Agreement
DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION, COMMERCIALIZATION AND COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT This Edition, Digital Distribution, Commercialization and Copyright Assignment Agreement is established between Mercado Paralelo Music Ltda., CNPJ 09094904/0001-06, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, identified as RECORD COMPANY (LABEL) and the artist, identified as AUTHOR (ARTIST/PRODUCER). OBJECTIVE Digital distribution and commercialization in worldwide scope for indeterminate period of the AUTHOR music, being as follow: original, remixes and similar released for the RECORD COMPANY in one of this labels: MERCADO PARALELO MUSIC, INDUSTRY OF HOUSE and WE LOVE SOUNDS. TERMS AND CONDITIONS CLAUSE 01 The RECORD COMPANY will supply to the AUTHOR a document with complete information about the use of the music to be commercialized, showing date of pre-release (promotional period) and official release. This document will be sent by email. CLAUSE 02 The AUTHOR agrees not to use any unauthorized sample in his music. If the AUTHOR infringes this copyright and uses unauthorized samples without the knowledge of the RECORD COMPANY, the AUTHOR is automatically assuming full legal responsibility for his actions, the RECORD COMPANY not will be held responsible for any copyright issue regarding the production or remix. Being titular of the copyright on his music, the AUTHOR gives the RECORD COMPANY total and exclusive rights in the following: edition rights, musical reproduction, impression, publication and commercialization of all music submitted by the AUTHOR and approved by the RECORD COMPANY. CLAUSE 03 The AUTHOR will receive from the RECORD COMPANY as remuneration for a reason or purpose royalties, the corresponding value of: 50% (fifty per cent) of the original music and 25% (twenty five per cent) of the remixes, versions, edits or similar on the sales by download on formats: MP3, WAV, AIF, OGG, WMA, ringtones or similar. 50% (fifty per cent) of the original music and 25% (twenty five per cent) of the remixes, versions, edits or similar on the sales by physical format if the music also released in vinyl, CD, DVD, pen drive or similar. 50% (fifty per cent) of the original music and 25% (twenty five per cent) of the remixes, versions, edits or similar on the licensing of the music to worldwide distribution and commercialization by a third part in digital and (or) physical format. 75% (seventy five per cent) of the original music and 50% (fifty per cent) of the remixes, versions, edits or similar in case of synchronization (inclusion of the music on movies, documentaries, advertising or similar). 75% (seventy five per cent) of the original music and 50% (fifty per cent) of the remixes, versions, edits or similar for public plays. (Play the music in public places or broadcasting as shows, events, radio, TV or similar registered, recognized and paid by ECAD, the official Brazilian copyright office, to the RECORD COMPANY.) The conditions above are over the final collected amount after deduced all legal taxes for each situation. CLAUSE 04 The royalties will be paid in accordance to effectively through download sales and only when the AUTHOR reached a minimum of 50 USD (fifty American dollars) in download sales. The payments will be sent in up to 30 working days after the emission of each bulletin, exclusively by PayPal, no exceptions. If no download sales, the AUTHOR will not receive any payment. The RECORD COMPANY will send annually by email the sales report. CLAUSE 05 The AUTHOR will receive from the RECORD COMPANY (by email) a link to free download of a compressed file (.zip) containing a digital copy in the MP3 (320 kbps) format, the artwork and complete technical information about the release. This file is for a purpose promotion, the AUTHOR cannot post this release in any type of public sharing site such (4shared, Rapidshare, MegaUpload…), other sites, blogs or share by P2P/Torrent. CLAUSE 06 All promotions are responsibility and of the AUTHOR. The RECORD COMPANY will promote the release only on the labels websites and radio shows. If the AUTHOR want to a different promotion by the RECORD COMPANY, need to check the plans, conditions and prices. CLAUSE 07 The RECORD COMPANY has the right to the exclusiveness just for 01 (one) year on each used musical production, counted from the established date of launching. After this period, the AUTHOR is free to offer the music to others, whichever the purpose. The conditions to be established in this eventual transaction will be established in common agreement between AUTHOR and the others, however all the legal proceeding of this process will have to be carried through by this RECORD COMPANY. Just the music approved by the RECORD COMPANY will be exclusive. The AUTHOR is free to offer his other music to different labels. VALIDITY, RESCISSION AND RENEWAL This agreement has minimum validity of 05 (five) years, counted from the date of signature. Although the exclusiveness on the music is only of 01 (one) year, during all the period of validity of this agreement all music of the AUTHOR released by RECORD COMPANY will be worldwide commercialized. Finishing the stated period, the agreement will be renewed automatically for the same period in case that it does not have objection of none of the parts. In case of rescission within this period the rescinding part will have to inform by email with up to 03 (three) months of antecedence and pay a 300 USD (three hundred American dollars) as rescission fee for each released music. For being in accordance, the parts will sign this document, choosing the Forum of Judicial District of Sao Paulo, Brazil to clarify any doubts of this agreement.
