License agreement
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This license agreement is made between you and Ambiance Musique, operator of the website www.ambiancemusique.ca (the “Site”).
AMBIANCE MUSIQUE IS READY TO GRANT YOU A LICENSE FOR THE LICENSED CONTENT (AS DEFINED BELOW) SUBJECT TO THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS STANDARD LICENSE AGREEMENT (THE "AGREEMENT").
YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT BEFORE DOWNLOADING AND USING THE LICENSED CONTENT. BY CLICKING THE "I AGREE" BUTTON, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT.
By clicking the "I AGREE" button, you accept this Agreement either for yourself or on behalf of your employer, principal, or entity identified in your member account, and you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you are accepting on behalf of your employer, principal, or entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind your employer, principal, or other entity.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS AGREEMENT, OR DO NOT WISH TO BE BINDED BY IT, SELECT THE "I DO NOT AGREE" BUTTON, WHICH WILL CANCEL THE DOWNLOAD OF THE LICENSED CONTENT.
DOWNLOADING AND/OR USING THE LICENSED CONTENT MEANS THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTAND THAT IT WILL BE LEGALLY BINDING.
* 1. Services
* 2. License
* 3. Consideration
* 4. Usage restrictions
* 5. Guarantees and Limitation of Liability
* 6. Compensation
* 7. Offense
* 8. Termination
* 9. Miscellaneous
* TYPES OF LICENSES
1. Services
1.1. Nature of Services
The Site offers royalty-free music created by or on behalf of
1.2. Service Provider
2. License
2.1. License Types
This license agreement applies to the following three license types: (i) Basic License (ii) Consumer License (iii) Full License
The parameters applicable to each of these license types are described in more detail in Appendix A of this License Agreement (the "Parameters").
2.2. Licensing Agreement
Subject to acceptance of the terms and conditions of this agreement and payment of the applicable license fees (as defined below), Stock Collections hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, perpetual, and non-transferable license to use the licensed content as incorporated in a Work for Distribution (as defined below) in accordance with the Parameters described in Appendix A applicable to the license type(s) you have selected.
2.3. Exclusive Ownership
This agreement is a license and not a sales agreement. All intellectual property rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”) relating to the licensed content are and shall remain the exclusive property of
2.4. No removal of reviews
You agree not to remove, obscure, render illegible, or alter any intellectual property rights notices or indications of
2.5. Inspection
3. Consideration
3.1. License rights
In consideration of the license granted hereunder, you agree to pay the license fees indicated on the Site for the type(s) of license you have selected (the "License Fees"). Except for material defects as provided in Section 5.3 of this Agreement, the License Fees are non-refundable. You have the option to preview the licensed content before purchasing it.
3.2. Taxes
The license fees do not include applicable sales, use, withholding, or other transaction taxes, which are your sole responsibility.
4. Usage restrictions
Licensed content may not be resold, sublicensed, assigned, transferred or otherwise made available to third parties unless incorporated into a derivative work created by you or on your behalf in accordance with the terms of this agreement (“work for distribution”).
Licensed Content may not be distributed to third parties as a standalone file or in a way that unreasonably enables the recipient to extract the Licensed Content for a separate and distinct use from the Work being distributed. For example, you may not resell Licensed Content as backgrounds, "hold" music, or ringtones.
You may not add lyrical or vocal content to the Licensed Content. Note that narration, voice-over, or any other word-based content provided as a narrative of the Work to be distributed itself, and which is independent of and unrelated to the Licensed Content, shall not be considered lyrical or vocal content for the purposes of this clause. You may, however, modify the Licensed Content to suit the needs of the Work to be distributed, including by adjusting the duration, volume, equalization, tempo, or pitch.
Furthermore, Licensed Content may not be distributed to third parties in the form of a standalone file or in a manner that unreasonably permits the recipient to extract Licensed Content for a separate and distinct use from the Work to be distributed.
You may not use the Licensed Content for any purpose that is illegal or prohibited by this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, your activities with the Licensed Content must not:
(a) violate the rights of a third party;
(b) violate any law, statute or regulation, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, those relating to consumer protection and unfair competition;
(c) be defamatory, illegal, obscene, vulgar or infringe on the privacy of a third party;
(d) to engage the liability of
(e) encourage, conspire, attract or promote the occurrence of any of the prohibited conduct stipulated herein.
5. Guarantees and Limitation of Liability
5.1. Warranty
5.2. Exclusion of warranties
AMBIANCE MUSIQUE offers no other warranties, express or implied, regarding the licensed content, which is provided to you "as is" and without any warranty or condition of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
5.3. Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances,
The full responsibility of
6. Compensation
You expressly acknowledge and agree that your use of the Licensed Content is at your own risk. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless
We reserve the right to assume, at our sole expense, the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to these indemnification obligations, in which case you will fully cooperate with us in asserting all available defenses.
