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This website is operated by MeloGroove. Throughout the site, the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to MeloGroove. MeloGroove offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.

  1. This Agreement governs the relationship between MeloGroove Private Limited and ____________________ ('you/your/the label/the Artist') in respect of any musical works or sound recordings ('Works') that you submit to us for inclusion in any of the services ('Service') as defined on www.melogroove.com , in writing or verbally agreed.
  1. Grant of Rights.

In consideration of the sums payable to you and the services provided by us pursuant to this Agreement, you grant to us and our licensees for the term of this Agreement:

an exclusive worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publicly perform, exhibit, broadcast and transmit and make available by all means and media (whether now known or existing in the future) the Works for distribution in the Service and for all promotional purposes including without limitation for the purposes of internet radio broadcast; and use, reproduce and display in the Service any trade marks, service marks or trade names relating to you and the name and likeness of you and the band/artist whose performances are embodied in the Works;and where you subscribe to our Music publishing Service you additionally grant to us in respect of the Works for the term of this Agreement:

World-wide exclusive license of the following rights as these rights are defined in the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

Rights granted to MeloGroove

2.1 Mobile Telephony Rights: which shall mean and include the right to exploit the Music Catalogue over mobile based platforms and technologies including but not limited to (i) make the Music Catalogue available as ringback tones, master-tones, true-tones, reverse ringback tones; (ii) make the Music Catalogue available as part of mobile ‘store’ of full-tracks, including use by way of both streaming and downloads, whether bundled or subscription-based, and whether through apps; (iii) make the Music Catalogue available by way of Mobile streaming over Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or Wireless Application Protocol (WAP); (iv) make the Music Catalogue available by way of Music messaging over Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or Wireless Application Protocol (WAP); (v) make the Music Catalogue available by way of embedding/pre-loading of Music Catalogue onto mobile hand-sets and such devices; (vi) make the Music Catalogue available by way of audio-cinema.

2.2 Digital, Internet and OTT Rights: which shall mean and include the right to exploit the Music Catalogue over digital platforms, Over-the-top applications and platforms and devices using any form of internet based technologies including but not limited to (i) use of Music Catalogue as part of non-interactive services and platforms including those providing on-line web-casting/streaming and download services, whether through mobile apps, OTT platforms and/or digital stores, and/or radio stations; (ii) use of Music Catalogue as part of interactive services and platforms including those providing on-demand online web casting/streaming and download services, whether through mobile apps, OTT platforms and /or digital stores; (iii) use of Music Catalogue as part of video hosting sites and apps.

2.3 Radio Rights: which shall mean and include the right to exploit the Music Catalogue on/via radio stations/channels including but not limited to (i) communicating to the public the Music Catalogue on/via radio stations/channels; (ii) making available the Music Catalogue as part of radio stations/channels.

2.4 Storage and Mechanical Rights: which shall mean and include the right to store, embody, reproduce, give on commercial rental, the Music Catalogue for above purposes. 

2.5 Synchronisation Rights: which shall mean the right to synchronise the Music Catalogue or any part thereof for any purpose, including without limitation as part of cinematograph films, television programmes, advertisements, video games, other audio-visual content of third-parties, and in respect of the rights granted in this clause 2. 

2.6 Formatting Rights: which shall mean and include the right to edit, mix, over-lap and convert the Music Catalogue for above purposes. 

2.7 Ancillary Rights in Art-works: The Member Music Label hereby licenses, for the Term and Territory, the right to use the accompanying art-work, album inlay covers, photos/images/likenesses of associated performers, artists and creative/promotional materials associated with the Music Catalogue, in favour of MeloGroove on a non-exclusive basis. 

  1. Payment shall only be made to You if accumulated outstanding earnings exceed ₹5000/$58* on wallet/credit. This threshold shall be carried over until such a time as it is attained. Only monies earned within the preceding months shall be paid and only if received from retailer/licensee/dsp/partner. We will pay within 30 business days from the payment withdrawal requests. The distribution of royalty reports is based on actual utilisation of works, as per logs provided by the partner/dsp/licensee's and based on the net amount we received from the partner/dsp/distributor/licensee. Additionally, any Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) by retailer/licensee/dsp/partner shall also be passed on and shall not be reimbursed by us.
  1. About TDS: when we receive royalties from DSPs or partners and process payments to artists or labels, a 10% TDS (Tax Deducted at Source) is applied as per government regulations from us. This TDS is deducted from your royalty payout. You can claim the deducted TDS while filing your income tax return through the official Income Tax portal and the reimbursed amount will be credited to you by the Income Tax Department.
  1. You agree that your user account and revenue may be frozen at our discretion if we believe that materials submitted to us by you are illegal, fraudulent or violate the terms of service of MeloGroove or any of our partners. If such submitted material is found to be as the previous sentence then service fees paid to us and also subsequent royalties shall be forfeited. You agree that royalty payments will only be made once we have received appropriate and verified licensing documents to cover the volume of sales in appropriate territories.
  1. When you upload any of your content to our servers through the Dashboard, you are recognizing the following:

6.1 That We are authorized to administrate, directly or through third parties, Your Content (including the recordings, videos, compositions, artwork, etc.) through the Digital Music Services selected by you, in the entire world and during the duration of our contract/B2B.

6.2 That you own and/or control all rights in and to Your Content and/or have the full right and ability to upload Your Content and exploit it in the terms described herein.

