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Updated October 28, 2026. Section 4 now says the JOYFL Platform License applies until JOYFL offers the Expanded Distribution License. Version 2.0 is still here: Read version 2.0
Version 2.1.
Effective October 28, 2026 · Version 2.1
JOYFL exists to build a living library of Christian music that points people toward Jesus Christ. Writers, artists, musicians, producers, labels, and listeners help that music reach people. These Terms govern the specific action described below; agreeing to an account agreement alone does not automatically transfer the rights in any song, lyrics, melody, recording, or other submission.
“JOYFL” means the JOYFL music initiative operated by GoForth Foundation, a Utah nonprofit corporation doing business as Saints and Neighbors (the “Organization”). GoForth Foundation is the contracting legal entity; JOYFL and Saints and Neighbors are operating or trade names, not separate copyright owners. “You” means the party electronically accepting the Agreement, including a duly authorized organization, artist, or parent/guardian as specified. “Work” means the submitted lyric, melody, composition, demo, audio or video recording, arrangement, artwork associated with a song, or other identified creative material, and only rights that the submitting party actually owns or is authorized to license. Where a Work contains both an underlying musical composition and a sound recording, these are legally distinct rights and both must be cleared.
By choosing an Independent Artist account, you confirm that you are acting for yourself—not as an undisclosed label, agency, publisher, or manager—and may independently manage your artist identity, submissions, collaboration decisions, and JOYFL participation. You represent that no existing recording, publishing, distribution, management, representation, or other agreement prevents you from maintaining your JOYFL profile, promoting yourself and your music on other lawful platforms, or granting the rights you later choose to grant for a specific Work.
Having a distributor, performing-rights organization, co-writer, or nonexclusive service provider does not automatically disqualify you. The important requirement is that those arrangements do not conflict with the permissions you grant here. You must identify and obtain consent from other owners whenever you do not control all rights.
JOYFL is not your manager, label, employer, or exclusive career representative. You remain free to record, publish, distribute, market, tour, work with other artists, and enter other lawful commercial relationships outside any specific exclusive license or assignment you later give JOYFL. JOYFL does not require you to make JOYFL your sole artistic outlet. You decide which eligible Works to submit and, for each voluntary standard upload, which license option to select.
You give JOYFL a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission, while your profile or related promotional material remains published, to display and reproduce the artist name, profile image, biography, submitted promotional graphics, and excerpts of your public JOYFL profile for account operation, discovery, moderation, and promotion of JOYFL. You represent that you have consent to provide those images and materials. No copyright in a musical Work is licensed or transferred merely by opening this account.
At each ordinary upload, JOYFL will ask you to choose a specific rights agreement: (A) Expanded Distribution License, which adds JOYFL’s rights to distribute and commercially exploit that Work outside its own Platform, or (B) JOYFL Platform License, which covers JOYFL Platform Uses and leaves outside exploitation to you. You should not choose an option if you have already promised conflicting exclusive rights to another person. Challenges are governed by a separate Challenge Agreement and begin with the Platform License.
JOYFL may offer the Expanded Distribution License; until it does, the JOYFL Platform License applies.
Songs without a license choice. Some songs on JOYFL do not yet have a license chosen for them: songs our team published with your written permission, songs published before these Terms took effect, and drafts you have saved but not submitted. Until you choose a license for such a song, JOYFL holds only a narrow, nonexclusive permission: to store and process a draft so you can work on it, and to host, stream, and display a published song on JOYFL. JOYFL will not use those songs at events, in promotion outside JOYFL, or in any other way until you choose a license.
You may end this permission at any time by removing the song or by emailing contact@joyfl.music. Nothing about those songs changes without your choice.
You must identify each person who contributes original lyrics, melody, music, master recording, or other protected authorship, and obtain their authorization before you submit on their behalf. A split sheet may support contributor identification but does not by itself give you power to sign away everyone’s rights. Do not upload uncleared beats, samples, covers, voice clones, copyrighted recordings, or AI-generated elements that violate another person’s rights. JOYFL may ask for a rights verification or a replacement of unclear content.
