Terms &
conditions.

These terms are the agreement between you and VsTheWrld Records LLC (“VsTheWrld Records”, “the label”, “we”, “us”) for the use of vsthewrldrecords.com and everything on it. By browsing the site, contacting us through it, or sending us anything through it, you accept them. If you do not accept them, the answer is simple: do not use the site.

If you are using the site on behalf of a company, a management team or another artist, you confirm you have the authority to accept these terms for them, and “you” means both of you.

You need to be old enough to enter a binding agreement where you live in order to send us anything through this site.

This is the label’s own site. It exists to show who we work with and what we have put out: the roster, the releases, label news, merch announcements, and a form for bookings, press and demos.

It is not a streaming service, not a distributor, and — for now — not a shop. Everything published here is information about the label. Roster, release dates, tour details and merch plans move, sometimes at short notice, and nothing on this site is a promise that a particular record, drop or date will happen.

The contact form has a “Demo submission” option, and people use it. Music, lyrics, videos, artwork, mixes, ideas, proposals and pitches arrive here every week, and we are glad they do. This section is the most important one on this page, because it sets out exactly what sending us something does and does not mean.

Everything below applies to anything you send us that we did not specifically ask you for in writing — call it Unsolicited Material. It applies however it reaches us: through the form, by email, by link, by message, or by handing it to someone at a show.

1. We are under no obligation to review it. We receive far more than we can work through. We do not promise to listen, to read, to reply, to give feedback, or to tell you why the answer was no. Silence is not an insult and it is not a decision you can hold us to.
2. Sending it does not create confidentiality. No non-disclosure agreement, no partnership, no joint venture, no agency, no fiduciary duty and no employment relationship comes into existence because you sent us something. Do not send us anything you need kept secret. If you need a confidentiality agreement in place first, ask us before you send — not after.
3. Sending it earns no compensation. You are not owed a payment, an advance, a credit, a royalty, a finder’s fee or any other consideration for sending us material, and we are not agreeing to any of those things by receiving it.
4. You keep your rights in your work. Submitting does not transfer ownership of anything. Your copyright, your master rights, your publishing and your right to take the same work to anyone else all stay exactly where they were. A deal with this label exists only in a separate written agreement signed by both of us — nothing on this page, in an email, or in a conversation is that agreement.
5. What we may do with it while we consider it. So that we can actually listen to what you sent, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to receive, store, copy internally and play your material within the label and with the people who help us make these decisions, for the sole purpose of evaluating it. That licence covers nothing else — no release, no distribution, no public performance, no commercial use of any kind — and it ends when we have finished considering the material, or sooner if you ask us to delete it.
6. You are telling us the work is yours to send. By sending it you confirm that you own it or have permission to submit it, that it does not infringe anyone else’s copyright, trademark, publicity or other rights, that any samples are cleared or identified, and that no co-writer, producer, manager or existing label needs to be asked first. If any of that is not settled, settle it before you send.
7. Similar material reaches us all the time. We work with many artists and hear a great deal of music. We may already be developing, or may later develop, release or work on something that resembles what you sent us, arrived at independently of your submission. Nothing in these terms restricts us from doing that, and a resemblance on its own creates no obligation to you.
8. Keep your own copy. We do not return material and we do not promise to keep it. Never send us your only copy of anything.

None of this is us being difficult. It is the only way a small label can keep its door open to unsolicited music without exposing itself, or you, to a mess later on.

When you write to us through this site, you agree to:

• Give accurate details and use an email address that is yours.
• Not impersonate anyone, or claim to represent an artist or company you do not.
• Not use the form for bulk messaging, advertising, SEO pitches or any other spam.
• Not send anything unlawful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, hateful, or containing malware or links intended to cause harm.
• Not attempt to get past the form’s validation or spam protection.

Submissions that break these rules get deleted, and we may block further messages and report what was sent where the law requires or allows it.

The name VsTheWrld Records, the logo, the crest, the wordmark and the other marks used across this site, together with the site’s design, layout, code, text, photography and artwork — and the recordings, compositions, videos and cover art released by the label and its artists — belong to us or to our licensors, and are protected by copyright and trademark law.

