Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

Cambrian Music is a platform for AI music creators to upload songs, build an audience, and earn through fan support, creator subscriptions, commissions or collabs, Release Ready credits, and Authorship Records.

By accessing Cambrian, creating an account, uploading content, or using any Cambrian service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Cambrian.

2. Accounts & Eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old to use Cambrian Music (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, if higher — e.g., 16 in parts of the EU).
• You're responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for activity that occurs under your account, and for providing accurate account and payout information.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts for violations of these terms, at our discretion, with or without notice depending on severity.

3. Creator Content & Content License

By uploading tracks, artwork, or other content to Cambrian Music, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, stream, and publicly display that content solely for the purpose of operating the platform (including promotional use like The Scene charts, homepage features, and marketing materials that showcase the platform). You retain all ownership of your content. This license ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for copies already distributed as part of normal platform operation (e.g., cached CDN copies) or content we're required to retain for legal/tax purposes.

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to everything you upload, and that it doesn't infringe any third party's rights.

4. AI Disclosure

Cambrian is built for music made with AI tools. Creators must be truthful about how their work was made and must follow the terms of any generator, sample source, collaboration, or distribution partner involved in a release.

5. Human Authorship Records — What They Do and Don't Certify

A Human Authorship Record reflects a creator's attestation of their human creative contribution to a release, together with the process documentation and evidence files they submit, which Cambrian assembles into a timestamped, cryptographically signed public record. It is Cambrian Music's assessment based on the information and materials the creator provides. It is not:

• A legal determination of copyright ownership or copyrightability,
• A guarantee that the work qualifies for copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office, or
• Legal advice about the copyright status of any release.

Creators seeking a legal opinion on copyrightability should consult a copyright attorney. Cambrian Music disclaims liability for decisions made by third parties (labels, distributors, the Copyright Office, etc.) based on a Human Authorship Record.

6. Plans, Credits, and Records

Paid plans, Release Ready credits, credit packs, and Authorship Records are fulfilled only when Cambrian receives verified payment state from its payment provider or backend systems. Client-side state, local storage, screenshots, or edited browser data never grant paid access.

Subscription credits renew according to the active plan. Purchased credits are tracked by the backend and are consumed according to Cambrian's product rules.

7. Subscriptions & Billing

• Before you pay: the price, billing frequency, and what's included in each tier are disclosed before we collect your payment information.
• Consent: subscribing requires an affirmative action from you (e.g., clicking “Subscribe” after seeing the price) — we don't enroll anyone by default or through pre-checked boxes.
• Cancellation: you can cancel your subscription from your account settings at any time, in as few steps as it took to sign up. Cancellation stops future charges; it does not retroactively refund the current billing period unless required by law or stated otherwise at signup.
• Free trials: if we offer a free trial, we'll disclose when it converts to a paid plan and charge only after that conversion, with advance notice before the first charge.
• Payment processing: all payments and creator payouts are handled by Stripe Connect. By subscribing or receiving payouts, you also agree to Stripe's terms. We don't store your full card or bank account numbers.
• Failed payments: if a payment fails, we may retry it and/or suspend access to paid features until resolved.

8. Fan Support and Creator Subscriptions

Tips, creator subscriptions, commissions, and collab requests depend on the creator's account setup and payment availability. Cambrian may block, refund, or review transactions that appear abusive, fraudulent, mistaken, or unsupported by our records.

9. Payouts

Creator payouts require an enabled payout account and may be subject to provider review, identity checks, payment reversals, fees, taxes, and regional availability. Cambrian is not responsible for payout delays caused by missing creator information or provider review.

10. Prohibited Conduct / Acceptable Use

By using Cambrian Music, you agree not to:

10.1 Security & Technical Abuse

• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, server, or data not belonging to you, including through phishing, credential stuffing, or exploiting a vulnerability.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the platform or its infrastructure without authorization (see § 10.6 for the responsible disclosure exception).
• Introduce malware, viruses, or other malicious code.
• Interfere with or disrupt the platform's operation — including denial-of-service attacks, excessive automated requests, or attempts to overload our infrastructure.
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent rate limits, access controls, authentication, DRM, or payment-verification systems.
• Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the platform at scale without prior written permission, including catalog metadata, chart data, or user profiles.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the platform except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
• Use bots, scripts, or automation to create accounts, inflate streams/plays, manipulate The Scene chart rankings, or fake engagement metrics.

10.2 Payments & Fraud

• Use stolen payment information, initiate fraudulent chargebacks, or otherwise abuse the Stripe Connect payment flow.
• Attempt to launder money or process payments for illegal goods or services through the platform.
• Misrepresent authorship or ownership when applying for a Human Authorship Record.

10.3 Content

• Upload content you don't have the rights to distribute, or that infringes another party's copyright, trademark, or other IP rights.
• Upload content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or that exploits or endangers minors.
• Impersonate another artist, creator, or entity, or misattribute authorship of a release.
• Upload malicious files disguised as audio, artwork, or other media.

10.4 Platform Integrity

• Create multiple accounts to evade a ban, suspension, or subscription-tier restriction.
• Use the platform to harass, threaten, or abuse other users or staff.
• Resell, sublicense, or provide unauthorized third-party access to your account or API access, if applicable.

10.5 Consequences

Violations may result in content removal, suspension, termination of your account, withholding of pending payouts pending investigation, and — where warranted — referral to law enforcement or civil action.

10.6 Responsible Security Disclosure (Safe Harbor)

We welcome good-faith security research. If you discover a vulnerability, you may report it to security@cambrianmusic.com instead of exploiting it. Provided you:

• avoid privacy violations, data destruction, or service disruption,
• give us reasonable time to remediate before public disclosure, and
• don't access, modify, or exfiltrate data beyond what's needed to demonstrate the issue,

we will not pursue legal action or refer you to law enforcement for that research, and § 10.1's restrictions on probing/testing don't apply to reports made under this program.

11. Copyright Policy (DMCA)

Cambrian Music responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512).

To file a takedown notice, send our designated agent at dmca@cambrianmusic.com a written notice including: a physical or electronic signature of the rights holder or their authorized representative; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and its location on the platform; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you're authorized to act on the rights holder's behalf.

Counter-notices: if your content is removed and you believe this was a mistake, you may file a counter-notice with the same required elements under § 512(g). We'll forward it to the original claimant; absent a lawsuit filed within 10–14 business days, we may restore the content.

Repeat infringers: accounts that receive repeated valid takedown notices will be suspended or terminated.

12. Platform Availability

Cambrian may change, pause, limit, or remove features as the product evolves. Features shown as unavailable, blocked, or setup-required are not guaranteed to be active for every account or region.

13. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

Cambrian Music is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't guarantee the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Cambrian Music and its founders/operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data, arising from your use of the platform. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

14. Governing Law & Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. For material changes, we'll notify users via email or an in-app notice before the changes take effect. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.