Loudr Content Policy and Style Guide

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Last Updated on: 8/4/2015
Table of Contents

I Oveview and Content Policy 4

1 Oveview 5

2 Content Policy 6

2.1 When Mistakes Happen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.2 Two Strike Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3 Be True To Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.4 That Adage About Biting The Hand That Feeds You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.5 When In Doubt, Be Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

II Style and Formatting 11

3 Atist and Contributor Names 12

3.1 Oveview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.2 Be Consistent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.3 What NOT To List In The Contributor Name Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.4 Featured Atists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.5 Real Names: East Versus West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.6 Soundtacks and Classical Music / Serious Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.7 Various Atists and Multi-atist Collaboations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4 Album Titles 20

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4.1 What To Include In The Album Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.2 What NOT To Include In The Album Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3 Soundtacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5 Tack Titles 22

5.1 What To Include In The Tack Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.2 What NOT To Include In The Tack Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.3 Medleys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.4 Remixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

6 Genres 25

6.1 Kaaoke / Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

7 Classical Music 26

7.1 Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.2 Atist and Contributor Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.3 Album Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.4 Tack Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

8 Cover Songs 28

8.1 How To Fill Out The Composition Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

8.2 Where To List The Original Atist’s Name Or The Songwriter’s Name . . . . . . 30

8.3 Covers Of Public Domain Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

9 Atwork 31

10 Audio File Formats 37

11 Miscellaneous Tips 38

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PART I: OVERVIEW AND CONTENT POLICY

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1. Oveview
Digital music distribution is a collaboative process that brings together content providers
and content retailers before the music goes live in stores.

Loudr works with a variety of music platforms, retailers, and sevices to get your content
into the stores of your choosing. Each of our distribution patners has its own policies re-
garding content, and we are committed to providing them content that is free of technical
issues, formatting errors, and rights problems. We’ve put together this style guide to help
you format your releases so they can go live quickly.

As always, if you have any questions about these rules or about how a paticular release
should be formatted, feel free to email us at suppot@loudr.fm.

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2. Content Policy

2.1. When Mistakes Happen

As our Community Guidelines state, rights are incredibly impotant to us and to our commu-
nity, which includes songwriters, peformers, and other content creators. We expect our
community to respect the ownership of the content that is shared, to give credit where it
is due, and to take responsibility for what is shared.

Most of the time, mistakes are minor and don’t call for the removal of content. Our systems
can detect formatting errors, typos, and other small issues, and we may fix them before
distributing. Our Suppot Team may also ping you about making your album distribution-
friendly.

However, some mistakes, like those that involve infringement of the rights of others, the
impersonation of others, or the misuse of our platform, are less minor and will trigger our
Two Strike Policy.

TIP:
Make sure you have all necessay rights and permissions to distribute the content you’re
sending to us. That includes rights to use the atist names, people’s likeness if they appear
on the album at, and, of course, the rights to all of the recordings. Keep in mind that Loudr
can obtain licenses for you to distribute cover songs (when you mark a tack as a cover
song), but not licenses to use samples of recordings or licenses to remix the recordings of
others.

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2.2. Two Strike Policy

First Strike

If you distribute content that is identified as infringing or abusive, you’ll receive an email
notification with information about why your content was removed, and you’ll have the
oppotunity to respond to the notification within two days. We reseve the right to remove
the content based on your response and the information we have, and if the complaint is
deemed valid, we will apply a strike to your account. (Please note that some of our distribution
patners enforce a one-strike poicy regarding cetain types of infringing or abusive content, and
may block content after only one strike.)

Second Strike

If you distribute content that is identified as infringing or abusive a second time, you’ll re-
ceive another email notification and again have the oppotunity to respond. If the second
complaint is deemed valid, another strike will be applied to your account and all of your
content will be removed from Loudr and all other stores to which we have distributed your
content. Your ability to upload content will be suspended, and your access to the platform
will be restricted.

If a claim is made, Loudr reseves the right to withhold payment of any royalties to defay
the cost of dealing with the matter.

We want to keep a good thing going, so please keep these guidelines in mind when you use
Loudr. Contact our Suppot Team at suppot@loudr.fm with any questions you may have
about our policies.

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Other Strikes

We may apply a copyright strike prior to the distribution an album if we determine that the
uploaded content would likely result in the application of a copyright strike were it to be
distributed.

2.3. Be True To Yourself

Impersonating someone else is a violation of our policies. Loudr accounts used to release
music from another person, or potay another person in a confusing or deceptive manner,
will be permanently suspended.

