Commercial Sync License

Sync.Land Commercial Sync License · SLCS-v1.0 · effective 10 September 2026

Version 1.0, effective 2026-09-10

1. Grant of license

Subject to your continuing compliance with these terms, and on payment of the license fee shown on your certificate, Sync.Land, on behalf of the artist (“the Artist”), grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, perpetual license to synchronize the Track with Your Project and to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the Track as part of Your Project, in any medium and format now known or later devised, for every use except the Reserved Uses in Section 4.

The license covers Your Project as a whole, including its cut-downs, edits, translations, subtitled and captioned versions, and its own promotion, so long as none of them is itself a Reserved Use.

This is a license, not a sale. Ownership of the Track, including all master and composition rights, is retained by the Artist. The license may not be assigned, sub-licensed or transferred, except that it passes with Your Project to a distributor, platform or client that publishes Your Project on your behalf, for that purpose only.

2. Covered uses

Under this Commercial Sync License You may use the Track in Your Project for any purpose that is not a Reserved Use, including:

• Monetized creator content: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, podcasts, newsletters, sponsored posts and branded content, on any platform and at any audience size;
• Independent film and video: short and feature films, documentaries, festival entries, web series, music videos, and the online or physical sale and rental of those works;
• Corporate and client work: internal and external company videos, event and conference content, training, presentations, product demonstrations, and work you produce for a client, where the client’s use is not itself a Reserved Use;
• Online paid advertising for a product, service or brand, where the combined media spend for the campaign is US$25,000 or less and the advertising is placed online only (social, search, display, streaming pre-roll and similar);
• Games, apps and interactive works with a total production budget of US$1,000,000 or less, including paid independent titles on mobile, console and PC, on any platform and storefront;
• Live and in-person use: presentations, exhibitions, installations, performances and events where the Track is part of Your Project.

There is no cap on audience, views, downloads, units or revenue for any covered use.

3. No caps and no attribution

• There is no view cap. Your Project may reach any audience size under this license.
• There is no term. The license lasts for the life of Your Project and does not need to be renewed.
• Attribution is not required. A credit is welcome wherever Your Project carries credits, in the form Music: {ARTIST_NAME} via Sync.Land, but its absence is not a breach.

4. Reserved uses (Custom licence required)

The Commercial Sync License does not cover the following. Each of them requires a separate Custom licence negotiated with the Artist through Sync.Land. Everything not listed here, at any audience size and for the life of Your Project, is covered.

1. (a)Transmission of Your Project as programming on a broadcast, cable, satellite or over-the-top television channel or network.
2. (b)Theatrical exhibition of Your Project for paid admission, other than film-festival screenings.
3. (c)Paid advertising where the combined media spend for the campaign exceeds US$25,000, and any advertising placed on broadcast television, radio, cinema or out-of-home media at any spend.
4. (d)Any film, series, podcast or other work commissioned by, or distributed as an original or exclusive title on, a subscription video or subscription audio platform.
5. (e)Any game, app or interactive work with a total production budget exceeding US$1,000,000.
6. (f)Any trailer, promotional spot or advertisement for a work that is itself a reserved use under this section.
7. (g)Distribution of the Track as music: compilations, sample packs, sound libraries, beat stores, standalone releases, remixes or derivative works released as recordings, ringtones, karaoke, and registration of the Track with any content-identification or fingerprinting system.
8. (h)Use in political campaigns, public-issue advocacy, religious proselytising, or in any manner that states or implies the Artist’s endorsement of a product, service, cause, candidate or organisation.
9. (i)Use of the Track to train, fine-tune or evaluate any machine-learning model, or its inclusion in any dataset, corpus or fingerprint library made available to third parties.
10. (j)Any exclusivity, hold, or restriction on the Artist’s freedom to license the Track to others.

If Your Project comes to fall within a reserved use after this licence is issued, You have 30 days from that event to obtain a Custom licence through Sync.Land. During those 30 days Your Project may remain distributed. This licence continues to cover every use of Your Project that is not a reserved use.

