Terms of Use

Effective date: September 24, 2026

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the TECHNOLOGY BEATS website at tchnbeats.com, including every page, audio preview, download, form and service offered through it (together, the “Site”). In these Terms, “TECHNOLOGY BEATS”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the operator of the Site, and “you” refers to any visitor, customer, artist or client. Please read them carefully. They sit alongside our licensing guide, our Refund & Delivery Policy and our Privacy Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

1. Acceptance of These Terms

By browsing the Site, streaming a preview, creating an account, submitting a form, purchasing a license or booking a service, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Site and must not purchase or use any beat, loop kit, sound kit or service offered here.

When you purchase a specific license, the license agreement delivered with that purchase (usually as a PDF contract attached to your order) governs your use of that particular beat. If there is a direct conflict between these Terms and a signed or delivered license agreement, the license agreement controls for that beat, and these Terms control for everything else.

2. Eligibility

You may use the Site and make purchases only if you are at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, and legally able to enter into a binding contract. If you are under that age, you may use the Site only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must complete any purchase and who accepts these Terms on your behalf.

If you buy a license or book a service on behalf of a label, management company, collective or other business, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” then includes that entity. You may not use the Site if you have previously been banned from it or if doing so would violate sanctions or other laws that apply to you.

3. Website Use and Acceptable Use

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, revocable permission to access the Site and stream the tagged previews for the purpose of evaluating beats before purchase. Previews are watermarked (voice-tagged) and streamed at reduced quality; they are not licensed for any release, performance or upload.

While using the Site you agree not to:

• download, rip, record or capture preview audio by any means (browser tools, stream rippers, screen recorders, stem-separation software) or attempt to remove the voice tag from a preview;
• use a tagged preview in any released song, freestyle, livestream, social post, snippet or music video, even for “promotion only”;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download pages, metadata, artwork or audio, or use automated tools that place an unreasonable load on the Site;
• probe, scan or test the Site for vulnerabilities, bypass security or payment controls, or interfere with other users;
• submit false information, impersonate another person or artist, or use stolen or unauthorized payment methods;
• upload or send malware, spam, harassing content or anything unlawful through our contact form or any other channel;
• frame, mirror or copy the Site, or present our beats, artwork or brand as your own.

We may suspend access, cancel orders or revoke licenses where we reasonably believe these rules have been broken.

4. Accounts and Orders

Some purchases may require you to create an account with us or with the checkout provider we use. You are responsible for keeping your login details confidential, for all activity under your account, and for ensuring that the name and email on your order are accurate — the license agreement is issued in the name you provide, and we cannot re-issue contracts to a different party without a formal transfer approved in writing by us.

An order is complete only when payment has been successfully captured and a confirmation with download links has been generated. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel any order, including where a beat has already been sold exclusively, where pricing was displayed in error, or where we suspect fraud. If we cancel a paid order for one of these reasons, we will refund the amount paid in line with our Refund & Delivery Policy.

Please download your files promptly and keep a secure backup together with your license PDF. Your license agreement is your proof of rights when distributors, labels, publishers or platforms ask for documentation.

5. Beat Licenses Overview

All beats are sold as licenses, not as ownership of the underlying composition or master, unless you buy Exclusive Rights. Leases (MP3, WAV, Trackout and Unlimited) are non-exclusive: the same beat may be licensed to other artists at the same time until it is sold exclusively. The table below summarizes our standard tiers. Exact rights for each beat are set out in the license agreement delivered at checkout, and the detailed explanation lives in our licensing guide.

Key points that apply to all leases:

• What counts as a stream or copy. “Audio streams” means combined plays across audio streaming services (for example Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Audiomack). “Distribution copies” means paid downloads and physical units (digital sales, CDs, vinyl). Music video views are counted separately under the music video allowance and are not capped for a single licensed video unless your agreement states otherwise.
• One song per license. Each lease covers one new song (one master recording) created with the beat. Remixes, alternate versions and sped-up or slowed versions of the same song are treated as the same song only when released under the same title and artist.
• Reaching a cap. When your song approaches the distribution or stream cap, you must upgrade to a higher tier or to Exclusive Rights before exceeding it. Upgrade pricing is described in the Refund & Delivery Policy.
• Performances. Live performances of your song at shows are permitted for all tiers, including for-profit shows, unless the license agreement states otherwise.
• Ownership. TECHNOLOGY BEATS retains copyright in the instrumental composition and sound recording. You own the lyrics, vocals and your own contributions to your song, subject to the credit and publishing terms set out in your license agreement.
• Exclusive sale ends future leasing. If a beat is later sold exclusively, existing leases remain valid under their original terms and caps, but that beat will no longer be offered for new leases.

