Important: these Seller Terms include binding ownership warranties, a content and buyer-license grant, payout deductions and set-off rights, indemnity obligations, and provisions that survive removal or account closure.
These Seller Terms are a binding agreement between you and rooot. as defined in the Terms of Service and supplement those Terms. As of the effective date, rooot. is an unincorporated operator, not a corporation or other separate legal person. These Seller Terms apply to connecting or continuing a Stripe seller account, uploading or adopting Content, creating or managing a producer profile, submitting or listing a kit, selling or licensing a Sound, receiving earnings, and otherwise using seller features. You electronically sign and accept the version linked beside an affirmative seller action when you intentionally select a claim, Stripe Connect, upload, listing, relisting, or other control that expressly states the action constitutes acceptance. If you previously became a seller under an earlier version, a materially expanded version binds you only after the notice and affirmative acceptance required by applicable law.
The Terms of Service, Sound License, Privacy Policy, transaction terms, and any separate written deal with rooot. are incorporated here. If terms conflict on a seller matter, a signed transaction-specific deal controls, then these Seller Terms, then the Terms of Service. The Seeded Profile Claim Terms control pre-claim activity, ratification, release, settlement, and prior buyer licenses for a claimed profile.
You consent to electronic records, notices, disclosures, and signatures. Your noticed clicks, uploads, submissions, account links, and transaction records are evidence of acceptance to the fullest extent permitted by law. Continued activity may evidence performance of an agreement already accepted, but it is not treated as a new electronic signature where an express signature is legally required.
You must be at least 18 or the age of majority where you live and legally capable of entering this agreement, or you must act through a parent, guardian, or legal entity with capacity and authority. You may sell for a company, label, publisher, collective, estate, artist, or other person only if you are authorized to bind it and every relevant rights holder. “You” includes each person or entity you represent.
You must provide accurate account, profile, tax, country, identity, rights, and payout information; keep it current; and promptly disclose any loss of authority, ownership dispute, conflicting agreement, sanctions issue, or restriction. You may not transfer, sell, rent, or share a seller account or profile without our written approval.
You are an independent seller and rights licensor. Nothing creates employment, partnership, joint venture, franchise, fiduciary, trust, agency, representation, or exclusivity between you and rooot. You have no authority to bind rooot. or make promises on our behalf. For buyer charges processed on the rooot. Stripe platform account without an on_behalf_of designation, the Operator acting under the rooot. trade name is the business and merchant of record for the buyer’s payment, delivery, receipt, refund, chargeback, and transaction-support relationship. You remain the independent supplier and licensor of your Content and remain responsible for its rights, accuracy, legality, and buyer license. Stripe is a payment processor and connected-account provider, not a party to these Seller Terms. rooot. arranges payment processing through Stripe but does not represent itself as a separately regulated payment institution, bank, trustee, or escrow provider.
You decide whether to submit Content and, subject to these Seller Terms, control your listing price and catalog. We do not guarantee acceptance, placement, promotion, buyers, redemptions, streams, rankings, revenue, payout timing, or continued availability of any seller feature.
You keep the ownership you validly hold in your Content. For every Sound, kit, recording, composition, MIDI file, stem, performance, artwork, image, name, mark, biography, metadata item, and other material you upload, submit, list, adopt, claim, or authorize, you represent and warrant on submission and throughout listing that:
Our review, approval, categorization, attribution, verification, or publication does not reduce your responsibility or mean we have confirmed title, originality, clearance, quality, or legality. You must keep complete rights and consent records and provide reasonable evidence promptly if requested.
You grant rooot. a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable solely with the Service, royalty-bearing only as expressly provided for seller earnings and otherwise royalty-free license to:
The license applies while Content is submitted, processed, reviewed, listed, or otherwise administered by rooot. After removal, it continues only as reasonably necessary to preserve and administer prior licenses and entitlements, complete transactions and payments, maintain legal and accounting records and restricted backups, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and use marketing materials already created or distributed.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive and agree not to assert moral rights or similar rights against uses authorized by these agreements. Where waiver is unavailable, you consent to those uses and agree not to interfere with them. You represent that every other author has given any equivalent waiver or consent required.
