Learn how to credit Musiversal artists, and all about your rights.
Credits
We encourage you to credit Musiversal and the artists that have collaborated on producing your music, where it is possible to do so (I.e. on social media, YouTube, Bandcamp, your personal website, etc).
Crediting Musiversal and our service providers (musicians, orchestras, producers, engineers, etc) will help to create a fairer music industry, by raising awareness to their work and promote the possibility of digital performance royalties distribution for them.
Crediting Musiversal and our artists does not impact your copyrights, as explained in clause 1.2 Transfer of rights within the music consulting services.
We encourage you to use the following structure:
- Vocals - Marta Garrett (via Musiversal)
- Cello - Ben Trigg (via Musiversal)
- Drums - Chris Barber (via Musiversal)
- Mastering - Luiz Tornaghi (via Musiversal)
- Strings - Czech National Symphony Orchestra (via Musiversal)
- I.e. Instrument/ Service - Artist Name (via Musiversal)
In the case of music department credits, such as in the film industry, Musiversal must be credited according to industry standards.
Special crediting procedures
- Lynsey Tibbs may not be named in any publicly released song title, i.e. "Song name feat. Lynsey Tibbs". However, Lynsey can be credited as a Musiversal session musician as "Lynsey" only. When crediting, please credit "Vocals - Lynsey (via Musiversal)".
- Ben Botfield may not be mentioned or credited in any released song or track. When crediting, please credit “Vocals via Musiversal”.
- Clare Dove may not be mentioned or credited in any released song or track. When crediting, please credit "Vocals via Musiversal".
- Marta Garrett may not be named in any publicly released song title, i.e. "Song name feat. Marta Garrett". However, Marta should be credited as a Musiversal session musician as usual. When crediting, please credit "Vocals - Marta Garrett (via Musiversal)".
- Ruth Royall may not be named in any publicly released song title, i.e. "Song Name feat. Ruth Royall", unless you have explicit permission from her record label. Ruth may be credited as a Musiversal session musician as usual. When crediting, please credit "Vocals - Ruth Royall (via Musiversal)".
- Tee Webb may not be named in any publicly released song title, i.e. "Song name feat. Tee Webb", unless you have the explicit permission from his record label. Tee may be credited as a Musiversal session musician as usual. When crediting, please credit "Vocals - Tee Webb (via Musiversal)".
Crediting on social media
When you share your music on social media, we kindly request that you tag our social media handles. We really want to see, like, comment, share and support your great work! Social handles:
- Facebook: wearemusiversal
- Instagram: wearemusiversal
- YouTube: Musiversal (tag during video uploading, on “Video tags”)
- Twitter: wearemusiversal
- LinkedIn: Musiversal
- TikTok: wearemusiversal
- Soundcloud: wearemusiversal
- Reddit: u/musiversal
Commercial use
You have permission to use the recordings delivered by Musiversal for commercial purposes without paying additional fees or royalties.
Rights ownership
You keep ownership of all your rights. Both copyright and recording rights are yours perpetually and worldwide. All Musiversal recordings are 100% buyouts.
Rights waiver
Musiversal and Musiversal’s musicians waive all rights in favor of the user for any audio files resulting from any Musiversal recording sessions. Musiversal declares that it is fully entitled to waive the rights as it was allowed by the musicians in a written and signed contract to do so without any limitations, universally and perpetually.
If you need a signed work for hire agreement, please contact us on support@musiversal.com. In this email, state the name of the song/track in question, and the names of the Musiversal musicians with whom you recorded said song/track.
Synchronization
The recordings delivered by Musiversal are cleared for syncing with images except for the orchestral recording sessions which are held in the UK territory, which are cleared for audio commercial release only. If you wish to use the music you recorded in a London-based orchestral recording for image-syncing, please get in touch with us at support@musiversal.com.
Read Musiversal's complete Terms of Use here.