6. Credit Requirement

Every use of a beat under any license, including Exclusive Rights, requires producer credit. Wherever credits appear, you must credit the producer as:

prod. by Technology

This credit must appear in the song title or description on YouTube and other video platforms, in the producer or credits field when you submit the release through your distributor, and in the credits section on physical products and liner notes where applicable. On platforms with limited metadata (for example short-form video captions), a reasonable good-faith equivalent such as “prod. Technology” is acceptable. Failure to credit is a breach of your license and may be grounds for termination under section 18.

7. Prohibited Uses of Licensed Beats

Regardless of the license tier purchased, you may not:

• Resell, sublicense or redistribute the beat as an instrumental, in whole or in part, including on beat stores, sample marketplaces, file-sharing sites, or as part of a “beat pack”, loop pack or sound kit.
• Register the instrumental alone with Content ID or any similar audio-fingerprinting system (YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram Rights Manager, TikTok or distributor-level fingerprinting). Only your finished song, with your vocals, may be registered, and only where your license tier allows it (see section 8).
• Sample, chop or rework the beat to create other beats or instrumentals, including using the stems, melodies, 808 patterns or drum sequences as a basis for new productions offered to other artists.
• Use the beat, stems or previews to train, fine-tune, evaluate or prompt any artificial intelligence or machine-learning system, including voice models, music-generation models and stem-separation training sets, or feed them into AI tools that produce derivative instrumentals.
• Register the instrumental with a performing rights organization or publishing administrator as your own composition, or claim sole writer credit for the underlying music.
• Transfer or assign your lease to another person, or use one lease for more than one song, without our written consent.
• Use the beat in content that is defamatory, promotes violence against identifiable people, infringes someone else’s rights, or is otherwise unlawful.
• Use the beat in film, TV, advertising, video games or commercial sync placements beyond what your license expressly allows. Sync opportunities outside the license must be cleared with us in writing first.

8. Content ID and YouTube

Lease holders may upload their finished song to YouTube and other video platforms and may monetize those uploads through the platform’s standard partner program, subject to the video and stream caps of their tier. However, lease holders may not register their song in YouTube Content ID or equivalent systems, because the fingerprint of a song built on a non-exclusive beat inevitably matches other artists’ lawful releases. Many distributors enable Content ID by default; it is your responsibility to opt out for any song built on a leased beat.

TECHNOLOGY BEATS may register its own instrumentals with Content ID to protect against unlicensed uploads. If a video containing your properly licensed song receives a claim, send us your order details and a link to the video through the contact form and we will release or whitelist the claim, usually within 3–5 business days. Please do not dispute claims directly through the platform before contacting us, as incorrect disputes can create strikes on your channel. General information on how claims work is available from YouTube Help.

Exclusive Rights purchasers may register their finished song in Content ID once the exclusive transfer is complete, and we will remove the instrumental from our own Content ID registrations where applicable.

9. Exclusive Rights Transfer

Exclusive Rights are negotiated by offer. Submitting an offer through the Site or the contact form does not create a contract; a sale is binding only when both parties have agreed on price and terms and payment has been received in full. On completion:

• the beat is removed from sale on the Site and on third-party storefronts, and no new leases will be issued;
• you receive the full-quality WAV, MP3 and trackout stems, together with a written exclusive agreement;
• you may exploit the beat without distribution, stream, video or radio caps, and register your finished song in Content ID and with your distributor;
• unless the exclusive agreement states otherwise, TECHNOLOGY BEATS retains producer credit and its writer/publishing share in the composition as specified in the agreement.

Leases sold before the exclusive transfer remain valid until they expire or reach their caps. We will disclose, on request before you pay, whether the beat has previously been leased. Our article on beat leasing vs exclusive rights explains the practical differences in more detail.

10. Custom Services

We offer custom beat production, mixing and mastering, beat customization and stems, production lessons, custom loop and sound kit design and release strategy (together, “Services”). The following rules apply unless a written quote for your project says otherwise.

Quotes and deposits

Each project starts with a written quote describing the scope, deliverables, number of revisions, timeline and price. Work is scheduled only after a deposit is paid, normally 50% of the quoted price. The balance is due before final, untagged, full-resolution files are delivered. Lessons and strategy sessions are paid in full when booked.

Your materials

You are responsible for supplying usable source material: for mixing, consolidated WAV files at the session sample rate (typically 44.1 or 48 kHz, 24-bit), starting at the same bar, with no clipping and peaks well below 0 dBFS; plus references and notes. You confirm that you own or have cleared all vocals, samples and other material you send us.

Revisions

Each quote includes a defined number of revision rounds (commonly two for mixing and custom beats). A revision round is one consolidated list of notes sent in a single message. Changes outside the original brief — a new tempo, a different key, a new song, additional stems — are new work and may be quoted separately.

Delivery and timelines

Estimated turnaround times are stated in the quote and begin once the deposit and all required materials are received. Timelines are good-faith estimates, not guarantees, and pause while we wait for your feedback. Files are delivered by download link. If you do not respond for 30 days after a delivery or request for feedback, the project may be treated as complete.

