Welcome to the CD Baby Artist Digital Distribution Agreement ("Agreement"). This Agreement contains the terms and conditions under which CD Baby offers the "Digital Download and Distribution Service". Use of the Digital Download and Distribution Service constitutes your agreement to and acceptance of this Agreement.
CD Baby (a division of Audio & Video Labs, Inc., along with our licensees and assignees collectively referred to in this Agreement as “us,” “we,” and “CD Baby”) reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time
and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Site. In the event of substantive changes to the terms of this Agreement, you will be notified by email. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to discontinue use of the Digital Download and Distribution Service. Your continued use of the Digital Download and Distribution Service, following posting of a change notice or new agreement on the Site (as more fully
described below in Paragraph 8), will constitute your binding acceptance of the changes.
The following, when accepted by you (whether as an individual, or as the authorized representative for an artist, band, group, or corporation) and us shall be a binding contract. Please read this Agreement carefully. By entering your name and clicking on the “I AGREE” button below, you will become a party to, and will be bound by this Agreement, which may be modified as further described in Section 8 below. The “Effective Date” of this Agreement is the date on which you click the “I AGREE” button below.
1. Authorization:
(a) You hereby appoint us as your authorized representative for the sale and other distribution of Your Authorized Content as described below. While selling your music on cdbaby.com is non-exclusive, the rights granted by you to us under this Artist Digital Distribution Agreement are exclusive, because online retailers do not want to receive the same content delivered by multiple companies. Accordingly, you hereby grant to us the exclusive
right, and to our licensees (herein each a “Licensee”) the non-exclusive right, during the Term and throughout the Territory, to:
(i) Reproduce and convert Your Authorized Content into Digital Masters;
(ii) Perform and make available, for promotional purposes and without remuneration to the artist, portions of Your Authorized Content (“Clips”) by “streaming” to promote the license, sale and distribution of Digital Masters;
(iii) Promote, sell, distribute, and deliver Digital Masters (as individual tracks or entire albums) and associated metadata to purchasers and resellers who
may use such Digital Masters in accordance with usage rules approved by us;
(iv) Use and authorize others to license the use of and sale of Your Authorized Content in connection with all manner of phone services, such as, but not limited to, sales or licenses of Digital Masters as downloads (including, without limitation, downloads to cell phones) and for use as ringtones and ringback tones;
(v) Use so-called “kiosks” to distribute, market and promote Digital Masters, including, without limitation, by allowing the burning of compact disc copies of
any Digital Master or by allowing a copy of a Digital Master to be transferred to personal devices;
(vi) Use and authorize others to allow copies of a Digital Master to be distributed as so-called “conditional” downloads, whether tethered to a device, time
limited, play limited or otherwise;
(vii) “Stream” and authorize others to “stream” Your Authorized Content, either on-demand or as part of an internet radio service;
(viii) Use and distribute Copyright Management Information as embodied in a Digital Master;
(ix) Display and electronically fulfill and deliver Authorized Artwork used in connection with Your Authorized Content for personal use, solely in conjunction
with the applicable Digital Master;
(x) Use Your Authorized Content, Authorized Artwork, and metadata as may be reasonably necessary or desirable for us to exercise our rights under this
Agreement; and
(xi) Authorize our Licensees to perform any one or more of the
activities specified above.
(b) While you are free to pursue other avenues to distribute your Content online, you hereby agree to grant CD Baby the exclusive right to digitally distribute your Authorized Content to our partners in accordance with the grant of rights chosen in your digital distribution service option (e.g., to prevent multiple parties delivering the same content multiple times to the same partners), for as long as you are signed up to deliver to those partners through CD Baby. Furthermore, you grant CD Baby the exclusive right to digitally distribute your content to future partners that naturally fit within your chosen distribution option, unless specified otherwise by way of set restrictions in your member site.
2. Term: The Term of this Agreement will commence on the Effective Date and will continue, unless and until terminated by either you or us, upon thirty (30) days written notice.
