Music Licensing & Usage Rights
1. The basics
This page summarises, in plain language, what you can do with the music you generate on MeloAI. It is a summary — the full terms, including ownership and the licence you grant us for public tracks, are in our Terms of Service, which prevail if there is any conflict.
As between you and MeloAI, and provided you follow our Terms and pay any applicable fees, the tracks you generate are yours to use within the scope of your plan, described below.
2. What you can do, by plan
Free plan
Personal, non-commercial use, with "Made with MeloAI" attribution when you share the track outside the Service. No monetisation and no release to streaming or download stores.
Daily plan
Personal use, including sharing on your own social channels without attribution. No monetisation and no release to streaming or download stores.
Weekly plan
Full commercial use of tracks generated while the plan is active — monetisation, streaming release, sync, and client work — with no attribution required.
The current price, credit allowance, and exact benefits of each plan are shown in the app and may change over time.
Your rights are fixed when the track is generated. A track keeps the usage rights of the plan you were on at the moment you generated it: tracks generated while a commercial plan was active remain usable commercially even after that plan lapses, and tracks generated on the free plan stay personal-use even if you upgrade later. If you need commercial rights for a track generated on a lower plan, see section 10.
3. What "commercial use" means
Where your plan permits commercial use, you may — subject to our Terms, our Guidelines, and the rules of any platform you publish on — use eligible tracks in, for example:
- monetised videos, podcasts, and livestreams;
- releases on streaming and download stores (via a distributor);
- advertisements, promos, and client or commissioned work;
- games, apps, films, and other productions (synchronisation);
- public performance, DJ sets, and venues, where local performance rules allow.
Where your plan is for personal, non-commercial use, you may not sell the tracks, use them in paid work, or earn money from them — including platform monetisation programs.
4. Using your tracks on other platforms
You may share and (on eligible plans) distribute your tracks on third-party platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or streaming services. When you do:
- Follow that platform's rules, including any requirement to label AI-generated content. Many platforms now require AI disclosure; mislabelling can get your upload or account penalised there.
- Use a distributor for streaming stores (Spotify, Apple Music, and similar) and provide accurate metadata. Do not name a real artist you are not, and do not use "MeloAI" as your artist name.
- Keep your generation history. Your account's record of a generation (prompt, date, track) is your evidence of provenance if a platform or third party questions the track's origin.
- Expect that platform decisions are the platform's. A platform may claim, demonetise, label, or remove content under its own policies; we cannot control or reverse those decisions, and rights we grant you do not guarantee acceptance or monetisation there.
5. Content ID and rights-management systems
Because output is AI-generated and not exclusive (see section 6), you must not register a generated track — or permit a distributor, label, publisher, or collecting society to register it — in fingerprinting or rights-management systems (such as YouTube Content ID) or performance-royalty databases in a way that would let you claim against other people's legitimate content, including other MeloAI users' tracks.
If someone else's claim hits a track you generated (for example, a Content ID claim on your video), you can usually dispute it through the platform using your generation record as evidence. If you believe another party has wrongly registered MeloAI output as their own, report it to [email protected].
6. No exclusivity
AI models can produce similar or even matching results for different users, and output may resemble existing works. We do not guarantee that any track is unique or that no similar track exists or will exist, on or off MeloAI. Rights we grant are non-exclusive rights to use your generated track — they are not a guarantee of ownership of a melody, style, or sound in general.
7. Remixes, covers, and reference audio
If your generation uses material you brought — uploaded reference audio, someone else's lyrics, or a recognisable existing song — the rights to that underlying material are separate and stay with its owners. A licence from us never covers third-party material inside your Inputs: releasing a cover, a remix of someone's recording, or a track built on someone's lyrics requires permission from those rights holders, and is your responsibility.
8. Public tracks and the platform licence
When you publish a track, you keep your rights to it but grant MeloAI a licence to host, stream, display, and promote it within the Service and in our marketing channels, as described in our Terms. Making a track private or deleting it ends that licence going forward, except for routine backups kept for a limited time and promotional materials already published.
9. What you can't do
- Claim a generated track was made by a real artist who did not make it, or strip AI labels to pass it off as fully human-made where disclosure is required.
- Register a generated track with a content-ID, publishing, or royalty-collection system in a way that blocks or claims against other legitimate content (section 5).
- Resell, sublicense, or redistribute tracks as a catalogue or service — for example, stock-music libraries, sample packs, or datasets — or use output to train or improve another AI model.
- Remove or falsify provenance signals: generated files and pages may carry metadata, identifiers, or inaudible watermarks marking them as AI-generated on MeloAI, and stripping them to disguise a track's origin is prohibited.
- Use "MeloAI" in your artist name or imply we endorse your release.
- Use tracks in ways prohibited by our Guidelines or by applicable law.
10. Per-track licences and written confirmation
If you need commercial rights for a track generated on a non-commercial plan, or a written licence confirmation for a client, broadcaster, or platform, contact [email protected] with the track link. We can confirm the applicable rights in writing and may offer a per-track commercial licence where available.
11. Questions
For licensing questions, contact [email protected].
