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Zik AI Radio — Terms of Service & Artist Submission Agreement

Friendly Alpha MVP Version Last updated: 14 June 2026

Zik AI Radio ("Zik AI Radio", "the Station", "we", "us", or "the Operator") is an experimental, AI-curated Hebrew-language internet radio platform. It is currently run by an individual operator (not a company) during an early Alpha phase. By using the stream or creating an account, you agree to these Terms.

1. Executive Summary (Plain English TL;DR)

Welcome to Zik AI Radio! We're built to be a transparent, friendly home for AI music creators and curious listeners. We're in our Alpha MVP phase, so we keep our guidelines clean, human-centered, and easy to understand. The quick breakdown:

For Our Listeners:

Share the Vibe: Stream us anywhere — public spaces, shops, offices, or backyards.
No Ripping or Recording: Please don't record, capture, or save the stream. Enjoy it live.
Keep it Fair: No gaming our ranking, rating, or voting systems with bots or duplicate accounts. Messing with the charts gets you banned.

For Our AI Music Artists:

Strictly AI Music Only: This is a sanctuary for synthetic, generative music. Traditional, non-AI human tracks ("real music") and studio productions are not welcome.
Review Before Airtime: Nothing is guaranteed to air. Every upload — including any short voice intro and text lyrics — is reviewed and/or auto-approved after a set window before it can hit the airwaves.
Safe-Space Content: No profanity, hate speech, or offensive lyrics.
Zero Tolerance for Covers or Clones: No cover songs, unlicensed remixes, or unauthorized celebrity vocal models. This results in an immediate permanent ban.
Let's Stay in Touch: By uploading, you agree to receive our functional email digests about your airtime and scheduling.
Pacing & Protection: Max one upload every two weeks, and no duplicate artist accounts. If you want a track pulled, we'll strip it from future playlists within a few business days (past archive shows or locked near-term logs stay intact).
You Promise It's Yours: You confirm your track is genuinely AI-generated and that you have the rights to share it. If a third party complains, you've got our back (see §5).
Alpha Risk: We run on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure (like Cloudflare R2), but we're experimental. You upload at your own risk, and we're not liable if bad actors break through (see §6).

The Basics: You must be at least 16 years old to use interactive features or create an account. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel.

2. Guidelines for Listeners

By tuning into, interacting with, or accessing the Zik AI Radio stream, you become part of our community and agree to these simple terms.

2.1 Public Performance Permitted

We love it when you spread the sound. We grant you a free, non-exclusive license to play our station live in public spaces — a coffee shop, storefront, office, or public park. We don't demand any separate venue performance licenses.

2.2 No Recording or Distribution

You may not copy, rip, record, or permanently download the music stream. The streaming service is designed strictly for synchronous, real-time engagement.

2.3 Integrity of Community Features

Zik AI Radio thrives on honest data. Any manipulation of our thumbs-up, rating, or chart-ranking features using automation, multiple dummy profiles, or coordinated voting spikes is strictly against the rules. Users caught compromising the voting engine will face immediate, permanent account and device blocks.

3. Artist Submission Agreement & Content Rules

When you submit a track to Zik AI Radio, you enter an active partnership governed by these rules.

3.1 Exclusively Generative (No Traditional Tracks)

Zik AI Radio is explicitly designed to curate, test, and celebrate generative AI audio. We do not accept traditionally recorded human tracks or corporate studio music ("real music"). Submissions must substantively use generative AI tooling.

3.2 Review Pipeline (Music, Intros, and Lyrics)

Nothing is guaranteed to reach the master broadcast deck instantly. To maintain broadcast quality, every submission is reviewed and/or auto-approved after a set window before going live. We may approve, reject, hold, or remove any submission at our discretion.

If you attach a short voice introduction, and it's approved, the intro audio will air as-is before the track. Any text lyrics you supply face the same review and must be cleared alongside the track.

3.3 Content Standards (No Profanity or Hate Speech)

We foster a welcoming, universally accessible environment. Tracks, lyrics, or spoken intros containing profanity, vulgarity, explicit themes, harassment, or hate speech will be rejected during review. Repeated submissions of offensive material trigger an artist ban.

3.4 Prohibition on Covers and IP Piracy

We maintain zero tolerance for copyright creep. You may not upload cover songs, heavily sampled interpolations of famous commercial hooks, or tracks built on unauthorized vocal models trained to clone the voices of living or dead public figures. Any artist found passing off covers or unauthorized vocal clones will be permanently and immediately banned.

3.5 Communication and Email Policy

By creating an artist profile and submitting content, you authorize us to email you with important status updates — including periodic scheduling and airtime digests, plus vital administrative or system updates. We will never sell your contact data or spam your inbox, and you can manage your email preferences in your portal at any time.

