01-PRIVACY POLICY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT
Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. This text contains the terms and conditions for your access and use of www.soundhorus.com ("Site"). The content, information, products and/or services ("Services") herein are communicated to you by Soundhorus Prodüksiyon A.Ş. (“Company”). The Company reserves the right to change, suspend or terminate the Site and Services at any time or to change the Terms of Service without notice. It is your responsibility to periodically check these Terms of Service for changes. By continuing to use or access the Site and Services after any changes are made and posted by the Company, you agree to be legally bound by the revised Terms of Service.
www.soundhorus.com, linked domains, software and applications related to digital distribution are exclusively owned by Soundhorus Produksiyon Anonim Şirketi (SH). The principles and rules adopted by SH for the privacy and security of personal data are regulated by the privacy policy.
When the user benefits from the services offered by SH; He/she shall be deemed to have accepted unconditionally and unconditionally that he/she has read the principles in this confidentiality agreement, that he/she has been enlightened on matters related to the confidentiality and integrity of personal data, and that in case of violation of this confidentiality procedure, all kinds of legal and criminal responsibility will belong to the user.
BY USING THE SERVICES PROVIDED ON THE SITE OR WITH YOUR SOUNDHORUS ACCOUNT, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS TEXT. IF YOU DO NOT FULLY AGREE WITH THESE, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES OFFERED BY THE COMPANY.
SH declares and undertakes to keep the information provided by the users strictly private and confidential, to keep them as a secret, to take all necessary technical and legal measures in this regard and to show all due diligence.
02-TERMS OF USE
The site at www.soundhorus.com and the services provided accordingly can only be used for legal purposes. The parties declare and undertake to comply with all local and foreign laws, regulations and international agreements regarding the use of the services. In addition, the Licensor (User) accepts and undertakes that s/he will not take any action regarding access and use of the site and services, including the ones stated below, that may harm the rights or functioning of the Company and the site or violate the relevant legislation.
• Disabling the site, hacking, eliminating or preventing security features that limit or prevent the copying or use of Company tools and content;
• The use of any meta (meta) data, meta (meta) tags or hidden text by means of a name, brand, URL or product name belonging to Soundhorus Production Incorporated;
• Downloading, sending, forwarding, sending or uploading any form of advertising, promotional material, junk mail, spam, spam, chain mail, pyramid scheme or any solicitation that is not permitted or authorized to be transmitted in any way;
• tampering with the TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header, deceptively or displaying false source information;
• Unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, defamatory, abusive or hateful objects or symbols, violating the privacy of any third party, nudity (including porn, erotica, child porn, child erotica) ), deceptive, intimidating, abusive, inciting to an unlawful action, defamatory, slanderous or insulting, immoral, containing terror, violence and hate speech, and similarly unpleasant content or services to be shared, downloaded, sent or transmitted via the site ;
• Damage, interfere with, or attempt to do so, or violate any protocols, terms, procedures, policies, or regulations for the site connected to the site, to the distributor or to the network connected to the site, or to any web page on the company provider's technical distribution system;
• Attempt to scan, probe, test for computer system or network vulnerability, or to violate, undermine or circumvent the measures that provide security and authentication to the Site and Services;
• Attempt to decompile, disassemble, decrypt software used for the Site and Services;
• Using any device, software, tool, or device to search, meta-research, or access the site, except for software and/or search tools provided by the company, or web browsers offered for general distribution by third parties (eg, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari). attempt to access by means, device or mechanism, but not limited to, any software that sends a query to identify how the website or page is rated;
• Collect or store personal data of other Site and Service users without their consent;
• Misrepresenting or faking your connection with a natural or legal person by hiding behind something or by other forms of social engineering or forgery;
• Use of the Site and Services in any way not permitted under this Agreement or site rules; and Appointing, directing or encouraging a third party to do any of the above or to violate and/or not comply with this Agreement or the Site rules will be a violation of the terms of use of this site; Soundhorus Production Incorporated Company is exclusively authorized to suspend, completely terminate, and/or prevent access to the site the memberships of users who commit such violations or violations, provided that their legal and legal rights regarding all these violations are reserved.
03-CONTRACT
ARTICLE 1- PARTIES
This contract; on one side
Akat Mh. Acelya Sk. No:49 Beşiktaş/İstanbul/Turkey, Soundhorus Production Inc. (Hereinafter briefly referred to as the “Company”) and on the other side;
It has been arranged between the Customer (hereinafter briefly referred to as the "Licensor"), in the electronic environment (on the website) with the agreement of the following conditions, under the conditions written below.