Rules
READ WITH ATTENTION THE RULES BELOW. 1. Payment The artist must send his PayPal email account. If don't have, please create one at www.paypal.com. How PayPal works? http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/why-paypal-outside The payment is exclusivelly by PayPal. We do not do exceptions, so if you do not use the PayPal, unfortunally you cannot release your tracks with with us. The label do not is responsible about the way that the artist will get your funds from PayPal and about the taxes to withdraw, transfers and others. - Payment dates During 10-20 of February or July. The first payment is always 6 months after we release your track. Example: If we release your track in January, you will receive the first payment in July of the same year, but only if you reached a minimum quota of 50 USD (fifty American dollars) in download sales. 2. Format of releases - EP with 2 or 3 original tracks. (If the tracks have vocals "lyrics, phrases or voices" the instrumental must be sent and will be included on EP. The tracks of the EP can be released as single on the future.) - Single with original and instrumental (If the original contain vocals) + remixes of other artists. 3. Material delivery - Demos To submit a music to us, the tracks must be hosted on www.soundcloud.com in MP3 (320kbps) and available to download. Do not send us tracks hosted in Sendspace, Rapidshare, Yousendit, 4shared or similar. Tracks not hosted on SoundCloud will not be accepted. After sent us a demo, please be patient, sooner or later we will reply your email with a position about the material submited by you. It is not necessary to send emails asking about the submitted demo. We receive a lot of demos every day, but we always hear all tracks. - Remixing our tracks If you are interested to remix our tracks, please contact us. The agreement and rules for remixes is the same of original tracks. - Approved tracks All tracks must be sent in .wav 44100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM with the Peak Level in -2.0db and RMS Level minimum of -10.0db. Tracks in a different format, too compressed or clipped will be rejected. The files must be sent in links by Sendspace (www.sendspace.com) or Rapidshare (www.rapidshare.com). All links must be sent in a single email to info@industryofhouse.net with the subject: Material delivery (date: YYYY-MM-DD). Example: Material delivery (date: 2012-01-30). Must be included a document in text format (.txt or .doc) with informations about the material sent, including a short description about the tracks and contact of artists, producers, remixers, singles and other partners. This informations will be used to promote the release and credit the persons involved on the tracks production. The label will send a received confirmation by email up to 7 business days. If don't receive it, please foward the original email or send a new email following the steps above. 4. Release artwork The release artwork will follow the standard RECORD COMPANY design and will be designed by the same. Any picture, image, logo, font style or similar suggested by the artist will be used on the artwork, only if approved by the label. 5. Release date The artist will be informed by email about the release date up to 30 days of antecedence. 6. Informations about the artist The artist must provide informations about your career, jobs, references, influences, discography, music concept and a recent photo in hi definition (300dpi). The release date will not be scheduled before the artist send this material. 7. Agreement data (From all artists appearing on track name: producers, remixers, singers and similar) Real Name Artist Name ID or Passport number CPF (For Brazilians only) Address (street, city, state or province and country) If have questions about this rules, please send an email to info@industryofhouse.net.
Personal information
Name
ID/Passport number
CPF (For brazilians only)
Address
City & Country
Zip Code
Email
PayPal email account
Artist information
Artist name
Biography (Tell us about you)
Discography
Networks
Website
MySpace
SoundCloud
Facebook
Twitter
Other (Blogger, Flickr...)
Paste the SoundCloud links of the tracks that you want to submit us on the field below
SoundCloud links
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