Nothing here grants you a licence, other than this: you may

• view and browse the site for your own personal, non-commercial use;
• link to any page on it;
• quote a short extract, or share a link, with credit to VsTheWrld Records — the ordinary fair use and fair dealing that journalism and criticism rely on.

Without our written permission, you may not:

• copy, reproduce or republish any substantial part of this site;
• use our name, logo or artwork on merchandise, on a release, or in any way that suggests we endorse, are associated with, or have approved something we have not;
• rip, download, re-upload or redistribute our music or video other than through the official channels it was released on;
• scrape or systematically harvest the site, or use its content — including our recordings, artwork and artists’ likenesses — to train a machine learning or generative model;
• remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or credit notice;
• frame the site, or present any part of it as your own work.

If you think something on this site infringes your rights, write to info@vsthewrldrecords.com with enough detail to identify the work and the page, and we will look into it properly.

Use the site lawfully, and do not:

• try to gain access to any part of the site, its server or its database that is not open to you;
• probe, scan, or test the security of the site, or bypass any security measure;
• introduce malware, or anything else designed to interfere with how the site works for other people;
• overload it — automated requests at a rate that degrades the site for anyone else are not welcome;
• reverse-engineer or decompile any part of it beyond what the law expressly allows you to do.

Attacks on this site may be reported to law enforcement, and we will cooperate with them.

The merch page is a preview. The pieces shown there are announcements of what is coming, not stock. There is no checkout on this site, no way to place an order, and no way to pay us. Any prices, sizes or availability shown are indicative and can change or be pulled entirely.

Nothing on this site is an offer to sell, and nothing you do on it forms a contract of sale. When the store opens, separate terms of sale — covering payment, shipping, delivery times, returns and refunds — will be published and will govern purchases from then on.

If you buy our music, merch or tickets somewhere else — a streaming service, a third-party store, a ticketing platform — that purchase is between you and that seller, on their terms, and these terms have nothing to do with it.

This site links out to streaming platforms, social profiles and other sites, and embeds YouTube players on some release pages. We do not control any of them, we do not endorse everything they host, and we are not responsible for their content, their availability or how they handle your information. Once you follow a link or press play on an embed, that company’s terms and privacy policy apply, not ours. Our privacy policy sets out what those embeds mean for you.

The site is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, or that the information on it is accurate, complete or current. Release dates slip, roster pages go out of date, and links break. Do not rely on this site as your only source for anything that matters.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, VsTheWrld Records LLC and its members, officers, employees, artists and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity — including any opportunity you believe was lost in connection with material you sent us — whether the claim is brought in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability to you for all claims connected with the site or these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us for the use of the site (which, for an informational site with no checkout, is nothing) or one hundred US dollars.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless VsTheWrld Records LLC and its members, officers, employees, artists and agents against any claim, damage, loss, liability and reasonable legal cost arising out of your use of the site in breach of these terms, your breach of any law, or material you sent us — in particular any third-party claim that something you submitted infringes their rights.

We may change, suspend, restructure or take down any part of this site at any time, without notice and without liability to you. Pages come and go as the label’s work does.

We may also block access from a person or address that breaks these terms. Any part of these terms that by its nature ought to survive doing so — the sections on submissions, intellectual property, warranties, liability, indemnity and governing law — continues to apply afterwards.

We may revise these terms. When we do, the revised version goes up on this page and the “Last updated” date at the top changes with it. Using the site after that means you accept the revised terms, so it is worth a glance now and then. Changes are not applied retroactively to material you already sent us — the version in force when you sent it is the one that governs it.

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of this site, are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. You and VsTheWrld Records LLC agree that the state and federal courts sitting in Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident somewhere else, you may have mandatory rights and protections under your local law that this section cannot take away from you.

If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and the unenforceable part is read down to the narrowest form that works. Our not enforcing something straight away is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

Questions about these terms, permissions requests, and anything with the word “legal” in it: info@vsthewrldrecords.com.

Bookings, press and demos: bookings@vsthewrldrecords.com, or the contact form.