Terms and Conditions

Vesta may provide services to individual artists, labels, managers, rights holders, music companies, distributors, white-label clients, enterprise partners, and other business customers. Different services may be available to different categories of users depending on eligibility, territory, rights status, verification, business needs, platform requirements, and Vesta's internal approval process.

If you use Vesta on behalf of a company, label, distributor, artist, catalog owner, or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity and its relevant catalog, users, artists, rights holders, and representatives to these Terms and to any applicable service terms.

You may use the website and platform only in compliance with these Terms, any applicable service-specific terms, and all applicable laws, regulations, platform rules, and third-party requirements. You agree not to misuse the website or platform, interfere with its operation, attempt unauthorized access, bypass security measures, scrape data without authorization, submit fraudulent information, or use Vesta in an unlawful, abusive, deceptive, or harmful manner.

Vesta may offer music distribution, catalog management, metadata delivery, royalty reporting, payout administration, analytics, content review, rights administration, licensing support, verification services, white-label solutions, API access, custom enterprise tools, and other services. The availability, scope, pricing, deliverables, timelines, territories, reporting frequency, service levels, and eligibility requirements may vary significantly depending on the client, account type, catalog, plan, deal structure, and written agreement.

Unless expressly stated otherwise in a written agreement, information displayed on the website, in marketing materials, in dashboards, or in communications does not constitute a binding offer to provide any specific service under any specific terms.

Vesta may use different pricing and commercial models for different users and services. These may include, without limitation:

• free or promotional plans;
• subscription plans;
• per-release, per-track, per-album, per-catalog, or per-delivery fees;
• commission-based, revenue-share, or royalty-percentage arrangements;
• setup, onboarding, migration, takedown, correction, re-delivery, processing, payout, administrative, or support fees;
• custom pricing for labels, large catalogs, distributors, white-label clients, or enterprise partners;
• minimum guarantees, advances, recoupable costs, reserves, thresholds, chargebacks, deductions, or other custom business terms; and
• separate pricing for optional add-on services, rights services, analytics, API access, reporting, payment support, or premium support.

All pricing, deductions, revenue shares, payout rules, payment timing, taxes, reserves, refund rules, and account-specific commercial terms may be further described in the applicable plan page, order form, service agreement, invoice, dashboard notice, or other written arrangement. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and a signed or otherwise accepted service agreement, the service agreement controls for the specific service covered by that agreement.

Certain services may be subject to separate agreements, order forms, statements of work, plan terms, distribution agreements, white-label agreements, API agreements, payout terms, label agreements, enterprise agreements, or other written arrangements. Those agreements may include additional or different terms regarding pricing, rights, payments, deliverables, service levels, ownership, confidentiality, data use, liability, termination, and dispute resolution.

If there is any conflict between these Terms and a separate signed or accepted agreement, the separate agreement will control with respect to the specific service, catalog, account, or relationship covered by that agreement.

Certain parts of the website or platform may require an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity carried out under your account. You agree to provide accurate, complete, current, and non-misleading information and to keep that information up to date.

Vesta may require identity, business, rights, tax, banking, payout, or catalog verification before activating an account, delivering content, processing payments, providing certain services, or continuing a relationship. Vesta may refuse, suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts that fail verification or create legal, commercial, platform, payment, fraud, rights, or reputational risk.

You are solely responsible for all music, artwork, videos, metadata, names, logos, trademarks, credits, splits, ownership information, releases, catalog information, and other content or materials submitted by you or on your behalf. You must own or control all rights necessary for Vesta to provide the requested services, or you must have obtained all required licenses, permissions, consents, approvals, and authorizations from the relevant rights holders.

By submitting content or information to Vesta, you grant Vesta and its service providers, distributors, platform partners, payment partners, and other operational partners the non-exclusive rights necessary to host, store, reproduce, format, transmit, deliver, distribute, monetize, report on, administer, display, process, and otherwise use the content and information for the purpose of providing the requested services and complying with applicable laws, platform requirements, and partner rules.

