CONTENT LICENSE SUMMARY
Welcome to BTR (BeatsToRapOn) — a creator-first platform built for rappers, producers, beatmakers, artists, DJs, music businesses, and music culture. Our core rule is simple: creators keep ownership of what they validly own. BTR may host, stream, preview, display, cache, promote, process, sell, or facilitate licenses for content on the platform, but BTR is not a royalty-paying streaming service for ordinary on-platform plays, previews, or listens unless a separate written agreement expressly says otherwise.
Last updated: 26 May 2026. This page is a simple high-level summary to explain how rights, access, creator ownership, editorial assets, AI images, marketplace usage, and platform permissions work on BTR. It is not legally binding, does not replace the full contract terms, and should not be read as legal advice. For the full legal terms, read our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Payment Terms, and any specific listing, license, marketplace, order, creator, event, campaign, or service terms that apply.
Artists, producers, and beatmakers keep ownership of the music, beats, artwork, stems, recordings, and media they validly own unless they clearly agree to separate sale, assignment, or license terms.
Uploading to BTR gives us rights needed to host, stream, cache, display, process, reproduce, promote, secure, improve, and operate your content through the service. It does not transfer ownership to BTR.
BTR does not pay royalties, streaming royalties, performance royalties, mechanical royalties, neighbouring-rights royalties, or user royalties for ordinary on-platform streams, previews, listens, displays, or access unless a separate written agreement expressly says otherwise.
If a beat, track, service, promotion listing, purchase, download, license, event, campaign, or order includes its own terms, access rules, usage scope, or restrictions, those specific terms control that transaction or asset.
For Artists, Producers & Beatmakers
When you upload your beats, tracks, stems, artwork, visuals, artist media, profile assets, or marketplace materials to BTR, your rights stay with you if you validly own them. BTR exists to help you be discovered, build your presence, sell, collaborate, process media, and move your music forward — not to quietly take ownership of your work.
- You keep ownership: BTR does not take copyright, master ownership, publishing ownership, trademark ownership, brand ownership, or exclusive ownership of your uploads just because you post them on the platform.
- You grant BTR a platform license: This allows us to host, reproduce, stream, display, cache, distribute through the service, create previews, create technical copies, process, analyse, promote, secure, and improve your content as needed to operate BTR.
- You remain responsible for your upload rights: You should only upload content you own or are authorised to upload, use, license, sell, display, promote, or distribute.
- Artist images and visual media need rights too: Profile photos, press images, cover art, banners, event images, EPK materials, marketplace images, logos, screenshots, and artwork should only be uploaded if you have the right to let BTR host, crop, resize, display, promote, and store them.
- You can choose how your content appears: Depending on the feature or listing, your content may be preview-only, streamable, downloadable, linked out, sold, licensed, promoted, processed, or otherwise controlled by the permissions and settings attached to it.
- You can remove your content: Removing an upload stops future public availability on BTR, subject to reasonable backup, security, legal, fraud-prevention, dispute-handling, rights-review, payment, and record-retention needs. It does not undo completed transactions or rights already granted before removal.
- Your content is not automatically free for everyone: Third-party rights depend on the specific track page, listing terms, license type, purchase flow, marketplace rules, and any written permissions you actually grant.
- No automatic platform royalties: Unless BTR separately agrees in writing, BTR does not owe you royalties simply because your content is streamed, previewed, heard, processed, recommended, displayed, or indexed on the platform.
The plain-English version: upload your work, build your profile, sell your services, push your music, and grow your movement — your work stays yours, but you must have the rights to what you upload.
For Listeners, Buyers & Collaborators
BTR is built for discovery, connection, artist growth, beat culture, and music opportunity. It gives you access to creators and their work — but access does not equal ownership, and listening does not equal permission to commercially exploit anything.
What you can do
- Stream, preview, and discover music, beats, and artist content made available on BTR.
- Download or purchase content only where the creator, listing, or feature makes that available.
- Use purchased or licensed beats, tracks, services, or content according to the specific terms attached to that listing, order, agreement, or written permission.
