3. Additional Terms For All License Types

• A Recording licensed hereunder is for your own personal or single-seat organizational usage only. You may use the Recording for your personal Productions and/or professional Productions you undertake for your clients or for your employer.

• This license does not include public performance rights. For Recordings not designated “PRO-free”, in order to properly report music used in TV and radio productions, cue sheets must be filed with the networks, stations and appropriate PROs, and a copy must be e-mailed to [email protected] You may not claim ownership of the Recording (or otherwise make it available) through any content detection and/or registration system (such as YouTube’s Content ID), even as synchronized with your Production.

• This license does not include public performance rights. For music not designated “PRO-free”, in order to properly report music used in TV and radio productions, cue sheets must be filed with the networks, stations and appropriate PROs, and a copy must be e-mailed to [email protected] Halal Beats will provide all cue sheet information upon request. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, and in respect of the PRO-free Music, you acknowledge and agree that nothing herein shall preclude Halal Beats from making a claim for a share of any so-called “black box” funds or any funds paid, or payable, by any collection society or otherwise by way of general distribution on a country by country basis. In addition, in the event that any PRO-free Music is publicly performed (or made available for performance) by any entity engaged in the exhibition or other transmission of programming (each a “Downstream Distributor”), and such exhibition gives rise to the payment by such Downstream Distributor of fees or royalties to a performing rights organization in any jurisdiction, nothing herein shall be preclude Halal Beats from making a claim for a share of such monies, it being acknowledged that where a Downstream Distributor is not licensed for the performance of Recordings through licenses with performing rights organizations, then the use of the PRO-free Music as incorporated into a Production distributed, exhibited, and/or transmitted by such Downstream Distributor shall be deemed to be directly licensed and there shall be no obligation (created herein) upon such Downstream Distributor to obtain any license from any performing rights organization in respect of such use.
  With any of our licenses you may distribute a Production on, or via, a Video Sharing Platform, but Halal Beats retains ownership of the Recording incorporated into such Project. You may not claim ownership of the Recording (or otherwise make it available) through any content detection and/or registration system (such as YouTube’s Content ID), even as synchronized with your Production.

4. Limitations of Use

You may not:

• sell, transfer, sublicense, share, give away or otherwise assign the Recordings or your rights granted hereunder to any other party.

• resell the Recording by itself or as part of a package except solely as embodied within your Production.

• resell the Recording (or otherwise make it available) in any manner that would enable a third party to download the Recording as a separate file, such as in e-card templates or website templates.

• resell the Recording (or otherwise make it available) as part of any competing product such as music compilation or music library.

• sell the Recording (or otherwise make it available) as, or as part of, your music or as your song, even if it has been transformed or edited, or if you add other instruments or vocals to the music.

• claim to be the creator or copyright holder of the Recording or of any derivative work created from the Recording.

• Licensee hereby agrees and acknowledges that it is expressly prohibited from taking any action(s) and from engaging in any use of the Beat or Project in the manners, or for the purposes, set forth below:

  • The rights granted to Licensee are NON-TRANSFERABLE and that Licensee may not transfer or assign any of its rights hereunder to any third-party;

  • The Licensee shall not synchronize, or permit third parties to synchronize, the Beat or Project with any audiovisual works EXCEPT as expressly provided for and pursuant to Paragraph 4(b)(iii) of this Agreement for use in one (1) Video. This restriction includes, but is not limited to, use of the Beat and/or Project in television, commercials, film/movies, theatrical works, video games, and in any other form on the Internet which is not expressly permitted herein.

  • The Licensee shall not have the right to license or sublicense any use of the Beat or of the Project, in whole or in part, for any so-called “samples”.

  • Licensee shall not engage in any unlawful copying, streaming, duplicating, selling, lending, renting, hiring, broadcasting, uploading, or downloading to any database, servers, computers, peer to peer sharing, or other file-sharing services, posting on websites, or distribution of the Beat in the form, or a substantially similar form, as delivered to Licensee. Licensee may send the Beat file to any individual musician, engineer, studio manager or other people who are working on the Project.

