Version: 0.2.0 (draft) · Effective: upon publication
This Content License (the "License") is part of the Agreement between you (the "Creator", "you") and Sazalem (operated by SerikB LLC, Republic of Kazakhstan; "we", "Sazalem"). It governs the rights you grant Sazalem in respect of any audio recording, composition, lyric, cover image, biographical text, translation, video clip, podcast, artwork or other material you upload, submit or otherwise make available through the Service ("Your Content"). Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in the Terms of Service.
You retain ownership of Your Content. This License does not assign or transfer copyright; it grants Sazalem and certain authorized parties the rights necessary to operate the Service.
1.1. You hereby grant Sazalem a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty- bearing, transferable (only as set out in §1.4), sublicensable (only as set out in §1.5) license, for the term set out in §3, to:
(a) Reproduce, store, host and cache Your Content on Sazalem's own or contracted infrastructure (including object storage and content- delivery networks);
(b) Reformat, transcode, re-encode and downscale Your Content into delivery formats and bitrates required for streaming, progressive download, offline playback and adaptive bitrate selection (including, without limitation, MP3, AAC, HLS, DASH);
(c) Stream, publicly perform, communicate to the public, display and make available on demand Your Content to end users of the Service in accordance with the privacy setting (PUBLIC, UNLISTED, PRIVATE) you select for that item;
(d) Use up to thirty (30) seconds of any audio work and any thumbnail or cover artwork (in original or cropped form) for the purpose of in-product previews, social-media promotion of Your Content, editorial playlists, search-result snippets, charts and other promotional or contextual presentation of the Service or of Your Content;
(e) Display Your Content's metadata (title, artist name, composer, lyricist, year, genre, language, biography, lyrics) and any cover or biographical material you provide;
(f) Generate derivative metadata internally (acoustic fingerprints, duration measurements, AI-generated tags, language detection, moderation embeddings, recommendation features) for the operation, moderation, security and improvement of the Service. Such derivative data is owned by Sazalem and may be retained even after Your Content itself is removed;
(g) Allow end users to take in-product actions that are inherent to a streaming service: liking, adding to personal playlists, sharing links, embedding via official embed codes, and (where applicable to the privacy setting) downloading for offline playback within the Sazalem applications.
1.2. Lyrics, translations and biographical text uploaded as part of Your Content are licensed on the same terms as the audio.
1.3. No fee. No fee or royalty is payable to you for Sazalem's exercise of the rights granted in §1.1(a), (b), (e), (f) or (g) — these are the technical and operational rights necessary to run the Service. Royalties for the public-performance, communication-to-the-public, making-available and reproduction rights exercised under §1.1(c) and (d) are administered through Abyroy on the terms of the Royalty & Payout Agreement.
1.4. Transferability. Sazalem may transfer or assign this License in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of substantially all of its assets, or to an affiliate, on the same terms.
1.5. Sublicensing. Sazalem may sublicense the rights in §1.1 to: (a) its hosting and CDN providers (e.g., Cloudflare, AWS) solely to operate the Service; (b) Abyroy and other collective-management organizations solely to administer royalties; (c) end users via the in-product actions described in §1.1(g); and (d) third-party distribution partners (radio, smart-TV apps, podcast directories, embeddable widgets) only with your prior opt-in via the Creator Dashboard. We do not grant downstream sublicences for synchronization in advertising or motion pictures without your express opt-in.
2.1. Non-exclusive. This Licence is non-exclusive. You may distribute Your Content on any other platform.
2.2. Reserved rights. All rights not expressly granted under §1 remain with you. In particular, the following rights are not granted to Sazalem: (a) synchronization rights in advertising or audiovisual works; (b) merchandising rights; (c) sample-clearance rights for use of your work in derivative compositions by third parties; (d) the right to assign or transfer copyright; (e) the right to use your name, likeness or biography for endorsements unrelated to the promotion of Your Content on the Service.
2.3. Moral rights. You assert your moral rights of paternity (to be identified as the author/performer) and integrity (against derogatory treatment) to the maximum extent permitted by Kazakhstan law and international convention. We will identify you in accordance with the metadata you provide and will not introduce material modifications to Your Content beyond technical reformatting (§1.1(b)) and the use of short clips (§1.1(d)).