5. Cure and upgrade to Custom

Projects grow. A festival film is picked up by a streaming platform; an online campaign gets a television buy; an independent game finds a publisher. When that happens, You are not in breach on the day it happens. You have 30 days from the event that brings Your Project within a Reserved Use to request and agree a Custom licence with the Artist through Sync.Land. During the 30-day cure window Your Project may remain distributed, including in the reserved channel.

If no Custom licence is agreed by day 31, the reserved use must stop: the Track must be removed from Your Project in the reserved channel, or Your Project withdrawn from that channel, until a Custom licence is in place. This Commercial Sync License is not terminated by that event and continues to cover every use of Your Project that is not a Reserved Use, and nothing published under it within its scope is in breach.

A Custom licence is requested from the Track’s page on Sync.Land. The Artist sets its terms and fee; Sync.Land records the licence and its on-chain registration in the same way as this one.

6. Attribution

No credit is required under this license. Where Your Project carries credits and You choose to include one, the suggested form is:

Any credit You give must identify the Artist correctly and must not imply the Artist’s endorsement of You, Your Project or any product, service, cause or organisation.

7. Term and revocation

This license is perpetual. It remains in force for the life of Your Project and does not expire, lapse or require renewal.

Sync.Land or the Artist may revoke this license only for material breach, meaning a Reserved Use without a Custom licence, a failure to cure within the Section 5 window, or a use of the Track outside Your Project, and only on 30 days’ written notice to the account email on file with Sync.Land, during which You may cure the breach. Uses that comply with these terms and that occurred before revocation remain permitted; ongoing use ceases at the end of the notice period.

8. Reserved rights

The Artist keeps every right not expressly granted here. Sync.Land licenses the Track on the Artist’s behalf and acquires no ownership of it. Nothing in this Commercial Sync License grants:

• Any public-performance license from a performing-rights organization (PRO) such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, PRS, GEMA, or their equivalents. You are responsible for obtaining any required public-performance licenses in your jurisdiction, and the venues, broadcasters and platforms that carry Your Project are responsible for theirs;
• Any mechanical license for physical or digital reproduction of the composition where such a mechanical license would be additionally required by law;
• Any neighboring rights royalties owed to performers or master-recording owners under jurisdiction-specific statutes (e.g. SoundExchange in the U.S., PPL in the U.K.);
• Any waiver of the Artist’s moral rights, including the right of paternity and the right of integrity;
• Any right to use the Artist’s name, likeness or trademarks beyond a factual credit.

9. On-chain registration

Each Commercial Sync License issued may be recorded on the Cardano blockchain as a CIP-25 token whose metadata names the Track, the Artist, the license type, the version identifier SLCS-v1.0-2026-09-10, the licensee and the issue date, and links to the certificate. This on-chain record is authoritative for the fact of issuance. The PDF certificate delivered to You is the human-readable copy and is authoritative for the terms and details of the specific issuance; it carries the terms as they stood when the license was granted, and those terms are also stored on the license record at Sync.Land. If the two conflict on a material term, the certificate controls.

10. No warranty

The Track is provided “as is.” Sync.Land makes no representation regarding the availability, fitness for purpose, non-infringement, or absence of third-party claims against the Track beyond the rights the Artist has represented to Sync.Land. Your remedy for any dispute is limited to termination of this license and refund of any fees actually paid to Sync.Land in respect of the Track.

11. AI-generated material

The Artist’s answer to how the Track’s audio was created is recorded on this licence. Any material the Artist has identified as AI-generated is not licensed under this licence and is not warranted; the licence covers the human-authored elements of the Track only. Tracks whose audio was produced entirely by a generative AI tool are not offered under this licence.

12. Version retirement

Sync.Land may publish successor versions of the Sync.Land Commercial Sync License (SLCS-v1.1, SLCS-v2.0, etc.) at any time. A newly-issued license reflects the then-current version. Retirement of SLCS-v1.0 does not retroactively alter licenses already issued under it: You may continue to rely on the terms of the version printed on your certificate for the life of that license. Commercial licenses issued before 10 September 2026 were issued under the terms printed on their own certificates and are unaffected by this document.

13. Governing law

This Commercial Sync License is governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws provisions. Disputes arising out of or relating to this license shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.