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Terms of Service

Echocraft Sound Labs LLC

Version 1.0. Effective October 1, 2026.

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Echocraft Sound Labs LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("Echocraft," "ESL," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of echocraftsoundlabs.com, the Echocraft licensing platform, the composer portal, and every related page, feature, and communication we provide (together, the "Service").

Please read them. They contain an agreement to arbitrate disputes on an individual basis (Section 17), a limitation of our liability (Section 15), and a statement that using the Service does not license any music (Section 5).

1. Acceptance

1.1 By creating an account, clicking to accept, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated by reference.

1.2 If you use the Service on behalf of a company, agency, brand, production company, studio, or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" includes both you and the organization. If you are not so authorized, you may not use the Service on the organization's behalf.

1.3 If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and Invitation

2.1 The Service is a professional tool for people who license music for productions and for the composers and artists whose music we represent. You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to use it. We do not knowingly permit anyone under eighteen to create an account.

2.2 The Service is available by invitation. Access requests are reviewed by us and we may decline any request, or grant, limit, suspend, or revoke access, at our discretion.

2.3 You may not use the Service if you are a person or entity with whom United States persons are prohibited from dealing under applicable sanctions or export control laws, or if you are located in a country or territory subject to comprehensive United States sanctions.

3. What the Service Is

3.1 Catalog. Echocraft operates a curated catalog of original music. Some works in the catalog are owned by Echocraft under written agreements with the composers who created them; others are owned by independent artists who have appointed Echocraft as their exclusive synchronization representative. Every work is offered as a one-stop synchronization and master use license: one license covers both the composition and the recording.

3.2 Discovery tools. The Service lets you browse and search the catalog by text, and by uploading a reference: an audio file, a video, or a written brief in PDF form. Search results, interpretations of what you uploaded, and explanations of why a track was suggested are generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence, as described in Section 13.

3.3 Auditions and comps. You may stream tracks and, subject to your account's entitlements, download watermarked comp files to test against your edit. Comps and auditions are for evaluation only (Section 5.6).

3.4 Licensing. Qualified account holders may license tracks through the Service. Each license is a separate written agreement, the Echocraft Synchronization and Master Use License, executed at checkout (Section 5).

3.5 Composer portal. Composers and artists under agreement with Echocraft use the Service to submit works, manage their profile, and view their agreements and statements (Section 6).

3.6 Changes. The Service is under active development. We may add, change, or remove features at any time. Where a change materially reduces functionality you rely on, we will try to give reasonable notice.

4. Accounts

4.1 Personal to you. An account is issued to a named individual. It is yours alone. You may not share your credentials, allow anyone else to use your account, or transfer your account to anyone. If your organization needs access for several people, each person needs their own account. We may suspend or terminate an account that is shared or transferred.

4.2 Accurate information. You agree to give us accurate, current, and complete information when you register and to keep it that way. We rely on the legal name and organization you provide when we issue licenses in your name.

4.3 Security. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for everything done through your account. Tell us promptly at sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

4.4 One account. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you may hold one account.

4.5 Our discretion. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate any account at any time for any reason permitted by law, including breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, or conduct that puts the catalog, other users, or the composers we represent at risk.

5. No License Is Granted by Using the Service

5.1 Using the Service, holding an account, streaming or downloading an audition or comp, saving a track, creating a playlist, receiving a quote, or exchanging messages with us does not grant you any right to reproduce, synchronize, distribute, perform, or otherwise use any music in the catalog.

5.2 Rights in catalog music are granted only by an Echocraft Synchronization and Master Use License (a "License") that you have executed and paid for through the Service. Each License is a separate contract on its own terms, which include the scope of use, territory, term, fee, warranties, indemnities, and limitations that apply to that License. Where these Terms and a License conflict about the licensed music or the licensed use, the License controls.