Hereinafter, when 'Company' and 'Licensor' are mentioned together, "Parties" will be referred to as "Party" when any one of them is mentioned individually.
ARTICLE 2- DEFINITIONS
From the expressions in this Agreement;
2.1. Work: Verbal and non-verbal compositions of all kinds of ideas and art, which are considered as musical works, bearing the characteristics of the owner.
2.2. Phonogram: Sound carrier medium in which sounds or other sounds or sound representations in a performance are detected, excluding sound detections in audio-visual works such as a cinematic work,
2.3. “Productions”: phonograms and sound recordings transmitted to the Company at any time via the site or otherwise, and audio-video/audio-visual recordings transmitted to the Company at any time through the site or otherwise;
2.4. Single: A musical product consisting of 1 or 2 songs;
2.5. EP: musical product consisting of 3, 4, 5, or 6 songs;
2.6. Album: A musical product consisting of 7 or more songs;
2.7. “Digital Platform”: Digital, working through digital signals, transmitting sound and images; television, internet and similar computer environments, tablets and mobile phones and other mobile media where mobile technology is used, and all kinds of digital media that are not yet known but will start to serve in the future depending on technological developments;
2.8. “Sales”: Productions through any Store that is in operation or will become operational in the future; processing, dissemination, reproduction and distribution, and its sale in digital media and in other media known or unknown at the moment,
2.9. “Sales Stores”: Domestic or foreign, currently existing or not;
• iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, TTNet Music, Turkcell Music, Instagram, Facebook, Avea Music, Google Play, Amazon, Android Marketplace, Microsoft Marketplace, X-Box Live, eMusic, Rhapsody, My Juke, YouTube, Vevo, Vimeo, Hulu , Dailymotion, Izlesene, Distronaut, Tik-Tok etc. all services that operate worldwide and are established for the purpose of making the content public, playing music, watching videos and selling.
• Turkcell, Vodafone and Turk Telekom etc. existing or future GSM operators, such as
• Web TV, IP TV, cable TV or satellite platform operators such as TiViBu, Teledunya, D-Smart, Digiturk, Filmclub, Superplay, Netflix, TVYO,
• Internet service providers such as TTNet, Superonline, Smile, and all services, services, radios and media that use all other web, satellite, Internet, GSM and similar technologies and have all kinds of works,
2.10. “Net Income”: Payment transaction fees, distributor commissions, membership fee, store commissions, discounts, bank transfer and EFT and international shipping, from the sale price paid and received for the Sale of Productions, provided detailed to the Licensor, if available. The income found by deducting the expenses that may arise due to the procedure, such as the costs and/or the professional association share and/or taxes that the Licensor has to undertake due to market practices and/or the operation of the Company and whose prior knowledge has been transferred to the Licensor,
2.11. Rights: All intellectual property rights, including but not limited to distribution, representation, sale, processing, reproduction, dissemination, public transmission rights, for the distribution of digital content,
2.12. “Neighboring Rights”: Artists who interpret, introduce, describe, sing, play and perform a work in an original way, with the permission of the owner of the work, provided that it does not harm the moral and financial rights of the work owner, and those which are a performance product or detect other sounds for the first time. the rights of phonogram producers and radio/television companies,
2.13. “Agreement”: this Agreement; means.
ARTICLE 3- SUBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT
Soundhorus Production Inc. will carry out the Sales of the Productions of the Licensor sent to him through the site.
The Licensor is the owner of the Productions subject to the contract or is the exclusive representative of its rights all over the world.
This Agreement; Regarding the use of the digital rights of the Productions licensed to the Company within the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement; It is regulated in order to determine the rights and obligations of the Parties in the transactions regarding the transfer of the Productions to Social Media and Digital Platforms, their transfer to the Sales Stores and their Sales All Over the World.
ARTICLE 4- RIGHTS, STATEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1. The Licensor declares, accepts and undertakes that it is the person who signed the contract, is over 18 years old and is authorized to enter into such an agreement.
