Terms

Mosso helps songwriters and recording owners record who owns what, collect everyone’s signatures on a split agreement, register songs with the organizations that collect royalties, release music to stores and streaming services, license songs for use in other people’s projects, and pay everyone their share.

Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens under your account, and you should tell us straight away at contact@mosso.fm if you think someone else has used it.

You must be at least 13 to use Mosso. To release music, sell licenses or receive payments, you must be an adult.

Before your first release, and before we pay you, you’ll verify your identity with Stripe, our payments provider. Stripe checks your ID, tax details and bank account, and you accept Stripe’s Connected Account Agreement when you do. Registering songs and signing agreements don’t need this.

• The information you enter about a song, its writers and its owners must be accurate to the best of your knowledge.
• When you name someone on a song, you confirm that they worked on it and that you have a genuine reason to share their email address with us for that song.
• What you tell us about generative AI — which parts it was used for, which tools, and how — must be accurate. Stores show it to listeners, and it decides where a release can go.

Mosso prepares split agreements from the information you and your co-writers provide. We don’t give legal advice. If you’re unsure about an agreement, get independent advice before you sign it. Agreements are signed electronically through our e-signature provider, BoldSign.

When you submit a release, you confirm that:

• everyone who owns the recording is named on its agreement, and has signed it;
• you have the rights to the audio, artwork and everything else you upload;
• any samples or interpolations are cleared; and
• releasing it won’t infringe anyone’s rights, including their name, likeness or voice.

You may release a recording of someone else’s song if:

• you identify the original song and credit its writers as its writers; and
• for downloads in the United States, you hold a mechanical license for it. Without one, the cover is released to streaming services only.

Covers aren’t submitted to YouTube Content ID, can’t be licensed through Mosso, and Mosso doesn’t register or collect for the song itself.

• Remixes, compilations, karaoke versions, soundalikes, or releases claiming public-domain material.
• Recordings that clone or imitate the voice of any real person, other than a person on the recording who has agreed to it.
• Songs or recordings made entirely by generative AI, with no human author.
• Releases that use another artist’s name to attract listeners, such as in titles or “type beat” titles, or that present you as an artist you aren’t.

We check releases before they’re delivered — their details, audio and rights — and may hold or reject one, with a reason. Our distribution partner and the stores may also reject or remove a release. We may remove a release from stores if it breaks these terms, if someone makes a credible claim against it, or if an agreement it relies on is declined or replaced.

If every rights holder on a song opts in, Mosso may license it for use in other people’s projects, on the terms and at the prices each of you has chosen, and pays each of you your share. You can opt out at any time; licenses already sold aren’t affected.

• We pay what you’re owed through Stripe, to the account you verified.
• If a store, our distribution partner or a buyer takes money back — a correction, a refund, a chargeback or a penalty — the amount comes out of the balance of whoever it relates to, and we may hold or recover it from future payments.
• You’re responsible for your own taxes. Stripe sends tax forms where the law requires them.

Don’t buy streams, use bots or incentivized traffic, manipulate playlists, or work with anyone who does. Stores detect it, withhold the royalties and charge penalties, and it can affect every artist on Mosso. If it happens on your releases, we may remove them, withhold the royalties involved, recover any penalties from your balance, and close your account.

If you believe something on Mosso, or released through Mosso, infringes your rights, email support@mosso.fm with what it is, where it appears, and why it’s yours. We act on urgent requests the same business day. If your release is taken down and you believe that was a mistake, you can send us a counter-notice. We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

• Name people who didn’t work on a song, or use Mosso to contact people for any other purpose.
• Pretend to be someone else, or enter details that belong to someone else as your own.
• Interfere with the service, or try to access information that isn’t yours.

We may suspend accounts that do.

Mosso is still being built. Features may change, and the service may sometimes be unavailable. We’ll give account holders notice before any change that affects agreements in progress.

You can close your account at any time by emailing contact@mosso.fm. We’ll remove your releases from stores if you ask, and pay out what you’re owed once any holds are settled. Agreements you’ve signed with other people remain in effect, and we keep the records they rely on, as our privacy policy describes.