7. Offense
In the event that the licensed content or any part thereof is the subject of a threat or actual claim of infringement (a "claim of infringement"),
(a) grant you the right to continue these prohibited activities; (b) replace the relevant Licensed Content in your possession with content that will not constitute a prosecutable infringement and that substantially meets the specifications of the replaced Licensed Content; (c) modify the relevant Licensed Content in your possession so that the Licensed Content does not constitute a prosecutable infringement while substantially meeting the specifications of the modified Licensed Content; or (d) if any of paragraphs 7(a) through 7(c) is not, in the opinion of
8. Termination
You agree that
(a) you breach any provision of this Agreement; (b) you become bankrupt, enter into an arrangement with your creditors, or are placed into liquidation; (c) we are unable to verify the information you provide to us or that this information is incorrect; (d) we believe that your actions or omissions are likely to cause financial loss or give rise to liability
Upon termination of this Agreement, the license granted hereunder shall immediately terminate and you must immediately: (i) cease using the Licensed Content; (ii) destroy or, at the request of
You further agree that
9. Miscellaneous
9.1. Eligibility criteria
You declare that you have the legal capacity to enter into and conclude this Contract.
9.2. Your Member Account
You need to create an account with
9.3. Notification regarding communications from
By registering on the Site and/or making a purchase on the Site, you understand that
Note, however, that some emails may be more "commercial" in nature than others, as they may advertise a Site feature or our product or service that we believe may be of interest to you, or may otherwise discuss a marketing campaign or promotion offered by
9.4. Deactivation
9.5. Divisibility
Each provision of this agreement is separate and distinct, and if any provision of this agreement is deemed invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
9.6. Notice
Unless otherwise stated herein, all notice, consent or other communication under this Agreement must be in writing and delivered by hand or bailiff or sent by email, and addressed as follows:
If you wish to store collections:
To: Sales Department Email address: obnl@ambiancemusique.ca
If it's your turn:
To the contact details you provided in your member account.
This notice, consent or other communication shall be deemed to have been given and received on the day it is actually delivered or sent (or if that day is not a business day, the next business day), unless it is delivered or sent after 4:30 p.m. EST, in which case it shall be deemed to have been delivered and received on the next business day.
9.7. Waivers
A failure to
9.8. Entirety of the agreement and effect
The terms of this agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and this agreement supersedes all prior agreements and commitments.
9.9. Exhaustion
The provisions of this agreement shall apply to the benefit of and bind the parties hereto and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators. This Agreement may be assigned by a party hereto to a third party upon written notice, provided that such third party agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
9.10. Relationship
This agreement is not intended to create and will not create an employer-employee relationship or partnership between the parties.
9.11. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
This Agreement and its interpretation are governed by the laws in force in the Province of Quebec and Canada, without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws. The courts of the district of Montreal, Province of Quebec, shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to this Agreement, including its interpretation and effects.
TYPES OF LICENSES
Below you will find the parameters applicable to each type of license:
A. BASIC LICENSE (non-commercial basis)
This license grants you the following rights:
The rights to reproduce and adapt the Licensed Content into Works for distribution and to present, display, communicate to the public or otherwise use on a non-commercial and personal basis the Licensed Content as incorporated in the following Works for distribution:
Corporate video and film
Corporate television and radio
Television broadcast*
Multimedia production
Free games, software and apps
Website
This license does not authorize you to:
- use the Licensed Content for commercial purposes;
- Selling, exchanging, giving away or distributing the Licensed Content itself;
- Use/include the Licensed Content in different types of music compilations, such as music compilation CDs/DVDs, where the music tracks are standalone elements;
- Redistribute the licensed Content within a website template;
- Redistribute the licensed Content as part of telephone or mobile phone ringtones;
- Create/produce/distribute new musical works based on the Licensed Content (for example, add lyrical or vocal content to the Licensed Content and distribute it).
*A cue sheet is mandatory because this distribution is regulated by copyright organizations.
B. MASS MARKETING LICENSE (national coverage)
This license grants you the following rights:
The rights to reproduce and adapt the Licensed Content into Distributed Works and to perform, display, communicate to the public or otherwise use the Licensed Content for commercial purposes in a specific country, as incorporated in the following Distributed Works:
Advertising (radio, TV, in-theatre)
Theatrical presentation or play*
Games, software & applications (up to 10,000 copies / units / downloads of the Work for Distribution)
This license is limited to one country and does not authorize you to:
- Selling, exchanging, giving away or distributing the Licensed Content itself;
- Use/include the Licensed Content in different types of music compilations, such as music compilation CDs/DVDs, where the music tracks are standalone elements;
- Redistribute the licensed Content within a website template;
- Redistribute the licensed Content as part of telephone or mobile phone ringtones;
- Create/produce/distribute new musical works based on the Licensed Content (for example, add lyrical or vocal content and distribute it).
*A cue sheet is mandatory because this distribution is regulated by copyright organizations.
C. FULL LICENSE (worldwide coverage)
This license grants you the following rights:
The rights to reproduce and adapt the Licensed Content into Distributed Works and to perform, display, communicate to the public or otherwise use the Licensed Content for commercial purposes and worldwide, as incorporated in the following Distributed Works:
Films released commercially and in theaters*
Games, software & applications (unlimited number of copies/units/downloads of the Work for Distribution)
Global TV/Radio Advertising
Music on hold
This license is worldwide and does not authorize you to:
- Selling, exchanging, giving away or distributing the Licensed Content itself;
- Use/include the Licensed Content in different types of music compilations, such as music compilation CDs/DVDs, where the music tracks are standalone elements;
- Redistribute the licensed Content within a website template;
- Redistribute the licensed Content as part of telephone or mobile phone ringtones;
- Create/produce/distribute new musical works based on the Licensed Content (for example, add lyrical or vocal content and distribute it).
*A cue sheet is mandatory because this distribution is regulated by copyright organizations.