Terms and Conditions

Last updated: May 4, 2026

1. Scope

These terms apply to use of the Boiling Harmonies website, artist marketplace, radio contribution workflow, ticketing, and related services.

2. Donations and Payments

Donations and artist purchases are processed by third-party payment providers such as Stripe and PayPal.
Payment processing is subject to the provider's own terms and privacy policies.
Where legally required, records are retained for accounting and compliance.

3. Artist Sales Terms

Artists may upload music, set prices, and make albums or tracks purchasable only for content they are authorized to sell.
Each album has an artist revenue share percentage set by Boiling Harmonies administrators. That percentage may differ by artist or release and is snapshotted at the time of sale for accounting.
Transaction fees charged by the payment provider are deducted before platform revenue and artist payout are calculated, unless mandatory law requires a different treatment.
Payout reporting inside the artist dashboard is informational and does not replace final accounting, tax, or payment reconciliation records.
Refunds, chargebacks, fraud reviews, or legal claims may delay, reverse, or adjust artist earnings.

4. Publisher Upload Terms (Software, Films, eBooks)

Publishers may upload software, films, eBooks, and related assets only when they are legally authorized to distribute them.
For eBooks, if you upload multiple format files (for example PDF, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3), you represent and warrant rights to each uploaded format.
You are responsible for format integrity, metadata, rights clearances, and lawful distribution for every file you upload.
Boiling Harmonies may remove or disable files where rights ownership, distribution rights, licensing, or legal compliance is disputed or unclear.

5. Artist Rights Warranties

By uploading content as an artist, you represent and warrant that you control or are authorized to license the relevant master and composition rights.
You are responsible for every upload, file, recording, artwork, metadata entry, and rights statement you submit to the platform.
If you upload on behalf of an artist, label, publisher, or rights holder, you confirm you are authorized to bind that party and you accept full legal responsibility for that upload.
You must provide accurate rights-holder information, collecting society information, and release-status information when requested.
You must not upload content that infringes copyright, neighboring rights, trademark, personality rights, or contractual obligations.
You remain responsible for royalties, statements, clearances, consents, and permissions owed to collaborators, writers, producers, labels, publishers, and collecting societies unless Boiling Harmonies expressly agrees otherwise in writing.
If you act as an artist, publisher, label, or other rights provider, you are solely responsible for any copyright infringement, publishing-rights infringement, unauthorized distribution, or metadata misrepresentation connected to the content you upload, license, sell, or contribute.

6. Radio Contribution Terms

Radio contribution is optional and separate from download sales.
When you mark a track for radio contribution, you grant Boiling Harmonies a non-exclusive, revocable license to store, copy, encode if needed, and stream that recording through approved Boiling Harmonies radio services in the licensed territories.
You must contribute only tracks for which direct web radio licensing is available without conflict from collecting societies, labels, or distributors.
Under the current platform policy, tracks linked to GEMA or another conflicting collecting society repertoire must not be contributed to radio unless Boiling Harmonies expressly approves a separate compliance process.
A commercially released or published recording may be contributed to radio where the uploader confirms and can prove valid direct licensing for radio use.
Boiling Harmonies may suspend, reject, remove, or mute any track if rights ownership, metadata, or licensing status is unclear or disputed.

7. Germany-Focused Rights Policy

Because Boiling Harmonies may operate with listeners, partners, or compliance obligations connected to Germany, artists may be asked whether any songwriter, composer, lyricist, publisher, or co-writer is registered with GEMA or another collecting society. Artists may also be asked whether the master recording has already been commercially released or published. If rights information indicates a collecting-society conflict or incompatible radio licensing path, Boiling Harmonies may refuse radio contribution even if download sales remain enabled.

8. Takedowns and Account Actions

Boiling Harmonies may remove content, disable downloads, disable radio contribution, hold payouts, or suspend accounts where there is a rights complaint, fraud concern, policy breach, sanctions issue, or legal requirement.
Artists must cooperate promptly with metadata corrections, takedown requests, and proof-of-rights requests.
Termination of an artist account does not automatically erase accounting records or legal retention records.

9. Copyright Responsibility and Indemnity

Boiling Harmonies provides platform services and does not assume authorship, ownership, publishing administration, or rights-clearance responsibility for content supplied by artists, publishers, labels, or other users.
Boiling Harmonies is not responsible for copyright infringement, publishing-rights infringement, or other rights violations committed by an artist, publisher, label, or uploader using the platform.
The person or entity uploading, distributing, licensing, or selling the content remains solely and completely responsible for obtaining all permissions and bearing any resulting claims, damages, penalties, settlements, or legal costs.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Boiling Harmonies, its operators, and affiliates from third-party claims arising out of alleged or actual infringement, unauthorized exploitation, false ownership claims, or breaches of these terms caused by content or rights information you provide.

10. Public Donor Display

Supporter names may appear on public fundraiser lists unless the anonymous option is selected during donation.

11. Privacy and Cookies

Personal data handling is described in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.