3. Payments to You:
(a) Wholesale rates: For content resold through our distribution partner network Licensees (including iTunes, Amazon.com, eMusic, Rhapsody, and other partners) we will pay you an amount equal to ninety-one percent (91%) of the net wholesale price that we receive from Licensees for the sale or other licensed uses of your Digital Masters (“License Fee”).
(b) Retail sales rates: For content sold at retail prices directly through our retail store http://cdbaby.com we will pay you an amount equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of the retail price that we receive from the customer for the sale or other licensed uses of Your Authorized Content. Due to credit card processing costs, the minimum fee withheld on any single transaction is currently 29-cents. For a listing of all current fees, visit http://members.cdbaby.com/HowCDBabyWorks/Pricing.aspx.
(c) All accounting details will be available and updated daily in the secure members' login area at http://members.cdbaby.com. We will make payments to you when the amounts credited to you exceed the threshold amount set by you initially upon your registration with CD Baby, or as subsequently modified by you. Payments will occur within 7 business days from the date that your account balance exceeds the threshold amount. Such payment will constitute full and adequate consideration for all rights granted, and all obligations undertaken, by you in this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, you have the right to affiliate with a performance rights society and Sound Exchange or other entity to collect monies that may be payable to you for the public performance of Your Authorized Content.
(d) We will maintain books and records which report the sale or other licensed uses of your Digital Masters. You may, but not more than once a year, at your own expense, examine those books and records, as provided in this Section 3(b), only. You may make those examinations only for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of the statements sent to you. All such examinations will be in accordance with GAAP procedures and regulations. You may make such an examination for a particular statement only once, and only within one (1) year after the date we send you that statement. You may make such an examination only during our usual business hours, and at the place where we keep the books and records to be examined. If you wish to make an examination, you will be required to notify us at least thirty (30) days before the date when you plan to begin it. We may postpone the commencement of your examination by notice given to you not later than five (5) days before the commencement date specified in your notice; if we do so, the running of the time within which the examination may be made will be suspended during the postponement. If your examination has not been completed within one (1) month from the time you begin it, we may require you to terminate it on seven (7) days' notice to you at any time; we will not be required to permit you to continue the examination after the end of that seven (7) day period. You will not be entitled to examine any other records that do not specifically report sales or other licensed uses of the Digital Masters. You may engage a certified public accountant to make such an examination for you, but not if (s)he or his/her firm has begun an examination of our books and records for anyone else, unless the examination has been concluded and any applicable audit issues have been resolved. Such certified public accountant will act only under an acceptable confidentiality agreement, which provides that any information derived from such audit or examination will not be knowingly released, divulged or published to any person, firm or corporation, other than to you or to a judicial or administrative body in connection with any proceeding relating to this Agreement.
(e) If you have any objections to a statement, you will give us specific notice of that objection and your reasons for it within one (1) year after the date when we are required to send you that statement. Each statement will become conclusively binding on you at the end of that one (1) year period, and you will no longer have any right to make any other objections to it. You will not have the right to sue us in connection with any statement, or to sue us for License Fees on sales and licenses during the period a statement covers, unless you commence the suit within that one (1) year period. If you commence suit on any controversy or claim concerning statements rendered to you under this Agreement in a court of competent jurisdiction, the scope of the proceeding will be limited to determination of the amount of the License Fees due for the accounting periods concerned, and the court will have no authority to consider any other issues or award any relief except recovery of any License Fees found owing. Your recovery of any such royalties will be the sole remedy available to you by reason of any claim related to our statements.
