These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between you (“you” or “your”) and YourLabel LLC (“YourLabel”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), governing your access to and use of the YourLabel music distribution platform at yourlabel.app (“Platform” or “Service”).
By clicking “Create Account”, accessing the Platform, or submitting any content through the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and the Music Distribution Agreement available at yourlabel.app/distribution-agreement, each of which is incorporated herein by reference. Your submission of any release for distribution is additionally governed by the Music Distribution Agreement; in the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Distribution Agreement with respect to distribution, royalties, or payouts, the Distribution Agreement prevails. These Terms and the Distribution Agreement are read together as a single set of terms: neither operates independently of the other, both are amended only in accordance with Section 15 below, and terminating one terminates the other.
These Terms apply to all users, including artists, band members, label representatives, managers, and any other person who registers or accesses the Platform. If you use the Platform on behalf of a legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity, and references to “you” include that entity.
2.1 Age requirement. You must be at least 18 years of age to register for or use the Service. Where applicable law requires a higher age of digital consent, that higher age applies.
2.2 Account accuracy. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to promptly update it. We may suspend or terminate your account if any information provided is found to be inaccurate, false, or misleading.
2.3 Account security. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately at [email protected] upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access.
2.4 One account per user. You may not create more than one personal account. Duplicate accounts may be suspended without notice.
2.5 Non-transferability. Your account is personal to you and may not be assigned, transferred, sold, or sublicensed.
3.1 Mandatory verification. Before you may submit music for distribution, you must complete our KYC verification by providing your legal name as it appears on your government-issued ID, your country of residence, and a clear scan or photograph of a valid government-issued identity document (passport, national identity card, or driving licence). For labels and other entities, we may additionally require incorporation documents, proof of registered address, and identification of beneficial owner(s) or the authorized signatory.
3.2 Purpose. KYC verification is required to comply with applicable anti-money- laundering (AML) and sanctions requirements, to prevent fraudulent use of the Platform, to satisfy requirements imposed by our distribution partners, and to establish your identity for the purpose of enforcing these Terms and the Distribution Agreement, including pursuing legal claims arising from copyright infringement or fraud.
3.3 Accuracy and fraud. You represent and warrant that all documents and information submitted for verification are genuine, unaltered, and accurately represent your identity. Submission of fraudulent, forged, or third-party identity documents is a material breach of these Terms and may be reported to law enforcement.
3.4 Verification outcome. We may approve or reject verification applications at our sole discretion. A rejection does not preclude resubmission with corrected documentation. Approved status may be revoked if we subsequently discover inaccuracies or a match against applicable sanctions or watch lists.
3.5 Data processing. Identity documents are processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and retained for the period stated there, which includes retention after account closure for AML compliance and the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
4.1 Ownership retained.You retain full ownership of all copyrights, neighbouring rights, and other intellectual property rights in the music, sound recordings, artwork, lyrics, and metadata you submit (“Your Content”). Nothing in these Terms transfers your intellectual property to YourLabel.
4.2 Licence to YourLabel. By submitting Your Content, you grant YourLabel a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence for the duration of your use of the Service to:
4.3 Scope of licence. The licence in Section 4.2 is strictly limited to what is necessary to provide the Service. YourLabel does not acquire any right to exploit Your Content commercially for purposes unrelated to your distribution.
4.4 Warranties of ownership. You represent and warrant that:
You agree not to submit, distribute, or make available through the Service any content that:
6.1 Moderation. All releases are subject to human review prior to distribution. We will notify you of the outcome — approval or rejection with written reasons — via email and your dashboard.
6.2 Timelines.We target a moderation decision within 24 hours of submission. Following approval, YourLabel will submit your release to your selected stores promptly. Publication timing thereafter is determined solely by each store and may range from a few hours to several weeks, or in rare cases longer, entirely at that store’s discretion. We do not control, and make no representation or warranty regarding, the timing of any store’s review or publication process. There is no maximum timeframe within which a store is obligated to publish a release.
6.3 Fees and revenue share. YourLabel charges no signup fee, no upload fee, no subscription fee, no annual fee and no per-release fee. YourLabel is compensated solely by a flat revenue share on Net Revenue as set out in Section 5 of the Music Distribution Agreement: you receive 85% of Net Revenue and YourLabel retains 15%. This split is the same for every user and every release; it does not increase or decrease with your earnings, and there are no royalty tiers, thresholds or escalators. “Net Revenue” has the meaning given in the Distribution Agreement, and Section 5 of that Agreement prevails over any description of the revenue share elsewhere on the Platform, including marketing pages.
6.4 Store availability. We distribute to the stores shown as selected on your release at the time of submission. The set of stores we deliver to is fixed by us and may change: we do not guarantee that any particular store is or will remain available, and we may add or remove stores from the delivery set at any time. Where a store is removed from our delivery set, releases already live on that store are not necessarily withdrawn from it, but we may be unable to update or withdraw them there.