Do not submit misleading account information or release music under a misleading atist
name, such as a name that is associated with another atist or a band owned by someone
else, even if you consider yourself to be their biggest fan. Our distribution patners may
remove tademarked atist names or logos used without the permission of the tademark
owner, or may remove your content if you misrepresent a tack as originating from an atist
in a misleading way. These rules protect consumers from being deceived into buying music
they didn’t mean to buy.

You may not create multiple accounts for disruptive or abusive purposes, or for the purpose
of circumventing these rules. One account per person, please.

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2.4. That Adage About Biting The Hand That Feeds You

Our distribution patners reseve the right to remove any content they believe to be harm-
ful to their platform, band, or users. This is a subjective judgment call, so it’s hard to quan-
tify what such content looks like. As a geneal rule of thumb, your album is probably safe if
you’re not negatively referencing the platform distributing it.

Here are a few examples of song titles that may rub our patners the wrong way:

• “Ten Reasons Why Spotify Is Worse Than Rdio”

• “How To Steal Credit Card Information From iTunes Users For Lulz And Profit”
• “Google Play User MatildaInTheForest1996 Is The World’s Biggest Loser”

Some of our distribution patners also reseve the right to remove content on grounds of
suspicious activity, including potential atificial manipulation of streams. There is no black
and white answer as to what constitutes suspicious activity, but you should be aware that if
content is removed on these grounds, Loudr has limited, or in some instances no recourse,
for restoring the tack. As a geneal rule, asking your fans to stream your album on Spotify
is fine (and encouaged). However, you may want to think twice if you’re hiring a bot farm
to stream your album on mute.

Abnormal streaming activity may be evaluated using these factors:

• Number of streams the album received in the past week

• Number of users who stream the album
• Total number of streams versus total number of users who stream the tack
• Number of tacks on the album
• Number of “shot length” tacks on the album (less than 60 seconds)
• Number of “shot length” streams on the album (less than 60 seconds)
• Territorial activity

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2.5. When In Doubt, Be Nice

Please keep in mind that Loudr’s patners distribute your music worldwide and must comply
with global standards and rules regarding content. Therefore, Loudr and its distribution
patners reseve the right to remove content that is likely to incite hatred or discrimination
of any kind, whether related to ace, religion, sexuality, or othewise; or content that is
deemed offensive, abusive, defamatoy, illegal, pornogaphic, or obscene in any way.

For example, Loudr and its distribution patners may remove Nazi-related content and con-
tent recognized as harmful by the BPjM (Bundesprüfstelle ür jugendgeährdende Medien),
prohibited by German authorities or as othewise recognized by anti-Nazi laws in any ap-
plicable jurisdiction.

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PART II: STYLE AND FORMATTING

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3. Atist and Contributor Names

3.1. Oveview

Loudr lets you provide detailed information about who contributed to each tack. You can
identify atists and add contributors on a tack by tack basis by specifying each person’s
role as aranger, composer, conductor, peformer, etc.

You’ll need to mark at least one contributor as a “Tack Atist”. This means that when you
pull up the tack on sevices like iTunes or Spotify, all names marked Tack Atist will display
in the Atist field. On the Loudr Store, any contributors marked as Tack Atists will display
alongside the tack title AND be listed as an album atist under the album title.

For most atists, we recommend selecting only the name of one main atist as the Tack
Atist for all tacks and not checking the Tack Atist box for other instrumentalists and
collaboators, who will still get credit and appear as contributors within the metadata of
your music files.

In cases where a tack atist has not been specified, we will automatically assign the atist
account that uploaded the album as the tack atist. We encouage you to assign a single
tack atist to each tack.

See example on next page.

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The above enty would look like the following example on Loudr:

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3.2. Be Consistent

We can’t tell you what to name your band, although there are plenty of websites that can
probably help you with that. We can tell you that you should use the name that you’ve
published on your website, dropped into your social media profiles, printed on your CDs,
and advetised at your shows. It should be spelled and capitalized as you would spell and
capitalize it elsewhere.

Your fans will appreciate the consistency, and so will our distribution patners, who rely on
your adherence to these rules to do things like link the correct albums to a paticular atist.

