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Terms of Use

Effective Date: June 28, 2026

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and CheckMy.Music ("we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of the CheckMy.Music website at checkmy.music, our application programming interfaces (APIs), our forensic music-analysis reports, and any related products, features, or services (collectively, the "Service").

By accessing or using the Service, by clicking "I agree" (or a similar control), by creating an account, or by uploading any audio or other material, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Service.

Business use. The Service is offered for professional and business purposes and is intended for use by businesses and professional users (for example, advertising agencies, festivals and award bodies, record labels, distributors, publishers, and film and production studios). It is not directed to consumers for personal, family, or household purposes.

2. Eligibility and Authority

You may use the Service only if you are at least 18 years old and able to form a legally binding contract. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other organization, you represent and warrant that (a) you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and (b) you accept these Terms on its behalf. In that case, "you" and "your" refer to that organization.

You represent that you are not located in, and are not a resident of, any country or on any list maintained by a government authority that would make your use of the Service unlawful, and that your use complies with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws.

3. The Service

CheckMy.Music is a business-to-business musicology platform that uses automated analysis and artificial-intelligence techniques to help users assess the originality of audio recordings and identify potential similarity to existing works. Among other things, the Service may analyze a submitted recording (a "Track") through a multi-stage forensic pipeline and generate a report. The analysis may include some or all of the following stages:

The Service provides analytical and informational outputs only. The Service does not determine, adjudicate, or certify legal rights, infringement, ownership, or authorship, and it does not constitute legal advice. See Sections 8 and 12.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, including any analysis stage, feature, or supported file format, at any time. We are continually developing the Service, and some features may be offered on a beta or evaluation basis and may contain errors.

4. Accounts and Security

Some features require an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information and to keep it current. You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us promptly at hello@checkmy.music of any unauthorized use or suspected breach of security. We are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorized use of your account.

5. Plans, Fees, and Payment

The Service may be offered under subscription tiers (for example, Basic, Pro, and Enterprise) and on a pay-per-use basis. Certain checks — such as automated AI-origin detection and audio fingerprinting — may be offered free of charge, while the full forensic analysis and musicologist report require a paid plan or a pay-per-use purchase. Applicable fees, usage limits, and features for each plan will be described at the point of purchase or in a separate order form or agreement. Except as required by law or as expressly stated, fees are non-refundable.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, subscriptions renew automatically for successive periods at the then-current rates until cancelled. You authorize us and our payment processors to charge your designated payment method for all fees due. You are responsible for all applicable taxes. We may change our fees prospectively; we will provide notice of material changes as required by law.

For Enterprise customers, a separate written master agreement or order form may apply. If there is a conflict between such an agreement and these Terms, the signed agreement controls for that customer.

6. Your Content and Your Representations

"User Content" means any Track, audio file, metadata, text, or other material you submit to the Service. As between you and us, you retain all rights you hold in your User Content. We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

License to operate the Service. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, analyze, create derivative analytical representations of (such as stems, fingerprints, and spectral data), and otherwise use your User Content solely as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Service and to generate reports for you. This license ends when your User Content is deleted from our active systems, except for residual copies retained in backups or as required by law, and except for de-identified or aggregated data as described below.

Your representations and warranties. You represent and warrant that, for every Track and other User Content you submit: (a) you own it or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit it and to authorize the processing described in these Terms; (b) your submission and our processing of it will not infringe or violate the intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any third party, or any law; and (c) you have obtained any consents required from rights holders, performers, or other persons connected to the Track.

De-identified and aggregated data. We may create and use de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated data derived from User Content and from use of the Service (for example, to develop, train, benchmark, and improve our models, detection methods, and analytics), provided such data does not identify you and is not used to reconstruct or redistribute your original recordings. If you do not wish your User Content to be used to improve our models even in de-identified form, contact us at hello@checkmy.music to discuss available options; Enterprise terms may address this separately.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to permit anyone to:

We may, but are not obligated to, monitor use of the Service and may remove content or suspend or terminate access for any violation of these Terms or to protect the Service or others.

8. Nature of the Analysis; No Guarantee of Accuracy

Please read this Section carefully. The Service relies on probabilistic, statistical, and machine-learning methods and on third-party data sources. Its outputs are estimates and indicators, not statements of fact, certainty, or legal conclusion.

