Distribution and Marketing Terms

Version 2026-11-02.2 · Last updated: 2 November 2026

1. About These Terms

These Distribution and Marketing Terms ("Terms") are an agreement between you and MuSlate Online Services OPC Pvt. Ltd. (CIN U72900HR2015OPC055367; GSTIN 07AAJCM7623B1ZM), with its registered office at 2nd Floor, 44 Backary Portion, Regal Building, New Delhi 110001, India ("MuSlate", "we", "us"). They apply to everything you order through MuSlate Artist Plus: distribution of your releases, plans and release credits, and marketing campaigns.

"You" means the artist, or the record label, studio or business ordering through the account. If you act for a label, an artist or a band, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms for them, and they are bound too.

These Terms add to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Where they differ, these Terms apply to Artist Plus.

2. How You Accept, and Our Records

• You accept these Terms when you place an order, and again for each release when you submit it for distribution. Each acceptance is an electronic contract, valid under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
• We record the version of these Terms, the date and time, your account and the IP address it came from. For each submitted release we email you a PDF record with the release's details and keep it with the release.
• The version you accepted for a release keeps applying to it until you accept a newer one.
• Releases our team submits for you — for example from music you sent us yourself — are submitted on these Terms too, and we email you the same record. If you don't agree to them for that release, tell us within 48 hours by raising a request on the release or writing to us, and we won't go ahead with it (or we take it down if it's already out). Otherwise, these Terms apply to it as if you had submitted it.

3. The Licence You Give Us

You keep the copyright and every other right in your music. For each release you submit (its recordings, the songs in it, its artwork, titles, credits and lyrics — together the "Work"), you grant MuSlate, for the Term:

• an exclusive licence, throughout the world, to distribute and exploit the Work digitally on any digital platform — stores, streaming services, video and social platforms, caller tunes and services we work with now or later — including the right to communicate it to the public;
• the right to sub-license these rights to our distribution partners and the platforms, only for distributing and exploiting the Work digitally;
• the right to collect all revenue the Work earns from them, and to pay you your share;
• the right to register the Work with YouTube Content ID and similar systems, to claim, monetise or release claims on videos that use it, and to request your YouTube Official Artist Channel;
• the right to use your name, approved likeness, artwork and short excerpts to show and promote the Work on MuSlate and with the platforms that carry it.

Exclusive means you may not have the same recordings distributed by anyone else, or uploaded by yourself, to the same platforms during the Term — two distributors cause duplicate listings, misdirected royalties and claims against your own videos.

Labels: if you are a record label, studio or business, you confirm you are the producer, first owner or exclusive licensee of the copyright in each Work (within Section 17 of the Copyright Act, 1957), and these Terms apply to every Work you submit through your account during the Term.

4. Term

• A release stays live for as long as you want it there. Its distribution fee is paid once, and the licence for the Work runs from the day you submit it until it is taken down — there is no yearly renewal or second fee.
• You can ask us to take a Work down at any time by raising a request on the release. We take it down within a reasonable time; stores usually remove it within a few days to a few weeks. When it is down, the licence for it ends, except what we need to collect and pay the royalties it earned before.
• We may take a Work down ourselves: when a claim or legal notice says it infringes someone's rights or was released without the rights or consent it needs (Section 6); for a breach of these Terms (Section 11); when a law, a court, an authority or a platform requires it; or if we stop offering distribution, or distribution to a platform. Except where the reason is a claim, a breach or the law, we give you at least 30 days' notice, and in every case we pay you the royalties the Work has already earned.
• Taking a Work down doesn't refund its fee.

5. Your Promises

You represent and warrant that:

• you are competent to accept these Terms, and nothing — a law, a court order or another agreement — prevents you;
• each Work is original or properly licensed, and does not defame anyone, plagiarise or infringe any copyright, moral right, privacy or publicity right;
• you have not granted, assigned or encumbered any right in the Work that conflicts with this licence, and the Work isn't distributed by anyone else to the same platforms;
• you have every consent, waiver, agreement and no-objection certificate the Work needs — from the authors of its underlying works and everyone on it, including composers, lyricists, singers and musicians — and will give us copies when we ask;
• covers, recreations and remixes have the original owner's permission or the licence the law requires;
• the titles, credits, label, language and release details you give are true;
• you will give us the audio, artwork, information and material we reasonably need, and its ISRC if it already has one — if not, we generate the codes for you.

You won't claim a violation of your moral rights because we exercise the rights licensed here, including fitting the Work to a platform's requirements.

6. What We Do, and Our Rights

• We check each Work and deliver it to the platforms we choose, usually within 24 to 48 working hours of it passing our check. We give each release a UPC and each song an ISRC, free.
• We may format or edit the Work as a platform requires, without making it defamatory to you in any way.
• We decide which platforms to deliver to, and we are not obliged to deliver a Work to any particular platform. Platforms decide for themselves what they list, feature or put on playlists, and may change or remove listings.
• If we receive a copyright claim, a takedown notice or a complaint that a Work was released without the rights or consent it needs, we may take it down straight away, hold the royalties it earns until the matter is settled, and share your details with the person claiming or with an authority where the law requires. Any legal action, penalty or loss that follows is your responsibility (Section 12).

