The pact

What you're buying

Beats are licensed, not sold. You keep ownership of your lyrics, your vocals and your recording; I stay the author of the instrumental and a co-writer of whatever you build on it. Both tiers carry identical terms — the only thing that changes is whether anyone else can license the same beat after you.

Lease

from $33

Record, release, perform and monetize. The beat stays available to others.

LEASE LICENSE 1. WHAT YOU GET A non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use the instrumental named on your order, in the ways set out below, together with the files listed at checkout. The license starts when your payment clears. The producer remains the sole author and copyright owner of the instrumental, of its sound recording, and of every stem and file delivered. Nothing in this license assigns any of that to you. 2. WHAT YOU MAY DO - Record your own vocals or instrumentation over the beat. - Release the finished song commercially, on all streaming and download platforms, with no cap on streams or sales. - Perform the song live, including paid performances. - Use the finished song in monetized video content, including social platforms. - Have the finished song mixed, mastered and distributed by third parties acting for you. 3. ROYALTIES AND CREDIT - The producer is a 33% co-writer of any song built on the beat and is entitled to 33% of all songwriting and publishing royalties from it. Your master royalties — what your recording earns from streams and sales — are entirely yours. - Register the finished song with your PRO, distributor or publisher listing the producer for that 33% writer share. Never register the instrumental on its own in your name. - Credit the production to the producer in the title or description of anything you release. 4. WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO - Sell, license, sub-license, give away, or redistribute the instrumental, or any stem or delivered file, on its own or in any form that is not your finished song. - Claim sole authorship of the instrumental, or register it, or a song containing it, with a content-identification system in a way that asserts rights in the instrumental itself. - Use the instrumental, or any file delivered with it, to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark a machine-learning or generative model, or include it in any dataset for that purpose. - Transfer this license to another artist or to a label. A label release needs its own license or an exclusive buyout. - Use the beat in anything unlawful, or in a way that suggests the producer endorses a product, campaign, organization or candidate. 5. EXCLUSIVITY This license is non-exclusive. The producer may continue to license this same beat to other artists, and may keep using it in a portfolio, showreel or promotional context. If you want it taken off the market, buy the Exclusive tier. 6. THE LICENSE DEPENDS ON THE PAYMENT This license is conditional on your payment clearing and staying cleared. If the payment is reversed, charged back, disputed or reclaimed for any reason, this license terminates automatically at that moment, your download links are revoked, and any use of the beat after that point is copyright infringement. 7. BREACH If you breach this license, the producer may terminate it on written notice. Where the breach can be put right, you have 14 days from that notice to do so; where it cannot, termination is immediate. On termination you must stop using the beat, take down anything containing it, and delete every copy of the files. Sections 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 survive termination. Unlicensed or out-of-license use is copyright infringement, and the producer may pursue takedowns, platform rights claims, and a claim for damages and legal costs so far as the law allows. 8. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY Everything you add is yours to stand behind. You agree to defend the producer against, and cover, any claim, loss or reasonable legal cost arising from your recording, your lyrics, your artwork, how you released or promoted the song, any material you added, any clearance you did not obtain, or your breach of this license. 9. NO WARRANTY, AND LIMITED LIABILITY The files are provided as they are. The producer does not promise that a file suits a particular purpose, that the song will earn anything, or that any platform will accept, keep up or monetize your release. To the fullest extent the law allows, the producer's total liability under this license is limited to the amount you paid for it, and the producer is not liable for lost profits or for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss. 10. THE REST This license, and the terms of service published on the date of your purchase, are the whole agreement about it. It is governed by the law named in those terms. If any part of this license is unenforceable the rest still stands. The producer may transfer this license if the catalog changes hands; you may not.

Exclusive

Exclusivefrom $333

The beat is yours alone and never sold again.

