Mindful Audio End-User License Agreement (EULA)

License agreement for users of Sound Libraries purchased from Mindful Audio (www.mindful-audio.com) (as “Licensor”). This end user license agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into between you, a single user natural person (the “Licensee”), who has purchased one or more sound effect libraries from the Licensor, and the creator or creators of these sound effect libraries (the “Licensor”). This Agreement covers one or more sound libraries purchased by the Licensee which appears from the invoice that the Licensee receives following the purchase (the “Sound Libraries”). The Licensor is the creator or creators of the Sound Libraries listed on the invoice which the Licensee receives following the purchase. By accepting this EULA the Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in this EULA.

1. Grant of License In consideration for the purchase of the Sound Libraries, the Licensor grants the Licensee a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty free license to use the sounds in the Sound Libraries (“Sounds”) on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

2. Rights Granted The license granted in this agreement allows the Licensee to: a. install and use the Sound Libraries on one workstation at a time, although the Licensee is permitted to make and keep backup copies of the Sound Libraries on other storage devices, and b. distribute and publicly perform reproductions of the Sounds, where these are incorporated in and synchronized with other media productions, which shall mean products that contains at least one additional media element to the Sounds (music, voice, image, etc.), including but not limited to radio and television broadcasts, film, music compositions, web sites, podcasts, mobile apps, advertising, multi-media presentations, video games and similar.

3. Restrictions The Licensee is not permitted to distribute or perform reproductions of the Sounds where these are not incorporated in and synchronized with other media productions, including but not limited to in toys, product design, greeting cards, ringtones, applications such as soundboards, hardware devices, media authoring tools, AI applications, machine learning etc. To the furthest extension permitted by law, the Licensee is prohibited from adapting, modifying or repackaging any Sounds, except as permitted in Clause 2.

Furthermore, for the sake of clarity, the audio files licensed under this agreement, or any new audio content derived from or based on the audio files, may not be used in whole or in part in:

1. Any library (e.g. sample instrument, sound effects library, production music as single accessible stems, etc.),
2. Usage as pre-installed sounds in any physical / hardware device or toy, online or offline
3. Usage, in whole or in part, for the purpose of training, improving, or developing any Neural Networks (NN), Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) models or algorithms, whether for commercial or non-commercial use.
4. usage in any product that is primarily a sound product. Primarily, for the purposes of this agreement, is defined as containing pure sound effects using Sound Libraries (without voice, music) for at least 50% of the total elapsed time of the product. Examples of restricted products would be soundscape albums, sound effect collages on YouTube, ambient sound videos without narration.

If you have any doubts or if you’re looking to include the Sound Libraries in ways that are mentioned in the Restrictions, please get in touch. I’m happy to offer a custom license as needed.

4. Intellectual property rights All rights to the Sound Libraries and the Sounds herein are owned by the Licensor and other than the license rights granted in this Agreement all rights in the Sounds and Sound Effect Libraries remain the property of the Licensor. The Licensee must not claim ownership or authorship of the Sounds or the Sound Libraries.

5. Termination The Licensee’s right to use the Sound Libraries will automatically terminate in the event of any breach by the Licensee of the terms of this Agreement. In the event of termination, the Licensee shall delete or destroy all copies of the Sound Libraries which the Licensee has produced.

6. Indemnity The Licensee shall indemnify Licensor from, and against any and all claims, demands, suits, awards, damages, suits, injuries, liabilities and all reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees incurred by the Licensor with respect to any matter that arises as a result of the Licensee’s breach of this Agreement.

7. Liability Licensor shall not be liable for any damages or for any loss of business or business profits, business interruption, or any other direct or indirect loss resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any of Licensor’s Sounds.

8. Assignment To the furthest extension permitted by law, the Licensee must not assign, license, sublicense, sell or otherwise assign the Sounds to any third party, except as set out in Clause 2.

9. Applicable Law This Agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales.