Music Generation Rights & Royalties
Last updated: January 31, 2026
This policy applies to music generated using Cinevva tools (including the music generator at /tools/music). It is part of the Terms of Service. If this policy conflicts with the Terms of Service, this policy controls for music generation.
1. Definitions
"Music Output" means any audio, lyrics, metadata, artwork, stems, renders, or other materials generated by the Service in response to your prompt or inputs.
"Inputs" means anything you provide to the Service, including prompts, text lyrics, and uploaded vocal recordings.
"Free Plan Output" means Music Output generated while your account is on a free plan at the time of generation.
"Paid Plan Output" means Music Output generated while your account is on a paid plan at the time of generation.
"Label Release" means distribution or exploitation by Cinevva under the Cinevva label, including release to streaming platforms, downloads, compilations, albums, sync licensing, marketing placements, and sublicensing.
"Net Receipts" means money we actually receive that is directly attributable to a specific Label Release, minus reasonable third-party fees and costs such as distributor/DSP fees, payment processing, refunds, chargebacks, and taxes collected and remitted.
2. Plan at time of generation
Your rights and our rights are determined by your plan at the time the Music Output is generated. Upgrading later does not automatically change the rights for past generations.
3. Free Plan Output: Cinevva commercial rights
For Free Plan Output:
You grant Cinevva an exclusive, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual license to use, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, communicate to the public, sell, license, market, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, and otherwise exploit the Free Plan Output for any commercial purpose, including Label Release.
You may use Free Plan Output for personal use and non-monetized sharing. You may not monetize Free Plan Output or use it commercially anywhere outside Cinevva. That includes releasing it on streaming platforms, selling it, licensing it for a game or film, using it in ads, or monetizing videos containing it.
This applies even if you never download the Free Plan Output.
4. Paid Plan Output: your rights
For Paid Plan Output:
As between you and Cinevva, you own the Paid Plan Output.
You grant Cinevva a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, process, store, reproduce, and display the Paid Plan Output as needed to provide and secure the Service.
Cinevva will not use your Paid Plan Output for external marketing or promotions unless you opt in. Opt-in can be controlled at the account level and overridden per track.
5. Inputs, lyrics, and uploaded vocals
You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to provide your Inputs, and that your Inputs do not infringe or misappropriate any third-party rights.
You grant Cinevva a worldwide, royalty-free license to use your Inputs to operate the Service, including generating Music Output and enforcing this policy.
If your Music Output is a Free Plan Output, you also grant Cinevva the rights needed to commercially exploit the Free Plan Output as described in Section 3, including any Inputs embodied in that output.
We may block, restrict, or refuse generation or release if we believe content violates law, infringes rights, or creates elevated risk for distribution.
6. Buyout for Free Plan Output (conversion to paid ownership)
We may offer a buyout option that allows you to convert a specific Free Plan Output into Paid Plan Output terms.
Buyout is only available before Cinevva completes a Label Release for that output.
If buyout is completed:
Cinevva will stop new commercial exploitation of that output going forward.
Your royalty participation for that output ends as of the buyout effective date.
If an output was already released as a Label Release, buyout is not available.
7. Royalties for Free Plan Output
If Cinevva commercially exploits a Free Plan Output as a Label Release, you are eligible for royalties for that output.
Royalty rate: 20% of Net Receipts attributable to that output.
Royalties are calculated and reported monthly. We may delay payment until your payable balance reaches $50.
Payments may require identity verification and tax forms. If you do not complete onboarding, we will accrue balances until you do, subject to applicable law.
We may make reasonable adjustments for refunds, chargebacks, fraud, duplicate payments, and distributor corrections.
8. Takedowns and delisting for Label Releases
If Cinevva has released a Free Plan Output as a Label Release, you may request that we delist it going forward.
Delisting is not immediate. Third-party platforms and caches can take time to update, and we do not control their timelines.
Delisting does not claw back past revenue already earned, and it does not claw back royalties already paid.
9. Enforcement
We may use automated systems and manual review to enforce this policy, prevent abuse, and protect rights holders.
If we believe you are monetizing Free Plan Output externally or otherwise violating this policy, we may restrict access to tools, remove content, suspend accounts, and pursue other remedies available to us.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy:
Email: [email protected]