  • THE LICENSEE IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM REGISTERING THE BEAT AND/OR Project WITH ANY CONTENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDER, MUSIC DISTRIBUTOR, RECORD LABEL OR DIGITAL AGGREGATOR (for example TuneCore or CDBaby, and any other provider of user-generated content identification services). The purpose of this restriction is to prevent you from receiving a copyright infringement takedown notice from a third party who also received a non-exclusive license to use the Beat in a Project. The Beat has already been tagged for Content Identification (as that term is used in the music industry) by Halal Beats as a pre-emptive measure to protect all interested parties in the Project. If you do not adhere to this policy, you are in violation of the terms of this License and your license to use the Beat and/or Project may be revoked without notice or compensation to you.

  • As applicable to both the underlying composition in the Beat and to the master recording of the Beat: (i) The parties acknowledge and agree that the Project is a “derivative work”, as that term is used in the UK Copyright Act;  As applicable to the Beat and/or the Project, there is no intention by the parties to create a joint work; and (iii) There is no intention by the Licensor to grant any rights in and/or to any other derivative works that may have been created by other third-party licensees.

  • You undertake not to use the Music for any other purpose outside of that granted by this Licence.  You acknowledge that you will have no rights to use the Music in connection with other material that is defamatory, libelous, obscene, immoral, illegal or that otherwise violates any right(s) of any third party(ies); This would include explicit and inappropriate content such:

    • Pornography

    • Terrorism

    • Profanity

    • Bullying

    • Hate crime

    • Hate speech 

    • Racism

5. Delivery of the beat

• Licensor agrees to deliver the Beat as a high-quality {FILE_TYPE}, as such terms are understood in the music industry. Licensor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver the Beat to Licensee immediately after payment of the License Fee is made. Licensee will receive the Beat via email, to the email address Licensee provided to Licensor. All Products are provided without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.
  Halal Beats makes no representations or warranties that all Products will be available at all times. It may discontinue licensing certain Products at its sole discretion. © All our Licences are strictly copyrighted by Halal Beats. 

*These Terms of Use apply to regular users. If you intend to use or incorporate the Company’s services in your product and make it available to your customers, please contact us at [email protected]

• In consideration for Licensee’s payment of the License Fee, Halal Beats hereby grants Licensee a limited non-exclusive, nontransferable license and the right to incorporate, include and/or use the Beat in the preparation of one (1) project (Video or audio created by human not generated by bot).

• This License grants Licensee a worldwide, non-exclusive license to use the Beat as incorporated in the Project in the manners and for the purposes expressly provided for herein, subject to the sale restrictions, limitations and prohibited uses stated in this Agreement. 

• Licensee acknowledges and agrees that any and all rights granted to Licensee in the Beat pursuant to this Agreement are on a NON-EXCLUSIVE basis and Halal Beats shall continue to license the Beat upon the same or similar terms and conditions as this Agreement to other potential third-party licensees.

• Subject to the Licensee’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Licensee shall not be required to account or pay to Halal Beats any royalties, fees, or monies paid to or collected by the Licensee, or which would otherwise be payable to Halal Beats in connection with the use/exploitation of the Project as set forth in this Agreement.

• The entirety of the Composition, Master recordings and any other recordings containing sounds may be included as music, backing track or soundtrack, in line with the Permitted Purpose set out in our Invoice.

• In determining the Permitted Purpose, you undertake to notify Halal Beats of the nature, scope, and extent of the Project being undertaken by you. You further acknowledge that once the nature, scope, and extent of the Project amounting to the Permitted Purpose has been agreed, you will not seek to change the nature, scope, and extent of the Project without the express written agreement of Halal Beats, for which further consideration may be required.

• Each licence is granted for use in solely one project to the Licensee (a “Project” refers to any single production of musical works, digital content, live concerts, film, radio, social media, any online or offline platform, including works of vocals, or any media-based works you seek to utilise the licensed beats in). 