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3.3. What NOT To List In The Contributor Name Field

• Aliases. For example: The Kim Jong Illness, a.k.a. John “The Illest Brother” Kim
• Tanslations. For example: you should list the Japanese atist name - as it appears,
ather than listing it along with the English tanslation:

ガールフレソドパーティー
ガールフレソドパーティー (Girlfriend Paty)

• Dates. For example: Jim Morrison (1943-1971), Nelly (2009)

• Instruments. For example: Fank N. Futer [Vuvuzela, Kazoo, Bagpipes]
• Generic or descriptive names. For example: Singer, Actor, Christmas Hits, Kaaoke or
Various Composers. It’s okay to use “Various Atists;” see below for guidelines.
• The name of any atist that did not paticipate in creating YOUR version of the tack.
This paticularly relates to using original atists’ names, including:
Names of bands you used to be in. Even if you used to be a member of Nivana.
(If you used to be a member of Nivana, please email us ASAP so we can get your au-
togaph.)
Names of bands you’d like to be in, or atists you’d like to be, but who actually
don’t appear in your recordings. For example: if Jane Smith covers the Katy Pery song
“Roar”, the atist name should be Jane Smith, not Jane Smith feat. Katy Pery, Jane
Smith & Katy Pery or Jane Smith with Katy Pery, unless Katy Pery actually dropped
by the studio to lay down some tacks with Jane Smith.

TIP:
Check out the Cover Songs Section below for more guidelines on how to upload cover song
tacks with the correct information.

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3.4. Featured Atists

The inclusion of a featured atist can help a tack gain exposure. If you are featuring an
atist, do the following:

• In the tack title section, add the name of the featured atist after the name of the
song to indicate additional atist collaboation. Use “feat.” (for “featuring”) and “with”
in lowercase.
For example: “Wub Remix (feat. Benjamin Briggs)”
• If your tack features two atists, please format them as
“(feat. Benjamin Briggs & Dj CUTMAN)”
• If three or more atists, the formatting is
“(feat. Benjamin Briggs, bLiNd & Dj CUTMAN)”

• In the Contributors section, include the name of the featured atist and select the
role “Featuring”. Do not check the Tack Atist box for the featured atist.

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3.5. Real Names: East Versus West

• If you’re listing a name in English, list your given name first and family name last. For
example: David Lin.
• If you’re listing a name in Chinese or Japanese, list your family name first and your first
name last.
For example, the following reads “Lin, David” in Chinese:
林大衛

3.6. Soundtacks and Classical Music / Serious Music

• List all of the atists involved in the album, but as with other genres of music, please
mark at least one atist name as a Tack Atist.
For example, your classical album may list a composer, a conductor, and other
atists, but you should designate at least one – i.e. The Reykjavik Symphony – as the
Tack Atist.
• If you’d like the composer to show up as a Tack Atist as well, just include the com-
poser and mark as a Tack Atist.
For example: The Reykjavik Symphony, John Snow

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3.7. Various Atists and Multi-atist Collaboations

• You may not name an atist “Various Atists”. If you are releasing a compilation, our
system will do this automatically. List the atist or atists that appear on each tack
as you normally would (see Atist and Contributor Names). If your album or tack is
peformed by enough atists to merit Various Atists as the atist name, our system
will automatically mark the atist for the album or tack as “Various Atists”.

• Our system will automatically tanslate “Various Atists” to the language of the album
that you’ve selected. For example, a French-language album would automatically ap-
pear as “Multi-Interprètes” and a Spanish-language album would be “Varios Atistas”.

• If seveal atists peform together as a group under a name that uses individual atist
names, you should list the names as they appear together.

For example, each of these should be listed as a single atist:

Peter, Bjorn & John, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Simon & Gafunkel.

But if David Bowie and Queen get together and make an album, they should each
be listed sepaately as a Tack Atist.

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4. Album Titles

4.1. What To Include In The Album Title

• The same album title displayed on your album cover. The album title needs to match
the cover at.
• “Live”, if most of the tacks are recorded live.
For example: “The Underdogs EP (Live)”
• “Remix”, if most of the tacks are remixes.
• Classical albums have specific rules for album titles. Please see the Classical section
for more information.

