Terms of Service

Last updated: September 24, 2026.

Scope of Service; preliminary evaluations

The catalog-sale and royalty-advance tools provide preliminary, informational ranges based on user-submitted information and limited automated analysis. A displayed range is not an appraisal, approval, offer, commitment to fund, promise of sale, investment recommendation, or guarantee of price or timing. Any transaction is subject to verification of statements, rights, contracts, ownership, liens, recoupment, taxes, counterparty interest, due diligence, and definitive written agreements.

Automated processing and limitations

The tool may parse supported CSV and spreadsheet fields, detect platform names, annualize partial periods, and attempt text extraction from supported files. Automated parsing can miss columns, duplicate overlapping periods, misread dates, or fail on image-based and unfamiliar statements. You agree that every model output requires human review and must not be treated as a verified appraisal or final offer.

User submissions; authority

You represent that information and documents you submit are accurate, lawfully obtained, and concern royalty interests you own, control, or are authorized to submit and market. You may not submit another person’s confidential statements or royalty interests without authority. You authorize Fresh Music to analyze the materials, contact you, and share a reasonably minimized opportunity package with potential buyers, funders, professional advisers, and service providers evaluating a covered transaction.

Exclusive appointment; transaction fee

By submitting a catalog-funding inquiry and affirmatively agreeing to these Terms, you appoint Fresh Music Marketing as your exclusive representative for covered transactions involving the royalty interest identified by your artist profile and submitted statements for twelve (12) months beginning on the submission date. During that term, you will not appoint another representative, market the submitted royalty interest through another intermediary, or complete a covered transaction directly or indirectly without Fresh Music. You must promptly refer related buyer or funding inquiries to Fresh Music.

A “covered transaction” means a catalog sale, partial sale, royalty advance, assignment, license, refinancing, or other monetization of the submitted royalty interest. If a covered transaction closes during the 12-month exclusive term, Fresh Music earns a transaction fee equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the gross consideration paid or payable in connection with that transaction, before deductions, expenses, taxes, or payments to other advisers. The fee is earned and due when transaction proceeds are paid or become payable. No transaction fee is owed if no covered transaction closes. The appointment does not automatically renew, does not cover unrelated rights or music first created after submission, and does not require you to accept any offer.

Definitive agreements; independent advice

Every offer remains subject to due diligence and definitive written transaction documents. Those documents may further address payment instructions, representations, closing conditions, expenses, conflicts, and transaction-specific obligations, but may not reduce the disclosed 15% fee without Fresh Music’s written agreement. You are encouraged to obtain independent legal, tax, and financial advice before submitting and before signing any catalog sale, advance, assignment, or other transaction agreement. Rights that cannot legally be waived remain unaffected.

Preliminary results; no offer

“Preliminary fit” means only that the submitted inputs meet the estimator’s initial screening rules. Fresh Music will not describe an inquiry as approved for funding or sale until an authorized counterparty has completed the applicable review and issued written terms.

Acceptance; platform and third-party terms

These Terms govern participation in the Fresh Music Creator Platform operated by Fresh Music Marketing. By connecting or using the platform, you agree to these Terms and to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Use of Google information is also described in our Privacy Policy.

Eligibility and approval

You must control the connected YouTube channel, provide accurate application information, have legal capacity to agree, and comply with applicable laws. Application or video approval is not guaranteed. Fresh Music may approve, reject, suspend, or request more information based on campaign fit, content quality, authentic activity, rights, safety, legal, or program requirements.

Campaign acceptance

Each campaign states its music, creative brief, required disclosures, dates, eligible geography, compensation model, thresholds, limits, and budget. By submitting a video to a campaign, you accept that campaign’s displayed version of the terms. You are not guaranteed future campaigns or a minimum amount of work.

Content and music

You must create original, lawful, public content on the connected channel; use only the authorized track or edit as instructed; follow the campaign brief; make legally required sponsorship or advertising disclosures; and keep the video public during the eligibility period. Campaign music permission is limited to the stated campaign use and does not transfer ownership or grant rights outside the brief.

Authentic activity

Purchased, automated, botted, click-farm, incentivized, exchanged, duplicated, manipulated, misleading, or otherwise artificial traffic is ineligible. You may not misrepresent traffic sources or use conduct that violates YouTube policies. Fresh Music may reject or void a submission when documented review shows that it is off-brief, nonpublic, not owned by the connected channel, rights-infringing, unlawfully disclosed, outside campaign dates, or affected by artificial activity.