4.2. Licensor provides that the Productions, including permanent/temporary download, interactive/non-interactive streaming, interactive/non-interactive radio broadcasts and cloud services, without limitation with place and number, In order to carry out the transactions, by using the internet, mobile web, mobile phone, tablet, tablet PC, PC and all kinds of similar electronic devices in the necessary media and by means of virtual, digital, electronic and other means of transmission, with the technical possibilities on the date of this contract or from the date of the contract. With the technical possibilities that will develop later, in order to use it in the field of listening and sales, its neighbor and related rights (playing and downloading from all media such as internet / web or mobile, making the Productions used by licensing to third parties and institutions, selling, wav, flac, dts, mp3, Aiff, m4p, m3p, mp4, mpeg, mpg, aac, wam, wma, realaudio, avi, mov formats as ringtone, ringbacktone, turetone, IVR etc. all kinds of use, application application, use, distribution, prohibition of use, use or making use of mechanical rights, collection of all fees related to the use of aforementioned rights, etc. It gives full license to the Company under this Agreement regarding the savings transactions) and exclusively authorizes it without limitation of number, time and place.
4.3. With the signing of this Agreement, the owner of the work, for the period specified in Article 7 of the Agreement, irrevocably, in the name of the use of the rights stated in Article 4.1 and below, to be valid in the country and abroad, exclusively to the Company. grants license.
(i) Rights to distribute, sell, market and trade the Productions
(ii) the right to use the names given or reported to the Company by the Licensor and the artists who contributed to the creation of the Productions, the photographs, pictures, artworks, biographies or other information given to the Company by the Licensor;
(iii) the right to promote the Productions;
(iv) The right to earn and collect income on behalf of the Company and the Licensor from the revenues obtained from the use of the Productions specified in the Agreement;
4.4. Licensor shall obtain all necessary phonograms, recordings, broadcasts, performances and other licenses, consents and permissions for the sale of the Productions from third parties (commentators, musicians, arrangers, producers, authors, professional associations, etc.) who have rights on the Productions. It accepts and declares that it is responsible for making license and other payments that have arisen and / or will arise in relation to these persons.
4.5. Productions submitted by the Licensor must be of technically and commercially acceptable standards. The Company reserves the right to refuse to distribute Productions that do not comply with market standards. However, the Licensor agrees to procure all Productions and supplementary elements in the format requested by the Company and the relevant Retail Store. The Company shall provide the Licensor with the necessary technical definitions in order to comply with the aforementioned formats.
4.6. In order to enable the Company to use the license granted to the Company for the Productions under this Agreement, the Licensor grants this Agreement a "consent letter" and/or It accepts that it replaces the “permit document”. However, the Licensor declares and undertakes that it will not hesitate to submit by issuing/signing any other document and/or power of attorney to be issued on behalf of the Company and third parties, which may/may be necessary for the exercise of the rights subject to this Agreement.
4.7. The Company is obliged to create a membership account on behalf of the Licensor via the www.soundhorus.com website, thereby providing the Licensor with access to content management and reporting services. The Licensor shall be deemed to have accepted the site rules and terms and conditions by making use of the services offered by the Company through the aforementioned website. The user information conveyed by the Company to the Licensor is the responsibility of the Licensor, and the Licensor undertakes to use this responsibility in accordance with the site rules.
4.8. The Licensor declares and undertakes not to use the site and services for the purpose of disseminating, transferring, linking or storing the copyrighted Works belonging to someone else and without permission from the owners. Otherwise, the Licensor acknowledges that it will have violated or contributed to the infringement of the intellectual property rights of third parties. If the Company determines that the Licensor violates this clause, it may immediately or permanently suspend the Sale, block the Licensor's access to the Site and/or freeze its account with the Company, without prejudice to all legal and legal rights, or can close.
4.9. Licensor declares that all materials, pictures, drawings, images, biographies, photographs, metadata, audio-visual Works and other intellectual rights used in the creation of Productions and Productions and supplied to the Company belong to it or to use these rights. declares and undertakes that it has the right to The Licensor declares and undertakes that these rights and the use of these rights on the site or in the Sales Stores do not violate the rights of third parties before FSEK.
4.10. Licensor shall indemnify such persons against the losses incurred by the Company's subsidiaries, managers, members of the board of directors, shareholders, employees and other relevant persons, including their representatives, due to the fact that the statements, commitments and warranties in this Agreement are not correct or do not comply with these statements and commitments, undertakes to prevent third parties from being harmed against their claims and to cover the costs incurred in this way.
4.11. In the event that any compensation obligation arises before the Company due to the Licensor's fault; The Company shall immediately notify the Licensor. In this case, the Licensor, through a lawyer employed by him, becomes a secondary intervention in the case at the Licensor's expense. In case of any income to be obtained as a result of such a compensation case, the Parties are obliged to comply with the court decision.
