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Zil Media LLC

Exclusive Agreement

RELEASE AGREEMENT

DATE:

TERRITORY: Worldwide.

RECORD COMPANY: COMPANY: Zil Media LLC

ADDRESS: 30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801

(the "Record Company").

ARTIST/S: LEGAL NAME:

ARTIST NAME:

ADDRESS:

POSTAL CODE:

CITY:

COUNTRY:

NUMBER ID:

EMAIL:

(the "Artist").

TRACK INFORMATION: ARTIST:

TITTLE:

COMPOSED BY:

OTHER CREDITS TO BE INCLUDED:

IT IS HEREBY AGREED THAT:

MASTER RECORDING: Including all mixes and related remixes.

CHANNEL / LABEL: The Master Recording will initially be released, distributed, and
marketed as a Zil Media LLC release.

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RIGHTS/OWNERSHIP: Artist hereby assigns and license to Company all rights and title in
and to the Master Recordings by the Artist as set out in Schedule
A here to. The company shall have the right to exploit the Master
Recordings in any format or by any method (whether now known
or hereafter devised) without any restrictions in time or territory.
This includes synchronization rights based on the same net profit
splits as on sales.

Artist hereby warrants, represents, and covenants that he has


exclusively and full right and title to the Master Recordings and
necessary consent from any copyright owner or artist other than
the owner of rights to enable it to enter into this agreement. Artist
shall be solely responsible to pay all sums due to the individual
producer of Master Recordings and all other parties engaged by
the artist and entitled to receive royalties in connection with the
sale of records and audio-visual recordings derived from the
Master Recordings.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Label and any


person and/or entity authorized by Label has the unlimited,
exclusive and perpetual right throughout the Territory:

a- To manufacture and/or distribute records by any and all


methods now or hereafter known embodying any portion or all of
the performances embodied on the Master Recording (including,
without limitation, the right to couple the Master Recording with
other recordings on digital and/or physical compilations records);
to publicly perform such records and to permit the public
performance thereof in any medium,

b- To remix, edit or adapt the Master Recording to conform to


technological or commercial requirements in various formats now
or hereafter known or developed, or to eliminate material which
might subject Label to any legal action;
and/or to use and authorize the use of the Master Recording for
background music, synchronization in motion pictures and
television soundtracks and other similar purposes.

Without limiting the foregoing, Label and its subsidiaries, affiliates


and licensees may, at their election, delay or refrain from doing
any one or more of the foregoing.
Label and any licensee of Label each has the right, without liability
to any person and/or entity, and may grant to others the right, to
reproduce, print, publish or disseminate in any medium Artist’s
name, the names, portraits, pictures and likenesses of the Artist
and individual producer and all other persons performing services
in connection with Master Recording and biographical material
concerning them for purposes of advertising, promotion and trade
in connection with the exploitation of records hereunder.

ROYALTY ON SALES: The label will commercially exploit the master recording for digital
or physical purchase or/and exploit the license. Artist shall be
entitled to 50% of the Net Profits earned from such exploitation. If
the label does decide to commercially exploit the master recording
for digital or physical purchase, Label will not be obligated to make
royalty payments to Artist until Artists’s royalty payments are in
excess of One Hundred (100) United States Dollars.

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“Net Profits” shall mean gross amounts received by Company
from the exploitation of the Master Recordings in any media or
configuration now known or hereafter devised, through a third
party (3rd party license) and including all digital and physical
exploitations whether directly or through a third-party license
(“Gross Receipts”), less the following cost which shall be
deducted “off the top” prior to the split of Net Profits, but excluding
Advances which shall be recoupable solely from Artist's share of
Net Profits;

a. Returns, reasonable reserves in respect of anticipated returns,


as well as any other offsets, credits, deductions, charges,
charge-backs and adjustments;
b. Recording Costs or any amounts paid to Company as
reimbursement for Recording Costs;
c. Retail coop costs and manufacturing costs;
d. Mechanical royalties; and
e. Distribution and services fee payable to Company’s distributor;

LICENSES: Label, in its sole discretion, will determine if the master recording
shall be licensed to another label, collective, individual, or any
other third party. Should label License the master recording to any
third party.

USE OF NAME & Artist grants Zil Media the right to use Artist’s likeness,
LIKENESS: photograph, and biographical material and the like.

