Agreement and eligibility

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and SongIntent (“SongIntent,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) governing SongIntent.com and related applications, tools, content, subscriptions, and services (collectively, the “Service”). By affirmatively accepting these Terms, creating an account, purchasing a plan, uploading content, or using a protected Service feature, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a contract. You may not use the Service if prohibited by law, subject to applicable sanctions, or previously suspended for a material violation. If you use the Service for a business or another person, you represent that you are authorized to bind them, and “you” includes that party.

The Service

SongIntent provides AI-assisted and creator-controlled songwriting tools, including lyric generation and editing, cadence and rhyme analysis, audio-assisted workflows, Reference DNA, Concept Flip, derived profiles, exports, and related features. The Service is a creative tool—not a publisher, label, manager, lawyer, clearance service, musicologist, performing-rights organization, or guarantee of commercial results.

Descriptions, examples, confidence scores, musical measurements, and AI analyses are informational estimates. Features may differ by plan, geography, device, provider availability, or beta status. Usage limits, supported file types, processing limits, and plan entitlements displayed at purchase or in the Service are incorporated into these Terms.

Accounts and security

You must provide accurate information, maintain control of your email account and sign-in links, and promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity under your account except to the extent caused by SongIntent's breach of duty. You may not sell, rent, transfer, or share account access in a way that evades plan limits or compromises security. We may require reauthentication, suspend suspicious activity, or impose reasonable technical limits to protect the Service.

Your inputs and uploads

“User Content” means lyrics, prompts, briefs, recordings, beats, stems, melodies, reference tracks, files, instructions, feedback, and other material you submit. You represent and warrant that: (a) you own User Content or have all permissions necessary to upload, process, transform, store, reproduce, and use it as requested; (b) your use will not infringe copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, contract, confidentiality, moral, or other rights; (c) required performer, producer, songwriter, publisher, label, sample, and voice permissions have been obtained; and (d) User Content contains no unlawful or malicious material.

Do not upload another person's confidential demo, unreleased work, voice, likeness, beat, master recording, or composition without authorization. Payment for or access to a streaming service does not itself grant adaptation, analysis, synchronization, reproduction, sample, or commercial-use rights.

Reference DNA and Concept Flip

Reference DNA measures and interprets musical and lyrical characteristics. Concept Flip offers different lanes based on your stated rights. “Exact Fit” is available only when you affirm that you own the relevant work or possess a license authorizing the requested adaptation. “Transformative Fit” intentionally increases distance from third-party references, but it does not provide legal clearance or determine fair use.

You are solely responsible for selecting the correct rights lane and for any direction to preserve, replace, adapt, imitate, or synchronize words, melody, flow, structure, performance, or other elements. SongIntent may refuse, distance, limit, or remove requests that present infringement, impersonation, or safety risk. A technical control, generated result, similarity score, or successful upload is not a legal opinion, license, clearance, or finding of noninfringement.

AI-generated output

“Output” means text, analysis, suggestions, timing data, profiles, and other results generated or organized by the Service. Generative systems are probabilistic. Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, defamatory, similar or identical to material provided to other users, derived from common expressions, or ineligible for copyright protection. SongIntent does not represent that Output is unique, original, noninfringing, commercially usable, registrable, or suitable for any purpose.

You must conduct human review before publishing, registering, distributing, pitching, licensing, monetizing, or relying on Output. You are responsible for editing, factual verification, plagiarism and similarity review, sample and interpolation clearance, rights registration, splits, credits, disclosures, and compliance with platform, distributor, label, publisher, union, and applicable-law requirements.

Rights and licenses

Your ownership

As between you and SongIntent, you retain your ownership rights in User Content. Subject to applicable law and third-party rights, SongIntent assigns to you any right, title, and interest it may have in Output generated specifically for you. This assignment does not transfer rights SongIntent does not own and does not affect rights in the Service, models, software, templates, interfaces, methods, generic know-how, or third-party material.

Processing license

You grant SongIntent and its service providers a worldwide, nonexclusive, limited license to host, copy, transmit, encode, transcribe, analyze, modify, display to you, and otherwise process User Content and Output only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, troubleshoot, enforce, and improve the requested Service, comply with law, and exercise rights under these Terms. This license ends when no longer reasonably needed, subject to backups, legal retention, deidentified operational records, and the Privacy Notice.

No training by default

SongIntent does not use your project lyrics or recordings to train SongIntent models without a separate, explicit opt-in. Third-party processors remain governed by their applicable terms and SongIntent's configured processing settings.