• The licence covers unlimited downloads for each beat purchased with a licence to use under the account name, unless the user loses or closes their Halal Beats website account where all data will not be accessible, where on this occasion they will have to sign up and purchase licence/s again. All licences from purchase are non-refundable at any condition. From purchase date, you will not be entitled to any refund if downloading or streaming the audio file. If we delivered the digital content to you immediately, and you agreed to this when ordering, you will not have a right to change your mind. Users need to be aware if cancelling the licence or account they will need to re-purchase a licence to use again. Beats are not to be used if licence has expired, licence breached, account closed or licence cancelled.

6. Ownership:

• The Halal Beats is and shall remain the sole owner and holder of all rights, title, and interest in the Beat, including all copyrights to and in the sound recording and the underlying musical compositions written and composed by Halal Beats. Nothing contained herein shall constitute an assignment by Halal Beats to Licensee of any of the foregoing rights. Licensee may not, under any circumstances, register or attempt to register the Project and/or the Beat with any Copyright Office. The aforementioned right to register the Project and/or the Beat shall be strictly limited to Halal Beats. Licensee will, upon request, execute, acknowledge and deliver to Halal Beats such additional documents as Halal Beats may deem necessary to evidence and effectuate Halal Beats’s rights hereunder, and Licensee hereby grants to Halal Beats the right as attorney-in-fact to execute, acknowledge, deliver and record in the any Copyright Office or elsewhere any and all such documents if Licensee shall fail to execute same within five (5) days after so requested by Halal Beats.

• For the avoidance of doubt, you do not own the master or the sound recording rights in the Project which uses our beat. You have been licensed the right to use the Beat in the Project and to commercially exploit the Project based on the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

• Notwithstanding the above, you do own the visuals or other original musical components of the Project that were created solely by you.

• The licensee shall be deemed to have signed, affirmed and ratified its acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by virtue of its payment of the License Fee to Licensor and its electronic acceptance of its terms and conditions at the time Licensee made payment of the License Fee.

• The Licensee shall immediately notify Halal Beats in writing, giving full particulars, if any of the following matters come to its attention:

• Any actual, suspected or threatened infringement of the copyright.

• Any claim made or threatened that the Music infringes the rights of any third party.

• Any other form of attack, charge, or claim to which the copyright may be subject.

• In respect of any of the matters listed

• Halal Beats shall, at their absolute discretion, decide what action to take (if any).

• Halal Beats shall have exclusive control over, and conduct of, all claims and proceedings.

• You shall not make any admissions other than to Halal Beats, and shall provide Halal Beats with all assistance that they may reasonably require in the conduct of any claims or proceedings.

• Halal Beats shall bear the cost of any proceedings, and shall be entitled to retain all sums recovered in any action for his own account.

• The provisions of sections 101 and 101A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (or equivalent legislation in any jurisdiction) are expressly excluded.

7. Credit: 

• Licensee shall have the right to use and permit others to use Halal Beats’s approved name, approved likeness, and other approved identification and approved biographical material concerning the Halal Beats solely for purposes of trade and otherwise without restriction solely in connection with the Project recorded hereunder. 

• Licensee shall use best efforts to have Halal Beats credited as a “Halal Beats” and shall give Halal Beats appropriate production credit on all video description’s of the project including wherever posted. Which is now known or created in the future that embodies the Project created hereunder and on all cover liner notes, any records containing the Project and on the front and/or back cover of any album listing the Project and other musician credits. 

• The licensee shall use its best efforts to ensure that Halal Beats is properly credited and Licensee shall check all proofs for the accuracy of credits, and shall use its best efforts to cure any mistakes regarding Halal Beats’s credit. In the event of any failure by Licensee to issue the credit to Halal Beats, Licensee must use reasonable efforts to correct any such failure immediately and on a prospective basis. Such credit shall be in the substantial form: “Produced by {Halal Beats_ALIAS}”.

• Halal Beats being the sole author of the Music, asserts the Licensor’s moral right under Chapter 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the author of the work.

• Halal Beats will receive a credit on the Project substantially in the form: “Soundtrack/Music Produced by Halal Beats” Not according this credit may constitute a material breach of this Licence.

