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Welcome to JOYFL. We want these Terms to be understandable. They explain how you may use JOYFL, what you can expect from us, and how our other agreements protect the music people create and share. By accessing or using JOYFL after being presented with these Terms, you agree to them to the extent legally effective. When a separate affirmative acceptance is required, JOYFL will request it.
JOYFL is an initiative operated by GoForth Foundation, a Utah nonprofit corporation doing business as Saints and Neighbors (also branded as Saints & Neighbors). In these Terms, “JOYFL,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean GoForth Foundation acting through the JOYFL initiative. Saints and Neighbors and JOYFL are operating names, not separate legal entities.
JOYFL helps people discover, create, and share uplifting music that points toward Jesus Christ. JOYFL is not owned, operated, sponsored, or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Contact: contact@joyfl.music
Mailing address: 6 W Main St, American Fork, UT 84003
These Terms of Use govern access to JOYFL's website, listening features, artist tools, and other available services (together, the “Service”). They do not themselves give JOYFL an expanded commercial license to your music or transfer ownership of a song.
Other documents apply when you take the corresponding action:
Which document controls? A separately signed song-specific copyright assignment controls the rights it expressly assigns. An accepted work-specific upload license controls the rights granted for that work. Challenge terms and Official Rules control Challenge procedures and awards. Artist or label terms control representation and account relationships. These general Terms control ordinary use of the Service. If a document is not yet offered or accepted for a particular feature or work, it does not create rights by implication.
Listening is free and open without an account. You may browse the public catalog and listen to available music at any age. There is currently no listening subscription, paywall, or purchase requirement. Listening without an account does not give you permission to download, copy, remix, or redistribute music.
Artist accounts currently require users to be 18 or older. JOYFL also maintains internal staff accounts. Artist access currently uses a one-time sign-in link delivered by email; there is no JOYFL account password to manage. Protect access to your email and promptly tell us at contact@joyfl.music if you suspect someone has accessed your account without permission. Provide accurate registration, identity, and rights information; do not share or transfer your account to unauthorized users.
People under 18 may not open an artist account or personally accept creator contracts under the current account process. If JOYFL later offers a supervised 13–17 creator or Challenge workflow, the posted rules and an implemented parent/guardian authorization process will govern it. No such participation is authorized merely by these general Terms. Users under 13 cannot create accounts under the current system. Public listening by younger users remains subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable children's privacy law.
If you act for a label, company, artist, or other rights owner, you must have authority to act for that party. An account administrator's role alone does not authorize the administrator to transfer someone else's copyrights.
We give you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable permission to access and use the Service through its intended interfaces, subject to these Terms. Artists may use available creator features for their intended professional and collaborative purposes. We retain, or license from others, the rights in JOYFL's software, interface, site design, name, logos, compilations, and original platform materials. No rights to our trademarks, software, or source code are granted beyond normal Service use.
You may listen to music and share links to JOYFL songs and artist profiles. Sharing a link is not permission to reuse the underlying music. We aim to preserve useful links when content is removed or hidden, but we cannot promise every link or feature will remain available indefinitely.
Don't use JOYFL to harm people, break the law, mislead others, or take rights that are not yours. In particular, you must not:
JOYFL may restrict or remove material, limit features, suspend accounts, investigate reports, and take urgent action where appropriate. Where practical, we will explain a moderation decision and offer a way to ask for review. We do not promise to monitor every upload or interaction in real time. We evaluate sensitive themes in context: thoughtful music about grief, trauma, addiction recovery, doubt, or healing is not automatically prohibited.
Artists and other creators keep the copyrights they actually own, except to the extent those rights are expressly assigned under a separately signed agreement. A creator's copyright may also be subject to an exclusive license that limits the creator's own use of the same work. A song's lyrics and composition, its sound recording, and any artwork or samples can involve different owners and permissions.
These general Terms do not automatically grant JOYFL commercial distribution, film licensing, or ownership rights in a song, lyric, melody, demo, or recording. For each ordinary music upload, JOYFL must identify the work and record a separate acceptance of either the Platform-Only License or the Expanded Distribution License. Those are alternative choices for that work. A Challenge entry instead follows its accepted Challenge terms and incorporated Platform permissions. If an artist saves an unpublished draft before making an upload choice, JOYFL receives only the narrow technical permissions actually disclosed in the applicable Artist Account Terms to hold and process that draft—not an unselected public or commercial music license.
