The deal
License agreement, in plain language.
This page explains, in plain language, what artists sign when they release music with Rizzivr Record. It is a summary of our standard digital distribution license not the contract itself. The actual agreement, with your names, splits, release date and territory filled in, is sent privately once we agree to work together.
1. What the license covers
The agreement is a digital distribution license between you (the artist and any collaborators listed on the release) and Rizzivr Record.
It only covers delivering your recordings to digital Third Party Music Services DSPs such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and the other platforms listed on our distribution page in streaming and download formats.
It does not cover vinyl, CDs, cassettes or any other physical format. It does not cover publishing, neighboring rights, live performance or merchandising. Those rights stay entirely with you.
2. Ownership of your recordings
You keep full ownership of your master recordings. Ownership never transfers to the label.
What you grant Rizzivr Record is an exclusive license to distribute the specific recordings named in the contract, for the agreed rights period, in the agreed territory. Once that period ends, all distribution rights return to you.
3. Royalty splits
Every agreement lists an artist share and a label share as percentages of income received from the DSPs.
If more than one artist or collaborator is on the release, each person is listed by name with their individual split. Rizzivr pays out based on those splits.
You are responsible for paying producers and any other subcontractors you hired, unless we agree otherwise in writing.
4. Release, marketing and the label's role
The label commits to a release date agreed in advance. If you delivered your files on time and we fail to release on that date, you can request the rights back for those recordings in writing.
The label can use your name, likeness, artwork and recordings for marketing and promotion related to the release.
The label handles delivery to DSPs, metadata, and platform-side communication.
5. Your obligations
You deliver finished audio, artwork, press photos, biography and any other assets we agree on, in the technical specs required by the DSPs.
You guarantee that you actually own the recordings and have permission from every rights holder involved no uncleared samples, no unresolved co-writer or producer claims, no other deals that block this one.
If a third party raises a claim because of something you delivered, you cover the label's costs. This is the standard indemnity clause you will find in almost any distribution deal.
6. Rights period and termination
The rights period starts when the last party signs and runs for the length written into the agreement.
After that initial period, the license extends automatically month by month. Either side can end it with 60 days written notice.
Either side can also terminate immediately if the other materially breaks the agreement and does not fix it within three weeks of a written complaint, or if one side goes into bankruptcy or liquidation.
Once the agreement ends, all distribution rights in the recordings return to you.
7. Exclusivity
Distribution of the specific recordings in the agreement is exclusive to Rizzivr Record DSPs require a single distributor per release, so this part is not negotiable.
Outside of those recordings, you are considered non-exclusively signed. You can keep working with other collaborators, other labels and other distributors on other projects.
8. Governing law
The agreement is governed by the label's local law, with the label's local court as the first instance for any dispute.
The signed agreement supersedes any earlier arrangements between the parties on the same subject.
Not legal advice.
This overview is for information only and is not legal advice. The binding terms are the ones written into the signed agreement between you and Rizzivr Record. If anything is unclear, ask us before you sign or run it past your own lawyer.