8. License Cancellation:

•  Licensor shall have the option, at Licensor’s sole discretion, to cancel/terminate this License at any time from the date of this Agreement upon written notice to Licensee. In the event that Licensor exercises this option, Licensor shall pay to Licensee a sum equal to Two Hundred Percent (200%) of the License Fee paid by Licensee. Upon Licensor’s exercise of the option, Licensee must immediately remove the Project from any and all digital and physical distribution channels and must immediately cease access to any streams and/or downloads of the Project by the general public.

9. Breach by Licensee:

• The licensee shall have five (5) business days from its receipt of written notice by Halal Beats and/or Halal Beats’s authorized representative to cure any alleged breach of this Agreement by Licensee. Licensee’s failure to cure the alleged breach within five (5) business days shall result in Licensee’s default of its obligations, its breach of this Agreement, and at Halal Beats’s sole discretion, the termination of Licensee’s rights hereunder.

• Licensee recognizes and agrees that a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement by Licensee give rise to irreparable injury to Halal Beats, which may not be adequately compensated by damages. Accordingly, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Licensee of the provisions of this Agreement, Halal Beats may seek and shall be entitled to a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction restraining the Licensee from violating the provisions of this Agreement. Nothing herein shall prohibit Halal Beats from pursuing any other available legal or equitable remedy from such breach or threatened breach, including but not limited to the recovery of damages from the Licensee. The Licensee shall be responsible for all costs, expenses or damages that Halal Beats incurs as a result of any violation by the Licensee of any provision of this Agreement. Licensee’ obligation shall include court costs, litigation expenses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

10. Warranties, Representations, and Indemnification:

• Licensee hereby agrees that Licensor has not made any guarantees or promises that the Beat fits the particular creative use or musical purpose intended or desired by the Licensee. The Beat, its sound recording, and the underlying musical composition embodied therein are licensed to the Licensee “as is” without warranties of any kind or fitness for a particular purpose.

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• Halal Beats reserves the right (to the fullest extent permissible by law) to injunct, or in any way restrain, the exhibition, promotion, or exploitation of any material utilising the Music, or any of the allied and ancillary rights connected with the Music, for any cause whatsoever, including (without limitation) any alleged infringement of moral rights arising under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You acknowledge that Halal Beats will also be entitled to claim damages alongside any injunctive relief.

• Parties hereto shall indemnify and hold each other harmless from any and all third party claims, liabilities, costs, losses, damages or expenses as are actually incurred by the non-defaulting party and shall hold the non-defaulting party, free, safe, and harmless against and from any and all claims, suits, demands, costs, liabilities, loss, damages, judgments, recoveries, costs, and expenses; (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees), which may be made or brought, paid, or incurred by reason of any breach or claim of breach of the warranties and representations hereunder by the defaulting party, their agents, heirs, successors, assigns and employees, which have been reduced to final judgment; provided that prior to final judgment, arising out of any breach of any representations or warranties of the defaulting party contained in this agreement or any failure by defaulting party to perform any obligations on its part to be performed hereunder the non-defaulting party has given the defaulting party prompt written notice of all claims and the right to participate in the defense with counsel of its choice at its sole expense. In no event shall Artist be entitled to seek injunctive or any other equitable relief for any breach or non-compliance with any provision of this agreement. 

• This Licence Agreement, and any dispute or claim arising out of, or in connection with, it, or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of England and Wales.

• The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of, or in connection with, this Agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).

11. Miscellaneous: 

• This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties and is intended as a final expression of their agreement and cannot be altered, modified, amended or waived, in whole or in part, except by written instrument (email being sufficient) signed by both parties hereto. This agreement supersedes all prior agreements between the parties, whether oral or written. Should any provision of this agreement be held to be void, invalid or inoperative, such decision shall not affect any other provision hereof, and the remainder of this agreement shall be effective as though such void, invalid or inoperative provision had not been contained herein. No failure by Licensor hereto to perform any of its obligations hereunder shall be deemed a material breach of this agreement until the Licensee gives Licensor written notice of its failure to perform, and such failure has not been corrected within thirty (30) days from and after the service of such notice, or, if such breach is not reasonably capable of being cured within such thirty (30) day period, Licensor does not commence to cure such breach within said time period, and proceed with reasonable diligence to complete the curing of such breach thereafter. You undertake that you are not, in any way, entitled to assign your rights and obligations under this Licence to third parties.