5.3 No course of dealing, statement by us, feature of the Service, or delay in enforcement creates an implied license.

5.4 Licenses you have executed and paid for survive the suspension or termination of your account according to their own terms. Your ability to download licensed files through the Service depends on your account being in good standing; the License itself does not depend on it.

5.5 Some music, uses, or terms are available only by direct negotiation with us rather than through checkout. The Service will tell you when that is the case.

5.6 Watermarked evaluation files. Every audition stream and comp download carries an inaudible forensic watermark that identifies the account or share link it was delivered to. Comps and auditions are provided solely so that you can evaluate a track against your project. You may not use them in any final production, any public or client-facing deliverable, or any distribution, and you may not attempt to remove, alter, or defeat a watermark. If a watermarked file appears in a production or in public, we will treat it as unlicensed use by the account or share link it identifies.

6. Composers and Artists

6.1 If you have signed a Composer Assignment Agreement, a Sync Representation Agreement, a Session Vocalist Performance Agreement, or any other rights agreement with Echocraft (each a "Rights Agreement"), that agreement governs the rights in your music, your compensation, and our obligations to you. These Terms govern your use of the Service itself.

6.2 If these Terms conflict with a Rights Agreement, the Rights Agreement controls as to its subject matter.

6.3 Works you submit through the composer portal are handled under your Rights Agreement, including our discretion to accept or decline a work.

7. Your Content

7.1 What it is. "Your Content" means anything you upload or submit to the Service other than under a Rights Agreement: reference audio, video, and briefs used for search; playlist names and notes; messages; profile details; and similar material.

7.2 Ownership. You keep whatever rights you have in Your Content.

7.3 What you allow us to do. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, process, transmit, analyze, and display Your Content only as needed to operate the Service for you: to run the search you asked for, to keep your playlists, to deliver a share you created, and to maintain our records. Reference uploads are processed by our AI providers to produce a search (Section 13) and are then deleted from storage on the schedule described in the Privacy Policy. We do not use Your Content to train any artificial intelligence model.

7.4 Your responsibility. You are responsible for Your Content. You represent that you have the right to upload it and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law. Do not upload material you are not entitled to use for a search, and do not upload content that is unlawful, defamatory, or obscene.

7.5 Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions about the Service, we may use them without obligation to you.

7.6 Share links. You may share playlists and pitches by link. A share link lets anyone who holds it hear watermarked auditions of the tracks you shared, and the Service records who opens it and what they play. Do not share links with anyone you would not want to have that access.

7.7 Removal. We may remove or disable access to Your Content at any time if we believe it violates these Terms or the law, or to protect the Service, other users, or the composers we represent.

7.8 Confidentiality of reference material. We understand that a reference you upload for search may be an unreleased cut, a confidential brief, unreleased music, or other material that you or your client have not made public. We treat every reference upload as your confidential information.

What we will and will not do with it. We will use your reference material only to run the search you asked for and, if you ask, to help you with that search. We will not publish it, add it to the catalog, show it to any other user, share it with any composer, or use it to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any artificial intelligence model. We will limit access to it to your own account and to members of our team who need access to operate the Service or to investigate abuse.

How we protect it. We protect reference material using at least the degree of care we use for our own confidential information, and in any event using reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to keep it confidential, including encryption in transit and at rest, private storage, time-limited access, and scheduled deletion. Our current measures, the providers that process reference material on our behalf, and the deletion schedule are described in the Privacy Policy and in our Reference Material Handling Statement. We may improve or change those measures over time, and we will not reduce the overall level of protection they describe.

Our providers. We select the providers that process reference material with reasonable care and require each of them, by written terms, to protect it, to use it only to provide their service to us, and not to use it to train or improve their models.

Your part. You decide what to upload. Upload only what the search needs; a portion of a cut is often enough. The Service is a search tool, not a storage or delivery service for your material, and you should keep your own copies. You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload (Section 7.4).