4. Your Obligations: You or a licensee, e.g. a company such as Rightsflow, (on your behalf) will obtain and pay for any and all clearances or licenses required in the Territory (or any portion thereof) for the use of Your Authorized Content, and Authorized Artwork and metadata as intended by this Agreement. By way of example, you will be responsible for the payment of mechanical royalties in territories where such royalties are not collected by a rights society. Specifically, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you or a licensee on your behalf will be responsible for and shall pay (i) any royalties and other sums due to artists, authors, co-authors, copyright owners and co-owners, producers and any other record royalty participants from sales or other uses of Digital Masters, (ii) all mechanical royalties or other sums payable to publishers and/or authors or co-authors of musical compositions embodied in Digital Masters from sales or other uses of Digital Masters [Please see the information at http://members.cdbaby.com/HowCDBabyWorks/FAQ.aspx with regard to publishing issues.], (iii) all payments that may be required under any collective bargaining agreements applicable to you or any third party, and (iv) any other royalties, fees and/or sums payable with respect to Your Authorized Content, and Authorized Artwork, metadata or other materials provided by you to us. You agree that the amount payable to you is inclusive of any so-called “artist royalties” that might otherwise be required to be paid for sales or exploitations pursuant to the applicable laws of any jurisdiction.
5. Right to Withdraw Material: You have the right, at any time during the Term, to withdraw your permission for the sale or other uses of Your Authorized Content and Authorized Artwork, upon written notice to us (“Withdrawal”). Within 5 business days following our receipt of your notice of Withdrawal, we will advise our Licensees that they are no longer authorized to offer the sale or other use of Your Authorized Content or Authorized Artwork. Sending of your notice of Withdrawal will not limit your responsibility for sales and other uses of Your Authorized Content and/or Authorized Artwork that occurred prior to the implementation of such Withdrawal and will not limit in any way the rights of end users who have acquired Your Authorized Content or Authorized Artwork. CD Baby is not responsible for any delays of our Licensees in removing Your Authorized Content and Authorized Artwork.
6. Names and Likenesses; Promotional Use and Opportunities:
(a) You hereby grant to us, during the Term, the right to use and to authorize our Licensees to use the names and approved likenesses of, and biographical material concerning any artists, bands, producers and/or songwriters, as well as track and/or album name, and Authorized Artwork, in any marketing materials for the sale, promotion and advertising of the applicable Digital Master, which is offered for sale or other use under the terms of this Agreement (e.g., an artist or band name and likeness may be used in an informational fashion, such as by textual displays or other informational passages, to identify and represent authorship, production credits, and performances of the applicable artist or band in connection with the exploitation of applicable Digital Masters).
(b) You hereby grant to us and our Licensees the right to market, promote and advertise the Digital Masters as available for purchase or license, as we and they determine in our and their discretion.
7. Ownership: Subject to our rights hereunder or under any prior agreement between you and us, as between you and us, all right, title and interest in and to (i) Your Authorized Content and Authorized Artwork, (ii) the Digital Masters, (iii) the Clips, (iv) all copyrights and equivalent rights embodied therein, and (v) all materials furnished by you, will be yours.
8. Modification, Termination and Effect of Termination:
(a) We reserve the right to change, modify, add to, or remove all or part of this Agreement, in our sole discretion. Notice of any such change will be sent to you by email at least seven (7) days prior to its effective date. In the event that you do not consent to any such proposed changes, your sole recourse shall be to terminate the Term of this Agreement, by notice to us as provided above, and your failure to do so within ten (10) days of the date of any such email from us to you shall constitute your acceptance of such changes.
(b) The expiration or termination of the Term will not relieve either you or us from our respective obligations incurred prior to or during the Term. Accordingly, applicable provisions of this Agreement will continue to apply even after the expiration of the Term.
9. Indemnification: You hereby indemnify, save, and hold us harmless from any and all damages, liabilities, costs, losses and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal costs and attorneys' fees) arising out of or connected with any claim, demand, or action which is inconsistent with any of the warranties, representations, covenants or agreements made by you in this Agreement, including, but not limited to, your representations and warranties regarding copyrights or any other rights in and to any other forms of intellectual property. You will reimburse us, on demand, for any payment made by us at any time with respect to any damage, liability, cost, loss or expense to which the foregoing indemnity applies. Pending the determination of any claim, demand, or action, we may, at our election, withhold payment of any monies otherwise payable to you hereunder in an amount which does not exceed your potential liability to us pursuant to this paragraph.