- Contact artists, producers, and sellers directly through the platform to discuss licenses, collaborations, remixes, custom work, sync, publishing, commercial usage, or broader clearance.
- Share public BTR links through normal social, promotional, and discovery behaviour, provided you do not misrepresent ownership, affiliation, endorsement, rights, or permission.
What you cannot do
- Re-upload, resell, redistribute, mirror, scrape, repackage, or present someone else’s music, beat, artwork, stem, upload, profile media, listing, or content as your own.
- Sample, remix, stem-split, edit, adapt, or create derivative works for release unless the creator or license expressly allows it.
- Use BTR content for commercial release, sync, ads, monetized video, branded content, AI datasets, AI training, monetized campaigns, public release, or paid distribution unless you hold the correct rights or license.
- Use artist uploads to train AI models, build datasets, scrape the platform, automate mass downloads, or systematically copy content without permission.
- Claim ownership, authorship, endorsement, affiliation, exclusive rights, artist permission, label permission, estate permission, platform approval, or registration rights that you do not actually have.
- Register, fingerprint, distribute, release to DSPs, assign ISRCs or UPCs, place in Content ID systems, or otherwise present another user’s upload as your own recording, catalogue item, master, or rights-controlled content unless you have express written permission and all required rights.
- Treat BTR screenshots, widgets, rankings, search results, track pages, profile pages, or records as proof that you own content or have permission to exploit it outside BTR.
Commercial Use, Beat Licenses & Marketplace Rules
Some content on BTR may be free to preview. Some may be downloadable. Some may be sold under lease, non-exclusive, exclusive, custom, royalty-free, service-based, campaign-based, event-based, or other terms. Some may sit inside the marketplace and carry separate payment, delivery, refund, payout, proof-of-work, ranking, or dispute rules.
- Specific terms beat general summaries: if a beat, listing, service, order, creator page, event, campaign, or asset has its own stated terms, those terms control.
- Commercial rights are not automatic: buying, downloading, viewing, previewing, or hearing content does not automatically give you copyright ownership, publishing rights, sync rights, exclusive rights, remix rights, distribution rights, Content ID rights, or broader commercial exploitation rights.
- Royalty-free means limited payment terms, not ownership transfer: where a listing or license says royalty-free, that only means no ongoing royalty payment is owed within the scope of that specific license. It does not transfer copyright, publishing, master ownership, authorship, attribution, moral rights, performer rights, image rights, or broader exploitation rights unless expressly stated in writing.
- Marketplace transactions follow marketplace rules: where a purchase runs through BTR’s marketplace, the applicable order, payment, delivery, payout, refund, verification, chargeback, and dispute rules also apply.
- No automatic platform royalty obligation: BTR does not owe royalties for ordinary on-platform streams, previews, listens, displays, processing, indexing, recommendations, or access unless BTR expressly agrees otherwise in a separate written agreement.
- Need something bigger? If you want official remix rights, custom production, exclusive usage, sync, brand use, Content ID rights, distribution rights, fingerprinting rights, publishing rights, image rights, or broader commercial clearance, negotiate that directly with the creator or seller through the proper BTR flow and get it in writing.
AI Images, Editorial Images & BTR-Created Content
BTR may publish blog posts, artist features, educational content, editorial content, guides, rankings, product pages, marketplace explainers, social graphics, AI-generated editorial images, diagrams, screenshots, thumbnails, podcasts, newsletters, and promotional materials. These are different from user uploads and may be created, controlled, edited, replaced, or removed by BTR.
Safer editorial use
- BTR-created abstract graphics, waveforms, microphones, studios, crowds from behind, silhouettes, producer desks, city scenes, and non-recognisable editorial art.
- AI-generated images that do not imitate a real person, celebrity, artist, public figure, album cover, game artwork, press photo, screenshot, logo, brand identity, or protected visual style.
- Artist-submitted or rights-holder-submitted media where permission and source are reasonably recorded.