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4.2. What NOT To Include In The Album Title

• Supplemental information, such as “2nd anniversay edition”, “2008 Remaster”, “Spe-

cial Japanese edition with bonus tacks”. Put this information into the Album Descrip-
tion field, and we’ll make sure it gets included where needed.
• The abbreviation “O.S.T.” for soundtack albums. See the Soundtacks section below
for more information.
• Deceptive or misleading information, especially for tribute and cover albums. Avoid
referencing genres, popular song lyrics, or the original atist names in album titles.
The sole exception to this rule is the Kaaoke Exception
• Do not add “LP” or “Single” to your album title. These tags are added directly on a
store-by-store basis.
• You may include “EP” in your album title ONLY if the album title itself includes “EP”.
For example: “Awesome Songs EP”
• Album titles should not contain atist names unless the title of the album is the exact
same as the atist. Album titles must be unique, so this typically limits each atist to
one self-titled album (for example, “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath).

4.3. Soundtacks

• If all the recordings on an album are from the same soundtack, you should specify
that the album is a soundtack by marking the Primay Genre as “Soundtack” and
by adding a soundtack specification in parentheses. Be detailed and include explicit
source information.
• Some examples of acceptable soundtack album titles:
“The Godfather (Original Motion Picture Soundtack)”
“The Spirit Engine 2 (Original Game Soundtack)”
“Breaking Bad (Music from the Original TV Series)”
• Do not use “OST”, “OSV”, “O.S.T.” or similar abbreviations in your album title.

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5. Tack Titles

5.1. What To Include In The Tack Title

• For singles, the album title, tack title, and album cover must all match. You are wel-
come to add the word “Single”, if you wish to designate the tack as a single, even if
it doesn’t appear on the album atwork.
For example: “Anaconda - Single”
• Decoators, or title version, such as “Live”, “Radio Edit”, “Extended Version”, “Single
Version”, or others are permitted, if you wish to label your tacks with these.
• In-title version information: Please format all version information with parentheses
( ). Please do not include the phase (Original Mix) - only include version information
for alternate mixes.
For example: “Awesome Song (Flute and Guitar Cover)”
• All tack titles peformed by the same atist on an album must be unique. If multiple
versions of the same tack exist on the album, please specify each version in the tack
title.
• You may include the word “Cover” in your tack title, but may not include the name of
the original or popular atist.

5.2. What NOT To Include In The Tack Title

• Audio files that don’t match the tack titles. Double check before you submit!
• Generic tack titles, such as Tack 1 and Tack 2, unless they are the actual titles of
the tacks.
• Words and phases that apply only for a limited period of time, like “Exclusive” or “Lim-
ited Edition”, since titles are a permanent pat of the content.

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• Reference to digital content, physical content, or to content that is not included.

Some examples include “E-Release”, “Digital Download”, or “Digital Single” (fans who
are buying your music online probably already know that this is a digital release) and
“Two CD Set” “With Digital Booklet” or “With Sheet Music” (if fans don’t get the exta
CD, booklet or sheet music with purchases across all platforms you’ve selected, leave
this pat out).
• Deceptive or misleading information, especially for tribute and cover albums. Avoid
referencing genres, popular song lyrics, or the original atist names in album titles.
The sole exception to this rule is for kaaoke tacks - please see the Kaaoke Exception.

”Cover” should be treated as version information. For example, a cover of “Call Me

Maybe” can be titled “Call Me Maybe (Cover)”, but should not be titled “Cover of Call
Me Maybe”.

Some examples of tack titles that will be lagged:

“Made famous by Foo Fighters”
“Originally peformed by Pearl Jam”
“Cover of Call Me Maybe”.
• If you are uploading an explicit (or a corresponding clean) tack, you do not need to
add the words “Clean” or “Explicit” to the tack title.
Explicit tacks must be marked as such on each tack. You can mark a tack as
explicit by checking the “explicit” checkbox.
• Do not censor words in your tack title; our system will automatically do that. Please
note that censored content may vay from platform to platform and territoy to ter-
ritoy.

5.3. Medleys

• All songs in a medley should be listed in the tack title with foward slashes sepaating
each song. For example:
“Boom Clap / All of Me / Happy”

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“Jingle Bells / Frosty The Snowman / The Chipmunks Holiday Song”

“The Great Deku Tree / Kokiri Forest / Ocarina of Time”
• If your medley contains a large number of compositions, you may title your medley
based on a common element shared between all songs. For example: “Classic Rock
Medley”.
• Note that you must still identify each musical composition within your medley, re-
gardless of its title.

5.4. Remixes

• If “vs.” or “Meets” is used to describe your album that is a collection of different songs
remixed by a single DJ, you should list the mixing DJ as a Tack Atist and include sup-
plemental information about the DJ’s remixer role. The original atists whose songs
are being remixed must also be listed as Tack Atists.
• In order to avoid identical tack titles, the tack titles should include remix informa-
tion to differentiate them. If an album is a collection of remixes of the same song, the
album subtitle should indicate that they are remixes.