JOYFL may require evidence of ownership or authorization from co-writers, publishers, labels, master owners, sample licensors, and performers. Uploading another person's contribution does not give JOYFL rights that the uploader lacks. JOYFL may pause publication or distribution until rights questions are resolved.
Closing an account or hiding a song does not automatically cancel rights already validly granted under a work-specific license or signed assignment. The applicable agreement and law determine what remains authorized, including any statutory rights that cannot be waived.
JOYFL is designed to make authorized collaboration easier. A creator may enable a particular work, such as lyrics or a melody, for collaboration through an available JOYFL feature or an identified Challenge. Another user may then build on that work only within the permission actually granted and the tools or workflow JOYFL authorizes. Simply viewing publicly displayed lyrics or hearing a song does not create a free-standing right to remix or commercially release it.
When you collaborate, identify original sources and each person who contributed protectable material. JOYFL may record work identifiers, versions, source relationships, credits, license acceptances, and approvals so later songs retain their creative history. Credits do not, by themselves, determine copyright ownership or payment percentages. We may correct disputed credits or pause a release while contributors resolve rights questions.
An authorized collaboration may be playable on JOYFL when all necessary Platform permissions are in place. External distribution—such as Spotify, Apple Music, or a third-party film license—requires appropriate permissions from every necessary owner of the material included in that finished work, including the master recording. A collaborator does not gain independent rights to download, sell, sublicense, train AI on, or release another creator's source material outside JOYFL merely by participating.
Disclose material AI-generated or AI-assisted content when prompted. Do not clone, simulate, or falsely attribute a real person's singing voice, image, performance, or identity without all required authorization. Do not upload AI material that infringes another person's rights or violates applicable law.
JOYFL's permission to adapt, arrange, or re-record a licensed work does not, on its own, authorize someone to create a synthetic replica of a particular performer's voice. Do not use JOYFL-hosted content or another creator's music, recordings, stems, or lyrics to train or fine-tune an AI system without the applicable rights holders' specific permission. Additional requirements appear in any separately published AI Music & Voice Policy.
We respect copyright. If you believe material on JOYFL infringes your rights, email contact@joyfl.music. Include your contact details, the copyrighted work you own or represent, the JOYFL URL or other information identifying the disputed material, why you believe the use is unauthorized, a statement of accuracy and authority, and your physical or electronic signature. Statutory notices may require additional wording, including a good-faith statement and an appropriate statement under penalty of perjury. Anyone can report a concern without creating an account, including through an available profile removal-request tool.
If JOYFL removes material following a copyright complaint and you believe the removal was mistaken, you may send a counter-notification to the same contact address. The required procedure, statements, and potential restoration timeline are governed by applicable law and our separately published Copyright & DMCA Policy. We maintain a repeat-infringer policy and may suspend or terminate repeat infringers when appropriate.
At present JOYFL does not charge listeners for subscriptions, downloads, or access to its catalog. If paid features are introduced, we will describe any applicable pricing, billing, cancellation, and refund terms before purchase. Donations, when available, are separate transactions and are not a prerequisite for listening.
Opening an artist account, uploading work, receiving plays, or participating in a collaboration does not itself create a salary, royalty, platform revenue share, or promise of payment. An accepted work-specific license or a Challenge agreement may establish different rights, obligations, discretionary compensation reviews, or payments. Those terms control. Nothing here attempts to waive nonwaivable statutory royalties or amounts independently owed by a third party.
Each Challenge is subject to its posted Official Rules, eligibility requirements, budget, and accepted participation terms. Selection for development is not necessarily a completed win, and ownership of a completed Challenge song transfers only through the required signed agreement. JOYFL may collect appropriate payment and tax information when it has an actual obligation to pay someone. We do not promise tax deductions for uploading creative work.
