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TERMS & CONDITIONS:
SESSIONPLAYERS.COM AGREEMENT
YOU MUST READ THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE UTILIZING
THE SERVICES OF THE SESSIONPLAYERS.COM WEBSITE.
BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU
UNDERSTAND THE TERMS; YOU HAVE THE FULL RIGHT,
POWER AND AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT;
AND THAT YOU ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. INDICATE
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS BY ELECTRONICALLY
CLICKING THE “BUY NOW” BUTTON AND
PRINT A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS. COMPANY MAY FROM
TIME TO TIME MODIFY AND AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS AGREEMENT BY PLACING A NOTICE ON ITS WEBSITE.
1. SERVICES PROVIDED BY COMPANY. You engage the
services of SessionPlayers.com (the “Company”)
to facilitate Your introduction to musicians,
vocalists and engineers listed on the website
roster (the “Session Players”) for
the sole purpose of performing on Your recordings.
Before You are granted access to the Session Players,
You agree to pay Company’s nonrefundable
membership and registration fee to process Your
registration information. Upon receipt of the
fee and completion of Your registration, You gain
access to additional site features and the right
to submit musical material to Company for its
review. You agree to provide Company with accurate
and complete registration information and update
the information from time to time as necessary.
2. YOUR OBLIGATION. You will provide Company
with demo recordings, lead sheets and/or sheet
music to provide the Session Players the ability
to interpret and reproduce the recordings in a
professional and reasonably satisfactory manner.
In the interest of quality control and the preservation
of the artist’s reputation, Company has
the right on its behalf and on behalf of the Session
Players to refuse to accept and distribute Your
material to the Session Players if Company believes
it will be unable to create a commercially acceptable
product. Your only recourse against Company in
that event is to cease using its service.
3. RECORDING PROCESS. Upon approval of Your material,
Company will submit the recording to the Session
Players that You select to record the tracks and
arrange for the Session Players to perform on
the recording. If the Session Players You select
are not available or decline to participate in
the recording session, Company will assist You,
upon Your request, in selecting alternative Session
Players from the list provided on its website.
4. PAYMENT. Upon approval, Company will submit
an estimated budget to You for the total cost
of services, including Company’s fee. You
agree to be responsible for payment of these costs
and fees required to engage the services of the
Session Players, including their required talent
fee, union charges as well as any other costs
necessary to engage their services as set forth
in the estimated budget. Upon deposit by You of
the full amount of the estimated budget, the recording
process will commence. Company will arrange, if
practicable, a video or telephone hook-up between
You and the Session Players to discuss creative
as well as other elements of the recording session.
Company does not guarantee that the Session Players
will be available nor does Company guarantee the
quality of their musical performances. If a Session
Player is a current union member, You agree to
execute the necessary signatory agreement with
the appropriate union and abide by its terms.
5. COMPLETION OF RECORDING. Upon completion of
the recording to Your reasonable satisfaction,
any required paperwork and fees due the unions
will be prepared and submitted by Company. If
the costs of the estimated budget are exceeded
as a result of Your actions, You will be required
to pay Company such additional sums. You will
then receive the completed master recordings.
Upon your acceptance, You accept the recordings
“AS IS” and You shall not be entitled
to make any claim against Company and/or the Session
Players, including a demand for return of the
fees paid. You will own the recordings, including
any sound recording copyrights embodied in the
recordings, and You may authorize the worldwide
commercial release of the recordings, subject
to the terms contained herein. Company, however,
makes no guarantee as to the commercial success
of the recordings. You may be required to credit
the Session Player(s) on any album or CD cover
artwork if a Session Player so requests. You grant
Company the right, without compensation, to utilize
examples of the recorded material for Company’s
limited promotional purposes.
6. LICENSES. You are solely responsible for securing
any applicable licenses and/or permissions required
to commercially release the Recording, including
a first use mechanical license, if required, as
well as payment to the copyright holders of the
required license fees. Company strongly encourages
You to submit your copyrighted material, recordings
and songs, for registration with the U.S. Copyright
Office (“copyright.gov”). You must
secure permission from the Session Players and/or
their respective unions to commercially exploit
the recordings in any format other than it‘s
original intended use. Your failure to do so may
result in an infringement action being filed against
You in which event You shall hold the Company
harmless from any liability, including attorney’s
fees, Company may incur as a result of such claim.
Solely to enable Company to use the information
You supply, You grant Company a non-exclusive
worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free
license to exercise the copyright, publicity and
database rights in any media now known or not
currently know with respect to the information
You provide Company.
7. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Company shall have
the right to transfer and assign its rights in
this Agreement, however, You shall not transfer
any rights in the recordings, other than to license
them, without the prior approval of Company, which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. This
Agreement will be governed by and construed under
the laws of the State of California as applied
to agreements entered into and to be performed
entirely within California. If for any reason
a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision,
or portion thereof, to be unenforceable, the remainder
of this Agreement shall continue in full force
and effect. You shall hold Company, its employees,
officers, directors, agents, affiliated parties,
suppliers and licensees harmless from any damages,
including attorney’s fees, arising out of
any breach of any provision contained herein or
claim by a third party that is inconsistent with
your representations and warranties contained
in this Agreement. Company may suspend or terminate
Your account and Your access to Company’s
website for (a) breach or violation of this Agreement;
(b) requests by law enforcement or other governmental
agencies; (c) unanticipated technical issues or
problems; (d) Your violation of rights of others;
and/or (e) inaccurate or incomplete registration
information provided by You.
8. RESTRICTIONS. You agree and acknowledge that
the software used in connection with the services
provided by Company contains proprietary and confidential
information that is protected as intellectual
property. You are responsible for any information
You upload, download, store, transmit or otherwise
make available through Company’s website
and Company may, in its sole discretion, delete
any information that may be illegal, infringes
a third party’s copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret, right of publicity, proprietary
rights, or violates any applicable local, state,
federal or international law, or contains viruses
or harmful content. You shall not provide false,
inaccurate, misleading, obscene or defamatory
information. You agree not to forge any TCP/IP,
or other protocol or manipulate identifiers in
order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted
through Company’s website nor upload, post,
store, transmit or otherwise make available any
unsolicited commercial email or “spam”
which includes but is not limited to unethical
marketing, advertising or sending mass emails
to recipients without their approval. You will
not engage in any activity that adversely affects
the ability of others to use Company’s services
and You agree to use Your best efforts to protect
Company from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful actions
by third parties. Company does not control the
information provided by other users that is made
available through its system. You may find other
user’s information to be offensive, harmful,
inaccurate, or deceptive and note that there are
risks dealing with underage persons or people
acting under false pretense and You accept such
risks. You agree that Company may permit advertising
on its website, however, any revenues collected
from advertising will belong solely to Company.
Any efforts by You to employ the Session Players
for other recording sessions during a period of
twenty-four (24) months following completion of
Your recording session hereunder, shall require
payment to Company of an amount equal to the fees
that would have been generated had You utilized
its services to arrange for the recording session.
9. DISPUTES. In the event a dispute arises between
You and Company, the parties agree to first submit
to binding arbitration conducted by telephone,
on-line and/or based solely upon written submissions
where no in-person appearance is required. The
arbitration shall be administered by the American
Arbitration Association in accordance with their
applicable rules. Any judgment on the award rendered
by the arbitrator may be entered in any court
in Los Angeles County, California having jurisdiction
thereof. Alternatively, other forms of dispute
resolution, including mediation, may be mutually
agreed upon by the parties.
10. TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO
EVENT SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR PERSONAL INJURY,
OR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR
LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR ENGAGEMENT
OF COMPANY’S SERVICES, HOWEVER CAUSED, REGARDLESS
OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE) AND EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU EXPRESSLY
ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE USE OF COMPANY’S
WEBSITE AND SERVICES IT PROVIDES IS AT YOUR SOLE
RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY
QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORT IS WITH
YOU. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMPANY’S SERVICES
MAY BE INTERRUPTED IN WHICH EVENT COMPANY WILL
MAKE EVERY REASONABLE EFFORT TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM.
YOU ASSUME THE RISK FOR THE UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
TO OR ALTERATIONS TO YOUR CONTENT OR HARM ARISING
OUT OF DELAYS, BUGS, ERRORS, OR FAILURE TO BACK-UP
YOUR DATA. THE COMPANY FURTHER MAKES NO GURANTEE
FOR ANY INACCURACIES, ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS CONTAINED
ON ITS WEBSITE. THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY COMPANY
ARE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND COMPANY
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES FOR THE USE
OF THOSE SERVICES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
11. PRIVACY RIGHTS. Company shall not sell or
rent Your personal and/or business information
to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your express consent. Company’s
purpose in collecting personal information is
to provide You with a safe, efficient and customized
experience that meets Your needs. If You choose
to utilize Company’s services, it may require
You to provide contact, identity, billing, email,
website and credit card information. Company may
use data collection devices such as “cookies”
to help analyze its web page flow, measure promotional
effectiveness and promote safety of the website
and it may ask Your feedback and opinions to further
enhance Company’s website and the services
it provides. From time to time, Company gathers
information in a non-personally identifiable manner
and provides that information to its advertisers.
Company will employ procedural and technical safeguards,
including encryption, firewalls and secure socket
layers, however, You understand that security
is not 100% effective on the internet. You may
choose to communicate outside of Company’s
control with other users of the website, however,
those communications are at Your risk.
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