SongIntent property

The Service, branding, software, designs, documentation, compilations, workflows, and non-user content are owned by SongIntent or its licensors. Except for the limited right to use the Service under these Terms, no rights are granted by implication. Feedback may be used without restriction or compensation, provided it does not identify or expose your private User Content.

Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

infringe, pirate, misappropriate, or circumvent another person's rights or technological protections;
upload material you lack authority to process or falsely claim ownership or a license;
clone, impersonate, deceive with, or exploit a real person's voice or identity without authorization;
create unlawful threats, fraud, harassment, exploitation, sexual content involving minors, or instructions facilitating serious wrongdoing;
distribute malware, probe security, scrape at scale, reverse engineer protected portions, overload systems, evade usage limits, or resell access without permission;
use Output or analysis as proof of clearance, authorship, ownership, medical or legal advice, or guaranteed originality;
remove rights notices or represent that SongIntent endorses, co-wrote, cleared, or approved your release.

We may investigate suspected abuse, preserve relevant evidence, restrict processing, remove content, or report conduct when reasonably necessary to comply with law or protect users, SongIntent, providers, or the public.

Copyright complaints and repeat infringement

If you believe material processed or made available through the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to legal@songintent.com containing: your signature; identification of the copyrighted work; identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; your contact information; a good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorized; and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act. We may request additional information, forward the notice to the affected user, disable access, preserve records, or accept a legally sufficient counter-notice.

SongIntent maintains a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, users who are repeat infringers. Misrepresenting infringement may create liability. This section is operational notice language; statutory DMCA safe-harbor protection additionally depends on SongIntent maintaining a current Copyright Office agent designation and publicly posting that agent's complete required contact information.

Subscriptions and recurring billing

Paid plans are continuous monthly subscriptions unless the checkout states otherwise. Before purchase, the checkout identifies the plan, price, billing frequency, material limits, and cancellation method. By separately checking the recurring-billing consent and completing checkout, you authorize Stripe and SongIntent to charge the disclosed amount, plus applicable taxes, to your selected payment method each billing period until canceled.

Prices may change prospectively. We will provide notice required by applicable law before a fee or material subscription change takes effect and explain how to cancel. Usage allowances generally reset each billing cycle and do not roll over unless expressly stated. You may not create multiple accounts to evade limits. Taxes, currency conversion, bank fees, and internet costs may apply.

Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel at any time through the online Stripe billing portal available from your account. If that method is unavailable, you may submit the recorded cancellation request inside the Service. Cancellation stops future renewals and normally takes effect at the end of the current paid period; you retain access through that period unless law, a refund, chargeback, safety suspension, or Stripe action requires otherwise.

Except where required by law or expressly stated at checkout, fees already charged are nonrefundable and no prorated refund or credit is provided for partial periods, unused allowances, or dissatisfaction with AI Output. Nothing in these Terms limits nonwaivable cancellation, refund, or consumer rights. Deleting a project or account does not by itself cancel a subscription.

Beta service, modifications, and availability

Some features are beta, experimental, capacity-limited, or dependent on outside providers. We may add, modify, suspend, discontinue, or impose limits on features. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, error-free processing, permanent storage, preservation of a particular model or provider, or compatibility with every file or device. Material changes affecting a paid subscription will receive notice and cancellation rights as required by law. You should export important work and maintain independent backups.

Third-party services

The Service may use or link to providers such as OpenAI, Stripe, Supabase, LALAL.AI, Music.AI, email services, analytics services, and social platforms. Their services, outages, terms, and privacy practices are outside SongIntent's control. Links and integrations do not imply endorsement. You authorize the processing reasonably necessary for features you choose, as described in the Privacy Notice.

Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” SONGINTENT DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

SongIntent does not warrant that the Service will produce a hit, secure a placement, match a melody or performance exactly, satisfy a distributor or rights office, avoid third-party similarity, establish fair use, qualify for copyright, or meet professional standards. No statement from the Service creates a warranty unless expressly stated in a written agreement signed by SongIntent. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so portions may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SONGINTENT AND ITS OWNERS, AFFILIATES, PERSONNEL, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, OPPORTUNITY, OR RELEASE VALUE; COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM USER CONTENT, OUTPUT, RIGHTS DISPUTES, PLATFORM REJECTION, LOSS OF ACCESS, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THEIR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID SONGINTENT DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US$100.