10. Additional Representations and Warranties of the Parties:
(a) You represent and warrant that you have the full authority to act on behalf of any and all owners of any right, title or interest in and to Your Authorized Content or Authorized Artwork, or metadata.
(b) You represent and warrant that you own or control the necessary rights in order to make the grant of rights, licenses and permissions herein, and that the exercise of such rights, licenses and permissions by us and our Licensees shall not violate or infringe the rights of any third party.
(c) You and we represent and warrant that we will not act in any manner which conflicts or interferes with any existing commitment or obligation of the other party, and that no agreement previously entered into by you or us will interfere with our performance of our obligations under this Agreement.
(d) Each party represents and warrants that it shall perform its obligations hereunder in full compliance with any applicable laws, rules and regulations of any governmental authority having jurisdiction over such performance.
(e) We make no guarantees whatsoever about there being any minimum sales or uses of any Digital Master.
11. General Provisions:
(a) The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that the relationship between them is that of independent contractors. This Agreement shall not be deemed to create a partnership or joint venture, and neither party is the other's agent, partner, or employee.
(b) This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement supersedes all previous agreements or arrangements between us pertaining to the digital distribution of content, provided that if you previously entered into a digital distribution agreement with us in the past, and elected any options, those options will remain in place under this Agreement. This Agreement cannot be changed or modified except as provided herein. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement will not be deemed or construed as a waiver of such term or condition, or of any subsequent breach thereof. If any provision of this Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such determination shall not affect any other provision hereof, and the unenforceable provision shall be replaced by an enforceable provision that most closely meets the commercial intent of the parties.
(c) This Agreement will be binding on the assigns, heirs, executors, affiliates, agents, personal representatives, administrators, and successors (whether through merger, operation of law, or otherwise) of each of the parties.
(d) Any notice, approval, request, authorization, direction or other communication under this Agreement shall be given in writing and shall be deemed to have been delivered and given for all purposes on the delivery date if sent by electronic mail to the addresses provided to and by you upon registration with the CD Baby Site, or as properly updated.
(e) This Agreement will be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to agreements entered into and to be wholly performed in California, without regard to conflict of laws principles.
(f) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the rights and remedies of the parties provided under this Agreement are cumulative and are in addition to any other rights and remedies of the parties at law or equity.
(g) The titles used in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
(h) This Agreement is for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their authorized successors and permitted assigns. Nothing herein, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any person or entity, other than the parties hereto and their authorized successors and permitted assigns, any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.
12. Certain Definitions: The following capitalized terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of this Agreement:
(a) “Authorized Artwork” means album cover artwork and any other artwork relating to Your Authorized Content that you provide to us. All such artwork will be deemed to have been properly cleared and/or licensed by you for all purposes, unless you provide us with written notice to the contrary.
(b) "Authorized Territory” means the Universe, or more limited territories, if you so choose, in the registration process.
(c) “Copyright Management Information” means the digital information conveying information regarding a Digital Master, such as your name, the title of the applicable album, the name of the song and the record company name, and same shall be subject to the protection of Title 17, Section 1202 of the United States Copyright Law.
(d) “Digital Master” or “Digital Masters” means a copy or copies of Your Authorized Content in digital form.
(e) “Licensee” means any third party licensee, by way of example, Apple iTunes, MediaNet, Rhapsody, Napster or others that we may authorize to carry out the marketing, distribution and sale or other use of Your Authorized Content and Authorized Artwork pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
(f) “Your Authorized Content” means sound recordings and underlying musical compositions that you have designated for digital distribution by us. Any such sound recordings and the underlying musical compositions must be owned or controlled by you and/or have been cleared by you for all purposes and rights granted and authorized hereunder by you.