6.5 Identifiers. Where you do not supply them, we assign a UPC/EAN barcode to the release and an ISRC code to each track; these are shown in your dashboard. Where your release was commercially released before, you must supply the existing UPC/EAN and ISRC codes, and you are responsible for their accuracy.
6.6 Right of refusal. We reserve the right to refuse, withhold, or remove from distribution any release that, in our reasonable assessment, violates these Terms, the Distribution Agreement, applicable law, or the content policies of our distribution partners, or that poses a legal or reputational risk to the Platform.
6.7 Submission limits. We may impose reasonable quantitative limits on the use of the Service, including limits on the number of releases that may be submitted in a given period, on the volume of data that may be uploaded in a given period, and specifically on the number of releases containing AI-generated material that may be submitted in a given period. The limits in force are shown in your dashboard. We may also temporarily restrict your ability to create new releases where we reasonably consider it necessary to protect the Service, our distribution partners, or other users; where we do so, we will tell you the reason and the duration of the restriction.
6.8 Availability by country. The Service is not offered in every country. We may decline registration from, and withdraw access to the Service from, users resident in or connecting from countries we do not serve, whether for legal, compliance, partner-imposed or commercial reasons, and we may change the list of such countries at any time. Where we withdraw access for this reason, we will settle any balance accrued to you in accordance with Section 11.3.
7.1 Royalty reporting.Stores report and pay royalties on their own schedules, typically monthly or quarterly with a lag of 2–3 months. We credit your dashboard once the corresponding report and funds have been received and reconciled, net of the deductions described in the Distribution Agreement’s definition of Net Revenue. Figures shown in your dashboard before a reporting period is reconciled are provisional and may be adjusted.
7.2 Revenue share. Royalties are credited at the flat rate set out in Section 5 of the Music Distribution Agreement: 85% to you, 15% to YourLabel, with no tiers and no thresholds. The percentages and definitions in the Distribution Agreement prevail over any general description on marketing pages of the Platform. A change to this rate takes effect only as described in Section 15.2 and never applies to revenue already earned.
7.3 Payout requests. You may request withdrawal of your available balance at any time, subject to the hold period and minimum threshold described in Section 6 of the Distribution Agreement. Payouts are made by PayPal or by bank transfer (IBAN/SWIFT), to the payout details you register on the Platform; we do not pay out in cryptocurrency. Minimum payout thresholds and processing times are displayed in your dashboard. You are responsible for the accuracy of your payout details; funds sent to an incorrect PayPal address or bank account you provided cannot be recovered. Payout requests are reviewed before approval, and completion of identity verification under Section 3 is a condition of any payout.
7.3a Transfer fees. PayPal, your bank, and any intermediary bank may charge a fee for receiving, converting, or handling the payment. We do not set or receive those charges, they are borne by you, and the amount that reaches your account may therefore be lower than the amount approved. Where we are ourselves charged a fee in order to send your payout, we may deduct it from the payout. Payouts are denominated in United States dollars; conversion into any other currency, and the rate applied, is a matter between you and your payment provider. See Section 6 of the Distribution Agreement.
7.4 Tax responsibility. You are solely responsible for determining, declaring, and paying all taxes applicable to royalty income received through the Service in all relevant jurisdictions. YourLabel does not provide tax advice.
7.5 Disputed royalties. If you believe royalties credited to your account are materially inaccurate, notify us at [email protected] within 90 days of the credit date. Where an error is confirmed, we will credit the shortfall within 30 days. Claims raised after 90 days may be time-barred.
7.6 Payment conditions, holds and Restricted accounts. An amount credited to your dashboard becomes payable only once every condition in Section 6 of the Distribution Agreement is met, including that your account is in good standing. Where a Rights Claim is made in respect of any of your releases — a copyright complaint from any source, a claim, block or strike from any store or its content-recognition system, a suspected artificial-streaming investigation, an ownership or payment dispute, or a regulatory inquiry — we suspend payment of the entire balance of your account, not only the royalties of the release concerned, and including amounts already approved for payout but not yet sent.
If the claim is resolved in your favour, the restriction is lifted and the balance becomes payable in the normal cycle. If it is not, the balance is dealt with under Section 11.8 of the Distribution Agreement: amounts attributable to the infringing content are retained for the claimant, our losses are set off, and anything remaining stays recorded to your account and visible in your dashboard, but does not become payable for as long as the account is Restricted. We do not confiscate it and we do not treat it as our own income; it simply does not satisfy the conditions of payment. Balances that remain non-payable for three years are extinguished under Section 11.9 of that Agreement.