• This agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the {STATE_PROVINCE_COUNTRY} applicable to agreements entered into and wholly performed in said State, without regard to any conflict of laws principles. You hereby agree that the exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any action, suit or proceeding based upon any matter, claim or controversy arising hereunder or relating hereto shall be in the state or federal courts located in the {STATE_PROVINCE_COUNTRY}. You shall not be entitled to any monies in connection with the Project other than as specifically set forth herein. All notices pursuant to this agreement shall be in writing and shall be given by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested (prepaid) at the respective addresses hereinabove set forth or such other address or addresses as may be designated by either party. Such notices shall be deemed given when received. Any notice mailed will be deemed to have been received five (5) business days after it is mailed; any notice dispatched by expedited delivery service will be deemed to be received two (2) business days after it is dispatched. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY US OF THE SIGNIFICANT IMPORTANCE OF RETAINING AN INDEPENDENT ATTORNEY OF YOUR CHOICE TO REVIEW THIS AGREEMENT ON YOUR BEHALF. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE HAD THE UNRESTRICTED OPPORTUNITY TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN INDEPENDENT ATTORNEY. IN THE EVENT OF YOUR FAILURE TO OBTAIN AN INDEPENDENT ATTORNEY OR WAIVER THEREOF, YOU HEREBY WARRANT AND REPRESENT THAT YOU WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO USE SUCH FAILURE AND/OR WAIVER as a basis to avoid any obligations under this agreement, or to invalidate this agreement or To render this agreement or any part thereof unenforceable. This agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and said counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument. In addition, a signed copy of this agreement transmitted by facsimile or scanned into an image file and transmitted via email shall, for all purposes, be treated as if it was delivered containing an original manual signature of the party whose signature appears thereon and shall be binding upon such party as though an originally signed document had been delivered. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that you do not sign this Agreement, your acknowledgment that you have reviewed the terms and conditions of this Agreement and your payment of the License Fee shall serve as your signature and acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

• You shall indemnify and hold Halal Beats harmless from any, and all, liability, such as any use of the Music other than the uses expressly permitted by this agreement, including legal fees arising out of, or connected with, your exercise of the rights licensed under this Licence and any breach by you of the terms of this Licence.

12. License fee

• You shall pay Halal Beats the sum requested in the website on purchase of this Licence (receipt of which you acknowledge)

• This licence is and Music are royalty-free

• The Licensee to shall make payment of the License Fee to Licensor on the date of this Agreement. All rights granted to Licensee by Halal Beats in the Beat are conditional upon Licensee’s timely payment of the License Fee. The License Fee is a one-time payment for the rights granted to Licensee and this Agreement is not valid until the License Fee has been paid.

13. ACCEPTANCE AND AGREEMENT 

By receiving and downloading this contract via orders page and email, you automatically agree to the terms stated above and gain non-exclusive rights to the Beat. Any breach of this contract will result in this agreement automatically becoming null and void, resulting in the revocation of any usage rights. Should these privileges be revoked, the Licensee understands that selling any recordings that contain any sum or portion of the Beat being licensed in this agreement, without written permission from the Licensor would constitute a violation of copyright law punishable by legal action.

Licensor digital signature: Umar Haji Valu (Executive Producer and CEO of Halal Beats) – Signed date: {CONTRACT_DATE}

Licensee digital signature: {CUSTOMER_FULLNAME} (Artist) – Signed date: {CONTRACT_DATE}

Clear your YouTube video(s):

If you received a third-party copyright claim by Halal Beats in your video production(s). 

Please submit an unclaim request here: https://www.HalalBeats.io contact us via email.

Business Information:

Halal Beats are operated by UMSV LTD

Email: [email protected]

U.K Performing rights organisation:

PRS Membership number (CAE/IPI): 1064783933

Producer: Umar Haji Valu

U.S Performing rights orgnasiaiton: BMI

Distrubution: CDBABY, TuneCore & Beatstars

Website: www.HalalBeats.io