These Seller Terms of Service (“Seller Terms”) govern your use of the Patchline Music Store as a seller. By activating a store on the Patchline platform, you agree to be bound by these Seller Terms in addition to Patchline's general Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

1. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years of age to operate a store on Patchline.
• You must have the legal capacity to enter into binding agreements.
• You must provide accurate and complete information during registration and Stripe onboarding.
• You must comply with all applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

2. Content Ownership Warranty

By listing content for sale on the Patchline Music Store, you represent and warrant that:

• You are the sole owner of, or have been duly authorized by all rights holders to sell, all content you list on your store.
• You hold or have obtained all necessary rights, including but not limited to master recording rights, synchronization rights, publishing rights, direct-sale rights, and storefront download rights.
• Your content does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, contractual rights, or any other rights of any third party.
• All samples, loops, stems, vocals, beats, artwork, or other third-party elements in your content are either original to you, sample-free, or properly licensed and cleared for commercial direct sale.
• You have obtained all necessary permissions and releases from any contributors, performers, collaborators, featured artists, producers, labels, publishers, distributors, and collection societies.
• No exclusive distribution, label, publishing, platform, collaborator, or other agreement prevents you from selling the content directly through the Patchline Music Store.
• You have all required permissions for any name, image, likeness, voice, vocal style, artist persona, biographical element, or other identifiable characteristic used in your content, artwork, metadata, or marketing.

3. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Patchline Inc., its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) content you upload, sell, or distribute through the platform; (b) your breach of these Seller Terms; (c) your violation of any law or regulation; (d) your infringement of any intellectual property or other rights of any third party; or (e) any dispute between you and a buyer.

4. Prohibited Content

You may NOT list or sell any of the following on the Patchline Music Store:

• Infringing content - copyrighted material you do not own or have authorization to sell.
• Unlicensed samples - content containing uncleared or unlicensed samples, loops, or stems.
• Fully AI-generated songs - prompt-to-complete-track songs or recordings where the expressive musical work or sound recording was generated by AI without meaningful human authorship.
• Unauthorized voice, likeness, or persona - content that imitates, clones, impersonates, or commercially exploits a real person's voice, vocal style, name, image, likeness, or persona without explicit written consent.
• Artist impersonation - misrepresenting your identity or falsely claiming to be another artist.
• Spam, mass-listing, or metadata gaming - automated or bulk listing of near-duplicate tracks, manipulative metadata variants, artificial transactions, or content created primarily to farm tips, payouts, search placement, recommendations, or storefront visibility.
• Stolen or pirated content - content obtained without authorization from the rights holder.
• Misleading content - re-uploading public domain or Creative Commons content as “original” work without proper attribution and in compliance with the applicable license.
• Harmful content - content that promotes violence, hate speech, or illegal activity.

5. AI-Generated Content Policy

Patchline accepts human-created music that uses AI as an assistive production, editing, analysis, or workflow tool, but does not accept fully AI-generated prompt-to-complete-track songs for storefront sale. If any portion of your content was created using artificial intelligence tools, you must:

• Disclose AI involvement - you must accurately mark content as AI-assisted using the platform's AI content labeling tools whenever AI contributed to the music, vocals, lyrics, stems, production, editing, artwork, or metadata.
• Do not list fully AI-generated songs - you may not list prompt-to-complete-track songs or recordings generated by AI without meaningful human authorship.
• Use only lawful commercial AI outputs - AI-origin material may be sold only where you have meaningful human authorship or transformation, all required commercial-use rights, and the AI tool's tier, attribution, redistribution, resale, and marketplace terms permit your use.
• No restricted outputs - you may not list AI outputs created under free, trial, research-only, non-commercial, no-redistribution, attribution-required, or platform-restricted terms unless you fully comply with those terms and can prove that compliance.
• Identify the type of AI use - specify whether the content used AI-assisted production, AI-generated vocals, AI-assisted lyrics, or other AI tools when the platform provides fields for those disclosures.
• Accept labeling - Patchline may apply “AI-Assisted” labels to your content on the storefront and in metadata.
• Maintain rights and records - you are responsible for ensuring that any AI tools, inputs, outputs, samples, vocals, likenesses, training sources, and resulting content may lawfully be used and sold by you.
• Respect publicity and privacy rights - AI-assisted vocals, artwork, lyrics, marketing, and metadata may not imply endorsement by or imitate an identifiable person without written permission.
• Understand copyright limitations - AI-generated elements may have limited or no copyright protection in certain jurisdictions, so you must not represent those elements as protectable human-authored work.

Patchline reserves the right to reject, delist, or label any content it reasonably believes to be fully AI-generated, AI-assisted without proper disclosure, infringing, misleading, or otherwise risky.