You must be 18 or older to accept these Terms independently. Artists ages 13–17 may participate only through an age-appropriate JOYFL account flow with direct, verifiable parent/guardian consent and signature where required; the adult must supervise the minor’s account and interactions. JOYFL will not knowingly offer this ordinary creator-registration flow to children under 13 unless and until its separate child-privacy and parental-consent controls permit it. No account agreement alone guarantees that a minor's future copyright transfer is enforceable; JOYFL may require additional signatures or defer a Challenge assignment.
Your profile is free of any implied JOYFL royalty or employment promise. The specific upload license or Challenge agreement controls whether JOYFL owes compensation for a particular Work. JOYFL may separately retain you for professional performance, writing, studio, or production services at a documented fair-market-value fee. If you receive legally required payments from third-party licensing or collecting systems, these Terms do not silently extinguish those rights.
Your artist-profile permission does not grant third parties permission to impersonate your voice or likeness, generate a realistic imitation of you, or train generative models on your recordings. Such uses require your separate affirmative authorization as described in the AI Music Policy.
You may close your profile or ask that public identifying information be removed, subject to lawful retention, prior publication, accepted collaborations, and your separate rights agreements. Account closure does not revoke an earlier copyright license or assignment entered for a Work, except where applicable law expressly permits termination or requires removal.
You also accept the JOYFL General Platform Terms of Service and applicable public policies as they exist on the acceptance date. If documents conflict, the following priority applies only within their subject matter: (1) an individually signed final Challenge copyright assignment controls its identified song and master; (2) a signed upload license controls copyright permissions for its identified Work; (3) the Challenge Participation Terms and the posted Challenge Official Rules govern entry, selection, production and prize mechanics; (4) the Label or Independent Artist Terms govern account representation; and (5) the General Platform Terms govern general service issues. No policy, account amendment, or moderation action can silently convert a Platform-only license into an Expanded Distribution license or transfer ownership. Each rights-changing step requires a new affirmative, work-specific acceptance from all necessary owners or authorized agents.
Copyright and other rights granted for each Work continue for their stated duration after account suspension, removal, or closure, subject to applicable nonwaivable rights and lawfully required takedowns. JOYFL may pause or take down challenged material while investigating without admitting liability or conceding ownership.
You agree to provide accurate identity, authorship, collaborator, publisher, master-owner, sample, and AI-use information and update it if anything changes. You will not knowingly provide material you lack authority to submit. JOYFL may reject, remove, delay, or suspend a Work or account because of rights questions, safety, quality, mission alignment, or platform operations; no publication, distribution, selection, or minimum reach is guaranteed.
Except where a signed Challenge completion agreement governs, these Terms do not establish an employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship with JOYFL. Any change to the rights already granted for a particular Work requires agreement by JOYFL and all necessary rights holders; changes posted for future uploads do not retroactively expand existing grants. The parties will first attempt in good faith to resolve disputes using the legal-contact method in the JOYFL General Platform Terms of Service. The General Platform Terms govern ordinary account, conduct, service, and dispute issues, while this specific agreement controls the permitted use, duration, ownership, license scope, contributor obligations, and compensation of the identified Work if a conflict arises. The Community & Collaboration Guidelines, AI Music Policy, Privacy Policy, and Copyright Reporting Policy apply to platform conduct subject to mandatory law. No later posted policy may retroactively expand a signed copyright grant for an existing Work.
By checking the relevant box and selecting Agree / Submit, you intend to sign this Agreement electronically and authorize JOYFL to retain an electronic record associating the agreement version, Work identifier, account, capacity, date/time, and affirmative acceptance. You may download or save a copy. If you accept as a label or authorized agent, you also represent that you have authority to sign for every applicable copyright owner. If the Work belongs to a minor, JOYFL may require a verified parent/guardian countersignature and separate releases.