Analytics and campaign amounts

YouTube views and engaged views shown in the dashboard come from authorized YouTube Analytics and may be delayed, thresholded, corrected, or unavailable. “Rate-eligible engaged views” and “estimated campaign payout” are Fresh Music calculations made under the campaign’s disclosed rates, geography, thresholds, limits, and budget. They are not metrics, revenue, CPM, guarantees, or projections calculated, published, or approved by Google or YouTube.

Final review and payment status

Dashboard estimates are not payable amounts. After the campaign measurement period, Fresh Music reviews available reporting and locks a final approved amount with a recorded reason for any adjustment. “Payable” means Fresh Music has approved the amount for separate payment administration; it does not mean money has already been transferred. Payment may require accurate payment and tax information under separate instructions.

Budgets, adjustments, and disputes

Campaign and per-video caps apply as disclosed. Fresh Music will not finalize an amount above the available campaign budget without increasing that budget. A creator may dispute a decision by emailing creators@freshmusicmarketing.com with the campaign, video, and reason. Fresh Music may correct clerical or reporting errors and will record material administrative adjustments.

Account and Google access

You are responsible for account security and for keeping your contact email accurate. You may disconnect Google or request deletion through the dashboard. Disconnecting may stop eligibility measurement for an active submission. Fresh Music cannot upload, modify, or delete your YouTube videos through the read-only permissions requested by this platform.

Independent relationship

Participation does not create employment, partnership, joint venture, or authority to bind Fresh Music Marketing, an artist, or a client. Except for the limited 12-month exclusive catalog-funding appointment described above, you remain independent and responsible for your content, taxes, rights, contracts, and legal obligations.

Suspension and termination

Fresh Music may suspend or terminate platform access when reasonably necessary to protect creators, artists, clients, rights holders, the platform, or legal compliance. Provisions concerning rights, authentic activity, finalized amounts, records, disputes, and liability survive termination where applicable.

Definitions

For purposes of these Terms, "Fresh Music," "we," "us," and "our" mean Fresh Music Marketing and its authorized personnel, contractors, successors, and permitted assigns. "You" and "your" mean the individual accepting these Terms and any entity or rights holder on whose behalf that individual acts. "Service" means the website, estimator, application workflow, document-review process, communications, introductions, and related catalog-funding services. "Catalog" means the musical works, sound recordings, neighboring rights, publishing interests, royalty streams, contractual payment rights, or other music-related assets identified in an inquiry. "Submission Materials" means all statements, files, data, messages, artist-profile selections, estimates, and other information supplied through the Service. "Funding Source" means a buyer, investor, lender, publisher, label, distributor, royalty administrator, financial institution, or other counterparty that may evaluate a Covered Transaction.

Acceptance; electronic records

By accessing the Service, selecting an artist profile, uploading Submission Materials, checking the Terms acceptance box, requesting an estimate, or otherwise using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. You consent to transact electronically and to receive records, disclosures, notices, and agreements electronically at the email address you provide. You may retain these Terms by printing or saving this page. If you do not agree, do not submit an inquiry or use the Service. A person accepting for a company, partnership, trust, estate, or other rights holder represents that the person has authority to bind that party.

Eligibility and legal capacity

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old, have legal capacity to contract, and not be prohibited from using the Service under applicable law. You may not submit a Catalog subject to a restriction that prevents the contemplated review, marketing, assignment, license, or financing. We may request identity, entity, ownership, tax, payment, or authority documentation at any stage and may decline, pause, or terminate an inquiry when information is incomplete, inconsistent, unverifiable, or presents legal, compliance, fraud, reputational, or commercial concerns.

Nature of the Service

Fresh Music provides evaluation, transaction-development, introduction, and representation services. Fresh Music is not a bank, depository institution, registered investment adviser, law firm, accounting firm, tax adviser, or guarantor of any Funding Source. We do not hold ourselves out as providing legal, accounting, investment, or tax advice. Information provided through the Service is general and may not be suitable for your circumstances. You remain responsible for deciding whether to pursue, reject, or modify any proposed transaction and for obtaining advice from qualified independent professionals.

Submission license and processing authorization

You retain ownership of your Submission Materials. You grant Fresh Music a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license during the evaluation process and for a reasonable record-retention period to host, copy, organize, extract, analyze, summarize, verify, redact, and otherwise process Submission Materials as necessary to operate the Service, prevent fraud, maintain records, and evaluate or pursue a Covered Transaction. You authorize us to prepare summaries, financial models, and opportunity materials derived from Submission Materials and to disclose reasonably necessary information to Funding Sources and professional advisers under customary confidentiality expectations. We will not acquire ownership of your copyrights or royalty rights merely because you submit materials.

