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MASTER CLEARANCE LICENSE

If you require any further assistance or clarification, please contact us at


team@sonix.audio for further details.

In exchange for your payment of the license fee ("License Fee") associated with the
applicable sound and/or sample provided via this website (each, a "Sample"), we grant
you a nonexclusive, non transferable, publicly perform, distribute, transmit, perpetual
right in combination with other sounds in music productions to create new recordings
("Recording(s)"), which shall be considered "derivative works" as that term is used in the
United States Copyright Act.

This license permits you to modify, reproduce, publicly perform, distribute, transmit,
sublicense, and otherwise use the Sample as incorporated in your Recording,
including for commercial purposes, subject to the following restrictions:

1) You may not use or sublicense the Sample in isolation as sound effects, loops, or as
source material for any other form of sample (even if you modify the Sample)

2) You may not use or sublicense Samples in a manner competitive to us or redistribute


any sound samples in new sample packs.

3) You may not sublicense, sell, loan, share, lend, broadcast, rent, lease, assign,
distribute, or transfer any Sample to a third party except as incorporated into a
Recording

Furthermore, with respect to commercial usage of Recordings containing Samples, the


following shall apply:

1) Minor Releases: You may use the Sample for Recordings on your own personal
projects, independent releases, beat tapes, and mix tapes that are not distributed or
released via a "Major Label" (i.e., SonyBMG, UMG, WEA, or their subsidiaries) or
"Large Indie Label" (i.e., Alamo, Empire, 300, E1 or comparable label) (each such
release, a "Minor Release") at no additional cost outside of the License Fee (including,
for the avoidance of doubt, without providing us with publishing splits), provided that any
Minor Release that exceeds one million streams on Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube
shall be considered Major Release for purposes of this license and shall be subject to
the below terms for Major Releases .

2) Major Releases: For Recordings to be distributed or released via a Major Label or


Large Indie Label, or any Minor Release that exceeds one million streams on Apple
Music, Spotify or YouTube (each such release, a "Major Release"), you shall be
required to:

(a) Contact us promptly to seek clearance for use of the Sample on a Major Release;

(b) Provide a fair share of any Advances, Producer Royalty and Publishing, including for
the avoidance of doubt, in relation to any so-called 'synch licenses'; and

(c) Provide [us/the creator of the applicable Sample] with Co- Producer credit on the
liner notes of any singles or albums (in any configuration), in advertisements, and
wherever metadata permits.

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