MASTER CLEARANCE AGREEMENT

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In exchange for your payment of the license fee ("License Fee") associated with the
applicable sound and/or sample provided via this website (each, a "Sample"), we grant you
a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual right to use the Sample in combination with
other sounds in music productions to create new recordings ("Recording(s)"), which shall
be considered "derivative works" as that term is used in the United States Copyright Act.
This license permits you to modify, reproduce, publicly perform, distribute, transmit,
sublicense and otherwise use the Sample as incorporated in your Recording, including for
commercial purposes, subject to the following restrictions:

(a) You may use any Sample solely for Recordings on your own personal projects which are
distributed solely by you independently (i.e., beat tapes or mixtapes) without any additional
obligation to us or the Sample owner other than the License Fee as provided above, provided
that in the event that any Recording exceeds One Million (1,000,000) streams across Apple
Music, Spotify and YouTube, you shall be required to immediately obtain formal clearance of
the Sample for use in the Recording pursuant to procedure outlined in paragraph 1(d) below.

(b) You may not use or sublicense any Sample in isolation as sound effects, loops, or as source
material for any other form of sample, regardless of whether or not the Sample is modified by
you pursuant to the terms herein;

(c) You may not: Use or sublicense any Sample in a manner which is competitive to us or the
Sample owner; Redistribute any Sample in new sample packs; Sublicense, sell, loan, share,
lend, broadcast, rent, lease,
assign, distribute, or transfer any Sample to a third-party except as incorporated into a
Recording; or use the name, image, likeness or other indicia of identity of the artist, producer
and/or writer associated with a Sample in any way without such artist, producer, and/or writer’s
express written consent.

(d) With respect to commercial exploitations of Recording(s) containing any Sample, you shall
not sell, license, or otherwise commercially exploit any Recording(s) containing any Sample via
a third-party “Major Record Label” (as defined below) or “Qualifying Independent Label” (as
defined below) without: (A) contacting us so that we can connect you with the Sample owner
to obtain formal clearance of the Sample for use in the Recording(s); (B) allocating no less than
fifty percent (50%) of any advances, royalties, and/or publishing ownership received by you
from the Major Record Label or Qualifying Independent Label (as applicable) in connection
with the Recording(s); and (C) ensuring that the Sample owner is credited as a co-producer in
connection with all commercial exploitations of the Recording(s) on the liner notes of any
singles or albums (in any configuration) embodied the Recording(s), including meta-data where
applicable, as well as any advertisements in connection with the Recording(s).



1) Minor Releases: You may use the Sample for Recordings on your own personal projects,
independent releases, beat tapes, and mix tapes that are not distributed or released via a
"Major Label" (i.e., SonyBMG, UMG, WEA, or their subsidiaries) or "Large Indie Label" (i.e.,
Alamo, Empire, 300, E1 or comparable label) (each such release, a "Minor Release") at no
additional cost outside of the License Fee (including, for the avoidance of doubt,
without providing us with publishing splits), provided that ANY Minor Release that exceeds
one million streams on Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube shall be considered Major Release for
purposes of this license and shall be subject to the below terms for Major Releases.


2) Major Releases: In Order for Recordings to be distributed or released
via a Major Label or Large Indie Label, or any Minor Release that exceeds one million streams
on Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube (each such release, a "Major Release"), you will be
required to:

(a) Contact us to seek clearance for use of the Sample on a Major Release;
(b) Provide for a 50/50 split of any Advances, Producer Royalty and Publishing, including
for the avoidance of doubt, in relation to any so-called 'sync licenses'; and
(c) Provide [The creator of the applicable Sample] with Co-Producer credit on the liner
notes of any singles or albums (in any configuration), in advertisements, and wherever
metadata permits.