Our Privacy Policy at https://app.joyfl.music/privacy explains how JOYFL handles information. Please read it. JOYFL may use service providers for hosting, email sign-in, analytics, distribution, moderation, payments if offered, or other authorized features, subject to applicable law and the relevant privacy disclosures. We are not responsible for the independent operation or policies of third-party sites and services beyond responsibilities imposed by law.
We may send account security notices, accepted-terms notices, copyright notices, and service messages electronically where lawful. Promotional communications will include legally required consent or opt-out options. An artist's professional name, profile, and other promotional materials are handled as specified in the accepted account and work-specific agreements.
Songs, profiles, and features may be changed, hidden, suspended, discontinued, or removed for creator requests, rights concerns, safety, lawful notices, operational needs, or mission compatibility. We can suspend or end access for material violations or serious risks. We are not required to distribute, feature, or keep any particular song available.
You may request artist account closure through contact@joyfl.music unless JOYFL provides an in-product deletion method. We may retain limited information as permitted or required for legal compliance, financial records, copyright documentation, dispute resolution, safety, and backups, consistent with the Privacy Policy. Closing an account may hide a profile, but does not itself reverse valid work-specific licenses, prior authorized uses, completed collaborations, or signed assignments.
We work to keep JOYFL useful, safe, and available, but cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation, error-free files, permanent links, any particular audience size, or that all user-submitted material is correctly credited or legally cleared. The Service and its materials are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law permits, we disclaim implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Some warranties and legal remedies cannot be disclaimed.
Creators remain responsible for their own submissions and rights representations. JOYFL's display of a song is not a certification of its authorship, rights status, quality, or message. You should keep independent copies of original files and contribution records.
To the fullest extent applicable law allows, GoForth Foundation (doing business as Saints and Neighbors), and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, and contractors, will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive losses, including lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from ordinary use of the Service.
For claims arising from ordinary access to or use of the Service, JOYFL's total aggregate liability will not exceed the greater of US$100 or the amount you paid JOYFL specifically for Service access in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, to the extent permitted by law. This limit does not restrict remedies or responsibilities that the law does not allow us to limit, or override payment and ownership obligations expressly agreed in a separate signed instrument.
If you knowingly or negligently upload material without required rights, commit fraud, or materially breach these Terms and a third party brings a resulting claim, you agree, to the extent the law permits and in proportion to your responsibility, to reimburse JOYFL for reasonable defense costs and covered losses. This does not require you to cover JOYFL's own independently wrongful conduct. JOYFL will provide reasonably prompt notice of such a claim and a reasonable opportunity to participate in its defense.
If a problem arises, please start by emailing contact@joyfl.music with a description of the issue and what resolution you seek. We will make a good-faith effort to address it. Nothing here prevents legally available urgent relief, copyright notices, regulatory complaints, or proceedings that cannot be restricted by contract.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Utah, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory law applies otherwise. Subject to any applicable mandatory venue rules, legal proceedings arising under these Terms may be brought in courts with appropriate jurisdiction in Utah County, Utah. These Terms do not impose binding arbitration or a class-action waiver. Any decision to adopt those mechanisms requires a separately reviewed and conspicuous agreement.
We may update these Terms by posting a new version, effective date, and reasonable notice. Where law or the nature of a material change requires a fresh acceptance, we will ask for it. Continued use after notice of a permissible general-terms change can constitute acceptance where legally effective. We will maintain version history and a record of applicable acceptances.
A change to these general Terms will never, by itself, turn an existing Platform-Only License into an Expanded Distribution License or transfer ownership of existing music. Those changes require the separate rights-holder approvals and signed or affirmatively accepted records specified in the applicable work-level agreement.
If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue where lawful. Our failure to enforce a provision once does not waive it. We may transfer the operation of JOYFL and related agreements only to the extent permitted by law and by the specific music or Challenge agreements. These Terms, together with applicable documents validly incorporated and accepted for the relevant activity, comprise the agreement governing that activity.
Legal contracting party: GoForth Foundation, a Utah nonprofit corporation doing business as Saints and Neighbors.
JOYFL contact and ordinary legal notices: contact@joyfl.music
Mailing address: 6 W Main St, American Fork, UT 84003
Privacy Policy: https://app.joyfl.music/privacy
Current Terms and version history: https://app.joyfl.music/terms