4.12. The Licensor acknowledges that there are various agreements that the Company has to make with third parties and/or Retailers in order to provide the services. Unless choosing these does not impose an additional obligation on the Licensor, the decision authority is at the sole and exclusive discretion of the Company. The Licensor expressly agrees that it may publish the Productions on its sites at various times and in various formats in accordance with the consumption of various Retail Stores. If Productions cannot meet these requirements, Retailers may withdraw Productions from sale.
4.13. In cases where Retailers do not take responsibility for the payment of mechanical royalties and license fees, it is the Company's responsibility to inform the Licensor about such policies. Therefore, if a payment is made to individuals and institutions, this responsibility belongs to the Licensor.
4.14. Universal product codes (eg: ISRC, UPC, ISBN) are required for sale in Retail Stores. If the Company so wishes, it may provide the Licensor with the appropriate barcode and universal product code (“UPC/ISRC”) required. Barcode and universal product codes are for Licensor's use only; non-transferable, not resold. If barcodes and universal product codes are found to be resold or transferred, the Company will charge the Licensor $25 (twenty-five US Dollars) for each barcode and universal product code. The Company is authorized to receive this payment by deducting the said amount from the Licensor's Net Income.
4.15. It is the Licensor's responsibility to deliver all necessary information, metadata, songs, photos, graphic files or any other information or music in the required format. The company must accordingly clearly communicate the formats it wants. Until the specified materials are received, the Company will not be obliged to provide its services under the provisions of this Agreement.
4.16. The Licensor may send the Company's productions, the Licensor and other related artists to the promotion and/or to benefit from the sale of the Productions, in a maximum of 90 seconds each, which is pre-determined by the Parties, without any problems. authorizes you to publish or play the trailers/samples or allow them to be downloaded for free.
4.17. If Productions are rejected by a Retailer for non-compliance with its standards, the Licensor will be liable to pay any resend/upload fees that may be incurred. Unless the Licensor is unable or unwilling to correct the error with respect to the Builds, the payments made for the first submission/upload or subsequent submissions/downloads will not be refunded under any circumstances.
4.18. The sale of Yapımlar depends on consumer preferences, and the fact that Yapımlar is offered for sale in the Sales Store does not mean that any sale will take place. The Company reserves the right to refuse the business connection with the Retail Stores, if there is a reasonable reason. The Company has no Sales commitments or obligations to the Licensor.
4.19. If the Licensor at any time requests the removal of any content from the Retail Stores or requests to make changes to the content, the Licensor knows and accepts that the content removal or modification processes are under the control of the Retailers and that these processes may take up to 15 days. declares that.
4.20. The Company may transfer the rights granted to it by this Agreement to third parties, organizations and companies, grant sub-licenses, and receive services from third parties and institutions related to all these works and transactions. Licensor accepts and approves this situation in advance.
4.21. If the Licensor wishes to terminate its membership at its own request and request, the entrance and/or membership fees paid before will not be refunded in any way.
4.21. SOUNDHORUS PRODUCTION INCORPORATED COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR COMMITMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OTHER THAN THE STATEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THE ARTICLES OF THIS AGREEMENT.
ARTICLE 5- OBLIGATIONS REGARDING PAYMENT
5.1. The Licensor shall pay the Company the amounts specified in the application regarding the Productions to be put up for Sale.
5.2. For the PRO ARTIST and PRO LABEL membership packages, 30% of the revenue it collects from the distributor company with which it has a contract through the sale, viewing, listening or licensing of the works in return for the invoice as "progress payment" is used for distribution, collection, reporting and optimization processes. shall pay the remaining 70% to the Licensor in 3 monthly periods at the latest, starting at the earliest 4 months after the publication date of the related works.
5.3. Net Income, provided that at least 1,000 TL (Thousand TL) or (100 USD) has been accumulated in the Soundhorus account of the Licensor for each quarter of the year, and in any case, the relevant amount of the Company is paid by the third party and the third party. It will be deposited after it has been collected from the institutions. The Licensor shall notify the Company to make the aforementioned payments by filling in the fields in the profile panel with the bank account information. The Licensor is responsible for all costs related to withdrawals from its own account and other banking transactions.
5.4. All taxes are included in the progress payment amounts collected and displayed on the incomes page in the panel, and all taxes that will arise from the income to be obtained will be paid by the Parties to the relevant tax offices at the rate of their own income. If the Licensor is a taxpayer, the payments will be made in return for the invoice to be issued, including VAT, over the gross amount to be displayed in the income tab of the panel. In case the Licensor is not a taxpayer, the Company shall deduct the 17% withholding tax and 20% income tax deducted from the payments to be made to the Licensor and pay it to the tax office to which it is affiliated with the expense note it will issue on behalf of the Licensor. Progress payments will be calculated on the net amount remaining after all taxes have been deducted to the Licensor's account.
