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Effective October 27, 2026 · Version 2.0
This is a work-specific copyright grant, not a general account permission. Covers, samples, co-writes, publisher-controlled compositions, preexisting distributor exclusivity and third-party master rights require separate clearances. Do not select a license for rights you cannot grant.
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.
This Agreement applies only to the specific Work identified at upload, including individually submitted lyrics, melodies, compositions, recordings, and other protected creative material. Copyright in a song’s composition and its master recording are separate; you may license only the rights you own or are authorized to control. You keep title to your existing Work and the right to take it to other lawful outlets outside the expressly defined JOYFL Platform field.
For purposes of this Agreement, the “JOYFL Platform” means JOYFL-operated websites, mobile applications, internal creator and listener features, artist pages, playlists, community collaboration tools, digital archives, and JOYFL-branded programming, educational and promotional experiences. “JOYFL Platform Uses” also include live or recorded concerts, worship gatherings, performances, workshops, and events that JOYFL organizes, produces, or presents; and excerpts or promotional posts on JOYFL-controlled social channels directing audiences to those experiences. JOYFL Platform Uses do not, by themselves, include independent commercial distribution of the Work to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, or similar third-party music services, or third-party film, television, advertising, or game synchronization licenses.
You grant JOYFL a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, field-of-use exclusive license, for the duration of applicable copyright protection and subject to nonwaivable law, to exploit the Work for JOYFL Platform Uses. This includes the rights to host, store, copy, display, stream, transmit, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute within the JOYFL Platform, archive, excerpt, edit, translate, caption, arrange, re-record, remix, adapt, combine with other JOYFL contributions, create derivative works, and make the Work available for lawful listener and creator interactions authorized by JOYFL. JOYFL may authorize its hosting providers, contractors, performers, production teams, event partners, and participating creators to exercise these rights solely to carry out JOYFL Platform Uses.
This license is exclusive only within the defined field of JOYFL Platform Uses. JOYFL has the exclusive right to authorize that defined use of your Work; however, you remain free to perform, record, promote, release, distribute, and license your own Work outside that field, subject to rights held by collaborators and third parties and any separate agreement you sign. You may not purport to grant another person rights to operate or exploit your Work as part of JOYFL’s own branded Platform Uses without JOYFL’s permission. No ownership of your existing copyright is transferred by this Platform License.
You intentionally contribute these Platform permissions without any contractual royalty, residual, license fee, participation in advertising or donation revenue, or other payout from JOYFL, even if JOYFL earns money from advertising, subscriptions, ticketing, sponsorships, donations, merchandise connected to its programming, or other lawful JOYFL Platform activities. JOYFL may perform the Work at JOYFL concerts without an additional payment to you for the contributed copyright permission. If JOYFL separately hires you to sing, play, produce, or provide other professional services, it may pay you reasonable fair-market-value compensation under a separate written services agreement. This clause does not waive royalties or rights that applicable law makes nonwaivable or amounts independently payable by third parties.
The license is intended to continue if you close your account or remove a file from public view. JOYFL may remove material or discontinue use at its discretion, but is not required to delete archival, licensed, already-published, or incorporated material except where applicable law requires otherwise. No charitable tax deduction or tax-value representation is promised for this contributed license.
JOYFL does not obtain a general right under this Platform-only option to sell, independently commercially distribute, or license the Work outside its defined Platform Uses. In particular, this option does not, by itself, authorize JOYFL to release the Work as its recording on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, or other independent music stores and services, or to sell a third-party film, television, advertising, or game synchronization license. These expanded uses require the affirmative Expanded Distribution License or a separate written agreement from all rights owners.
JOYFL Platform events and promotional references remain within the royalty-free Platform permission even if JOYFL sells tickets, receives donations, sells sponsorships, or earns advertising revenue related to those experiences. JOYFL may hire the creator as a performer or professional under a separate fair-market-value services agreement; this does not convert the Platform license into a royalty obligation. No revenue threshold in the Expanded Distribution License applies to Platform-only contributions.
Subject to your obligations to co-owners and other third parties, you may independently publish, distribute, monetize, license, perform, record, and remake your Work beyond JOYFL Platform Uses, including your own Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and similar releases. JOYFL does not become your label, publisher, distributor, or exclusive career manager. A JOYFL-created adaptation may include separate rights belonging to JOYFL or other contributors; your right to your original material does not automatically include rights to their new creative contributions or JOYFL-funded recordings.
Where JOYFL offers collaborative features, you permit JOYFL to let registered participants hear, comment on, excerpt, suggest changes to, and develop new platform-hosted combinations and arrangements from your Work under JOYFL’s rules. Other creators do not receive unrestricted permission to commercially exploit your original material outside the JOYFL Platform by accessing it there. Contributors to a collaborative version retain such new rights as applicable law grants them unless they separately license or assign those rights. Credits will be maintained where reasonably feasible based on the information provided.
JOYFL may invite you to opt into expanded worldwide distribution or a Challenge. You have no duty to agree. A conversion requires a new, affirmative electronic agreement or other written document signed by each party who controls affected rights. Silence, account inactivity, or general participation does not expand this Platform-only license.
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.
The uploader must disclose all known creators, master owners, publishers, samples, covers, loops, and material AI involvement, and must obtain all necessary authority, releases, mechanical, public-performance, synchronization, and other permissions that are not actually conveyed by this Agreement. The Organization is not required to accept an uncleared third-party work, and may restrict or remove it pending review. JOYFL's contractually royalty-free rights do not purport to waive payments directly required under applicable nonwaivable law or owed independently to an applicable collection organization, third-party owner, or service provider.
Permission for JOYFL to host or authorize an approved remix inside JOYFL does not grant the general public an unrestricted license to download, release, sell, train AI models on, or independently exploit your protected material. A collaborating member may use another person's fragment only within the collaboration permissions expressly shown on the Work and the Community & Collaboration Guidelines. A finished collaboration must not be commercially released without every required owner's permission.
You permit accurate credits and ordinary identification of the Work and artists, and may request corrections. Your voice or likeness may not be cloned for AI singing or used as an endorsement without a separate, explicit release. Notice, takedown and account closure operate under the General Platform Terms; valid rights for already-licensed Works do not silently terminate.
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.