Rights in custom work

Custom beats are licensed on the terms stated in the quote (usually as an exclusive). Mixing and mastering does not give us any ownership of your song. We may use short excerpts of completed work in our portfolio only with your permission. Refunds for Services follow the stage-based schedule in the Refund & Delivery Policy.

11. Pricing and Payments

Prices are displayed in US dollars unless stated otherwise at checkout, and may change at any time without notice; the price that applies is the one shown when you complete payment. Discounts, bundles (for example “buy 2 get 1 free” offers) and coupon codes apply only while active and cannot be combined unless stated. Applicable taxes, currency conversion fees and bank charges are your responsibility and may be added by the payment processor.

Payments are processed by third-party payment processors. We do not receive or store your full card number. By submitting payment you confirm you are authorized to use the payment method. If a payment is reversed, charged back or found to be fraudulent, any license granted for that order is void from the start until the matter is resolved.

12. Intellectual Property of the Site

All content on the Site — including beats, previews, stems, loop and sound kits, artwork, logos, the TECHNOLOGY BEATS name, the “prod. by Technology” producer tag, text, blog articles, graphics, and the design and code of the Site — is owned by or licensed to TECHNOLOGY BEATS and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of any of that content to you. You receive only the specific rights stated in a purchased license.

You may share links to pages and embed our official players where the Site provides an embed feature. You may not reproduce blog articles or product descriptions in full, or use our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement, without our written permission. General background on copyright in musical works and sound recordings is available from the U.S. Copyright Office.

13. User Submissions

When you send us material — offers, messages through the contact form, vocals or stems for a service, reference tracks, feedback or ideas — you confirm that you have the right to send it and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. You keep ownership of your material. You grant us a limited license to store, copy, process and edit it solely to respond to you and to perform the Services you ordered.

If you send us suggestions about the Site, our beats or our products, we may use them freely without obligation to you. We do not accept unsolicited demos for collaboration through the Site, and we are not obliged to review or return unsolicited files. Do not send sensitive personal information through our forms; see the Privacy Policy for how we handle personal data.

14. Third-Party Services

Parts of the Site rely on third-party providers, which may include beat-marketplace platforms such as BeatStars for storefront, checkout, file delivery and license generation; payment processors for card and wallet payments; and hosting, analytics and email providers. When you use these services you may also be subject to their own terms and privacy policies, which we do not control.

We are not responsible for outages, errors, fees or policy changes of third-party providers, including streaming platforms and distributors whose rules for Content ID, monetization or metadata may change. Links to external websites are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement.

15. Disclaimers

The Site, beats, kits and Services are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, except those that cannot be excluded by law. We warrant only that we have the right to grant the licenses we sell.

We do not guarantee commercial results of any kind: streams, playlist placements, chart positions, revenue, label interest or virality. Educational content, production lessons, blog articles and release-strategy advice are provided for general information and reflect our experience; they are not legal, tax or financial advice. We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components, though we take reasonable steps to keep it secure.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, TECHNOLOGY BEATS will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost opportunities or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Site, any license or any Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total liability for any claim relating to a purchase is limited to the amount you actually paid for the specific license or Service giving rise to the claim. For all other claims, our total liability is limited to US $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

17. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless TECHNOLOGY BEATS from any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: your breach of these Terms or of a license agreement; your songs, lyrics, vocals, samples or other content; your use of a beat beyond your license caps or rights; any false Content ID or copyright claim you cause; or your violation of any law or third-party right. We may take control of the defense of any matter subject to indemnity, and you agree to cooperate with us.

18. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site, cancel pending orders, and revoke any license, with or without notice, if you materially breach these Terms or a license agreement — for example by failing to credit, exceeding caps without upgrading, registering the instrumental in Content ID, reselling the beat or issuing an unjustified chargeback. Where a breach can reasonably be fixed, we will usually give you notice and 14 days to cure it first.

On revocation of a license, you must stop distributing and exploiting the affected song, remove it from streaming platforms and video sites, and delete the licensed files. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including ownership, prohibited uses, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law — survive. You may stop using the Site at any time; licenses you validly hold and comply with remain in effect.

19. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising from them or from your use of the Site are governed by the laws applicable at the operator’s place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the laws of the country where you live. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us through the contact form and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Most licensing questions — a missing credit, a Content ID claim, a cap upgrade — are resolved quickly this way.

20. Changes to These Terms and Contact

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to our licenses, Services, the law or the platforms we rely on. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Changes apply to purchases and use of the Site after that date; a license you already purchased remains governed by the license agreement issued with it. Continued use of the Site after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

Questions about these Terms, license upgrades, exclusive offers or Content ID clearance can be sent at any time through our contact form. Please include your order number and the beat title so we can help faster. You can also find quick answers in the FAQ.