The following is my policy for the use of original songs I’ve created. As long as you stay within these guidelines you do not need to contact me. Please be aware that if you violate these terms you may be met with a copyright strike depending on the severity of the situation. Additionally please read the Exceptions section at the end to ensure you do not accidentally violate anything.

Covers & Remixes:

You may feel free to create covers and remixes of songs I’ve created as long as the following guidelines are met:

  • You MUST credit me in both the description and video itself if there is one. Please link back to either the original song or my channel.
  • You may not monetize your cover or remix, nor may you sell it or put it on monetized streaming services. I’d also prefer you not put them on sites like bandcamp where people have the option to pay. Please contact me if you wish to monetize your cover or remix.
  • Your cover should not promote any kind of hate speech, acts of violence, or harassment of any kind.
  • In the event I ever set up automatic copyright claiming, do not attempt to challenge it, or I may be forced to take your video down.
  • You must be willing to take down a cover or remix at my request regardless of whether or not you violated these terms.
  • I think I have some songs on bandcamp that have their own copyright licenses, though I don’t know which ones, if any of them allow you to sell derivatives without my consent, please let me know before you do anything with them to prevent confusion.
  • Do not make NFTs.
  • Unless, with no exaggeration, you created and own the rights to EVERY SINGLE IMAGE USED IN TRAINING, my songs are not to accompany fully AI generate images, videos, etc.
  • Additionally, if your cover or remix features AI generated speech or vocals of a person that were not created with their consent you are forbidden from covering or remixing my song in any shape or form.
  • I think Distrokid handles licensing for me so like, if any of these policies are violated I’m not 100% sure if I can actually stop you if you go through them.

Parody

If your work actually falls under parody, then I can’t really stop you from doing anything with it. That said, please be aware that what is legally considered a parody under fair use laws is very different from what the many consider to be parody (Weird Al’s parodies are licensed for a reason).

If your work doesn’t constitute parody, it is to be treated as a cover, and should follow the guidelines for a cover.

Video/Stream BGM

Unless the song appears in a game, and you’re streaming that game, please do not use my songs as background music. If you truly want to for whatever reason, contact me and we will work out a deal. If you are found violating this you will be asked to stop and either cut said songs out of your video or take it down. I know this sounds bitchy it’s just a rights thing because of how resampling content works now. Speaking of which

If I have not uploaded a song to TikTok do not upload it to TikTok as an audio. By doing so you have allowed anyone, including advertisers which is the big thing, to make videos they own the commercial rights to with my music, with me receiving zero cut. Even if I upload the audio later and claim the audio afterwards, I am not retroactively compensated for that, it just results in a bunch of videos getting muted as a temporary band-aid for TikTok mistakenly granting people commercial rights they weren’t meant to have. There’s also assholes going around uploading even mildly upload viral TikTok sounds to Distrokid to beat the actual copyright owners, so like, if I ever put something out and you like it, and it’s not on TikTok, just leave it the fuck alone.

Use in Games

Please contact me before using my music in games. If you’re an independent developer and your game is free I’ll probably just let you use it, but any other type of projects will be made to pay some type of fee.

As I get better at music and Z Vocal Project grows, there may be music packs given to people who own certain voicebank license that give them permission to use the provided tracks in games for free. You do not need to contact me to use those if you own that voicebank’s license and make under a certain amount of money.

I probably sound like a broken record but crypto-based blockchains, AI Generated Images and AI Generated vocals of people who did not consent cannot be featured in the game or you will be denied use.

Exceptions

Use of any original song that is unlisted on my YouTube channel is explicitly forbidden, as they are only up for archival purposes. Do not contact me and ask if you can use/license them, the answer is no. If you go against this I will ask you to take your work down, and if needed a copyright strike will be issued.