8.1 Requesting a takedown. You may request removal of a release from distribution at any time using the takedown function in your dashboard. One takedown request may be submitted per release.Submitting the request places the release in a “takedown” state, in which it cannot be edited or resubmitted, and refers it to us for a decision.
8.2 Our decision. We will review each takedown request and either accept it or decline it. We will normally decide within 5 business days. We may decline a request where the release is the subject of an unresolved third-party claim, an investigation under Section 7.6, a payment dispute, or a legal or regulatory obligation that requires the release to remain available, or where the request appears to be an attempt to evade these Terms. If we decline, the release returns to the status it held before the request and remains distributed. Because only one request may be made per release, a declined request cannot be resubmitted through the dashboard; you may raise the matter with us at [email protected].
8.3 Effect of an accepted takedown.If we accept the request, we will instruct removal of the release from the stores to which it was delivered, and the release will no longer appear in your dashboard. Removal from each store is subject to that store’s own timelines, ranging from a few days to 30 business days or longer, and is outside our control. We retain the release record, its metadata and the associated accounting internally for the period stated in our Privacy Policy, in order to settle royalties, meet our record-keeping obligations and defend legal claims. A release removed in this way cannot be restored or resubmitted; distributing the same recording again requires a new release.
8.4 Royalties after takedown. Royalties generated before the effective removal date on each store remain payable to you in the normal course, subject to Sections 5 and 7.6 and to the Distribution Agreement. Requesting or obtaining a takedown does not forfeit a balance already accrued to you.
8.5 Takedowns initiated by us. Where we remove a release under Section 6.6, or in response to a notice under our DMCA Policy, we will record the reason in your dashboard and, where we consider it appropriate and lawful to do so, notify you. You may contest the decision within 14 days, and we will review the release on the material you provide. Where the removal followed a copyright claim, use [email protected] and the ten (10) business day deadline in Section 11.4 of the Distribution Agreement instead, since that deadline also governs whether your account is terminated; for any other removal, write to [email protected]. We are not obliged to give advance notice where the removal is required by law, by a court or regulator, by a store, or to prevent ongoing harm.
In addition to Section 5, you agree not to:
You represent and warrant that you:
We may suspend accounts, withhold payments, or terminate these Terms where required to comply with applicable sanctions regimes, without liability to you.
11.1 By YourLabel. We may suspend or permanently terminate your account, with or without prior notice, if:
11.2 Notice.Where reasonably practicable and legally permissible, we will provide at least 14 days’ written notice stating reasons and affording you an opportunity to respond. Immediate suspension may be applied where delay would cause harm. Where the ground is a Rights Claim, the notice and the opportunity to respond are those set out in Sections 11.4 and 11.5 of the Distribution Agreement — ten (10) business days, in writing, to [email protected] — and that procedure applies in place of this Section 11.2.
11.3 By you. You may terminate your account at any time by contacting [email protected]. Account deletion is irreversible. Upon termination, any balance accrued to you will be paid to your registered payout method within 30 days of the end of the applicable royalty hold period, and the minimum payout threshold will not apply to this final settlement, save that we may deduct payment-processing or bank transfer fees actually incurred and any amounts subject to Section 7.6 or to set-off under the Distribution Agreement. Terminating your account voluntarily does not forfeit a balance already accrued to you. ⚠️ This Section does not apply, and closing your account does not make your balance payable, where the account is Restricted under Section 11 of the Distribution Agreement or suspended under Section 11.1 above: in that case Sections 11.8 and 11.9 of the Distribution Agreement govern, and you cannot obtain a payout by closing the account.
11.4 Effect of termination.Upon termination, your licence to use the Platform ceases and we will initiate takedown of your releases; removal from each store is subject to that store’s own timelines and is outside our control. A Restricted account under Section 11 of the Distribution Agreement is a different state and is not a termination: it is not deleted, you keep your login and read access to your dashboard and balance, and only the ability to upload, to change data, and to withdraw is removed. Sections 4.1, 7.4, 7.5, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15.2 survive termination, together with the surviving provisions of the Distribution Agreement.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
This includes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not warrant the accuracy of royalty reports generated by third-party stores.
OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD 50) AND THE TOTAL AMOUNTS PAID BY US TO YOU IN THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE THE CLAIM AROSE.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, YourLabel and its officers, directors, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including loss of revenue, data, goodwill, or profits. This limitation does not apply to amounts of Net Revenue actually due and payable to you under the Distribution Agreement. It is for the benefit of YourLabel only and does not limit your liability to YourLabel, including your indemnification obligations, which are not subject to any monetary cap. Section 12.3 below sets out the cases in which this limitation does not apply to you at all.
12.3 Jurisdictional carve-outs. In jurisdictions that do not permit certain exclusions or limitations, the above apply only to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. If you are a consumer in the EU, nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded by applicable law.