Accuracy; continuing duty to update

You represent and warrant that Submission Materials are complete and accurate in all material respects and do not omit information that would make them misleading. You will promptly notify Fresh Music of corrections, ownership disputes, payment holds, liens, security interests, prior grants, administration agreements, collection mandates, recoupment balances, reversals, audits, claims, threatened litigation, material revenue changes, or other facts that could affect value or transferability. Fresh Music and Funding Sources may rely on information you provide, but neither has a duty to discover information you fail to disclose.

Verification and due diligence

Fresh Music may verify Submission Materials through distributors, administrators, collection societies, counterparties, public records, metadata services, analytics providers, and other lawful sources. Verification may require additional statements, contracts, split sheets, schedules of works, chain-of-title documents, identification, tax forms, letters of direction, account confirmations, or direct access authorized by you. Failure to provide requested materials may delay or end the process. Any estimate may be revised or withdrawn when due diligence reveals different earnings, rights, obligations, concentration, volatility, fraud risk, or market conditions.

Introductions and communications

You authorize Fresh Music to communicate with you by email, telephone, text message, or other contact method you provide concerning the inquiry, document requests, transaction structures, Funding Sources, and related services. Consent to routine communications is not consent to receive unlawful telemarketing. You are responsible for maintaining accurate contact information and for reviewing messages promptly. Fresh Music may record material transaction instructions and maintain communication logs for security, quality assurance, and dispute resolution where permitted by law.

Exclusive appointment; cooperation

During the twelve-month exclusive term stated above, you will cooperate reasonably with Fresh Music, respond to material diligence requests, and keep Fresh Music informed of communications relating to a Covered Transaction. You will not evade the exclusive appointment by acting through an affiliate, manager, attorney, adviser, label, publisher, administrator, family member, nominee, newly formed entity, or other intermediary. Fresh Music may work with subagents, advisers, platforms, and co-brokers and may share its fee with them without increasing the fifteen percent (15%) transaction fee payable by you unless a separate written agreement expressly states otherwise.

Non-circumvention

You will not directly or indirectly circumvent Fresh Music with respect to a Funding Source or opportunity introduced, identified, contacted, or materially developed by Fresh Music during the exclusive term. If a Covered Transaction is structured in multiple closings, installments, renewals, options, extensions, substitutions, or related agreements, the transaction fee applies to all gross consideration that is part of the same negotiated transaction. The parties may address any post-term protection period, named counterparties, or transaction-specific fee mechanics in a separate written representation or transaction agreement. Nothing in this paragraph requires you to accept an offer.

Fees, payment, and collection

The transaction fee is calculated on gross cash and noncash consideration paid or payable in connection with a Covered Transaction, including advances, purchase price, guaranteed payments, holdbacks when released, earn-outs when earned, assumption of obligations where treated as consideration, and other economic value received by you or for your benefit. Unless definitive transaction documents provide another payment method, you authorize the closing agent or Funding Source to pay Fresh Music directly from transaction proceeds. Amounts not paid when due may be collected through lawful means, and you will reimburse reasonable out-of-pocket collection costs to the extent permitted by law. Fresh Music may issue invoices and payment instructions electronically.

Taxes and expenses

You are solely responsible for taxes, filings, registrations, professional fees, and expenses arising from your ownership of the Catalog, receipt of transaction proceeds, or use of the Service. Fresh Music is responsible for its own ordinary operating expenses unless you approve a specific expense in writing or definitive transaction documents allocate expenses differently. We may request tax documentation required to process payments or comply with law and may withhold amounts when legally required.

Offers; definitive agreements

Communications, indications of interest, ranges, term summaries, and draft structures are nonbinding unless a definitive written agreement expressly states otherwise and is signed by the parties to be bound. A Funding Source may change or withdraw proposed terms before closing. No transaction exists until all required agreements are executed, conditions are satisfied or waived, and closing occurs. If these Terms conflict with a signed transaction-specific agreement, that agreement controls solely with respect to the subject transaction.

Confidentiality

Fresh Music will use commercially reasonable care when handling nonpublic Submission Materials and will limit disclosure to persons with a reasonable need to evaluate, structure, document, finance, insure, administer, or enforce a potential transaction, as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy, or as required by law. Confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that is public without breach, was already lawfully known, is received lawfully from another source, is independently developed, or must be disclosed under legal process. You may not disclose a Funding Source's nonpublic offer terms, diligence materials, identity restrictions, or confidential information except to your professional advisers who are bound to protect it.

