Terms of Use

1. Creator terms: artists, photographers and videographers

These are the terms you accept when you sign up, claim your page, sign off a track, or upload music, images or video to Promoting Local.

1.1 What you let us do

When you approve work for Promoting Local, you give us a non-exclusive, UK, royalty-free licence to:

1. play and display it on Promoting Local Players in businesses, venues, public spaces and community locations;
2. play it on our online streams, including the Tees Valley Stream;
3. make it available on your artist page and on our website, including letting people play your tracks from your artist page;
4. use short excerpts, artwork, your name and approved images to promote your work and Promoting Local, such as on stickers, signage, social media and press, always credited to you;
5. make technical copies needed to deliver it (storing it on our servers and caching it on Players, converting formats, and evening out volume levels without changing how it sounds).

We may also register ISRCs for your recordings. Any ISRC we issue is issued on your behalf. It identifies your recording, and you keep ownership.

1.2 What we won't do

• We won't sell, sub-license or transfer your work or our licence to anyone else.
• We won't edit, remix or make new works from it, other than the technical copies described above.
• We won't use it to train AI, or let anyone else do so.
• We won't present your work in a way that suggests you endorse a sponsor, business or product. Sponsor messages on Player screens are ours and the business's, not yours.

1.3 What you confirm

When you upload or approve work, you confirm that:

• you made it, or you have permission from everyone who owns a share of it (bandmates, co-writers, producers, featured artists, the photographer, the people in the photos or videos) to grant this licence;
• it doesn't contain samples or other material you don't have the rights to;
• the information you give us is accurate, including whether you or your works are registered with PRS for Music or PPL. Tell us if that changes.

If you're under 18, a parent or guardian must confirm your sign-up and this licence. Artists and creators must be at least 16 to join.

1.4 PRS, PPL and payment

Our catalogue is licensed directly by the artists, and through PRS for Music and PPL where works are registered with them. Joining is free. Unless we agree something different in writing, we don't charge you and we don't pay a fee for this licence. If you're a PRS or PPL member, royalties collected for your registered works are paid to you through those organisations, and we report plays to them as our licences require. Nothing in these terms affects your membership of them.

Merch sales, sponsorship-funded sessions and any paid work will be covered by separate written terms.

1.5 Taking your work down

You can hide or remove your work, or ask us to, at any time. We'll take it off the website and our streams promptly, and off Players at their next update, normally within 14 days. We can keep records of past plays and of your permission, as explained in our Privacy Policy, and we don't have to recall promotional material already printed or published.

We can decline, hide or remove any work at our discretion, for example if there's a rights question, a complaint, or it doesn't suit the places our Players are in.

1.6 Filmed and recorded sessions

Where we record or film you (for example at Unit 4, Close Quarters or a live event), we'll agree who owns what, and how the recording can be used, with you in writing before or at the session.

2. The Tees Valley Stream

The Tees Valley Stream is a free, continuous stream of local music you reach by scanning a red Promoting Local sticker or visiting the Stream page.

• For personal listening only. The Stream is licensed for private and domestic listening. Please don't play it in a shop, bar, café, gym, office or any other business or public place. Businesses wanting local music should get a Promoting Local Player, which is licensed for that.
• UK only. The Stream is only available in the United Kingdom.
• It's a stream, not a jukebox. You can't pick or skip tracks on the Stream itself. To hear a particular track, tap through to the artist's page.
• Don't copy it. Recording, downloading or redistributing the Stream isn't allowed.

3. Using the website

• The music, images, video and text on Promoting Local belong to the artists, creators and businesses who made them, or to us. You can enjoy and share links to them, but you can't copy, download, republish or use them commercially without the owner's permission.
• Don't misuse the site: no attempts to break in, overload it, scrape it, or upload anything unlawful, offensive or that you don't have the rights to.
• If you have an account, keep your login details safe and tell us if you think someone else has used your account.
• Links to other sites (Spotify, Bandcamp, social media, merch stores) are there to help you follow artists. We're not responsible for those sites.

Reporting a problem

If you think something on Promoting Local uses your work without permission, or shouldn't be there, email hello@promotinglocal.co.uk with details. We'll look at it quickly and remove it while we check, if needed.

4. General

Our responsibility to you

We work hard to keep Promoting Local running well, but the website and streams are provided "as is" and may sometimes be unavailable or change. As far as the law allows, we're not liable for indirect losses or for loss of profit, business or data arising from use of the website or streams. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit, and nothing affects your legal rights as a consumer.

Changes

We may update these terms as Promoting Local grows. We'll post the new version here with a new date. If a change significantly affects artists or creators, we'll email you first, and you can remove your work if you don't agree.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring proceedings in your local courts.

Contact

hello@promotinglocal.co.uk · Music Monitor Ltd, 10 Newcourt Street, London, NW8 7AA