Terms

Last updated 21 October 2026 · Version 2026-10-21

These terms apply when you use theinternetlabel.com, run by Internet Label (“we”, “us”). You accept them when you tick the box at sign-up, and we record which version you accepted. Section 4 applies when you sell or license music. Section 5 applies when you buy.

If you’re a consumer (using the site mainly outside your trade or business, as many artists and producers are), nothing here takes away your legal rights. Where a term says it doesn’t apply to consumers, it doesn’t apply to you.

1. What we do, and what we don’t

• We introduce sellers to buyers. We value music, check listings and buyers, run the deal room, and generate an agreement from the terms both sides accept.
• We act for neither side. We aren’t the agent, adviser, lawyer or accountant of any seller or buyer. We can’t make, accept or sign anything for you.
• We work with many people at once, including sellers of similar music and buyers bidding against each other.
• How we’re paid. Buyers pay us a fee when a deal completes. Sellers pay nothing. Because we’re paid only when deals complete, we have an interest in them completing. We tell you so you can weigh what we say with that in mind.
• We never hold the price. Buyers pay an independent escrow or payment provider, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, which pays the seller when the deal completes. The money never passes through our accounts. We don’t run wallets or balances.
• One buyer per deal. Each listing is sold or licensed to one buyer (or a small group who each sign and each take their share directly). We don’t sell fractions of songs to the public, pool income, or manage rights after a sale.
• No advice. Nothing on the site is legal, tax or financial advice. Get independent legal advice before you sign an agreement.

2. Valuations

A valuation is an estimate from the information you give us, market data and our model. It isn’t an offer to buy, a formal appraisal, or advice, and it isn’t a promise of what a buyer will pay or what the music will earn. Past income doesn’t guarantee future income. We take reasonable care producing valuations, but they can be wrong, especially if the information we’re given is wrong.

We improve our model by comparing completed sale prices with the valuation that was attached to each listing. That uses figures, not your files or identity. We don’t use your uploads to train AI models.

3. Your account

• You must be 18 or over. If you use the site for a company, you confirm you can bind it.
• Give accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and tell us straight away if someone else may have used your account.
• Our staff can view accounts from a seller’s or a buyer’s point of view to check listings, help you and fix problems. Only staff who need it have that access.

4. Selling or licensing

• Free for sellers. We take no commission. You receive the whole price from the escrow provider. What you finally keep can be less only if the agreement includes a holdback (it will say so clearly), if you owe tax, or if your bank charges you.
• Before you list, we show you exactly what the buyer pays us and ask you to confirm you understand our role. We record that.
• We pass on every offer. Every offer on your listing appears in your account. You can accept, counter or decline, and you don’t have to accept the highest.
• List only what you own or control. For a master, that usually means you paid for and arranged the recording, or have a signed assignment from whoever did. For a song, you wrote it or have signed assignments from your co-writers. The splits you give us must match your written split sheets.
• Samples and beats must be cleared in writing. A non-exclusive beat lease usually doesn’t let you sell the master: tell us if one applies.
• Nothing can conflict. No record, publishing, distribution, management or advance deal can give someone else rights over what you list, unless you tell us.
• Some income can’t change hands whatever you sell:
  • Performers' income from PPL (and other performer societies): it can only be paid to the performer
  • The featured artist's share of US digital radio income from SoundExchange
  • For PRS and the US societies: the songwriter's share of performance income, which they pay straight to the writer
• STIM members: STIM must approve and register a transfer before it counts. The deal completes only once it does, and you apply within 5 working days of signing.
• Delivery. After signing you deliver what the agreement lists: final audio, split sheets, existing agreements, society details and transfer letters. Don’t take a release down until the buyer confirms their version is live. Royalties for the period after the agreed income date belong to the buyer; pass them on within 30 days.
• Checks. We check every listing before buyers see it and may ask for evidence. You can withdraw a listing free at any time before you accept an offer.
• If something you promised is untrue, the buyer may have a claim under the agreement, normally limited to the price you received (not for fraud). We won’t claim against you ourselves, except for fraud, deliberate misuse, or uploading content that infringes someone else’s rights.
• Tax. Money from selling or licensing music may be taxable. We can give you a deal summary for your accountant but don’t give tax advice.