Acceptable use

You may not misuse the Service; upload malware or unlawful, deceptive, defamatory, infringing, or unrelated material; probe or bypass security; scrape or harvest data; interfere with availability; impersonate another person; falsify statements or metadata; submit altered records as authentic; conceal material ownership or payment restrictions; or use the Service to violate sanctions, anti-money-laundering, anti-bribery, copyright, privacy, consumer-protection, or other applicable laws. We may preserve evidence, suspend access, reject materials, and cooperate with lawful investigations.

Intellectual property

The Service, its software, designs, graphics, workflows, models, text, trademarks, logos, and other site content are owned by Fresh Music or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, Fresh Music grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the Service for your own legitimate catalog-funding inquiry. No license permits resale, copying, reverse engineering, automated extraction, creation of derivative services, or use of Fresh Music branding without written permission.

Third-party services

The Service may link to or depend on hosting providers, email providers, Spotify, Google, YouTube, analytics providers, document processors, and other third parties. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices. Fresh Music does not control and is not responsible for third-party availability, security, content, decisions, or changes. References to a third party do not imply endorsement, partnership, or a promise that the third party will review or fund a Catalog.

Service availability and changes

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Service; change supported file types or evaluation methods; correct errors; or impose reasonable operational limits. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, permanent storage, compatibility with every statement format, or preservation of any particular feature. You should retain independent copies of all Submission Materials and transaction records.

Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." FRESH MUSIC DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND RESULTS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT AN ESTIMATE IS ACCURATE, THAT A FUNDING SOURCE WILL MAKE OR HONOR AN OFFER, THAT A TRANSACTION WILL CLOSE, OR THAT ANY PARTICULAR PRICE, MULTIPLE, ADVANCE, TIMELINE, TAX TREATMENT, OR COMMERCIAL OUTCOME WILL BE ACHIEVED.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FRESH MUSIC AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AFFILIATES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS OR OPPORTUNITIES; LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA; OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM A FUNDING SOURCE'S CONDUCT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THEIR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE TRANSACTION FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO FRESH MUSIC DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. LIMITATIONS DO NOT APPLY WHERE LIABILITY CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Fresh Music and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, and agents from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, penalties, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from your Submission Materials; your breach of these Terms or definitive agreements; your lack of authority; an ownership, lien, royalty, accounting, copyright, contract, privacy, tax, or payment dispute concerning the Catalog; your violation of law; or your fraud, willful misconduct, or negligence. Fresh Music will provide reasonable notice of an indemnified claim and may control the defense with counsel of its choosing, while reasonably considering your interests.

Disputes; good-faith resolution

Before filing a legal action concerning the Service or these Terms, the complaining party will provide written notice describing the dispute and requested relief and allow at least thirty (30) days for good-faith informal resolution, unless emergency injunctive relief or a limitations deadline makes delay impracticable. These Terms are governed by applicable law without giving effect to rules that would require application of another jurisdiction's law. Any court proceeding must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction, subject to mandatory law and any different forum specified in a signed transaction agreement.

Term; suspension; survival

These Terms begin when you first accept or use the Service and continue while you use it or have an active inquiry. Fresh Music may suspend or terminate access for breach, risk, legal requirements, inactivity, or discontinuation of the Service. Termination of site access does not cancel accrued payment obligations, the exclusive appointment for its stated term, rights concerning a transaction already introduced or documented, or provisions that by their nature should survive, including confidentiality, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnification, dispute provisions, records, and payment obligations.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms prospectively by posting a revised version and changing the "Last updated" date. Material changes will apply to a new inquiry when you accept the revised Terms. The consent record associated with a submission identifies the version accepted for that inquiry. A change will not retroactively alter an earned transaction fee or a signed definitive agreement unless the affected parties agree in writing.

Assignment; successors

You may not assign these Terms, an inquiry, or obligations concerning a Covered Transaction without Fresh Music's prior written consent, except as part of an approved definitive transaction. Fresh Music may assign these Terms or delegate performance to an affiliate, successor, purchaser of substantially all relevant assets, or qualified service provider, provided that doing so does not increase your stated transaction fee. These Terms bind and benefit permitted successors and assigns.

General provisions

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the accepted submission record, and any signed transaction-specific agreement constitute the entire agreement concerning their subject matter and supersede prior or contemporaneous discussions on that subject. A waiver must be in writing and applies only to the stated instance. If a provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue in effect. Headings are for convenience and do not limit interpretation. "Including" means "including without limitation." No person other than the parties and express indemnified parties is an intended third-party beneficiary. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, except payment obligations already due.

Contact

Questions or disputes may be sent to creators@freshmusicmarketing.com.