ARTIST CONSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
Welcome to the CD Baby Artist Consignment Agreement ("Agreement"). This Agreement contains the terms and conditions under which CD Baby offers the "Consignment Service" (defined below). Use of the Consignment Service constitutes your agreement to and acceptance of this Agreement.
CD Baby (a division of Audio & Video Labs, Inc., along with our licensees and assignees referred in this Agreement as “us” and “we” and “CD Baby”) reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Site. In the event of substantive changes to the terms of this Agreement, you may be notified by email. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to not use the Consignment Service. Your continued use of the Consignment Service following posting of a change notice or new agreement on the Site will constitute binding acceptance of the changes.
1. Agreement.
1.1 Consignment Service. This Agreement provides the terms and conditions under which CD Baby provides its service that will allow you to create, produce, market, and/or sell Products on CD Baby and/or through its distribution arrangement with Super D http://members.cdbaby.com/SellMusicAndMore/CDDistribution.aspx (the "Consignment Service").
1.2 Terms of Service. If you become a CD Baby Artist, you will continue to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of the Terms of Service (http://www.cdbaby.com/terms), which are incorporated into this Agreement by this reference. For clarity, the Consignment Service is deemed part of the "CD Baby Service." All initially-capitalized terms not defined in this Agreement are defined in the Terms of Service, and any disputes you may have relating to your use of the Consignment Service will be subject to confidential binding arbitration in accordance with Section 10 of the Terms of Service. If the terms of this Agreement conflict with the Terms of Service, this Agreement will govern and be given precedence.
2. Becoming a CD Baby Artist.
2.1 Opening an Account. Only CD Baby Artists have the right to use the Consignment Service. To become a CD Baby Artist, you must open a CD Baby Artist account (an "Account") with CD Baby through its online registration process.
2.2 Contact Information. You must provide CD Baby with accurate and complete contact, payment and tax identification information when you open an Account. You must immediately notify CD Baby if any of this information changes. If you do not provide CD Baby with complete, accurate, and updated contact, payment and tax identification information, you may not be eligible to sell Products for a commission and payments may be temporarily withheld.
2.3 Account Security. You will need to select a password if you open an Account. You will be solely and exclusively responsible for keeping your password confidential and all use of your password and Account, including, without limitation, any use by any unauthorized third party. You must notify CD Baby immediately if you believe your password has been or may be obtained or used by any unauthorized person or entity. In addition, you must notify CD Baby immediately if you become aware of any other breach or attempted breach of the security of your Account or the CD Baby Service.
3. Your Obligations.
3.1 General. You must use the Consignment Service in a manner that demonstrates respect for the rights of CD Baby and third parties and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
3.2 Artist Content. If you open an Account, you will be solely and exclusively responsible for ensuring that your Account, any content or materials that you submit to CD Baby for use with your Products ("Content"), and any websites linked to your Account pages comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and all applicable laws, regulations and rules. While CD Baby has no obligation to monitor the transactions or communications made through its Website, it reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to cancel any transaction or remove or limit access to any Content from the Website at any time without notice and without any liability to you or any third party.
3.3 Prohibited Content. You may not design, produce, market or sell a Product that CD Baby believes: (i) infringes the rights of a third party, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and rights of privacy and publicity; (ii) is defamatory; (iii) is
obscene or pornographic; or (iv) violates any applicable law, rule, or regulation, including, without limitation, by exploiting images or the likeness of minors.
4. Licensing Your Content to CD Baby.
By sending us or uploading any of your Content for use on the Website, you grant to CD Baby a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, nonexclusive, right and license in such Content, in all media existing now or created in the future: (i) to permit you to use the Consignment Service to market and sell Products, and (ii) to promote, market and advertise your Products as part of the CD Baby Service, in those places where we advertise our services or Products. Without
limitation, this promotion, marketing, or advertising may consist of: (i) display of your Products on the Website, (ii) promotional "streams" of audio Content on the Website, and (iii) Product or Content placement in magazines, web sites, CD Baby advertisements, and other media specifically excluding television and movies, solely in connection with our promotion of the CD Baby Service. CD Baby may sublicense the rights that you grant it in this Section. This Section 4 only gives CD Baby the right to use your Content for the purposes stated above, and does not give CD Baby ownership of any of your Content, or a license to use your Content other than as specifically stated above.