Listing, selling, labeling, uploading, or otherwise making content available through the Patchline Music Store does not enroll your content in any Patchline generative AI music, audio, voice, or artist-likeness training program, or any raw-audio foundation-model fine-tuning program. Any such use requires a separate affirmative opt-in or written agreement.

6. Platform Commission & Payments

• Payments are processed through Stripe. By using the Patchline Music Store, you also agree to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement.
• Patchline currently charges a platform application fee on storefront music sales by sellers on a free Patchline plan, currently 10% unless a different fee is disclosed during store setup or in current pricing.
• Paid Patchline plans currently receive 0% platform commission or application fee on music sales through the Patchline Music Store.
• Stripe processing fees, taxes, chargebacks, currency conversion fees, and any optional paid Patchline subscription fees may still apply.
• If Patchline changes storefront platform fees, sellers will receive notice and must accept the material update before the changed fee applies to future sales.
• Payouts are managed by Stripe and are subject to Stripe's terms and payout schedules.
• Stripe, Patchline, payment networks, or financial partners may delay, reserve, reverse, freeze, or withhold payouts, or restrict a connected account, for suspected infringement, fraud, chargebacks, sanctions, prohibited-business activity, policy violations, or legal compliance reasons.
• You remain responsible for refunds, chargebacks, disputes, payment-network fees, and claims arising from your store, including when a buyer, rights holder, payment processor, or regulator challenges a transaction.
• Patchline may hold, offset, recover, or claw back amounts associated with rights complaints, chargebacks, fraud, refunds, payment-network assessments, seller breaches, or transactions that Patchline reasonably determines should not have been processed.
• Patchline is not responsible for delays or issues caused by Stripe's payment processing.

7. Content Removal Rights

Patchline reserves the right to remove, disable, restrict access to, suppress from discovery or recommendation, relabel, require proof of rights for, or disable checkout for any content at its sole discretion, without prior notice, for any reason, including but not limited to: suspected copyright infringement, rights complaints, unauthorized voice or likeness use, trademark or endorsement complaints, spam or mass-listing, metadata manipulation, artificial transactions, AI disclosure failures, payment-network requirements, policy violations, or legal requirements. You will be notified when practical and may provide proof of authorization, consent, or other rights through our support process unless urgent legal, fraud, security, or payment risk requires immediate action.

8. Repeat Infringer Policy

Patchline maintains a repeat infringer and rights-violator policy in accordance with the DMCA and applicable rights laws. Sellers who receive two or more valid takedown notices or equivalent documented rights complaints in a rolling 12-month period may be treated as repeat infringers or repeat rights violators, and sellers who receive three valid notices in a rolling 12-month period will ordinarily have their stores permanently disabled and accounts terminated, unless Patchline determines that the notices were mistaken, abusive, resolved by a valid counter-notification or rights review, or otherwise inappropriate to count. Patchline may terminate immediately for egregious, willful, obvious, or commercially harmful infringement or unauthorized rights use. For full details, see our Copyright & Rights Complaints Policy.

9. Tax Obligations

You are solely responsible for determining, collecting, reporting, and remitting any taxes applicable to your sales through the Patchline Music Store, including but not limited to sales tax, VAT, income tax, and any other applicable taxes. Patchline does not provide tax advice and is not responsible for your tax obligations.

10. Dispute Resolution

• Seller disputes are governed by the Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Class Action Waiver section of Patchline's general Terms of Service.
• To avoid conflicting dispute provisions, the general Terms of Service control for arbitration, class-action waiver, jury-trial waiver, opt-out, mass-arbitration batching, governing law, and court exceptions.
• Seller-specific payment, rights, content, indemnity, payout, and removal obligations in these Seller Terms remain independently enforceable.

11. Termination

Patchline may suspend or terminate your store and seller privileges at any time, with or without cause, including but not limited to violations of these Seller Terms, the general Terms of Service, the DMCA Policy, or any applicable law. Upon termination, any pending payouts will be processed according to Stripe's terms, and you remain liable for any claims arising from content you sold prior to termination.

12. Changes to Seller Terms

We may update these Seller Terms at any time. Material changes will require re-acceptance of the seller agreement before you can edit inventory, change store settings, reactivate a store, or continue seller-management activity. Patchline does not automatically disable an otherwise live public storefront solely because a seller agreement version changed, but seller tools may be blocked until the current version is accepted. Continued use will not enroll seller content in generative AI music, audio, voice, artist-likeness training, or raw-audio foundation-model fine-tuning without a separate affirmative opt-in.

13. Contact Information

For questions about these Seller Terms: