
(2) You guarantee that we, the distribution partner ZEBRALUTION, and Beatport will not be required to make any further payments in connection with the acquisition, exercise, and exploitation of contractual rights beyond the payments specified herein.
If you are a consumer, you have a right of withdrawal in accordance with the statutory provisions.
The right of withdrawal is subject to the provisions set out in detail in the following withdrawal policy.
You have the right to withdraw from the contract within fourteen days. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the date of conclusion of the contract.
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us
MusicHub GmbH
Pfuelstraße 5
10997 Berlin
E-Mail: legal@music-hub.com
of your decision to withdraw from the contract by means of a clear statement (e.g., a letter sent by post, fax, or email). You can use the attached sample withdrawal form for this purpose, but this is not mandatory.
To comply with the withdrawal period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the expiry of the withdrawal period.
Consequences of withdrawal
If you withdraw from the contract, we shall reimburse you for all payments we have received from you, including delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs resulting from your choice of a type of delivery other than the cheapest standard delivery offered by us), without delay and at the latest within fourteen days from the day on which we receive notification of your withdrawal from this contract. For this refund, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; in no event will you be charged for this refund.
Withdrawal template
(If you wish to cancel the contract, please fill out this form and send it back to us.)
To:
MusicHub GmbH
Pfuelstraße 5
10997 Berlin
Email: 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 consumer:
Address of consumer:
Signature of consumer, date (only for paper notifications)
(*) Please delete as applicable
End of cancellation policy
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