5. Product Creation.
5.1 Delivery of Content. You will upload or ship to CD Baby all Content that you want to use with the Consignment Service in accordance with the applicable instructions on the Website. You must also upload or ship all other Content required to package and market any of your
Products, such as cover artwork, titles, and complete and accurate credits. CD Baby may, in its sole and exclusive discretion, determine whether any Content complies with such instructions and is satisfactory for use with the Consignment Service.
5.2 Approvals and Consents. You must either own all right, title and interest in and to the Content, including all intellectual property rights therein, or you must otherwise have all necessary approvals and consents to use all Content and, if requested by CD Baby, you must
deliver copies of those approvals and consents to CD Baby. Without limiting the above, you are responsible for and must pay any royalties or similar payments that are or may become due to any third party, such as all payments for third-party material in your Content.
5.3 Costs of Creation and Delivery. You will be solely responsible for the creation of the electronic and digital Content that you upload or ship to CD Baby and for all physical Products which are held on consignment by CD Baby on your behalf, and will pay all costs associated with its creation and copies thereof. Without limitation to the above, you will be responsible for all shipping charges and insurance on the Product during shipment and delivery.
5.4 Maintianing and Returning Stock. CD Baby reserves the right to charge a fee to ingest and store any physical product you send to us in excess of the amount we requested. We reserve the right to return Product to you from time to time, as deemed appropriate by CD Baby in our sole discretion, and at the CD Baby Artist’s expense. Conversely, for titles that have not sold for a period of 12 months we reserve the right to charge a storage fee. CD Baby will notify you of its intent to return Product or charge a storage fee as applicable. If you do not respond to any return notice from CD Baby within 21 days of the date of the request, or if CD Baby’s attempt to return Products is unsuccessful because of inaccurate addresses on file, then CD Baby shall have the right to recycle or discard the Products without compensation to you for the recycled Product. CD Baby will contact you at the current address on file to notify you of the exhaustion of Product stock on hand and request additional shipments. You agree to comply with minimum stock levels for the Product as established by CD Baby from time to time.
5.5 Customer Returns. Customer returns sent to CD Baby in new condition will be restocked, debited from the CD Baby Artist’s sales and added back to active inventory. Any returned Product that is defective or damaged will not be restocked, will be debited from the CD Baby Artist’s sales and will be returned or recycled, at CD Baby’s discretion.
5.6 Insurance. You acknowledge and agree that CD Baby does not carry insurance relating to Product stored by CD Baby under this Agreement, and will not be responsible for loss absent CD Baby’s gross negligence or intentional misconduct. If you desire for the Product inventory to be insured, you must obtain such insurance at your cost.
6. Marketing and Advertising Your Products.
6.1 Marketing of Your Products. CD Baby reserves the right, but has no obligation, to promote or advertise your Products, for example, featuring them in CD Baby newsletters or on the Website, referring Users to your Products, or describing your Products in communications with third parties
6.2 Customer Information. CD Baby may, from time to time, provide you with information relating to Customers that purchase Products via the Consignment Service. You may only use or disclose this information to a third party for your internal record keeping. You may not disclose any of this information to a third party or use it for any other purposes. In all events, you will comply with the terms of CD Baby’s privacy policy http://www.cdbaby.com/privacy in connection with the Customer data provided under this Agreement.