You authorize rooot. to grant each lawful buyer the Sound License applicable when the buyer obtains your Content. Each buyer license is direct, perpetual, and irrevocable by you once validly granted, subject to its terms and any legal right to terminate for buyer breach. You will not interfere with a valid license, demand terms inconsistent with it, or use automated rights systems to block a permitted Production.
By listing a Sound as drums, one-shots, fx, or vocal, you authorize the royalty-free treatment in the Sound License. By listing a Sound as a loop, MIDI, or stem, you authorize use under the threshold and Major Label clearance structure in that license and agree to handle a later clearance request reasonably and in good faith. You remain responsible for selecting the accurate category and for all rights needed to grant that treatment.
Buyer attribution is not required unless a listing or separate signed agreement expressly says otherwise. A buyer’s use of your Content does not make rooot. responsible for that buyer’s project or breach.
Setting a price and completing an upload may automatically submit a kit for review. We may accept, reject, request changes to, relabel, recategorize, rank, feature, limit, re-review, unlist, or remove any Content or profile at any time, with or without notice, for curation, quality, technical, legal, rights, payment, security, or business reasons. We do not owe publication, reasons, promotion, minimum availability, or compensation for a rejected or removed listing beyond correctly accrued seller earnings.
You control the price within available tools and limits. Prices, promotions, bundles, discounts, credits, taxes, currency conversion, and display formatting may affect what a buyer sees or pays. We may correct obvious pricing or metadata errors, refuse an erroneous transaction, and change future platform features and permitted price ranges.
Unless a separate written deal applies, your kit-sale share is 75% of the purchase price (calculated as described in this Section, including for member-priced sales), less payment-processing charges allocated to you, refunds, discounts funded by you, credits, chargebacks, disputes, reversals, taxes, currency costs, and other transaction adjustments. The seller share is calculated using the split recorded for the transaction; a future split change does not alter a completed transaction.
Eligible credit redemptions accrue compensation at the rate and under the counting, anti-abuse, ownership, and payout-threshold rules displayed in the seller dashboard or applicable offer when the redemption occurs. We may change rates and thresholds prospectively on notice. Plays, previews, owner activity, fraudulent or automated activity, reversed redemptions, and transactions outside the applicable rules do not create earnings.
Where the subscription referral program is available, an eligible subscription attributed to your offer link accrues commission on subscription revenue actually collected, at the rate, attribution rules, and earning window displayed in the seller dashboard or applicable offer when the subscription starts. Commission accrues per successfully collected invoice; a failed payment accrues nothing for that cycle, and refunds, chargebacks, and reversals of commissioned revenue reduce or reverse the corresponding commission, including against your future earnings under Section 10. We may change program rates, windows, eligibility, and availability prospectively on notice; a prospective change does not alter commission already accrued.
Platform-wide member pricing (for example a subscriber discount on kit purchases) is funded jointly. On a member-priced sale your share is calculated on the listed purchase price and then reduced by half of the member discount (rounded down); the platform’s share funds the other half. Your share percentage itself is unchanged by member pricing, and payment-processing charges remain allocated as described above in this Section. Your share never exceeds the amount actually collected less those processing charges, so where the platform share on a given arrangement is too small to fund half of the discount (for example a 100% seller-share arrangement), the remainder of the discount reduces your share.
Dashboard amounts are provisional bookkeeping estimates until a transaction settles, adjustments are applied, and payment is completed. They are not a bank balance, trust, escrow, deposit, security, or ownership interest in specific funds and do not earn interest.
Seller onboarding and payouts use Stripe Connect. You must accept Stripe’s connected-account terms, select the correct bank-account country, provide accurate identity, business, tax, and bank information directly to Stripe, and maintain all capabilities required to receive funds. Stripe may verify, restrict, delay, convert, reject, hold, debit, or reverse payments under its terms. rooot. does not receive your full bank credentials or control Stripe’s decisions.