6.3 That Your Content does not infringe the copyrights or any other right, of any third party.

  1. You warrant, agree and undertake both on behalf of yourself that the works are original to you and have not been copied from any third party; the works do not infringe any copyright, trademark or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any third party or include any material which are defamatory of any party or obscene; you are not under any disability, restriction or prohibition, whether contractual or otherwise with respect to your right, power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and grant the rights herein expressed to be granted to us and in particular, the works do not contain any viruses or other programming routines that detrimentally interfere with computer systems or data. You warrant that you have obtained appropriate licensing for cover versions for release within territories needing such.
  1. This Agreement can not be terminated without completing two years from date of signing the MeloGroove and your B2B/LOA/NOC. After one year you need to write a termination letter before 3 months (including notification by email) of such termination providing there are no outstanding payments due to us and that such may be taken from your royalty balance. It is your obligation to cancel the storage and maintenance subscription at this point. Any further subscription payments shall be forfeited. Upon contract termination we shall instruct our partners within 30 days to remove recordings from all platforms. We are not responsible for third-party exploitation after removal instruction. You are responsible for any third-party take-down fees.
  1. We have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately if we believe you are engaging in fraudulent or illegal activity, or following any behavior deemed by us as threatening, disrespectful, unprofessional or otherwise carried out by you or any associated parties. Any breach of our terms and conditions by you would result in a non royalties payment.
  1. The Artist/Label will submit all content in a work within a reasonable and pre-agreed time for release and distribution in an agreed format. Upon late submission we shall try our best endeavors to perform the agreed services. We are not obliged to commence Services before receipt of all necessary content. MeloGroove is not responsible for third-party failure to make content commercially available, remove content from sale, adhere to instructions submitted or fulfil any action requested in any way by you or us. You agreed that MeloGroove can hold or reject any content from distribution if we detected the identical content on DSPs.
  1. If a user requests a takedown of their song, we will not pay any royalties for that song from the date of takedown onward in any future royalty cycles.
  1. The Artist and representatives shall at all times refer to available help material before contacting us. This includes all known resources provided by us, including but not limited to help documents, online data, written and oral advice. Subject to our discretion, violation of this will lead to Agreement cancellation after one written warning from us.
  1. Each party to this agreement shall keep confidential all information disclosed within the agreement and up to two years after termination.
  1. You shall provide accurate contact details for you and/or your representative(s). If supplied payment details are inaccurate any monies paid towards you using these incorrect details shall be forfeited.
  1. In the event that we are required to perform IPRS/Publishing registration on your behalf you grant us permission to act as rights holder for all submitted tracks. This copyright is for purely administrative purposes and is a legal requirement of the Music Publishing. This does not affect any other copyrights mentioned in this Agreement.
  1. Clarification on Our Royalty Policy: Our website states that we offer Hundred percent royalty to our users. To clarify, several platforms we distribute to are third-party services that may deduct their own commission, typically ranging from Five percent to Fifteen percent. These charges are applied by the platforms themselves, not by us. We do not deduct any commission from the royalties generated by artists or labels. Whatever amount we receive from the platforms is transferred to our users in full. This is why we refer to it as Hundred percent royalty.
  1. You have agreed that the distribution process of MeloGroove shall be carried out either through our partner (not more than Twenty percent share with the partner) or via direct deal with Digital Service Providers (DSPs).
  1. We deliver music to over Hundred stores worldwide; however, we are not obligated to provide a complete list or detailed release information for all those stores and please note that we are not obligated to provide streaming and sales reports from every music store. We can only share reports once they are made available to us by the respective platforms.
  1. A 'fair usage policy' applies to all membership packages, which can be enforced at our discretion. This package is intended for individual artists and labels, and applies only to releases uploaded by you via www.melogroove.com
  1. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us in respect of the subject matter of it and no terms, obligations, representations, promises or conditions, oral or written, express or implied have been made or relied upon, other than those contained in it. The provisions contained in each clause and sub-clause of this Agreement shall be enforceable independently of each of the others and its validity shall not be affected if any of the others is invalid. If any of those provisions is void but would be valid if some part of the provision were deleted, the provision in question shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to make it valid.
  1. Neither party shall be liable for failure to perform or delay in performing any obligation under this Agreement if the failure or delay is caused by any circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to 'acts of God', war, civil commotion or industrial dispute. If such an act shall make performance of this Agreement impossible for more than three months shall be treated as frustrated and terminated at that date.
  1. This Agreement shall be construed and performed in all respects in accordance with and shall be governed by the laws of India and the parties irrevocably submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Pattamundai, Odisha court. In the event of a dispute between the parties arising out of this deed, they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
  1. Prices for our products are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time. We shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service. Certain content, products, and services available via our Service may include materials from third parties.
  1. Third-party links on this site may direct you to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any third-party materials or websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties.
  1. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website or the Service following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.
  1. If any of the material contained in or displayed by the website appears to be in violation of copyright owned by you or the party that you represent please inform MeloGroove of such apparent infringement at the earliest possible opportunity using the information in the "contact us" section of this website. or mail us at info@melogroove.com
  1. This Agreement may be executed by digital or electronic signature, by a "click through" format, and/or exchanged via e-mail or other digital means.
  1. Important Note:

28.1 Only original content is allowed.

26.2 Remix, Cover & Lo-Fi and live concert recording content will not be entertained until unless you're the owner or hold 100% rights of the content.

28.3 If your song closely matches any part (music, composition, or lyrics) of another song more than three times, your account will be immediately terminated without prior notice.

28.4 No political content is allowed.

28.5 Any copyright infringement will lead to suspension/termination of your membership.

28.6 For YouTube - In event, if MeloGroove finds that if your content is in use by attaching your content in the popular songs or in the middle of the movies or in any popular content which doesn't directly involve with the content provided by you for content ID etc then in such cases MeloGroove holds all rights to remove your content from platforms and from MeloGroove system, also the revenue will be impacted and shall not be paid.

28.7 We have been strictly warned not to verify the albums wherever any actor/actress or models pictures are used without any rights or without their knowledge. If we find this type of artwork we will take down the song within 24-48 hours.