3.1. Term. This Licence commences on the date you submit a release for publication and continues for so long as that release remains published on the Service.
3.2. Removal by you. You may withdraw Your Content from the Service at any time via the Creator Dashboard. Upon withdrawal, Sazalem will: (a) cease making Your Content available to new users within seventy-two (72) hours; (b) purge Your Content from all primary storage and CDN caches within thirty (30) days; and (c) cease using preview clips and artwork for active marketing campaigns within seventy-two (72) hours.
3.3. Removal by us. Sazalem may remove or restrict access to Your Content at any time where we reasonably believe it violates these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, applicable law or any third-party right, or where required to comply with a takedown request, court order or governmental directive.
3.4. Surviving rights. The following rights survive termination of this License to the extent strictly necessary:
and eighty (180) days for disaster-recovery purposes only;
data for the periods set out in the Privacy Policy and the Royalty & Payout Agreement;
offline playback before termination to retain their copies until their next online sync, after which the copy is invalidated;
partners under §1.5(d) until the relevant partner integration next refreshes (no later than thirty (30) days).
3.5. Termination by Sazalem of its business. If Sazalem ceases to operate the Service, all rights granted hereunder terminate automatically and Sazalem will purge Your Content from all systems within ninety (90) days of cessation, save for backups described in §3.4.
You represent, warrant and covenant on a continuing basis that:
4.1. Capacity. You have full legal capacity and authority to grant this License; if uploading on behalf of a band, label, distributor, estate, publisher or rights-holder, you have all necessary authorizations from each rights-holder.
4.2. Ownership. You own or have validly licensed all rights in Your Content, including the master recording right, the underlying composition (musical work) right, the lyric right, the cover-art right, any sample or interpolation included in the recording, any biographical material, any translation and any image of any identifiable person depicted.
4.3. No infringement. Your Content does not and will not infringe, misappropriate or violate any copyright, trade-mark, trade secret, right of publicity, right of privacy, moral right, defamation right or any other right of any third party in any jurisdiction.
4.4. Splits. Royalty splits, contributor identifications and credit information you supply are accurate, complete and have been agreed by all listed contributors.
4.5. AI disclosure. Where Your Content is wholly or partly AI-generated within the meaning of the Acceptable Use Policy, you have disclosed this accurately at upload, and you have not used any third party's voice, likeness or distinctive style without that party's express written consent.
4.6. No prohibited content. Your Content complies in full with the Acceptable Use Policy.
4.7. Sanctions and compliance. You are not a person or entity listed on any sanctions list maintained by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States or the Republic of Kazakhstan, and you are not located in or ordinarily resident in any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions.
You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sazalem, Abyroy, our and their respective affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and licensors against any third-party claim, demand, action, proceeding, judgment, damages, fine, penalty and expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to (a) Your Content; (b) any breach of any representation, warranty or covenant in §4; (c) your acts or omissions in connection with the Service; or (d) any allegation that, if true, would constitute such a breach.
You acknowledge that any breach of §4 is likely to cause irreparable harm to Sazalem and other rights-holders for which monetary damages alone may be inadequate. Sazalem is entitled to seek injunctive and other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction without the requirement to post bond. You authorize Sazalem to retain and disclose to courts, law-enforcement agencies and rights-holders all upload logs, IP addresses, identity-verification documents and other records necessary to investigate or defend any claim.
Sazalem is not obliged to accept, publish or continue to publish Your Content. We may decline, suspend, restrict or remove Your Content at any time in our sole discretion, with or without notice, where permitted by applicable law. Removal does not entitle you to any refund or compensation save as expressly provided in the Royalty & Payout Agreement.
This License is to be read together with the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Rights Attestation, the Takedown Policy and the Royalty & Payout Agreement. In the event of any conflict between this License and the Terms of Service, the provisions of this License prevail in respect of Your Content.
This License is governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, and is subject to the binding-arbitration and class-action-waiver provisions of the Terms of Service (§15). For Kazakhstan-resident Authors, the local mandatory-law carve-out in §15.6 of the Terms of Service applies.
Contact: legal@sazalem.com · SerikB LLC (California, USA, Licensor) · Sazalem LLP / ТОО «Сазалем» (Kazakhstan, Local Operator)