Where Vesta provides royalty reporting, revenue collection, payout, or accounting services, reports and balances may depend on information received from digital service providers, payment processors, collection partners, sub-distributors, platforms, licensors, advertisers, and other third parties. Such information may be delayed, revised, estimated, adjusted, reversed, or subject to dispute.

Vesta may deduct or withhold amounts permitted by the applicable plan, agreement, law, tax requirement, payment processor rule, platform rule, refund, chargeback, fraud claim, rights dispute, audit issue, administrative cost, reserve policy, or other applicable requirement. Vesta may set minimum payout thresholds, require tax or banking information, delay payouts for verification, and suspend payouts where there is suspected fraud, infringement, account abuse, ownership dispute, payment error, or legal risk.

Vesta Music does not guarantee that any content will generate revenue, be monetized by any platform, remain monetized, or receive any minimum number of streams, views, downloads, plays, placements, or earnings.

Vesta's services may rely on third-party platforms, digital service providers, collection societies, distributors, payment processors, analytics providers, hosting providers, identity-verification providers, rights databases, fraud-detection tools, and other partners. Vesta is not responsible for the actions, omissions, policies, outages, delays, rejections, takedowns, payment decisions, content decisions, reporting changes, monetization decisions, or technical issues of third parties.

Content acceptance, availability, monetization, territories, delivery timing, takedown timing, and reporting may depend on third-party rules and decisions. Third-party platforms may reject, remove, demonetize, modify, reclassify, restrict, or delay content for reasons outside Vesta's control.

All content, design elements, branding, logos, text, graphics, software, dashboards, tools, documentation, workflows, know-how, and other materials made available by Vesta are owned by or licensed to Vesta unless otherwise stated. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, distributed, reverse engineered, resold, sublicensed, or used without prior written permission except as permitted by law or by an applicable written agreement.

You retain ownership of your submitted content, subject to the licenses and permissions needed for Vesta to provide the requested services and comply with applicable rules and laws.

Certain users may receive non-public pricing, reports, dashboards, technology, APIs, account terms, commercial proposals, catalog information, or business information from Vesta. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, you agree not to disclose Vesta's confidential or proprietary information to third parties except as reasonably necessary for your authorized use of the services or as required by law.

Vesta may reject, suspend, restrict, remove, disable, delay, withhold, terminate, or take down any account, content, payout, service, delivery, or catalog if Vesta believes that doing so is necessary or appropriate due to legal risk, infringement concerns, rights disputes, fraud, abuse, payment issues, policy violations, platform requirements, incomplete verification, inaccurate information, or reputational, commercial, or operational risk.

Termination or suspension does not automatically eliminate amounts owed, accrued deductions, recoupment rights, indemnity obligations, confidentiality obligations, reporting obligations, or other terms that by their nature should survive.

Vesta may provide operational, administrative, rights-related, distribution-related, or music-industry information. Unless expressly agreed in writing, Vesta does not provide legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, or professional advice. You are responsible for obtaining your own professional advice where needed.

The website, platform, dashboards, reports, and services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis unless otherwise expressly stated in a written agreement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vesta disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy, non-infringement, uninterrupted operation, and error-free operation.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vesta shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; lost profits; lost revenue; lost data; loss of goodwill; business interruption; platform rejection; takedown; demonetization; payment delay; or third-party action arising out of or related to the website, platform, services, content, account, or these Terms, even if Vesta has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, Vesta's aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the services shall not exceed the amounts actually paid by you to Vesta for the specific service giving rise to the claim during the six months before the event giving rise to liability, or USD 100, whichever is greater, to the extent permitted by law.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Vesta, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, service providers, and partners from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, and fees, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your content, your account, your use of the services, your breach of these Terms or any applicable agreement, your violation of law, your inaccurate or fraudulent information, your payment or tax information, or your violation of any third-party rights.

Vesta may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the website, platform, services, plans, pricing, features, or tools at any time, subject to any applicable written agreement. Vesta may update these Terms by posting a revised version or providing notice through the website, platform, email, or other reasonable means. Continued use of the website, platform, or services after updates become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

If you have questions regarding these Terms, you may contact Vesta at:

The Vesta Music Corporation

legal@vestamusic.com