TRACK SUBMISSION TERMS

You may submit a track if you are 16 or over and you either created it or have permission from everyone who did. That includes co-producers, vocalists, featured artists, remixers, and anyone who holds a share in the recording or the composition.

If a label, publisher, or distributor controls the track, you need their agreement before sending it to us. By submitting, you are telling us you have the authority to do so.

We never take ownership of your track. You keep every right you had before you sent it, and you are free to release it, license it, or send it anywhere else at any time. Submitting to us is not exclusive and does not tie you to the station.

By submitting, you give Bassline Brighton a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide permission to:

• ▸broadcast and stream the track on the station
• ▸include it in shows that are recorded and kept as archives or catch-up listening
• ▸name you, the track, and any artwork you supply in our schedules, now-playing information, and social posts

That permission exists so we can legally play your music. It does not let us sell your track, put it on a compilation, license it for use in film, television, or advertising, or pass it to a third party. If we ever wanted to do any of that, we would come back and ask you separately.

Every submission gets listened to by a person rather than a bot, but we cannot promise that your track will be played, or say in advance when it might be. We may decide not to play something for any reason, including that it simply is not right for the station.

Bassline Brighton holds the licences required to play recorded music, and we report what we play so that royalties reach the right people. Reporting is how artists get paid, and it is a large part of what the station's running costs go towards.

To actually receive money for plays, you need to be registered with the relevant collecting societies yourself. In the UK that usually means PRS for Music for the composition and PPL for the recording. We cannot register on your behalf, and we cannot pay you directly.

These are the assurances you give us when you submit. Each one is a promise you are making, not a best guess. You confirm that:

• ▸you own or control every right needed for us to broadcast the track, or you have written permission from whoever does
• ▸every sample, vocal, interpolation, remix element, and piece of artwork in the track is either original or fully cleared for broadcast
• ▸no label, publisher, distributor, collaborator, or anyone else needs to give permission that has not already been given
• ▸the track does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trade mark, moral rights, performance rights, or any other right
• ▸nothing in the track is unlawful, defamatory, or promotes hatred against or harassment of any group or person
• ▸the information you gave us about you and the track is accurate

We rely on these promises when we decide to put a track on air. We have no practical way to independently verify the rights position of every submission we receive, and we do not attempt to. The person who made the track is the only person who knows what is in it.

If anything above stops being true after you submit, tell us immediately at basslinebrighton@gmail.com so we can take the track off air.

If we play your track in reliance on section 6 and one of those promises was not true, the consequences are yours, not ours. You agree to indemnify Bassline Brighton, and anyone running or presenting on the station, against everything we lose as a result. That includes:

• ▸claims from rights holders, labels, publishers, distributors, collecting societies, or anyone else
• ▸damages, settlements, licence fees, penalties, and fines
• ▸the cost of any takedown, correction, or removal we have to carry out
• ▸our reasonable legal and professional costs in dealing with any of the above

In plain terms: if you send us something you did not have the right to send, and that lands the station with a bill, the bill is yours.

We will tell you promptly if a claim comes in relating to your track, give you a reasonable opportunity to be involved in how it is handled, and not settle it in a way that admits fault on your behalf without asking you first. We will take the track off air while any claim is being resolved.

This section continues to apply after you withdraw a track.

You can ask us to stop playing your track at any time by emailing basslinebrighton@gmail.com. We will remove it from rotation promptly. Recordings of shows that already went out may keep the track in them, but we will remove those on request too where it is practical to do so.

We use the name, email address, and links you give us to consider your submission and to get back to you about it. We do not sell your details and we do not pass them to anyone else. Ask us and we will tell you what we hold, or delete it.

We may update these terms. The version and date at the top of this page will always tell you which wording is current, and any submission is governed by the version that was live when you sent it.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have that cannot be limited by law.