- Licensed, public-domain, Creative Commons, or embedded third-party materials where the applicable proof, attribution, licence, or platform permission is recorded.
Higher-risk use
- AI images that look like real artists, public figures, celebrities, estates, or private people without appropriate rights or clearance.
- AI images or graphics that imitate album covers, music-video stills, game key art, movie posters, press photos, agency photos, screenshots, platform UI, logos, or brand artwork without appropriate rights or clearance.
- Editorial images that imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, approval, ownership, licensing, or permission that does not exist.
- Public-figure, brand, label, platform, game, or estate imagery where the source, permission, or legal basis is unclear.
BTR’s Role, Complaints & Records
BTR is a platform. It may host content, facilitate discovery, provide creator tools, publish editorial content, enable transactions, and support community activity, but that does not mean BTR becomes the owner of user content or the legal decision-maker for every dispute involving content posted on or accessed through the platform.
- BTR may rely on user representations: users are responsible for ensuring they have the rights and permissions needed to upload, license, sell, distribute, display, process, or exploit content they post or use.
- BTR may take platform action: where there are complaints, policy breaches, suspected infringement, image-rights issues, public-figure concerns, fraud, abuse, or legal risk, BTR may remove, restrict, disable, replace, preserve records, request information, suspend access, or take other platform steps it considers appropriate.
- No admission by removal: if BTR removes, replaces, restricts, re-captions, de-indexes, edits, or disables content, that does not mean BTR admits infringement, fault, ownership, liability, damages, value, permission, or legal merit.
- BTR records are platform records only: upload dates, image URLs, source notes, access data, activity logs, account information, transaction records, moderation notes, or technical metadata do not by themselves determine ownership, infringement, liability, entitlement, legal priority, authorship, or legal outcome.
- Access to records is controlled: any request for account, upload, access, activity, source, provenance, rights, moderation, or other platform records is subject to applicable law, privacy, confidentiality, security, verification, retention, and procedural requirements.
- BTR does not grant ownership through access: the fact that content appeared on BTR, was streamed on BTR, was used in a blog image, or was available for download on BTR does not by itself give any third party ownership, registration, distribution, fingerprinting, Content ID, or commercial exploitation rights.
Platform Data, AI Systems & Product Improvement
BTR may create technical, analytical, statistical, operational, de-identified, aggregated, or derived information from use of the platform. This may include analytics, reports, rankings, recommendations, classifications, tags, scores, benchmarks, embeddings, quality signals, fraud signals, moderation signals, usage trends, market insights, model improvements, and system improvements.
- This does not transfer your underlying copyright: as between you and BTR, you keep ownership of the User Content you validly own.
- BTR can operate and improve the platform: BTR may use data, metadata, technical signals, and permitted content processing to improve search, recommendations, fraud controls, moderation, creator tools, marketplace tools, AI tools, analytics, and product performance.
- Privacy rules still apply: personal information is handled under the Privacy Policy and applicable privacy law.
- Third parties do not get blanket rights: BTR’s internal platform rights do not give other users the right to scrape, copy, train AI on, redistribute, or commercially exploit creator content.
Why This Matters
BTR only works when creators feel safe uploading, buyers understand what they are getting, rights holders have a clear complaint route, and the platform stays clean about ownership, image provenance, marketplace usage, AI assets, and commercial permissions. That is why this summary is built around a straightforward idea:
Creators create. Creators own what they validly own. BTR helps the work get seen, heard, processed, bought, licensed, and respected.
For clarity, BTR may allow discovery, streaming, previews, downloads, marketplace activity, licensing flows, editorial content, AI tools, creator-set usage permissions, or platform promotion, but nothing on BTR should be read as giving any person the right to claim another creator’s work as their own, register it with a distributor, obtain an ISRC or UPC in their own name, fingerprint it, put it into Content ID, imitate a protected artist or brand, or exploit it outside the exact permissions granted by the applicable creator terms, listing terms, order terms, written licence, or law.
For the full legal details, read our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Payment Terms, marketplace rules, creator terms, or listing-specific licenses that apply.