Limits. This Section does not apply to material that is or becomes public through no fault of ours, and is subject to disclosure required by law, in which case we will give you notice where the law allows. This Section states our entire obligation of confidentiality with respect to reference material and Your Content, is subject to Sections 14 and 15, and survives termination of these Terms for as long as we hold any reference material or any record of it.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

  • use any catalog music outside an executed License, or use comps or auditions in any final production;
  • remove, obscure, or defeat any watermark, copyright notice, or metadata;
  • copy, scrape, crawl, download in bulk, or otherwise extract the catalog, its metadata, descriptions, tags, or search results, whether by hand or by automated means;
  • use any part of the Service or the catalog, including audio, descriptions, tags, and search outputs, to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, or to create any voice, style, or musical-identity model;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or probe the Service, interfere with its operation, or circumvent access controls, rate limits, or watermarking;
  • misrepresent who you are, whom you act for, or the nature of a production, campaign, brand, or use;
  • share credentials, transfer an account, or access another person's account;
  • upload malware or any content that is unlawful, infringing, or harmful;
  • use the Service to build a competing catalog, library, or licensing service, or to identify our composers for the purpose of soliciting them to leave;
  • use the Service in any way that violates law, including sanctions, export control, advertising, and privacy law.

9. Intellectual Property

9.1 The Service. The Service, including its software, design, text, search technology, curation, and the compilation of the catalog, belongs to Echocraft or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Except for the limited right to use the Service as these Terms allow, no rights are granted to you.

9.2 The catalog. All compositions, recordings, stems, alternate versions, artwork, and related materials in the catalog are owned by Echocraft or by the artists we represent. Every right not expressly granted in an executed License is reserved.

9.3 Descriptions and tags. Track descriptions, tags, and search outputs are created with the assistance of artificial intelligence and reviewed by us. They are provided to help you find music. They are not representations about any third party, and any reference to another artist, work, or style is a descriptive comparison only.

9.4 Trademarks. Echocraft Sound Labs, the ESL name, and our logos are our trademarks. You may not use them without our written permission.

10. Fees and Payment

10.1 License fees are displayed on the Service before you commit to a purchase and may change at any time for future purchases. The fee for a License is fixed when you execute it.

10.2 Payment is processed by Stripe on Stripe's hosted checkout page. We do not receive or store your full card number. By paying, you agree to Stripe's terms for the transaction.

10.3 Fees are in United States dollars. You are responsible for any sales, use, value-added, withholding, or similar taxes, other than taxes on our income.

10.4 No refunds. License fees are non-refundable once a License is executed, as the License itself provides. Please review the License preview, the scope of use, and the fee before you pay.

10.5 Chargebacks. If you dispute a charge for an executed License with your card issuer instead of contacting us, we may suspend your account and treat the License as unpaid until the dispute is resolved in our favor, and you remain liable for the fee and our reasonable costs of collection.

11. Suspension and Termination

11.1 By you. You may request deletion of your account from your account settings or by writing to sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com. The Privacy Policy explains what happens next and what we keep.

11.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time as described in Section 4.5. Where practical we will tell you why.

11.3 Effect. When your account ends, your right to use the Service ends. Executed Licenses survive on their own terms (Section 5.4). Rights Agreements survive on their own terms. Sections 5, 7.3 (as to records), 7.8, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 survive.

12. Copyright Complaints

12.1 We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe material available through the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): identification of the copyrighted work, identification of the material you want removed and where it is, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature.

12.2 Designated agent. Joel Dean, Echocraft Sound Labs LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801. Email: sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com.

12.3 We may remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a notice, notify the person who provided it, and accept counter-notices under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

13. Artificial Intelligence in the Service

13.1 What is AI-assisted. The following are produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence systems provided by third parties, principally Google's Gemini models: the interpretation of a text, audio, video, or PDF reference you upload; the ranking and selection of search results; the explanation of why a result was suggested; and the descriptions and tags attached to catalog tracks. Catalog descriptions and tags are reviewed by us before publication. Search interpretations and explanations are generated for you in real time and are not individually reviewed.