No certainty. Probability scores, similarity indicators, AI-origin estimates, and other results are inherently uncertain and may be incomplete or wrong. The Service can produce false positives (indicating similarity or AI generation where none exists) and false negatives (failing to indicate similarity or AI generation that does exist). Audio characteristics such as compression artifacts, heavy processing, codec differences, tempo variation, or unusual production techniques can affect results.

Not a legal determination. A report does not establish, and must not be presented as establishing, copyright infringement, plagiarism, ownership, authorship, or that a work was or was not generated by artificial intelligence. Only a court or other competent authority can make such determinations. Reports are one analytical input that should be evaluated together with independent professional, musicological, and legal judgment.

Your responsibility for decisions. You are solely responsible for any decision or action you take based on the Service, including any public statement, takedown request, dispute, claim, accusation, contractual decision, or clearance decision. You agree not to rely on the Service as the sole basis for any such decision and to seek qualified independent advice before acting.

Third-party data. Certain results depend on third-party reference databases and recognition services, whose coverage is limited and changes over time. The absence of a match does not mean a work is original, and the presence of a match does not establish infringement.

9. Reports: Ownership and Permitted Use

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of applicable fees, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the reports we generate for you for your internal business purposes and for the specific evaluation, clearance, or dispute matter for which they were generated.

If you share or disclose a report with a third party (such as a client, court, or counterparty), you must provide it in full and unaltered, including all disclaimers and limitations it contains, and you must not characterize it as a definitive legal determination. We retain all intellectual-property rights in the report templates, formats, scoring methods, and underlying technology.

10. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, models, analysis pipeline, algorithms, user interfaces, text, graphics, logos, and the "CheckMy.Music" name and marks, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, we reserve all rights. You receive no license to our trademarks without our prior written consent. If you provide feedback or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or obligation to you.

11. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service integrates or interoperates with third-party services and data sources (for example, music-recognition and catalog providers). Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. The Service may contain links to third-party websites or resources, which we do not control or endorse and for which we are not responsible.

12. No Legal or Professional Advice

The Service and all reports are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal, musicological, financial, or other professional advice, and do not create any attorney-client or other professional relationship. You should consult qualified professionals before making decisions based on the Service.

13. Privacy and Data Handling

Our collection and use of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. Depending on the location of you and your data subjects, data-protection laws such as the EU/UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) may apply. Where we process personal data on your behalf as part of providing the Service, the parties will enter into a data-processing agreement as required by applicable law. You are responsible for ensuring you have a lawful basis to submit any personal data contained in User Content.

14. Confidentiality

Each party may receive non-public information of the other party. The receiving party will use such information only to exercise its rights and perform its obligations under these Terms and will protect it with reasonable care. This Section does not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, was lawfully known before disclosure, is independently developed, or is rightfully obtained from a third party. We will treat your User Content and reports as confidential, subject to the licenses and uses described in these Terms.

15. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE AND ALL REPORTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY RESULT, SCORE, MATCH, OR REPORT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, OR FIT FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU USE THE SERVICE AND RELY ON ITS OUTPUTS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

16. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR REPUTATION, OR FOR DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DECISION, ACCUSATION, DISPUTE, OR PUBLIC STATEMENT MADE IN RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE OR ANY REPORT, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

17. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CheckMy.Music and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use of the Service or any report, including any decision, accusation, dispute, or statement you make in reliance on it; (c) your breach of these Terms or your representations and warranties; or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.

18. Term and Termination

These Terms apply while you access or use the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without cause, including for any violation of these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, and 19–20) will survive.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example, by posting the updated Terms with a new effective date or by other reasonable means). Your continued use of the Service after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

20. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which CheckMy.Music is established, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, the parties agree to try in good faith to resolve any dispute informally by contacting hello@checkmy.music and allowing at least thirty (30) days to resolve the matter.

Forum. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the competent courts of the jurisdiction in which CheckMy.Music is established, and each party consents to their jurisdiction and venue. Either party may, however, seek injunctive or equitable relief to protect its intellectual property or confidential information in any court of competent jurisdiction.

21. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order form or written agreement you enter into with us, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject. Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Notices. We may provide notices to you by email or by posting on the Service.

22. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms may be sent to hello@checkmy.music.

By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms, including the disclaimers in Sections 8, 12, and 15 and the limitations of liability in Section 16.