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6. Genres
• Cetain types of albums require a paticular primay genre. Typically these albums fall
into ”Kaaoke”, ”Soundtack”, ”Disney”, or ”Classical”.
• Instrumental albums must be marked with the primay genre of ”Kaaoke” in order
to take advantage of the Kaaoke Exception to our atists-in-titles rules. Soundtacks
(whether to video games or films) must be marked as primay genre - ”Soundtack”.
• Only Classical albums may be marked as ”Classical” - do not mark non-classical albums
(including rock or hip-hop albums that feature classical elements) as classical.

6.1. Kaaoke / Tribute

• The Kaaoke Exception: If you are releasing a kaaoke tack, you can use the original
atist name in the title if it’s accompanied by the phase “Originally Peformed By
(original atist name)” or other clarifying language to keep consumers from thinking
the original atist is peforming on the tack.
• Searchability: Kaaoke and Tribute albums may be hidden from search on some stores
unless a customer specifically types ”Kaaoke” or ”Tribute” along with their search
terms. We recommend that atists avoid the Kaaoke genre or including the word
”Tribute” in their album titles if they wish to remain geneally searchable across all
stores.
• The titles of kaaoke tacks must indicate that they are an instrumental or kaaoke
version.
• Kaaoke album titles may NOT begin with the name of the original atist. “Metallica:
the Polka Tribute” is not allowed, while “The Polka Tribute to Metallica” is okay.

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7. Classical Music
Some of our distribution patners have specific guidelines for Classical / serious music. This
only applies to Western Classical Composers. We may reject releases that are improperly
formatted.

7.1. Genre

• Albums containing primarily classical music must have a primay genre of “Classical.”
• Please do not mark non-classical Instrumental albums as “Classical.”

7.2. Atist and Contributor Names

• All peformers must be marked as Tack Atists with a role of “Peformer”.

• Atists or contributors having a “featured” contributor role is not permitted for Clas-
sical music
• The standard atist name and spelling must be used for composers. Composers must
be supplied for all classical music.
• See the Atist and Contributor section for more information on how to format atist
names.

7.3. Album Titles

• Formatting: The album title of Classical albums should include the last name of the
composer.

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• Formatting: Compilation albums of music from multiple classical composers don’t

need a composer in the album title.
• Use the work titles in their original languages. Do not include extaneous tanslations.
• Casing: Album titles in English must be in title case. For example: “Glass: Glassworks”
• Casing: Album titles in French, Italian, or Swedish must be in sentence case. For ex-
ample: “Debussy: Préludes deuxième livre & Six épigaphes antiques”

7.4. Tack Titles

• Provide as much information about a work as is available.

• Song titles must be formatted as
[Name of Work] in [Key], [Catalog Number]: [Movement Number]. [Movement Title]
For example:
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
Keyboard Conceto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: III. Presto
Three Lyric Pieces, Op. 47: No. 1, Summer Song
Die Winterreise, D. 911: No. 24, Der Leiermann
Patita for Solo Flute in A Minor, BWV 1013: I. Allemande
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 311: II. Minuet - Trio
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1: III. Adagio con espressione
• For movements or sections, roman numeals or standard notation (“No. 1,” “No. 2,”
etc.) may be used.

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8. Cover Songs
We love cover songs and love helping you legally license and sell them. Loudr’s knowledge
of musical compositions is pat of what makes us (and our atists) so special. Because of this,
we’ve built our tack upload page to include a section dedicated to collecting information
that helps us license cover songs for you.

Each musical tack actually contains two sepaate works - the underlying notes, lyrics, and
structure (called the composition), and the specific recording of that work (called the sound
recording). The information you need to include with your tack depends on whether you’re
doing an original song (i.e., you own the sound recording and composition) or a cover (i.e.,
you own the sound recording, but not the composition).

We love when atists are able to supply composer names! Please supply multiple names
sepaated by commas, for example: Composer A, Composer B, Composer C. If you’re doing a
Public Domain song, please list the composer as (Taditional) if the composer is not known.

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8.1. How To Fill Out The Composition Field

If your song is original:

• List the tack title as your composition title.

• List yourself as the original atist.
• List your real name as the composer, as well as the names of other composers, song-
writers, or lyricists who contributed to the composition.

