Content Guidelines: Allowed and Restricted Content on our Music Distribution Service
Learn everything that you can and can’t distribute with Random Sounds’ music distribution service.
Updated this week
All users of Random Sounds’ services agree to follow our Content Guidelines when using our service to distribute music.
We take Quality Control and Fraud Prevention very seriously, and Music Platforms do too. Persistent and repeated guidelines violations could lead to further actions, for example, but not limited to, suspension or termination of our agreement.
This list will be updated as necessary to protect our Deals with our Partner Music Platforms.
You may be requested for supporting documentation for the content you distribute.
- Content licensed from another party on a non-exclusive basis
- Content released under Creative Commons or similar free of charge/open licenses
- Clips from other sources used under fair use principles
- Video gameplay footage (by other than the game’s publisher)
- Ambient, meditation, new age, yoga, or sleep music
- Production loops
- Soundbeds
- Sound effects
- Karaoke tracks
- Classical music recordings of compositions in the public domain
- DJ sets or continuous mixes
- Spoken word recordings
- Comedy recordings
- Film recordings (that are not the musical score to a film)
- Speeches
- Prayer recordings
- Audiobooks
- Generic/Common sounds
- Non-exclusive beats
- Podcasts
- Nature or wildlife recordings
- Ambient sound recordings
- Noise
- Recordings or descriptions of sexual acts
Most of these types of content will be automatically blocked by our system, do not try to circumvent these restrictions!
Which Platforms are Micro-Sync Platforms? *
7digital, Adaptr, AudibleMagic, Canva, Kuaishou / Kwai, Meta (Instagram & Facebook), Peloton, Pinterest, Snapchat, Styngr, Supernatural, Taobao (Alibaba), TikTok, Twitch, YouTube Content ID.
*This list may not be updated by the time you are reading this.
Ignorantia juris non excusat:
A legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content. Wikipedia