CONTENT LICENSE SUMMARY
Welcome to BTR (BeatsToRapOn) — a creator-first platform built for rappers, producers, beatmakers, artists, DJs, and music culture. Our core rule is simple: creators keep ownership of what they create. BTR may host, stream, preview, display, cache, promote, 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.
This page is a simple high-level summary to help explain how rights, access, and usage 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, please read our Terms of Service, Payment Terms, and any specific listing, license, marketplace, order, or creator terms that apply to a beat, track, service, download, or transaction.
Artists, producers, and beatmakers keep ownership of the music, beats, artwork, stems, recordings, and media they upload to BTR unless they clearly agree to separate sale, assignment, or license terms.
Uploading to BTR gives us a non-exclusive right to host, stream, cache, display, reproduce, promote, 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, 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, or artist media to BTR, your rights stay with you. BTR exists to help you be discovered, build your presence, sell, collaborate, and move your music forward — not to quietly take ownership of your work.
- You keep ownership: BTR does not take copyright, master ownership, or exclusive ownership of your uploads just because you post them on the platform.
- You grant BTR a limited platform license: This allows us to host, reproduce, stream, display, cache, distribute through the service, create previews, create technical copies, and promote your content as needed to operate, secure, and improve BTR.
- You remain responsible for your upload rights: You should only upload content you own or are authorised to upload, use, license, sell, display, or distribute.
- 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, 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, and record-retention needs, and 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, or displayed 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.
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.
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, or services 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, or commercial usage.
What you cannot do
- Re-upload, resell, redistribute, mirror, scrape, repackage, or present someone else’s music, beat, artwork, stem, upload, 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, 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, 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 the creator’s express written permission and all required rights.
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, or other terms. Some may sit inside the marketplace and carry separate payment, delivery, refund, payout, or proof-of-work rules.
- Specific terms beat general summaries: if a beat, listing, service, order, creator page, 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, or distribution 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, 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, and dispute rules also apply.
- No automatic platform royalty obligation: BTR does not owe royalties for ordinary on-platform streams, previews, listens, or displays 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, or broader commercial clearance, negotiate that directly with the creator or seller through the proper BTR flow and get it in writing.
BTR’s Role, Complaints & Records
BTR is a platform. It may host content, facilitate discovery, provide creator tools, 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, or exploit content they post or use.
- BTR may take platform action: where there are complaints, policy breaches, suspected infringement, fraud, abuse, or legal risk, BTR may remove, restrict, disable, suspend, preserve records, request information, or take other platform steps it considers appropriate.
- BTR records are platform records only: any upload dates, access data, activity logs, account information, transaction records, or technical metadata that BTR may hold are platform records and do not by themselves determine ownership, infringement, liability, entitlement, or legal outcome.
- Access to records is controlled: any request for account, upload, access, activity, or other platform records is subject to applicable law, privacy, confidentiality, security, verification, retention, and procedural requirements. BTR may require formal written requests and may refuse, limit, or condition disclosure where appropriate.
- BTR does not grant ownership through access: the fact that content appeared on BTR, was streamed on BTR, or was available for download on BTR does not by itself give any third party ownership, registration, or distribution rights in that content.
Why This Matters
BTR only works when creators feel safe uploading, buyers understand what they are getting, and the platform stays clean about ownership. That is why this summary is built around a straightforward idea:
Creators create. Creators own. BTR helps the work get seen, heard, bought, and respected.
For clarity, BTR may allow discovery, streaming, previews, downloads, marketplace activity, licensing flows, or creator-set usage permissions, 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 in their own name, fingerprint it, put it into Content ID, or exploit it outside the exact permissions granted by the applicable creator terms, listing terms, order terms, or written license.
For the full legal details, read our Terms of Service and any separate Payment Terms, marketplace rules, creator terms, or listing-specific licenses that apply.