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Terms of Service

Effective 10 September 2026. Last updated 10 September 2026.

These Terms are the agreement between you and Musa Music LLC, a company organised under the laws of the State of New York, United States, trading as Musa Distro ("Musa Distro", "we", "us"). They govern musadistro.com, app.musadistro.com and everything we do for you.

By opening an account or delivering a release you accept these Terms, the Content Policy, the Copyright Policy and the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

1. Who can use Musa Distro

You must be 18 or older. If you are between 13 and 18, a parent or guardian must accept these Terms and is responsible for your account and its earnings.

Accounts are opened by invitation, after we review an application. You cannot open one yourself, sell it, transfer it, or share your credentials. Everything done under your account is your responsibility, including what a manager, label or collaborator you gave access does.

2. What we do, and what we do not do

We deliver your recordings and artwork to digital music stores and streaming services through our distribution partner, and we collect what those stores report and pay, and pass your share to you.

We do not own your music. We are not your publisher: we do not administer your compositions and we do not collect performance or mechanical royalties from a performing rights organisation. We do not promise that a store will accept a release, keep it available, place it on any playlist, or pay any particular amount.

3. The rights you give us

For as long as this agreement lasts, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to:

You keep ownership of your masters and of your compositions. Nothing here transfers any copyright to us.

4. What you promise us

For every release you deliver, you confirm that:

These promises are ongoing. If any of them stops being true, tell us straight away.

5. Claims against us because of your content

If somebody brings a claim against us over your content — an infringement claim, a rights dispute, an argument between collaborators — you will defend us, cover what we lose, and pay reasonable legal costs. While such a claim is open we may hold the affected amounts in your balance, and use them against what the claim costs us.

6. Money

Our share. There is no upfront fee. Musa Distro keeps 15% of streaming earnings and pays you the other 85%. The percentage is set on your invitation and locked for your account: it does not change from one release or one artist to another.

What "earnings" means. What the stores actually report and pay for your recordings, after each store's own share and any tax or fee they deduct. We pay from what we receive, never from an estimate.

Reporting delay. Stores report and pay in arrears, usually two to three months after the month that was streamed. Figures shown in your dashboard before a store has paid are estimates, and stores restate them as late reports arrive.

Payouts. Earnings sit in your balance until you ask for a payout, and the smallest payout we send is 50 US dollars. We pay in United States dollars, by bank transfer or PayPal. Fees charged by a bank, an intermediary bank or PayPal come out of the amount sent. We may hold a payout while we verify your identity, your payment details, or a rights or fraud question.

Splits. Where you set splits, each collaborator is paid their share directly out of the earnings. The split you set is your instruction to us; a disagreement about it is between you and the people you named, and we may hold the disputed share until you agree or a court decides.

Taxes. Your taxes are yours. As a United States company we must hold a valid tax form for you — a W-9 if you are a US person, a W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E if you are not — and, where the law requires it, withhold United States tax from your payments and report them to the Internal Revenue Service. We cannot pay you until we hold a valid form.

Corrections and chargebacks. If a store reverses or restates a payment, including for artificial streaming, we reverse it in your balance too and may recover it from future earnings.

Dormant balances. If your balance is under the payout minimum and your account has had no activity for three years, we may write to you at your registered email before treating the balance under the unclaimed property laws that apply to us.

7. Artificial streaming

Streams that are bought, bot-driven or otherwise manipulated get releases removed, get money clawed back by stores, and put every artist on our account at risk.

If we or a store find them in your releases we may take the release down, withhold and reverse the affected earnings, suspend or close your account, and pass on any penalty a store charges us because of it.

8. Taking music down

You can request a takedown at any time from your account. We pass it to the stores; when a store actually removes it is their decision, and it usually takes days to weeks. A takedown does not undo royalties already earned and does not refund anything.

We may refuse, delay, take down or re-deliver a release when we reasonably believe it breaks these Terms, the Content Policy or a store's own rules, or when we receive a rights complaint about it.

9. How this agreement ends

It runs until one of us ends it. You may end it by taking your catalogue down and asking us to close the account. We may end it by giving you 30 days notice, or immediately for breach, fraud, or repeated rights claims.

When it ends, our licence ends as your releases come down from the stores. Earnings already reported are still paid, less our share and anything we are entitled to hold. Money earned before the end date but reported after it is paid when it reaches us.

10. The third parties we depend on

Delivery, payment and analytics reach you through others: our distribution partner, the stores themselves, payment providers, and the platforms that report streams. We are not responsible for their decisions, their outages, their rejection of a release, or the accuracy of what they report to us — although we will pass on what they tell us and help you understand it.

11. No warranty, and the limit of our liability

The service is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not promise that any release will earn anything.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost profits, lost opportunities, or indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability on any claim is limited to the amount we kept as our share of your earnings in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Nothing here limits any liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms. We announce a material change by email and in your dashboard at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that is acceptance. If you do not accept, you may take your catalogue down and close your account.

13. Law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Suffolk County, New York, and you and we both agree to their jurisdiction.

14. The rest

If a clause turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stands. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it to a successor of our business. These Terms, together with the Content Policy, the Copyright Policy and the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us and replace anything said before.

15. Contact

Musa Music LLC Suffolk County, New York, United States info@musadistro.com