Terms, in plain English

Your tapes stay your creative work. By making a tape on SFtunes, or by setting your profile public, you give us a non-exclusive commercial license to display your public tapes and your public Top 10 and Side B lists here and to license their metadata, song titles, track order, your liner notes, to third parties, including AI agents that pay to read them through our API. Only public things are ever licensed: private tapes, private profiles, and circles never leave the app, and the agent catalog carries your handle and songs only, never your name or contact info. Flip your profile private and your Top 10 leaves the catalog with it. Non-exclusive means it's still yours: share it, remake it, or take it anywhere else, anytime.

Licensing revenue runs the site. When an agent pays to read a public tape or Top 10, currently one cent per request, that money goes toward hosting, email and the rest of keeping SFtunes free. There are no credits or payouts to members. Earlier versions of these terms described an 80/20 split paid as SFtunes credits; no credits were ever redeemed, and that program ended on October 22, 2026. The live total is published on the Robot Royalties page.

Some links help keep the lights on. A few outbound links may earn SFtunes an affiliate commission. It never costs you anything, it never changes where the link goes, and those links are always marked.

The ground rules.Be a decent human: no spam, no scraping other people's tapes, no using SFtunes to harass anyone or break the law. We can close accounts that do. You can leave anytime, delete your account in Settings and your data goes with you. If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll give you 30 days notice before it takes effect.

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