WARRANTIES/ Artist hereby warrants and represents that:


REPRESENTATIONS:
a- Artist has the right to enter into this agreement;
b- Artist freely and voluntary enters into this agreement;
c- Artist is the sole and exclusive owner of the Subject Content
and all rights in them, under copyright and otherwise, throughout
the Territory;
d- Artist has not, nor has any person and/or entity, licensed, sold
or assigned to any other person and/or entity or otherwise
disposed of any right, title or interest in or to the Subject Content;
e- Each person and/or entity who rendered any service in
connection with, or who otherwise contributed in any way to the
making of the Subject Content granted to Artist the rights referred
to in this agreement and that each such person and/or entity had
the full right, power and authority to do so, and was not bound by
any agreement which would restrict such person and/or entity
from rendering such services or granting such rights;

all costs and expenses with respect to the making of the Subject
Content have been paid by you; none of the Subject Content
acquired by Label hereunder (including, without limitation, the
performances embodied on the Master Recording) nor any use of
the Subject Content by Label or its grantees, licensees or assigns
will violate or infringe upon the rights of any person and/or entity;
Artist further warrants and represents that they personally will not
upload nor authorize any other company, channel, collective,
label, organization, individual or third party to upload the master
recording to their Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Youtube accounts or any
other audio streaming platform without the express written consent

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of label. Artist acknowledges that a breach of this warranty and
representation will cause irreparable harm to the label.

INDEMNIFICATION: Artist will indemnify and hold Record Company harmless from any
and all third party claims, liabilities, losses, costs or expenses
(including, without limitation, attorney fees) that are incurred that
arises out of or relating to Artist’s acts and/or omissions that occur
hereunder and/or arising out of any breach or anticipated breach
by Artist of any warranty, representation or agreement made by
Artist herein.

Artist agrees to indemnify and hold Company harmless against


any and all actions or claims proceeding costs loss and liability
whatsoever in respect of or arising from any claim by any third
party in connection with the licensing of the products and the sale
thereof.

SEVERABILITY CLAUSE: If any provision hereof shall be for any reason be deemed illegal
or unenforceable, it shall not affect the validity or enforceability of
the remaining provisions hereof. Furthermore, if one of the clauses
herein is breached by either one of the parties, the remainder of
the contract shall retain its validity and enforceability.

INDEPENDENT This agreement shall not be construed in any way to create a


CONTRACTOR: partnership between the parties, and the parties understand that
both the Artist and Label are acting hereunder as an independent
contractor.

CONFIDENTIALITY: The existence of this term sheet, its provisions, and the
discussions between the parties and their respective agents shall
be held in confidence by Artist in accordance with standard
confidentiality terms. Artist will maintain all confidential information
developed or learned hereunder in confidence in accordance with
standard confidentiality terms.

Artist will not share information related to this contract, any


confidential, strategic, or vital information, including private
analytics or any information that can benefit a third party.

LEGAL ADVICE: Artist acknowledges that Artist has had the opportunity to consult
legal counsel in regard to this Agreement, has read and
understands this Agreement, is fully aware of its legal effect, and
has entered into it freely and voluntarily and not on any
representations or promises other than those contained in this
Agreement.

DISCLAIMER: It is understood and mutually agreed that this agreement is the


final written agreement between the parties and supersedes all
previous and contemporaneous oral or written agreements issued
in relation to the master. Any terms or clauses that may have been
discussed, which is not included in this agreement within the four
corners of the document, shall not be considered part of this
contract.

This agreement is according with Wyoming, United States Laws.

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This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the United States and the courts of
Wyoming shall reside over any proceedings. In the event of any
dispute relating to this Agreement, the Parties agree to initially
make a full and good faith attempt to resolve such dispute by
negotiation, to the extent reasonable under the circumstances,
before initiating a judicial procedure. Any dispute, controversy, or
claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, or the
breach, termination, or invalidity thereof, shall be finally settled by
United States courts.

This Agreement has been executed in one (1) copies of which Parties have received one copy
each.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement the day and year
hereinabove the first written:

ARTIST/S:

______________________

DATE:
LEGAL NAME:

LABEL REPRESENTANT:

______________________

DATE:
LEGAL NAME:

End the contract.

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