If your song is a cover:

• List the original song title as the title, even if it differs from your tack title.
• List the atist you’re covering as the original atist.
• List the composers of the song in the composer field.
• If the song you’re covering is from a soundtack, list the composer of the soundtack
as the original atist. List the name of the original game/movie/television series/etc.
in the Composition Title field. For example:
“Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past)”
• If you’re the original atist, then your song is not a cover and you should mark the
tack as an original. If you identify yourself as the original atist, our system will mark
the tack as an original song, not a cover, and your cover song might go unlicensed.
This means it could be pulled from iTunes and other stores at any time, and a strike
may be placed on your account.
• If you’ve already paid for your own cover song licenses and want to continue keeping
tack and paying royalties on your own, list the song as a cover and then shoot our
Suppot Team an email so that we can change your settings accordingly.
• Kaaoke tacks are a type of cover song. Please do not list yourself as the original
atist, even if you’ve created your own kaaoke version of a popular song.

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8.2. Where To List The Original Atist's Name Or The

Songwriter's Name

Please note that our cover song licenses don’t give you the right to use the original per-
forming atist’s name in your tack or album titles. If you’ve covered a song and are having
Loudr license it for you, you should list the name of the original atist or songwriters in the
compositions section of your tack, and not within the tack title or album title fields.

For example, if the a cappella group On The Rocks were to record a heat-wrenching version
of Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable”, they would release it like this:

• Atist name: “On The Rocks”, not “On The Rocks in the style of Beyoncé”, “On The
Rocks with Beyoncé”, or “Beyoncé vs. On The Rocks”
• Tack title: “Irreplaceable”, not “Irreplaceable, feat. Beyoncé”, “Irreplaceable in the
style of Beyoncé”, or “Beyoncé’s Irreplaceable”.

8.3. Covers Of Public Domain Songs

• A cover of a public domain song is a special type of cover song. We do not obtain
licenses or pay royalties on public domain works, so it is vey impotant that you only
lag a work as public domain when you’re absolutely sure the work is no longer under
copyright in the United States.
In the compositions section of the tack, list the original atist in the original atist
field and the composer in the composer field, if known. Othewise, name the original
atist as “Taditional”.
• If you’re not sure whether or not your song is in the public domain, please mark it as a
cover and the tack will either be licensed if it is not public domain, or marked public
domain if it cannot be licensed.

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9. Atwork
Many of the rules for album atwork mirror the rules in the Album Title and Tack Title sec-
tions above. When in doubt, create something original from scatch, ather than altering
someone else’s image.

DON’T DO

Your album at should include the album title and your atist name. Compilation albums
(albums with more than 4 atists) do not need to display the atist name on the at.
We do gant exceptions to this rule in cases where the album at does not include text, but
has significant atistic merit. Please contact us if you believe your at fulfills this alternate
requirement.

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DON’T DO

You may include the names of original atists on your album at, provided that you clearly
indicate that your album is NOT the work of the original atist (by using phases such as
“in the style of” or “originally peformed by”), and provided that the original atist’s name
appears no more prominently than any other text on the album.

DON’T DO

Album at should not include exta or incorrect text.

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DON’T DO

Album at should not be pixelated or blown up to bad quality.

DON’T DO

Atwork must be centered and must fill the entire canvas from corner-to-corner. Album at
needs to be a full 3000px by 3000px square image. Do not fill blank space to make the al-
bum at the correct size.

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DON’T DO

Album at should not be stretched.

DON’T DO

Album at may NOT use third paty tademarks without permission.

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DON’T DO

Album at may NOT use celebrity or chaacter likenesses or images without permission.

DON’T DO

Album at may NOT include social media icons. Including social media links is acceptable
provided that the sites you link to do not also sell your music in a way that would compete
with any of our stores.

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When it comes to nudity...

If there is nothing between your line-of-sight and the subject’s nethers or nipples, it is con-
sidered sexually explicit imagey and we cannot approve your atwork.

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10. Audio File Formats
We currently accept audio in WAV, AIF, or FLAC format. All files must have 2 channels with
a sampling ate of 44.1Khz or 48Khz and 16-bit or 24-bit resolution. Audio length must be
longer than 2 seconds, and shoter than 60 minutes.

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11. Miscellaneous Tips
• Avoid ALL-CAPS, all lower case, or rAndOm casing.
• “The” should be capitalized when it is the stat of an Atist’s name.
• Instrumental tacks cannot be marked explicit unless the tack title contains explicit
language.

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