These limits allocate risk and are a fundamental basis of the agreement. They do not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, which may include liability for fraud, willful misconduct, certain gross negligence, or personal injury caused by negligence depending on applicable law.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SongIntent and its owners, affiliates, personnel, contractors, licensors, and providers from third-party claims, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, losses, and reasonable legal fees arising from: your User Content; your use, release, registration, licensing, sale, or distribution of Output; your breach of Sections 4, 5, 7, or 8; your violation of law or another person's rights; or a dispute among collaborators, writers, performers, producers, publishers, labels, or rights holders. SongIntent will provide reasonable notice, may control the defense, and will not agree to a settlement imposing nonmonetary obligations on you without consent. This section does not require indemnification for SongIntent's own unlawful conduct.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may cancel paid access as described above. We may suspend or terminate access for material breach, infringement, fraud, abuse, security risk, nonpayment, legal requirement, provider restriction, or conduct reasonably likely to harm the Service or others. When practical and lawful, we may provide notice and an opportunity to cure. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, licenses needed for wind-down, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, disputes, and general terms—survive termination.

18 · IMPORTANT

Binding individual arbitration and class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully. Except for the limited exceptions below, you and SongIntent waive the right to have disputes decided by a judge or jury and agree to resolve them only through individual arbitration. You also waive participation in class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, or representative actions.

Informal resolution first

Before filing arbitration, the claimant must send an individual written Notice of Dispute to legal@songintent.com. The notice must include the claimant's name and account email, a detailed description of the dispute, supporting facts and documents, and the specific relief requested. The parties will attempt good-faith resolution for 30 days. Limitations periods are tolled during that period to the extent permitted by law.

Arbitration procedure

Unresolved disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, as modified by this section. The Federal Arbitration Act governs interpretation and enforcement. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve disputes about the Terms' interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation, except that a court decides disputes about the class-action waiver or mass-filing procedures. Hearings may occur remotely or, if required, in the county where you reside. SongIntent will pay fees it is required to pay under applicable law and AAA rules.

Exceptions

Either party may bring an eligible individual claim in small-claims court. Either party may seek temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in court to prevent actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, unauthorized access, or security abuse pending arbitration. Government agencies may pursue remedies available to them.

No class or representative proceedings

YOU AND SONGINTENT AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF, CLASS MEMBER, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR REPRESENTATIVE IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, COORDINATED, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO RESOLVE THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM.

Mass filings

If 25 or more substantially similar demands are submitted against SongIntent by or with coordinated counsel within 180 days, the demands will be administered in staged batches of up to 25, with one arbitrator per batch and AAA's applicable mass-arbitration procedures. The parties will cooperate in good faith on an orderly process. This provision does not prevent an individual claimant from obtaining individual relief and will not be applied to the extent prohibited by law or rejected by AAA.

30-day opt-out

You may opt out of this Section 18 without affecting the rest of the Terms by emailing legal@songintent.com within 30 days after first accepting these Terms. State your full name, account email, and an unambiguous request to opt out of arbitration. Opt-outs are personal and may not be submitted in bulk by an agent. If you timely opt out, disputes will be resolved under Section 19.

Changes to arbitration

If we materially change this section after your acceptance, the change will not apply to a dispute of which we had actual notice before the change. You may reject the changed arbitration terms within 30 days of notice, in which case the previously accepted arbitration terms remain applicable.

Governing law and courts

These Terms are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and, to the extent state law applies, California law without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that mandatory consumer protections of your home jurisdiction remain available when they cannot be waived. For disputes permitted in court, you and SongIntent consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts located in Sacramento County, California, except an eligible small-claims action may be filed where permitted.

General terms

These Terms, the Privacy Notice, plan disclosures accepted at checkout, and any additional terms presented for a specific feature are the entire agreement about the Service and supersede prior discussions on that subject. A conflict is resolved in this order: a signed enterprise agreement, specific checkout or feature terms, these Terms, then general site copy. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; SongIntent may assign them in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, asset sale, or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law.

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder remains effective, except as expressly stated for the class-action waiver. Headings aid reading only. “Including” means “including without limitation.” Electronic records and communications satisfy written-notice requirements to the extent permitted by law.

We may update these Terms prospectively. For a material change, we will provide reasonable notice and request renewed assent when legally required or when the change materially affects dispute, payment, ownership, or liability terms. Continued use after the stated effective date constitutes acceptance only where legally valid; we will not retroactively rewrite an accrued dispute.

Contact and legal notices

Questions, arbitration opt-outs, notices of dispute, and copyright complaints may be sent to legal@songintent.com. Subscription cancellation should be completed through the online billing portal or recorded cancellation request in your account. SongIntent's complete contracting-entity name, notice address, and registered DMCA agent information must be added here once formally confirmed and must be kept current.