7. Royalties and Payouts

• In return for the licence, you receive a share of the net royalty MuSlate receives for the Work — what the platforms pay us, less what our distribution partners deduct and the cost of converting it to rupees.
• Your share is the one of your plan in force for the month the earnings are reported (or a share agreed with you for a release), as shown in My Artist Plus → Privileges and on your release's acceptance record. It can change as your plan or level changes; a report already published never changes.
• Platforms report to us about two months after the month the streams happened. When we publish a month's report, your share for it is added to your balance.
• Your balance is the royalties we owe you — not a wallet or a deposit: it earns no interest and can't be spent on MuSlate, though with your agreement it can be set against an order.
• Once your balance reaches ₹1,000 you can request it; until then it carries forward. We pay a valid request usually within 7 working days and in any case within 45 days, to the UPI ID or bank account you choose, and email you a payment advice for each payout.
• Payout details must be correct and in your own name (or your business's, for a label or company). We aren't responsible for a payout sent to the details you gave us, and may pause one until they're confirmed.
• Payouts are subject to the deduction of applicable taxes in India. Tax deducted at source is deposited against the PAN you give us and shown on your payment advice; we may ask for your PAN and other details the law requires before paying.
• If a platform takes money back — for artificial or fraudulent streams, a mistake in its statement or a claim — we adjust your balance to match.

8. Orders, Fees and Plans

• Prices are shown before 18% GST, which is added at checkout. You get a GST tax invoice for every paid order.
• A Single Release or an album is paid once for that release. A Release Pack's credits can be used within 12 months of buying it. Infinite and Infinite Max run for a year from when they start; Infinite covers the one label it is tied to, and its releases must carry that label.
• You can cancel an order that isn't paid yet at any time; we may cancel one that stays unpaid. A paid order is cancelled by refunding it.
• An item our team hasn't started on can be refunded on request. Once a release has been sent to the stores, or a campaign has started, its fee isn't refundable, except for any part we couldn't deliver. Release credits already used aren't refunded; refunding a plan or a pack ends it.
• Refunds go back to how you paid — usually within 5 to 7 working days — or by bank transfer if you paid our team directly.
• Free releases, plans and higher royalty levels earned with your marketing or your royalties are checked by our team before they're given. They have no cash value, can't be transferred, and may be withdrawn if the payment that earned them is refunded.
• A release stays live when your plan ends; nothing is taken down because a plan ended.

9. Marketing Campaigns

• We run each campaign as ordered, on the platform it is for, by that platform's rules and policies. Reach, views, likes, comments and subscribers are delivered through promoted, organic campaigns; figures shown before a campaign are estimates.
• Apart from the Starter Kit guarantees below, we don't promise streams, chart positions, followers or results beyond what a service says. A platform may limit, pause or reject a campaign; where we can't deliver part of what you paid for, we refund or replace that part.
• Starter Kit guarantees. A Release Push guarantees 10,000 streams of the release you pick; a Profile Boost guarantees 5,000 views of the profile you pick; a Complete Profile Audit is one campaign that includes both, plus a review of that profile by our team, whose findings we send you in the campaign's messages.
• How they are counted. A stream is every play of the release's songs on MuSlate — each time a song starts playing in the MuSlate player, by any listener. A profile view is every time the profile's page is opened on MuSlate, by anyone. Counting starts when we set the campaign live, covers MuSlate only (not other stores or platforms), and the totals we show include every stream and view in that time, whether it came from the promotion or not.
• How they are delivered. We feature the release or profile across MuSlate's public sections — the home page's featured banner, charts, new releases and artist shelves — paced to reach the guarantee within about a month of going live. If it isn't reached in that time, we keep promoting it at no extra cost until it is. The campaign completes on its own once the guarantee is reached (and, for a Complete Profile Audit, once our review is sent), and we tell you.
• When a guarantee no longer applies. If the release or profile is taken down, made private, deleted or changed so it can no longer be promoted — by you, by a rights claim, or by us under section 10 or the law — the campaign stops, and the guarantee doesn't apply to the time it was unavailable. If we can't complete a guarantee for a reason on our side, we refund the part not delivered.
• You're responsible for the video, song, profile or content a campaign promotes — it must be yours or licensed, and allowed on the platform. We may refuse or stop a campaign for content that breaks the law or a platform's rules.
• Campaign details can be changed until our team starts setting it up. Campaigns planned with you after a call back are priced and agreed in their own order.

10. Fair Play

Don't buy, fake or arrange artificial streams, plays, views or followers outside the campaigns we run, and don't upload the same recording again under another name. Platforms treat these as fraud: they remove releases, withhold royalties and close accounts. If they do, or we find it, we may take the Work down and withhold or adjust the royalties involved.

11. Ending These Terms

• If you breach these Terms, we may end them for the Works concerned after giving you 30 days' written notice to fix a breach that can be fixed. We then take the Works down and pay you the share already earned, less any amounts the breach cost us.
• You may end these Terms for a Work if we fail to pay your share as set out above and don't fix it within 30 days of your written notice.
• We may stop offering Artist Plus, or a part of it, by giving you at least 30 days' notice. The Works concerned are then taken down, and we pay you everything they earned up to then.

12. Indemnity and Responsibility

You will indemnify and keep MuSlate fully indemnified against every loss, liability, damage, claim, penalty and cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from a breach of your promises or obligations in these Terms. We do our part with reasonable care; we aren't responsible for what platforms decide, for their outages, or for losses we couldn't reasonably foresee, and our total responsibility for an order is limited to what you paid us for it.

13. Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. We will first try to settle any dispute by discussing it with you. If it isn't resolved within 30 days, either of us may refer it to a sole arbitrator appointed by both of us, under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The seat of arbitration is New Delhi and the proceedings are in English.

14. General

• Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, employment, agency or joint venture between us.
• If any part of these Terms is held invalid, the rest stays in force.
• These Terms, our Terms of Service and your order are the entire agreement between us about Artist Plus, and replace earlier discussions.
• We may update these Terms. A new version applies to orders placed and releases submitted after it's published; we tell you about important changes in advance.
• Notices go to your account's email, and to us at legal@muslate.com.

15. Contact and Grievances

Questions about an order or a release: write on it in My Artist Plus, or to contact@muslate.com. Complaints: The Grievance Officer, at legal@muslate.com.