Beta terms

HTC 3.0 is an experimental music application offered free of charge as a public beta by [provider — to be completed]. It is a lab: it changes often, and can be interrupted or end; there is no guaranteed availability. Changes never rewrite the projects you saved — each keeps the versions that made it.

Listening, including the public catalogue, needs no account. Creating needs a verified e-mail: an allowance of 10 generations every 24 hours, or 30 every 24 hours with a complete profile; a substantial feedback may add 10 more, once every 24 hours. A request counts only when it succeeds; listening, editing, mixing and export never count. Allowances and access conditions may change as HTC grows: changes will be announced in advance and will not remove access to projects you already saved. Circumventing the limits (for example by opening several accounts or automating new sessions) is not allowed.

Your account is your e-mail address and the codes we send to it. A profile is optional. A public nickname must not impersonate another person or brand, nor mislead or offend; the HTC team may ask you to change it or remove it from public pages.

[Ownership and licence of generated projects and exported audio — to be defined with legal review.] Projects are private by default. Some sampled instruments are under licences that require attribution; when a song uses them, the credits are listed with it.

Submitting a song is voluntary; nothing is ever published automatically. What is published is a frozen copy of the revision you chose (your later edits do not change it), shown as “HTC beta artist” or with your nickname if you choose, without your prompt unless you include it. Publishing lets people listen to the song and open a copy of it inside HTC; it grants no right to reuse its samples, presets, instruments or other third-party material outside HTC. The HTC team decides whether to publish a song and can withdraw it (for example after a rights claim); you can withdraw it at any time.

Feedback is read by the HTC team (and by the artist when it concerns their published song) and may be used to improve HTC. Telling us you are interested in the Founding Contributors programme is not enrolment and creates no right or obligation: the programme’s conditions and benefits will be published separately before it opens.

Do not use HTC to break the law, to infringe other people’s rights, to attack the service or to overload it.

[Limitations of liability and governing law — to be completed with legal review.]

These terms are versioned (current version: htc-terms-beta-v1); the version you registered under is recorded with your account. A new version will be announced before it applies.