EXCLUSIVE LICENSE 1. WHAT YOU GET An exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use the instrumental named on your order, in the ways set out below, together with the files listed at checkout. The license starts when your payment clears. The producer remains the sole author and copyright owner of the instrumental, of its sound recording, and of every stem and file delivered. Exclusivity is not a buyout: nothing in this license assigns the copyright to you. 2. WHAT YOU MAY DO Everything a Lease allows, without limits: record, release, perform, broadcast, monetize and sync the finished song, with no cap on streams, sales, videos or performances. Third parties acting for you may mix, master and distribute it. 3. WHAT MAKES THIS EXCLUSIVE - The beat is permanently withdrawn from sale the moment your payment clears. Nobody else can license it after you. - It stays visible on the store, marked sold, so existing links keep working, but it cannot be bought again. - Lease licenses already sold to other artists before your purchase remain valid on their original terms. The producer will tell you what, if anything, was already licensed. - The producer may still use the beat in a portfolio, showreel or promotional context, but will not license it to another artist. 4. ROYALTIES AND CREDIT Unchanged by exclusivity: - The producer is a 33% co-writer of any song built on the beat and is entitled to 33% of all songwriting and publishing royalties from it. Your master royalties are entirely yours. - Register the finished song with your PRO, distributor or publisher listing the producer for that 33% writer share. Never register the instrumental on its own in your name. - Credit the production to the producer in the title or description of anything you release. 5. WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO - Sell, license, sub-license, give away, or redistribute the instrumental, or any stem or delivered file, on its own or in any form that is not your finished song. - Claim sole authorship of the instrumental, or register it, or a song containing it, with a content-identification system in a way that asserts rights in the instrumental itself. - Use the instrumental, or any file delivered with it, to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark a machine-learning or generative model, or include it in any dataset for that purpose. - Transfer this license without the producer's written consent. If the release moves to a label, the label takes on this license only with that consent. - Use the beat in anything unlawful, or in a way that suggests the producer endorses a product, campaign, organization or candidate. 6. THE LICENSE DEPENDS ON THE PAYMENT This license is conditional on your payment clearing and staying cleared. If the payment is reversed, charged back, disputed or reclaimed for any reason, this license terminates automatically at that moment, your download links are revoked, the beat may be returned to sale, and any use of it after that point is copyright infringement. 7. BREACH If you breach this license, the producer may terminate it on written notice. Where the breach can be put right, you have 14 days from that notice to do so; where it cannot, termination is immediate. On termination you must stop using the beat, take down anything containing it, and delete every copy of the files. Sections 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10 survive termination. Unlicensed or out-of-license use is copyright infringement, and the producer may pursue takedowns, platform rights claims, and a claim for damages and legal costs so far as the law allows. 8. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY Everything you add is yours to stand behind. You agree to defend the producer against, and cover, any claim, loss or reasonable legal cost arising from your recording, your lyrics, your artwork, how you released or promoted the song, any material you added, any clearance you did not obtain, or your breach of this license. 9. NO WARRANTY, AND LIMITED LIABILITY The files are provided as they are. The producer does not promise that a file suits a particular purpose, that the song will earn anything, or that any platform will accept, keep up or monetize your release. To the fullest extent the law allows, the producer's total liability under this license is limited to the amount you paid for it, and the producer is not liable for lost profits or for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss. 10. THE REST This license, and the terms of service published on the date of your purchase, are the whole agreement about it. It is governed by the law named in those terms. If any part of this license is unenforceable the rest still stands. The producer may transfer this license if the catalog changes hands; you may not without consent.

Royalties, on both tiers

I am a 33% co-writer of any song built on one of my beats and I'm owed 33% of its songwriting and publishing royalties. Your master royalties — what your recording itself earns from streams and sales — are entirely yours. Buying exclusive does not change this.

When you release, register the song with your distributor or PRO listing M3 Beatz for that 33% writer share. Never register the instrumental on its own in your name.

Rules on both tiers

  • Credit the production as M3 Beatz in the title or description of anything you release.
  • You may not sell, redistribute or license the instrumental on its own, claim sole authorship of it, or register it with a content-ID system as your own work.
  • You may not use a beat or its stems to train or fine-tune an AI model, or put them in a dataset.
  • Licenses are non-transferable. If your release moves to a label, the label needs its own license.
  • You may not use the beat in a way that is unlawful, or that implies I endorse a product, campaign or organization.

The license depends on the payment

Both tiers are conditional on the payment clearing and staying cleared. If it is reversed, charged back or reclaimed, the license ends at that moment, the download links stop working, and any further use of the beat is infringement — pursued with takedowns and a claim. If something is wrong with a charge, email me and I will sort it out.

Previews

Previews stream the whole beat so you can decide properly. Hearing one licenses nothing: recording, ripping or releasing a preview is infringement, exactly as it would be without one.

The difference: exclusivity

A lease is non-exclusive. I can keep licensing the same beat, so another artist may release a song over it too.

Exclusive takes the beat off the market the moment your payment clears, and nobody can license it after you. There are no caps on streams, sales, videos, performances, broadcast or sync. The beat stays on the site marked sold so existing links keep working, but it can never be bought again. Any leases sold before your purchase stay valid under their original terms, and I'll tell you what was already licensed.

Refunds

These are digital files delivered instantly, so purchases are final. If a download is broken, corrupted or the wrong file, email me and I'll fix it or refund you.