5. Buying

• Verification. We check every buyer before they can see deal files or bid. We may ask for company details, ID, who owns and controls the business and, for larger deals, where the money comes from. We check buyers against UK sanctions lists. You confirm you’re buying for business, not as a consumer, unless you tell us otherwise before you bid.
• The fee is paid on completion: 10% of the price up to £1m, plus 5% of any part above £1m. So a £1.5m deal costs £100,000 + £25,000. There’s no step down at £1m. The fee is shown with the total before you bid, is exclusive of VAT (we add VAT where the law requires it), and is never taken from the seller’s price. No fee is due if the deal doesn’t complete, and we never change it for a listing after you’ve bid.
• Offers are made in good faith. An offer binds only once both sides sign the agreement, but bidding without meaning it can lead to suspension.
• Deal files are confidential. Use them only to decide whether to bid and to complete the deal. Share them only with staff and advisers who need them. Don’t contact the seller’s distributors, societies or co-writers about the listing without the seller’s agreement. Delete them if you don’t buy. Personal data in them is yours to protect under UK GDPR.
• Do your own checks. You buy on your own due diligence and the seller’s promises in the agreement, not on our valuation. A master buyer gets the label share of PPL income, not performer income. A publishing buyer gets the publisher’s share, not the PRS or US writer’s share.
• Pay the escrow provider, never us or the seller directly. If you pay royalties to a seller outside the UK, you handle any tax you must withhold.

6. Agreements and signing

• A deal exists only when both sides sign the agreement on the site. We aren’t a party to it, except for the parts about our role and fee.
• The agreement is a template built from what you both accepted. Read it all. You can ask for changes before signing; if both sides agree, we reissue it.
• You sign by typing your full name and confirming. You agree that this is your signature, that you mean to be bound, and that it counts as signed writing, including for assigning copyright. We keep a record of the name, account, time and exact text signed. Anything that must be a deed (such as a power of attorney) is signed off the site.

7. No going around us

For 12 months after we introduce a buyer to a seller or to particular music, neither may complete a sale or licence of that music with the other outside the site. A buyer who does must pay us the fee we’d have earned. This doesn’t apply to sellers who are consumers, or to anyone the seller already had a documented relationship with before our introduction.

8. Using the site fairly

Don’t list music you don’t own or control, give false earnings or identity details, upload other people’s personal information without the right to, try to get around our checks, the escrow or the fee, copy or scrape the site, interfere with its security, or use it for anything unlawful, including money laundering or breaking sanctions.

We may remove a listing or suspend an account if we reasonably believe someone has broken these terms or the law, or to protect other users. We’ll tell you why and, where it’s fair, give you a chance to fix things first. Signed deals carry on unless we suspect fraud.

9. How listings are ordered

By default the marketplace shows listings we’ve marked Featured first, then the hottest (most recent offers, bidders, watches and views), then the newest. Buyers can sort by newest, ending soon or lowest price instead. We choose Featured listings ourselves. Nobody pays for placement.

10. What you upload

You keep ownership of your music, artwork, statements and descriptions. You let us store, copy, process and show them only to value your music, run listings and deals, and meet our legal duties. That ends when you delete them or close your account, except for records we must keep, such as signed agreements.

11. Our responsibility

• We run the site with reasonable care and skill, but can’t promise it will always be available or error-free.
• We aren’t responsible for whether a seller owns what they list, what sellers and buyers agree between themselves, whether they keep to it, or the escrow provider’s services.
• Consumers: we’re responsible for foreseeable loss caused by our breaking these terms or not using reasonable care and skill.
• Business users: our total liability is limited to the greater of the fee we received for the deal concerned and £1,000, and we aren’t liable for lost profits, revenue or opportunity, or indirect loss.
• Nothing limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t allow us to limit.

12. Ending

You can close your account at any time by emailing hello@theinternetlabel.com. We can close it on 30 days’ notice, or straight away under section 8. Signed deals carry on under their own agreement.

13. Changes

We’ll email you at least 15 days before a change that matters to you takes effect, and say what’s changing. If you don’t agree, you can close your account before then. Changes never affect signed deals.

14. Complaints and law

Email hello@theinternetlabel.com with “Complaint” in the subject. We’ll acknowledge within 2 working days and aim to give a full answer within 14 days.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you’re a consumer in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring proceedings there.