Terms of Service Draft

These Terms of Service are a public draft for transparency while Dubplay is preparing launch. They are not final legal terms. The live terms will need legal review and may change before production launch.

By using a launch or production version of Dubplay, users will be asked to accept the then-current terms that apply at that time.

Dubplay accounts are used to manage profiles, artist tools, purchases, Dubplay Wallet balances, and Soundmark wallet access.

A Soundmark wallet may be created automatically for a user. The wallet is used to hold edition ownership and unlock purchased content. Users are responsible for keeping account credentials and any revealed recovery phrase secure.

A purchase gives the buyer a Soundmark edition of a release, subject to availability, successful payment, and successful platform processing. The edition can unlock streaming, lossless vault access, Deep Cuts, and other release-specific benefits when configured.

Encrypted audio and release archives may be stored on public content-addressed storage. Access depends on ownership and key delivery. Dubplay may maintain services that make this access convenient, but the platform is designed so ownership and encrypted content are not tied to one private server path.

For primary sales, sales tax or VAT is handled first where required. Tax is not part of the artist, contributor, recoupment, or Dubplay split.

After tax, Dubplay applies its staged primary-sale platform fee. The current intended model starts at 20% and can step down toward 10% when a release performs well and sells more editions. This schedule is a live platform policy, not a per-release grandfathered setting: a change applies to future sales after the change, including future sales of already-published releases. Already settled purchases are not recalculated. The remaining release pool is allocated to the master owner, contributors, and any private recoupment accounting configured for the release.

Dubplay pays the transaction-side payment processing and payment-stack costs for the sale itself from the platform side. These are not hidden deductions from the artist-side release pool after the stated tax and platform fee treatment.

External payouts use Stripe Connect or another supported payout provider. Provider payout fees, banking fees, currency conversion fees, and similar receiver-side payout costs are paid by the receiver who takes money out: for example the artist, contributor, seller, or other payable party.

Dubplay uses payout thresholds to reduce the chance that small balances are consumed by repeated payout fees. A receiver can still request an early payout when supported, but the expected fee impact should be shown before the payout is sent.

Dubplay Wallet is an internal payable ledger. It is not a bank account, deposit account, e-money account, or general payment account.

When secondary sales are available, seller proceeds, release royalty pools, and Dubplay secondary-sale fees will follow the then-current platform rules and any applicable marketplace, blockchain, tax, or payment-provider requirements.

Secondary-sale royalties and fees may be implemented partly on-chain and partly through Dubplay-managed settlement, depending on the market and product phase.

Stripe, payment networks, banks, blockchain providers, storage providers, tax rules, and Dubplay platform fees can change over time. Dubplay may update pricing, thresholds, payout fee handling, payment methods, or supported countries when provider pricing, laws, risk controls, or business requirements change.

Material changes should be reflected in the current Terms of Service, product copy, admin settings, or user-facing payout previews as appropriate before they apply to new activity. Unless Dubplay explicitly states otherwise, platform-fee changes apply to future activity only and do not reopen completed settlements.

Dubplay may calculate, collect, and remit sales tax, VAT, GST, or similar taxes where required. Taxes may be added to the buyer's price or included in the displayed out-price depending on market and checkout design.

Artists, sellers, contributors, and other receivers are responsible for their own income tax, business tax, reporting, and professional advice unless explicitly stated otherwise by a final agreement.

Dubplay may pause accounts, releases, payouts, purchases, or platform features where required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, payment disputes, rights disputes, chargebacks, sanctions screening, or operational safety.

Post-release accounting corrections, contributor disputes, and recoupment changes are handled forward-only unless Dubplay explicitly approves a different remedy.

Dubplay provides platform tools for music releases, ownership, streaming, and settlement. Nothing in these draft terms or platform copy is legal, tax, financial, or investment advice.

Users should get their own professional advice for tax, accounting, rights, investment, and legal questions.