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Artist AgreementThank you for your interest in our contest. Please read the artist agreement carefully before submitting your application.

A service fee of $195.00 will be charged to your credit card when your application is approved.

This Agreement describes the legal relationship and contract between you (an individual, representing yourself, or if applicable, acting as a legal representative for a minor, band, group, company or corporation) and Premier Studios (collectively with our licensees and assignees sometimes referred to in this Agreement as "we" and "us") the owner and operator of the web pages at "www.artistovation.com" (the "AO Site"). This Agreement supersedes all previous agreements or arrangements between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.

Through the AO Site we offer you valuable promotional services to help you get your music heard and obtain as much exposure as possible. In order to effectively promote your music through our Artist Ovation website and through other marketing channels, we need to ask you to grant us certain non-exclusive rights to use your music and other content you submit to us. Accordingly, we ask that you please read this Agreement carefully, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

  1. Certain Definitions. As used herein: (a) any and all recordings that are submitted by you are referred to as "Masters"; (b) any and all photographs, artwork, biographical information (whether concerning you, artist or any member of artist, producers and/or songwriters (collectively the "Participants")), track titles and credits, logos and any other materials submitted by you are referred to as "Related Materials.
  2. Authorization.
    1. During the Term you hereby grant to us and our licensees the non-exclusive, worldwide right to:
      • Reproduce, distribute and/or display the Related Materials in connection with uses of the Masters as provided for herein.
      • Use the masters - In that connection, you specifically warrant and represent that you have obtained all the necessary rights, licenses and permissions from any and all third parties such as, without limitation, publishers and/or authors, as may be desirable or necessary to authorize use of each Composition as provided herein.
      • Use the Submitted Content as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to exercise any of the rights granted pursuant to this Agreement.
    2. We and our licensees shall have the right to use the Submitted Content in the same manner as authorized herein in connection with the AO Site and on any other websites that are owned, controlled, or licensed by us or our licensees.
    3. Nothing herein shall obligate us to exercise any rights granted under this Agreement, and any use of Submitted Content shall be made at our sole election. We have the right to review, edit, alter, decline to post or remove any Submitted Content from the AO Site at our discretion.
    4. f. You agree to be bound by the policies posted by us from time to time on the AO Site with respect to the services provided by us.
  3. Your Obligations.
    1. You shall obtain and pay for any and all necessary clearances and licenses that may be required in connection with the uses of Submitted Content as provided for herein. Specifically, you shall be responsible for and timely pay: (i) any royalties and other sums due to artists, authors, co-authors, copyright owners, producers and any other record royalty participants from performances or other uses of the Masters; (ii) all royalties and other sums (including, without limitation, mechanical royalties, print royalties, synchronization royalties, and performance royalties) payable to publishers and/or authors or co-authors from performances or other uses of the Compositions; (iii) all payments that may be required under collective bargaining agreements applicable to you or third parties; and (iv) any other royalties, fees and/or sums payable with respect to the delivery and use of Submitted Content hereunder.
    2. If there is a change of circumstance as a result of which you reasonably believe that you do not have, or no longer have, the rights necessary to authorize us and/or any or our licensees to use any Submitted Content as provided herein, then you shall promptly provide us with notice hereunder of such fact, and we shall have the right to remove all or any of the Submitted Content and/or terminate the Term of this Agreement pursuant to Paragraph 6 below. Such removal and/or termination shall not relieve you of any of your obligations hereunder.
  4. Names and Likenesses; Promotional Uses and Opportunities.
    1. During the Term, we may use and authorize our licensees to use and publish the Related Materials, as well as the names and likenesses of the Participants, in connection with the marketing, promotion and advertising of the applicable Masters.
    2. During the Term, we and any of our licensees shall have the unrestricted, royalty-free right to market, promote and advertise the Submitted Content as we determine in our sole discretion, including, without limitation, the right to use the Submitted Content: (i) in promotional digital audio streams (which Masters may be used as individual tracks or coupled with other master recordings); and (ii) to market, promote, and advertise AO Site or any other websites that are owned, controlled, affiliated with, or licensed by us or our licensees, in any and all media now or hereafter known (e.g., radio, internet, TV, print). Without limiting the foregoing, we and any of our licensees shall have the right to determine which master recordings, irrespective of any particular artist, record company or label affiliation, would best further our commercial purposes, and to promote such master recordings more than others.
  5. Ownership.As between you and us, and except as to any of our rights (whether pre-existing or under this Agreement), all right, title and interest in and to the Submitted Content shall remain your property, provided that under no circumstances shall we have any lesser rights than we would have as a member of the general public.
  6. Termination, Modification and Effect of Termination.
    1. Both parties shall have the right to terminate the Term of this Agreement at any time and for any reason by sending notice hereunder of their election to terminate the Term of this Agreement to the other party.
    2. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or delete all or part of the provisions of this Agreement.
  7. Additional Representations and Warranties.
    1. You represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age (If you are under eighteen (18) years of age, only your parent or legal guardian may enter into this Agreement on your behalf).
    2. You represent and warrant that you have the full authority to act on behalf of any and all owners of any right, title and/or interest in and to any of the Submitted Content hereunder.
    3. You represent and warrant that you have the full authority to enter into this Agreement and to fully perform your obligations hereunder and have obtained all necessary third-party consents, licenses and permissions necessary to enter into and fully perform your obligations herein.
    4. You represent and warrant that you own or control the necessary rights, including, without limitation, the copyright in and to any element of the Submitted Content, in order to make the grant of rights, licenses and permissions herein, and that the exercise of such rights, licenses and permissions by us hereto shall not violate or infringe the rights of any third party.
    5. You represent and warrant that the Submitted Content does not and will not violate any law or be defamatory, libelous, pornographic, explicit, vulgar, or obscene.
  8. General Provisions
    1. No Agency or Joint Venture.You and we agree and acknowledge that the relationship between you and us is that of an independent contractor. This Agreement shall not be deemed to create a partnership or joint venture, and neither party is the other's agent, partner, employee, or representative.
    2. Entire Agreement, Modification,Waiver. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter hereof. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement in any instance shall not be deemed or construed as a waiver of such term or condition for the future. If any provision of this Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such determination shall not affect any other provision hereof, and the unenforceable provision shall be replaced by an enforceable provision that most closely meets the commercial intent of the parties.
    3. Notices.Any notice, approval, request, authorization, direction or other communication given to you under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been delivered and given for all purposes on the delivery date if sent by electronic mail or regular mail to the addresses provided by you upon registration with the AO Site, or as properly updated.
    4. Governing Law.This Agreement shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Kansas applicable to agreements entered into and wholly to be performed therein, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.
    5. Remedies.To the extent permitted by applicable law, the rights and remedies of the parties provided under this Agreement are cumulative and in addition to any other rights and remedies of the parties at law or equity.
    6. Headings.The titles used in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting the Agreement.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their authorized successors and permitted assigns. Nothing herein, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any person or entity, other than the parties hereto and their authorized successors and permitted assigns, any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.

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