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Terms of Service

Last updated 15 September 2026

These terms govern your use of The Rights Foundry: the website at therightsfoundry.com, the REST API, the MCP connector for AI assistants, and the audio we stream. The Rights Foundry is operated by Audiosocket. By creating an account or calling the API you agree to these terms. Music you license is governed by the license agreement issued with that purchase, which sits alongside these terms.

Your account

• You need a verified email address, and you must be old enough to enter a contract where you live.
• Keep your API keys secret. Anything done with your keys is treated as done by you, so revoke a key from your dashboard the moment you suspect it has leaked.
• One account per person or organization. Do not share logins to work around limits.
• You are responsible for what you and your users do with the catalog through your account.

Credits and payment

• API and connector usage is metered in credits, bought in advance. Current prices and what each call costs are shown in your dashboard.
• Different calls cost different amounts: listing and lexical search are the cheapest, natural-language and sound-alike searches cost more because they use an upstream provider, and fetching a full track record costs more again.
• Credits expire twelve months after purchase, and the oldest credits are spent first.
• Credits are not money, cannot be exchanged for cash, and are not refundable once spent. Unused credits are refundable at our discretion.
• On a monthly plan, or with automatic top-up switched on, a small overdraft is allowed so that a burst of traffic does not fail mid-session. It is settled from your next payment.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not see or store your card number.

The API and the connector

• Calls are rate limited, and connector tokens carry a daily cap. We may adjust limits to keep the service healthy, and will not do so retroactively to your detriment.
• Do not use the API to build a competing catalog: bulk downloading, scraping or systematically copying the catalog or its metadata is not permitted.
• Do not use the catalog, its audio or its metadata to train, fine-tune or evaluate a generative audio model.
• Do not share, resell or proxy your API access to third parties without our written agreement.
• Preview and stream URLs are signed and short-lived. Do not attempt to defeat that, to reach files you have not licensed, or to probe the service for weaknesses without asking us first.
• An AI assistant you connect can search the catalog, read our licensing terms and license tracks on your account, charged to your credits. It cannot buy credits or change anything else in your account.

Our content and yours

The catalog, the metadata, the tag vocabulary and the site remain ours or our licensors’. Nothing here transfers ownership of any recording or composition; you receive a license, described on the licensing page, and nothing more. Anything you send us stays yours, and you grant us only the permission we need to run the service for you.

Availability

We work to keep the service up and correct, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may change, suspend or discontinue parts of the service; where a change materially reduces what you have already paid for, we will tell you and make it right. Licenses you already hold are unaffected by changes to the service.

Suspension

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, abuses the service, or exposes us or our artists to legal risk. Where the breach is fixable we will say what is wrong and give you a chance to fix it first. If we close your account without cause, we will refund unused credits.

Warranties and liability

We warrant that we have the rights to license the music we sell you, and we stand behind the licenses we issue. Beyond that, the service is provided as is, without other warranties. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before it arose. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will email account holders before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, and the courts of King County, Washington have exclusive jurisdiction, without affecting any mandatory rights you have where you live.

Contact

info@therightsfoundry.com. Technical and account help is on the support page; data questions are answered in the privacy policy.