Remix Rights & Representation Terms

You own your remix. Subject to the rights in any underlying work (original composition, master recording, stems, samples), the creative contribution you bring to a submission belongs to you.

R3mix does not automatically own, claim, or take an assignment of your submissions. Uploading to R3mix does not transfer copyright in your remix to us.

To run the platform — show your work, recommend it to listeners, and promote contests — we need a basic license from you. By submitting a remix, you grant R3mix a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

• Host and store your submission on the platform.
• Display it in player UIs, profiles, leaderboards, and contest pages.
• Promote it across R3mix's channels, including social media, newsletters, and editorial features.
• Share previews and clips for the purpose of marketing the contest, the host, or the creator.

This license is non-exclusive — you can keep doing whatever you like with your remix elsewhere — and it exists only so we can operate and promote the platform.

When a remix gains traction on R3mix or is selected by a host, R3mix holds two related rights designed to keep opportunities flowing through the platform first:

• Right of First Negotiation (ROFN). Before pursuing any external commercial opportunity for the remix, the creator must first engage with R3mix in good faith and give R3mix a fair chance to put together a deal.
• Right of First Refusal (ROFR). If a third-party offer is received for the remix, the creator must present the offer to R3mix. R3mix then has the right to match or exceed that offer before the creator can accept it from the third party.

Both rights are designed to start and protect conversations — not to transfer ownership. If R3mix passes or fails to match within a reasonable window, the creator is free to move forward with the third party.

To give R3mix a real chance to pitch, place, and commercialize a remix, submissions are subject to a commercial exclusivity window of up to 24 months (2 years) from the date of submission or the end of the relevant contest, whichever is later.

During this 24-month window, the creator may NOT, without prior written approval from R3mix:

• License, sell, distribute, or otherwise commercially exploit the remix.
• Upload or release the remix to DSPs or any monetized platforms (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music, Beatport, Bandcamp, YouTube monetization, SoundCloud Go, etc.).
• Pitch or submit the remix to labels, artists, managers, sync agencies, or other third parties.

This window is time-limited and exists to create the space needed to land meaningful placements and licensing deals on the creator's behalf. After it ends, the creator is free to commercialize the remix on their own, subject to any underlying rights.

During the exclusivity window described above, R3mix reserves the right to determine if, when, and how the remix is commercially released — including the choice of partner label or distributor, release date, territory, format, and marketing approach.

R3mix may also delay, decline, or choose not to pursue a commercial release during this period if it judges that doing so serves the creator, the host, or the wider opportunity better.

This control is temporary and limited to the exclusivity period. It is an operational right over commercialization timing — not a transfer of rights. Ownership of the remix remains with the creator at all times, and R3mix cannot release the remix in the creator's name without a separate written release agreement.

Once the 24-month commercial exclusivity window ends, the creator may freely commercialize the remix — license, distribute, upload to DSPs, or pitch to third parties — subject to the rights in any underlying work and any separate written agreements already in place with R3mix or its partners.

R3mix's hosting and promotional license under Section 2 continues on a non-exclusive basis so the remix can stay live on the platform.

R3mix may act as a non-exclusive representative to pitch and promote your remix to potential partners — labels, artists, brands, sync agencies, and platforms. We do this to help open doors for creators.

Any commercial arrangement that comes from this — a release, license, sync placement, advance, or co-publishing setup — requires your explicit, written agreement. Nothing is signed, released, or monetized in your name without your sign-off.

R3mix or its partners may, from time to time, offer to:

• License your remix for a specific use.
• Purchase or co-own specific rights.
• Broker a deal with a label, artist, or brand.

Each of these is optional and opt-in. They are governed by a separate written agreement that spells out scope, territory, term, splits, and payment. You're never required to accept an offer to remain on R3mix.

Submitting a remix doesn't guarantee exposure, editorial placement, contest wins, deal offers, or monetization. Selection, promotion, and pitching are at the discretion of R3mix and its hosts, based on fit, quality, and timing.

We work in good faith to surface strong work and create real opportunities — but outcomes can't be promised.

Creators retain ownership of their remix at all times. No rights are transferred to R3mix without a separate written agreement signed by the creator.

R3mix is built on the idea that creators should benefit from the opportunities their work creates. To make that real, this policy is designed around a few principles:

• Ownership stays with you — uploading is not a transfer, and exclusivity is not assignment.
• Our license is operational — only what we need to host and promote your work.
• Exclusivity is time-limited — up to 24 months, then you're free to commercialize on your own.
• Deals are opt-in — written, specific, and signed by you.
• Collaboration over control — we'd rather open doors than gate them.