12.4 Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless YourLabel from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including legal fees) arising from: (a) your breach of these Terms or the Distribution Agreement; (b) Your Content; (c) your violation of any third-party right; or (d) your violation of applicable law.
The Platform, including its software, source code, design, user interface, trademarks, and logos (including the YourLabel name and logo), is owned by or licensed to YourLabel and protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Platform solely as described in these Terms. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, or publicly display any material owned by or licensed to YourLabel without our prior written consent.
14.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.
14.2 Good-faith negotiation. Before initiating any formal proceeding, the parties shall first attempt to resolve any dispute through good-faith negotiation for thirty (30) days from written notice of the dispute.
14.3 Arbitration. Any dispute not resolved under Section 14.2 shall be finally resolved by arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in force at the date of the notice of arbitration. The appointing authority shall be the Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. There shall be one arbitrator. The language of the arbitration shall be English. The place of arbitration shall be determined by the arbitral tribunal in accordance with Article 18 of those Rules. The award shall be final and enforceable under the 1958 New York Convention. This Section is identical in substance to Section 16 of the Distribution Agreement, and a single arbitration may determine claims arising under both documents.
14.3a Consumers. Section 14.3 does not apply, and is of no effect, where you are a consumer and the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence prevents a pre-dispute arbitration agreement from binding you or deprives you of the right to bring proceedings before the courts of your place of residence. In that case the dispute may be brought before those courts, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence.
14.4 Fallback jurisdiction.If, and only to the extent that, the arbitration agreement in Section 14.3 is held invalid or unenforceable and Section 14.3a does not apply, the courts of the place of YourLabel’s registered office shall have jurisdiction, and both parties submit to their personal jurisdiction and venue. Nothing in this Section prevents either party from applying to any court of competent jurisdiction for interim or protective measures, or prevents YourLabel from bringing proceedings to restrain actual or threatened infringement of intellectual property rights or to recover amounts owed to it.
14.5 No class actions. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all proceedings shall be conducted on an individual basis only; neither party may bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. This Section does not apply to you to the extent prohibited by mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence.
14.6 Time bar. Any claim by you arising out of or relating to the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, failing which it is permanently barred, except where a longer period is mandated by applicable law. A shorter period applies to disputed royalty credits under Section 7.5.
14.7 EU Online Dispute Resolution.If you are a consumer resident in the EU, you may access the European Commission’s ODR platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. Our contact email for ODR purposes is [email protected].
14.8 GDPR supervisory authority. Nothing in these Terms limits your right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
15.1 Right to amend and how amendments take effect. We may amend these Terms, the Music Distribution Agreement, and our other policies from time to time. This Section governs amendment of both these Terms and the Distribution Agreement, and applies in place of any other amendment provision in either document. The version in force at any time is the version published at yourlabel.app/terms and yourlabel.app/distribution-agreement, and an amendment takes effect when it is published there. You should review those pages from time to time; your continued use of the Service after an amendment is published constitutes your acceptance of it.
15.2 No retroactive effect on money already earned. An amendment that reduces the revenue share payable to you, introduces a fee, or otherwise reduces the amounts payable to you applies only to revenue derived from exploitation of Your Content occurring on or after the date the amendment takes effect. Revenue attributable to exploitation occurring before that date is calculated and paid at the rate published at the time that exploitation occurred. We will not recalculate, reduce, or reallocate a balance already accrued to you, and this Section 15.2 survives termination.
15.3 Your right to leave. If you do not accept an amendment, your remedy is to stop using the Service and close your account under Section 11.3, and to terminate the Distribution Agreement under Section 12 of that Agreement. Doing so is free of charge, carries no penalty, and does not forfeit any balance already accrued to you, which remains payable under Section 11.3.
15.4 Notice. Where applicable mandatory law requires us to give you advance notice of a particular change, to give you a right to object, or to obtain your express consent, we will comply with that requirement and the change will not take effect against you until we have done so. Apart from that, we do not undertake to notify you individually of amendments, and no individual notice is a condition of an amendment taking effect.
15.5 How you are informed of a change. Publication of the amended document at yourlabel.app/terms and yourlabel.app/distribution-agreement is the sole method by which we inform you of an amendment, and it is effective for that purpose. We do not send individual emails, dashboard notices, or other personal notifications about amendments; we do not publish a change log, a version history, or a comparison against previous editions; and we do not separately date individual amendments. The dates shown at the head of each document indicate the edition then published, and the authoritative text is always the text published at those addresses at the moment you read it. Because of this, you should read the current version of both documents before you continue to use the Service, and in any event before you submit a new release or request a payout. This Section is subject to Section 15.4.
15.6 Limits on this power. This Section does not permit us to change the essential character of the Service without your agreement, to impose an obligation to pay where none existed when you signed up while you remain on the free plan, or to apply an amendment retroactively contrary to Section 15.2.