Terms for Artist Pages

These terms apply when you make an artist page on SongPort. They come on top of the Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use rules, which also apply. Where this document says something different about artist pages, this document takes precedence.

The Acceptable Use rules are mostly about the API. For an artist page, only the rules in it that are about SongPort in general apply to you: don't get around the limits, don't create several accounts to get around them, and don't attack SongPort or put heavy load on it. The rest only matters if you also use the API.

"We" is On The Bright Side VOF, as described in article 1 of the Terms of Service.

You accept these terms by ticking a box when you create your page. We store the version you accepted and the time, together with your page.

An artist page is one public page at songport.link/@yourname. It shows your name, a short bio, a photo, your releases and links to your other places online. A visitor picks a release and chooses the music service to open it in.

We don't host, sell or manage any music. A release on your page is a SongPort link to music that is already on the music services.

You manage your page in the studio. You sign in there with a link we email you. An account has one artist page.

You get access through the waitlist, when we open a spot for you. Artist pages are new, so features and limits, such as how many releases and links fit on a page, can change. As article 6 of the Terms of Service says, we may change, limit or stop a free service, and that includes artist pages.

You can make a page for yourself as an artist, or for an artist, band or label you are allowed to act for.

You have to be 18 or older to make a page and accept these terms. Is the artist younger than 18? Then a parent or guardian, or an adult who is allowed to act for the artist, such as a manager or a label, makes the page and manages it. That person accepts these terms and is responsible for the page.

By creating a page you confirm both.

Your username is the address of your page. It has 3 to 30 characters: lowercase letters, numbers and dashes. Some names can't be taken: names that could be mistaken for SongPort or a music service, names we have reserved, and names that were given up a short while ago.

You can change your username once a year. For 30 days after a change, the old address sends visitors to your new one and nobody else can take the old name.

Use your own artist name. A username doesn't become your property. We may reserve a username, take it back or give it to someone else, for example when it is used to pretend to be someone else or when someone else shows a better claim to the name. If we take your username, we email you and you choose a new one. That change doesn't count towards the one change a year.

If you delete your page, we hold the username for 30 days. Nobody else can take it during that time.

You decide what is on your page: the name, the bio, the photo, the links and the releases. You need the right to use all of it, including the name and the photo. Your content stays yours. You give us permission to store it and to show it publicly on your page and in previews of your page, for as long as your page exists.

You may not use an artist page to:

• pretend to be someone else;
• add music that isn't yours or the artist's you act for;
• post spam, scams or misleading links;
• do anything else that article 4 of the Terms of Service or the Acceptable Use rules don't allow (see article 1 for which of those rules apply to an artist page).

You add a release by pasting a link to it. The title, the artist name, the cover art and the links per music service come from the music services. We match them automatically, as described in article 2 of the Terms of Service.

That match can be wrong or incomplete. A music service can also change or remove a release, and then a link on your page stops working. Check a release after you add it. In the studio you can correct its type and date, hide it or remove it.

Data about music belongs to the music services or the rights holders (article 5 of the Terms of Service).

We give the verified mark to pages we have good reason to believe are run by the artist or their team. Whether a page gets it is our decision, and we can remove it again at any time. It is not a guarantee to visitors.

Every page has a "Report this profile" link. A visitor can report a page because it pretends to be someone else, because the music is not the artist's, because it is spam or a scam, or for another reason. We read every report ourselves. You don't see who sent a report.

We may pause a page or put it in review, for example while we look into a report, and right away in case of abuse. While a page is paused or in review, visitors see a short notice instead of the page. We may also take back a username (article 5) or remove the verified mark (article 8). In case of abuse we may remove links and block access, as article 4 of the Terms of Service says.

If we pause your page, put it in review, take back your username or remove the verified mark, we email you what we did and why, unless the law doesn't allow us to.

You can pause your own page in the studio at any time. If you think we made the wrong call, email hello@songport.link. We look at it again and tell you what we decided.

Does something on an artist page infringe your rights, such as your copyright, your trademark, your name or your image? You can tell us in two ways:

• with the "Report this profile" link on the page. A report is anonymous, so we can't reply to you or ask you anything;
• by email to hello@songport.link. Use this if you want an answer, and always if you hold the rights yourself or act for the person who does.

Put this in your email:

• the address of the page (songport.link/@name) and, if it is about one release, photo or link, which one;
• what is wrong, and which right it infringes;
• your name and email address, and whether you hold the right yourself or act for the person who does;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that what you send us is correct and complete.

What happens next:

• We confirm by email that we received your notice.
• We look into it ourselves. While we do, we may put the page in review, so visitors see a short notice instead of the page.
• If the notice is justified, we pause the page or ask the artist to remove what infringes, and we may take back the username or remove the verified mark (articles 5, 8 and 9). If it isn't, we leave the page as it is.
• We tell you what we decided and why. We reply within 10 working days, and sooner when the problem is serious.
• We tell the artist what we did, why, and what the notice was about. We only give the artist your name or email address if you agree or the law requires it.

You and the artist can both contest our decision by emailing hello@songport.link. We then look at it again. We may ignore notices that are clearly unfounded or sent to harm an artist.

A release on an artist page is a link to music on the music services. We don't host the music itself. To have the music removed, contact the music service where it is published.

An artist page is free during the beta. Paid plans may come after the beta. We will tell you first.

You can stop at any time. In the studio, under "Settings", you can download your data and delete your page.

When you delete your page, we delete the page with its name, bio, links and list of releases, the photo, the reports about the page and your entry on the waitlist. If you have no API account, we also delete your account and confirm that by email. If you do have an API account, it stays, and your access to the studio closes. To make a page again later, you join the waitlist again.

What stays after you delete your page:

• the SongPort links of your releases. They are ordinary SongPort links, not tied to your page, and other people may be using them;
• a record that the username was in use and when it was given up, so we can hold it for 30 days;
• our own log of what we did to the page as its moderator, if we did anything.

How long we keep those, and everything else about personal data, is in the Privacy Policy.

For these, the Terms of Service apply as they stand. An artist page is a free service in the sense of article 6 (availability) and article 7 (liability). Article 9 covers changes to these terms, and article 10 covers complaints, applicable law and disputes.

The current version of this document is always at songport.link/terms/artists, with its version number and the date it takes effect.

These terms are written in English. If we publish a translation, for example in Dutch, and it says something different from the English text, the English text applies.