5.5. If the Company suspects any fraudulent conduct or infringement by the Licensor, the Company reserves the right to withhold payments made to the Licensor on Net Income until such suspicion has disappeared.
5.6. If there is an infringement of copyright, copyright or other intellectual property rights granted and licensed to the Company by the Licensor under the Agreement and this violation is finalized in court, if the Company is sued or compensation is claimed, the Company may claim the loss from the Licensor, and may deduct any receivables that have arisen or will arise before the Company without obtaining any permission or approval.
5.7. “Net Income” means the amount remaining after deducting any tax and 30% service commission related to the Sale of Productions.
5.8. The Licensor has the right to review and view the reports of the revenues of the Works distributed through Soundhorus from digital music platforms, at any time, from the revenues tab in the profile panel. The Company hereby declares, accepts and undertakes that it will publish these reports in a way that allows the Licensor to review them on the basis of period, platform and income, in the income tab of the site panel, during the term of this agreement. The period to object to the income is 6 (six) months from the date of payment. If the Licensor does not exercise its right to object within this period, the Licensor irrevocably declares, accepts and undertakes that it waives its right of objection and that the payments made to it will be finalized, and that after this period, no past rights or receivables will remain.
ARTICLE 6- DURATION
6.1. This Agreement continues for 1 (One) year from the date the Licensor ticks the box/clicks the button showing that he/she accepts this Agreement, unless there is a written notification by either party that he/she wishes to terminate the agreement 1 month before the end date. renewed under the same terms and conditions. The Licensor accepts that the usage rights specified in this Agreement belong to the Company irrevocably during the term of the agreement.
6.2. In the event that one of the parties violates the essential obligation of the Contract, the notifying party has the right to terminate the Contract unilaterally, unless the violation is eliminated within 30 (thirty) days at the latest from the written warning sent by the other party to the violating party.
6.3. This Agreement is terminated unilaterally upon the request of any of the Parties and/or the Licensor's unilateral termination of its membership on the Site. It ends within 30 (thirty) days at the latest, with the aim of removing the works from digital music platforms, starting from the date of the notice of termination.
ARTICLE 7- PRIVACY
Licensor learned from the Company during, before or after this Agreement; All kinds of written and verbal correspondence and information related to the Company, business, customers and all activities regarding this Agreement or the transactions and uses within the scope of this Agreement or other matters shall be deemed to have been disclosed on the condition of confidentiality. The Licensor is obliged to take appropriate security measures against unauthorized disclosure, copying and use of the Company's confidential information. Unless such information is publicly available or legally disclosed, the Licensor agrees, declares and undertakes that it will not disclose such information to third parties in any way. On the contrary, it accepts and undertakes to indemnify the Company for any and all losses incurred due to this. Even if this Agreement terminates, the confidentiality provisions will remain in effect.
ARTICLE 8- OTHER REGULATIONS
8.1. The Licensor agrees, declares and undertakes in advance that it will not upload any material that violates or encourages the Site or Services, copyrighted works or the intellectual property rights of any third party, and will not use the usage areas on the site to store them.
8.2. The Company acknowledges that the Company may disable and/or terminate access to the Licensor's account and/or remove or disable access to any recordings or associated materials it provides to the Company, if any claim is made to constitute a right.
8.3. The invalidity and/or invalidation of any provision of this Agreement as a result of a final court decision shall not mean that other provisions are invalid and other provisions shall apply.
8.4. Any communication or notification should be made to the e-mail addresses specified by the Parties below. The notification date is considered as the date on which the notification is sent.
Soundhorus Production Inc. (digital@soundhorus.com)
8.5. This agreement is the only agreement made between the parties on this subject and supersedes and replaces any previous offer, acceptance, preliminary agreement and other verbal or written agreements between the parties.
8.6. The parties try to settle the disputes arising from the application and interpretation of this Agreement first among themselves. In case of disputes that cannot be settled amicably, the Laws of the Republic of Turkey are valid and Istanbul Courts are authorized.
This Agreement, which consists of 8 (eight) articles, has been issued to be valid from the date the Licensor becomes a member of the site at www.soundhorus.com, and has been digitally approved and entered into force after being read and understood by the Licensor. The Licensor is deemed to have accepted the terms of this Agreement on the date that he ticks the box/clicks the button showing that he/she accepts this Agreement, and the Parties become bound by the terms of the Agreement as of that date.
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