13.2 You are interacting with an AI system whenever you run a reference search or read a generated explanation. We tell you this here and in the Service so that you can weigh those outputs accordingly. They are suggestions to help you find music, not advice, and they can be wrong.

13.3 What we do not do. We do not train any artificial intelligence model on Your Content, on the catalog, or on your use of the Service. Our AI providers process your uploads to produce your search and, under our agreements with them, may not use them to train or improve their models. Our reference-search provider keeps a log of requests for a limited period solely to detect abuse of its own service, as described in the Privacy Policy. Our confidentiality commitments for reference material are in Section 7.8.

13.4 Reference uploads. When you upload audio, video, or a brief for search, you are sending that material to be analyzed. Upload only material you are entitled to use for that purpose. The analysis produces a description of what your reference sounds or looks like; we do not identify people in videos or attempt to recognize faces or voices.

13.5 Personalization. The Service may reorder or suggest tracks based on your favorites, auditions, and searches. This affects only what you see first. It is not used to make any decision that has a legal or similarly significant effect on you.

14. Disclaimers

14.1 THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN AN EXECUTED LICENSE OR RIGHTS AGREEMENT, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

14.2 WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, THAT SEARCH RESULTS OR AI-GENERATED OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PROJECT, OR THAT ANY TRACK WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR LICENSE.

14.3 THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT THE WARRANTIES WE GIVE IN AN EXECUTED LICENSE ABOUT THE MUSIC LICENSED UNDER IT, WHICH ARE GOVERNED BY THAT LICENSE.

14.4 Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers. In those jurisdictions our warranties are limited to the minimum the law requires.

15. Limitation of Liability

15.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ECHOCRAFT AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

15.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$100) OR THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US THROUGH THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

15.3 THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT OUR LIABILITY UNDER AN EXECUTED LICENSE OR RIGHTS AGREEMENT, WHICH IS GOVERNED BY THAT AGREEMENT, AND DOES NOT LIMIT LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW.

16. Indemnification

16.1 You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Echocraft and its members, managers, employees, and agents from any third-party claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of Your Content, your breach of these Terms, your use of any comp, audition, or catalog music outside an executed License, or your violation of any law or of anyone's rights.

16.2 Our indemnification obligations with respect to licensed music are set out in the applicable License and nowhere else.

17. Governing Law; Arbitration; Class Waiver

17.1 These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

17.2 Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will first be submitted to good-faith mediation. If mediation does not resolve it within thirty (30) days, either party may submit the dispute to final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS in Los Angeles County, California, under its then-current rules, before a single arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or to enforce Sections 5, 8, or 9.

17.3 Individual basis. You agree to bring any claim against us only in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim must be severed and brought in court, and the remaining claims proceed in arbitration.

17.4 The prevailing party in any action to enforce these Terms may recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.

17.5 Disputes under an executed License are governed by the dispute-resolution terms of that License.

18. General

18.1 Electronic records. You agree to receive notices, agreements, and records from us electronically, and that your electronic acceptance, including clicking to accept at checkout, is your signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and equivalent laws.

18.2 Notices. Notices to us go to sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com or to Echocraft Sound Labs LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801. Notices to you go to the email address on your account.

18.3 Changes to these Terms. We may revise these Terms. If a revision is material, we will notify you by email or through the Service before it takes effect and may ask you to accept it again. Continued use after the effective date of a revision means you accept it. The version and effective date appear at the top of this page.

18.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor to our business.

18.5 Entire agreement; severability; waiver. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Cookie Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service, except for executed Licenses and Rights Agreements, which stand on their own. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

18.6 No agency. These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and us.

18.7 California residents. Under California Civil Code § 1789.3, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.

19. Contact

Echocraft Sound Labs LLC
30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801
sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com