7. Compensation and Fees.
7.1 Tax Information. If you choose to sell Products through the Consignment Service, CD Baby will use its reasonable efforts to collect sales tax owed on the sales of the Products offered thereby (“Sales Tax”), and to remit such Sales Tax on your behalf to relevant government authorities. Notwithstanding the above, in all events, you acknowledge and agree that you are ultimately responsible for the payment of any Sales Tax owed in connection with this Agreement, and you hereby indemnify CD Baby for any Sales Tax that may be owed in addition to those amounts collected and remitted on your behalf by CD Baby hereunder.
7.2 Pricing Terms for Products. You will have the discretion to set the pricing for your Products on CD Baby, provided that in all events the price must exceed the CD Baby Fee (defined below).
7.3 Payment Terms. For each sale of your Products through the Site (or sold by CD Baby through its distributors), CD Baby shall collect the aggregate amounts from the customer or distributor, and shall retain its processing fee, the “CD Baby Fee” (for a listing of fees click here http://members.cdbaby.com/HowCDBabyWorks/Pricing.aspx), and the Sales Tax and shall remit any remaining amounts to you (the “Artist Payment”). CD Baby will make a payment to you (by check, wire or electronic transfer) for the amount of the Artist Payment no later than 15 days after the revenues were received and your payment threshold has been met. The default payment threshold is $50 and can be changed at anytime as long as it meets the minimum threshold of $10. If you have provided an undeliverable mailing address and two or more consecutive payments have been returned to CD Baby as undeliverable, we may stop sending future payments to you until you provide a deliverable mailing address.
7.4 Charitable Contribution. Unless you and CD Baby otherwise agree in writing, CD Baby may at its sole option remit any payment otherwise due to you as a contribution in your name to a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization of CD Baby's choice if: (i) you fail to provide CD Baby with accurate and complete contact and tax identification information; and (ii) the funds remain outstanding for more than 12 months and your payment threshold has not been met. If CD Baby makes such a contribution, its obligation to you shall be reduced by the amount of that contribution.
8. Indemnification.
As you are bound by the Terms of Service http://www.cdbaby.com/terms in using the Consignment Service, you must indemnify, defend and hold CD Baby harmless for any Claim arising out of, relating to, or connected with your alleged breach of the Terms of Service in using the Consignment Service in accordance with Section 7 of the Terms of Service. You must also indemnify, defend, and hold CD Baby harmless based on any Claim alleging facts that, if true, would constitute a breach of this Agreement. CD Baby may withhold any payments that it owes you if you have to indemnify CD Baby.
9. Termination.
9.1 CD Baby Termination. In its sole discretion, with or without notice to you, CD Baby may: (i) suspend, limit your access to or terminate your use of the Consignment Service, (ii) suspend, limit your access to or terminate your Account, (iii) remove any of your Content from CD Baby's servers and directories and (iv) prohibit you from selling any new Products through the Consignment Service.
9.2 CD Baby Artist Termination. If you are a CD Baby Artist, you may terminate your Account for any reason at any time by contacting our customer service department at (503) 595-3000. Our service hours are from 7:00am PST to 8:00pm PST Monday through Friday and 7:00am PST to 6:00pm PST Saturday and Sunday.
9.3 Termination Fees. There are no account termination fees. If for some reason at time of termination a CD Baby Artist owes CD Baby moneys at time of termination, any outstanding balance must be paid to CD Baby prior to account termination.
9.4 Effect of Termination. If you or CD Baby suspend or terminate your Account, you understand that we will cease making the Products available through the Consignment Service. Accordingly, CD Baby may, without being liable to you or any third party: (i) delete any Content or other materials relating to your use of the Consignment Service, and (ii) not allow you to create, produce, market, or sell Products through the Consignment Service. If you or CD Baby terminate your Account, you must immediately remove all links to the Website from any websites you operate and cease representing yourself as a CD Baby Artist. This provision relates to our relationship and the Consignment Service, and does not affect your creation or sale of Products through other third party systems.
9.5 Survival. The following Sections will survive termination of your Account: 1, 3, 4, 5.2 through 5.5, 7, 8, 9.3, and 9.4.