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Effective October 20, 2026 · Version 1.0
JOYFL exists to build a living library of Christian music that points people toward Jesus Christ. Writers, artists, musicians, producers and listeners help that music reach people.
You accept this License for each song you publish, when you choose it for that song.
Definitions.
This License is part of your JOYFL Artist Account Terms for this Work. The Artist Account Terms' general terms apply, including Section 10 (if JOYFL changes hands or stops operating).
This License applies only to the specific Work you choose this License for. The copyrights in a song's composition and in its master recording are separate; you may license only the rights you own or are authorized to license. You keep ownership of your Work.
The JOYFL Platform means:
"JOYFL Platform Uses" means uses of the Work on the JOYFL Platform. They also include:
JOYFL Platform Uses don't include distributing the Work to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer or similar third-party music services. They also don't include film, television, advertising or game synchronization licenses.
What you grant. You grant JOYFL a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the Work for JOYFL Platform Uses. That covers the rights to:
JOYFL may let its hosting providers, contractors, event partners and the performers it engages use these rights, but only to carry out JOYFL Platform Uses.
What this License doesn't allow. This License doesn't let JOYFL:
Each of those needs a separate written agreement with you.
How long it lasts. This License lasts until you remove the Work from JOYFL, ask us to, or close your account. After that, JOYFL makes no public use of the Work. It keeps only a private record of the Work, its versions and this License, as the Privacy Policy §11 describes.
Non-exclusive. You stay free to perform, record, promote, release, distribute and license your Work anywhere, including to other platforms, subject to your collaborators' and other third parties' rights and any separate agreement you sign. This License transfers no ownership of your copyright.
No royalty for Platform use. You contribute these Platform permissions without any royalty, residual, license fee or other payment from JOYFL, even if JOYFL receives donations or sponsorships, or sells tickets to JOYFL events. JOYFL may perform the Work at JOYFL events without paying you extra for this permission.
Other payments. If JOYFL separately hires you to sing, play, produce or do other professional work, it may pay you a reasonable, documented fair-market fee under a separate written agreement. This clause doesn't waive royalties or rights the law doesn't let you give up, or payments owed to you directly by third parties, such as your performing-rights organization. No charitable tax deduction or tax value is promised for this License.
JOYFL may stop at any time. JOYFL may remove the Work, or stop using it, at any time.
This License gives JOYFL no right to sell the Work, distribute it commercially, or license it outside JOYFL Platform Uses. In particular, it doesn't let JOYFL:
Those uses need a separate written agreement signed by every rights owner.
JOYFL events and promotional posts stay within this royalty-free permission even when JOYFL sells tickets, receives donations or has sponsors for them. JOYFL may hire you to perform under a separate fair-market agreement, but that doesn't turn this License into a royalty obligation.
Subject to your obligations to co-owners and other third parties, you may publish, distribute, monetize, license, perform, record and remake your Work anywhere. That includes your own releases on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and similar services.
JOYFL doesn't become your label, publisher, distributor or manager. Ownership of a recording JOYFL funds under a separate agreement is set by that agreement.
JOYFL may invite you to choose a different license, if JOYFL offers one, or to enter a challenge. You don't have to agree.
Changing this Work's license needs a new electronic agreement, or another written document, signed by everyone who controls the affected rights. Silence, inactivity or ordinary use of JOYFL never expands this License.
You confirm that, to the best of your knowledge, the Work is original or properly cleared, doesn't infringe anyone's rights, and that any AI use and every contributor has been disclosed. You also confirm that everyone credited on the Work is 18 or older. If other people own rights in the Work, you confirm you have their authority to accept for them.
Accurate information. You agree to give accurate information about identity, authorship, collaborators, publishers, master owners, samples and AI use, and to update it if anything changes. You won't knowingly submit material you don't have the right to submit.
What JOYFL may do and doesn't guarantee. JOYFL may reject, remove, delay or suspend a Work or an account for rights questions, safety, quality, mission fit or platform operations. JOYFL doesn't guarantee publication, selection or any amount of listening.
Relationship and changes. This License creates no employment, agency, partnership or joint venture with JOYFL. Changing the rights already granted for a Work needs the agreement of JOYFL and everyone whose rights are affected. Changes posted for future uploads don't expand rights already granted.
The Terms of Use, as they stood when you accepted. The JOYFL Terms of Use §8–11, as in force on the date you accept, govern limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution and governing law for this License. Later changes to the Terms of Use don't change them for this Work without your agreement. The limits in Terms of Use §8 don't apply to:
Notices. For any question or dispute, contact us first at contact@joyfl.music.
Signing. By checking the box and continuing, you intend to sign this License electronically.