License terms

This is the license behind every track on AGsoundtrax, written out in one place. The terms of use apply alongside it, and your certificate records which of the grants below you bought.

The grant, common to every license

• Non-exclusive, worldwide, in perpetuity. The license never expires and never needs renewing, and it has no territory carve-outs.
• One end product. A license clears one finished piece: one film, one campaign, one video. Recut it, reversion it, make a dozen cuts for a dozen placements, still one license. A second project takes a second license, at every tier.
• Synchronization, not distribution. The music may live inside your production. It may not be distributed as music: no song releases, streams, ringtones, sample packs, or files your audience can extract.
• The master files. Every purchase downloads the master WAV, the master MP3, every alternate version, and the certificate PDF.
• Editing. Cut, loop, fade and layer the track to fit your edit. What you may not do is pass an edit off as a new composition or claim any authorship in it.

Single-track tiers

Three tiers, and the difference between them is reach. The numbers below are the same ones on the pricing page and on your certificate.

• Basic. Your website, social channels and podcast, online video, and internal material, with no paid advertising money behind the piece, an audience under 1,000,000, and a company of fewer than 250 people.
• Silver. Everything Basic covers, plus paid advertising up to $5,000 behind the finished piece, and live events, conferences, installations and in-store play. The same audience and company ceilings as Basic.
• Platinum. No audience ceiling, no company ceiling, unlimited advertising spend, and broadcast television, radio and theatrical release.

Subscription plans

• Creator draws licenses for your own channels and projects, within Basic and Silver reach: audiences under 1,000,000, companies under 250 people, paid media under $5,000. Up to 50 licenses a month.
• Professional draws licenses for any audience, company size and paid-media level, including client and agency work, with the license carrying to the client. Up to 200 licenses a month. Broadcast television, radio and theatrical release stay outside both plans; they take a Platinum single-track license.
• What survives cancelling. Work published while subscribed, licensed under the plan, stays cleared forever. New projects and new uses of downloaded files need an active plan or a single-track license.

Stems

Stem separation comes with every single-track license, and with the Professional plan. Stems follow the same license as their track: they exist so you can mix the music into your production, never to build new music for distribution.

Never, at any tier

The full list lives in the terms of use and it binds every license: no reselling or redistributing the music as music, no content-identification registration, no training or seeding of machine-learning models with the audio or its metadata, no published watermarked demos, and no use in hateful, defamatory or pornographic content.

If a licensed track is challenged

Every composer warrants their music is their own. If a track you licensed is challenged, tell us at once; we may ask you to pause the use, and if the challenge stands you choose between a comparable replacement license at no cost or a refund. The copyright policy has the formal procedure.

Custom needs

Exclusivity, a use none of the tiers describes, or a license for something unusual: write to info@agsoundtrax.com and we will quote it plainly.