3.6 Fair Pacing and Account Limits

To give every creator a fair shake, artists are limited to one (1) track submission every fourteen (14) days. Creating or manipulating a secondary artist account to bypass this cooldown is forbidden and will result in the wiping of your entire catalog from our system.

3.7 Promotional License and Takedown Workflow

You retain 100% ownership of your master recording and underlying compositional assets. You grant Zik AI Radio a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to perform and play your track (and any approved voice intro and lyrics) over the internet for promotional purposes.

To remove your track from rotation, notify us through our platform interface or by email. We will purge the underlying file from our active rotation engine within a few business days. You acknowledge that program blocks already scheduled, or past broadcast archive segments containing the track, may be retained as-is — no future programming will pull the file.

3.8 Distributor Flags (DistroKid / Content ID)

If you push your AI tracks to commercial platforms via services like DistroKid, automated fingerprinting (like YouTube Content ID or Meta Rights Manager) might throw a copyright strike at our streaming nodes.

If any distributor files an automated claim or flag on your song, we will immediately freeze and remove your music from Zik AI Radio without prior notice. The track stays locked out until you work with your distributor to whitelist our platform and notify us. We hold no liability for lost visibility or algorithmic disruption during this process.

3.9 Alpha MVP "As-Is" Infrastructure

You recognize that Zik AI Radio runs in an Alpha MVP developmental phase. We build our delivery channels over reliable, enterprise-grade cloud object networks (such as Cloudflare R2), but our software ecosystem remains experimental. You upload files entirely at your own risk during this experimental run. See §6 for the full disclaimer.

4. Accounts & Eligibility

Minimum age. You must be at least 16 years old to create an account, upload content, or use interactive features (voting, rating, charts). By using these features you confirm you meet this age requirement.
Accurate information. Keep your account email accurate and current. You're responsible for activity under your account.
One account per person. Duplicate or sock-puppet accounts are prohibited (see §2.3 and §3.6).
We can say no. We may decline, suspend, or close any account at our discretion (see §8).

5. Your Promises to Us (Artist Warranties & Indemnity)

When you upload anything, you represent and warrant that:

The submission is genuinely AI-generated and complies with §3.1.
You own or control all rights needed to upload it and to grant us the license in §3.7, and your content does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, or other rights.
It contains no unauthorized vocal clones of any real person, living or dead, and no covers or unlicensed samples (§3.4).
The track, lyrics, and any voice intro contain no unlawful, defamatory, or hateful material (§3.3).

Indemnity. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator (and anyone acting on the Operator's behalf) from and against any claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and legal fees arising out of or related to your content, your use of the platform, or your breach of these Terms. This survives termination of your account.

6. The "As-Is" Promise & Limitation of Liability

Please read this — it's the part that lets a solo operator keep the lights on.

As is. The platform is provided "as is" and "as available," with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy, or non-infringement. We don't promise the stream is uninterrupted, error-free, or permanently available.
No liability for your files or for breaches. Because we're in Alpha, you agree the Operator accepts no legal, financial, or compensatory liability if bugs, outages, or malicious actors expose, scrape, or download your submitted audio or data. You upload at your own risk.
No indirect damages. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or platform visibility.
Cap. The platform is offered free of charge. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator's total aggregate liability to you for any and all claims is limited to ₪100 (one hundred Israeli shekels).
Mandatory rights. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable Israeli law.

7. Copyright Complaints (Notice & Takedown)

We respect intellectual property and respond to valid infringement notices.

To file a complaint, email zik@zikairadio.com with:

Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
The track URL or enough detail to locate the material on Zik AI Radio.
Your contact information.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized.
A statement that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on their behalf.
Your physical or electronic signature.

On a valid notice, we will promptly remove or freeze the material. The uploading artist may submit a counter-notice to the same address. Repeat infringers will have their accounts and catalogs permanently removed.

8. Suspension, Bans & Removal

We may freeze, remove, suspend, or permanently ban any content, account, or device at our discretion, with or without notice, including for: gaming community features (§2.3), offensive content (§3.3), covers or unauthorized clones (§3.4), duplicate accounts (§3.6), distributor claims (§3.8), valid copyright complaints (§7), or any breach of these Terms. Permanent bans may include wiping an artist's entire catalog.

9. Changes, Governing Law & the Fine Print

Changes to these Terms. As we scale from Alpha to production, we may update these Terms. Material changes will be communicated to your registered account email. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms.
Governing law & venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The competent courts of Tel Aviv–Jaffa have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.
Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in full effect.
Entire agreement. These Terms (with our Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the platform.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them, including if the platform moves to a company or new operator.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
Contact. Questions about these Terms? Email zik@zikairadio.com.