Payouts are subject to successful buyer payment, payment settlement, available platform or connected-account balance, minimum thresholds, processing schedules, reserves, claim-settlement holds, operator review where applicable, sanctions screening, tax requirements, rights disputes, fraud and chargeback risk, and Stripe eligibility. A displayed or accrued amount is not due until these conditions are satisfied. We may use another disclosed payment method where Connect is unavailable or for a seeded-profile settlement.
You authorize rooot. to create or connect your Stripe account; submit information and instructions to Stripe; access account identity status, capabilities, balances, transfers, transactions, disputes, and payout information; initiate destination and claim-settlement transfers; deduct application fees; and initiate or request refunds, transfer reversals, debits, holds, and other adjustments described in these Seller Terms. Stripe’s Connected Account Agreement and Services Agreement also apply.
rooot. may calculate, collect, report, withhold, or remit transaction taxes imposed on rooot. as merchant of record. You are responsible for taxes, registrations, filings, invoices, royalties, collaborators, royalty participants, and reporting obligations imposed on you or arising from your seller earnings and Content. Nothing in these Seller Terms transfers a tax or consumer obligation that applicable law makes non-delegable. You authorize us and Stripe to report, withhold, remit, and provide tax documents where required. You must promptly supply requested tax information; we may hold payments until you do.
rooot. may decide buyer refunds, credits, cancellations, and dispute responses, and may remove the associated entitlement or license where permitted. Your earnings are reduced by your allocable portion of refunds, chargebacks, reversals, payment failures, taxes, processing fees, fraud, duplicate or erroneous payments, and dispute costs. If a seller share was already transferred, you authorize reversal, debit, deduction from future earnings, invoice, or other lawful recovery.
We may establish a reasonable reserve, delay or freeze payment, or set off any amount you owe rooot. or an indemnified party where there is a pending refund, chargeback, rights complaint, ownership conflict, claim dispute, fraud signal, legal process, breach, overpayment, or probable liability. We may continue the hold until the risk is reasonably resolved and may pay funds as required by a court, regulator, payment provider, or binding settlement.
Subject to available tools and any active investigation or legal hold, you may keep Content live, unlist it, or request permanent deletion. Removal stops future listing and may stop future previews, access, and re-downloads. It does not unwind a completed transaction, revoke a valid prior buyer license, require a buyer to delete a permitted Production or local copy, or require rooot. to erase entitlement, payment, tax, accounting, claim, complaint, backup, security, or other records reasonably needed for legal and operational purposes.
You remain entitled to correctly accrued net earnings for completed eligible transactions, subject to these Seller Terms. Removal does not eliminate your responsibility for Content, warranties, buyer licenses, refunds, disputes, indemnity, taxes, or amounts owed. A buyer may lose future re-download availability after removal, and you are not entitled to compensation for stopping future availability.
If your seller access results from a Seeded Profile claim, the Claim Terms in section 7 of the Terms of Service apply in addition to these Seller Terms. They include your authority warranties, retroactive ratification and rights grant, confirmation of prior buyer licenses, moral-rights consent or waiver, release of claims for covered pre-claim activity, settlement rules, and record-retention terms.
When a claim is linked, the Admin-Ingested Content covered by the claimant’s express acceptance of the Claim Terms is treated as Seller Content to the extent specified in those Claim Terms. Each later affirmative act of keeping an item listed through a noticed confirmation control, listing or relisting it, editing its commercial terms, licensing it, or accepting earnings attributable to it reaffirms your Seller warranties for that item. Mere silence or failure to remove an item is not a separate copyright grant, waiver, or adoption. You must promptly unlist and notify us about any item you do not own, control, recognize, or have authority to license.
You must promptly respond to reasonable ownership, clearance, attribution, payment, buyer-license, tax, fraud, and rights inquiries and provide supporting records. You authorize us to forward relevant contact, claim, transaction, and Content information to affected buyers, claimants, rights holders, complainants, payment providers, advisers, and authorities where reasonably necessary and lawful.
We may remove Content, disable a profile, freeze earnings, notify buyers, preserve evidence, or require a correction or replacement while a matter is investigated. You will reasonably assist with notices, responses, takedowns, buyer communications, clearances, disputes, refunds, and defence of claims. Our action or inaction does not admit liability or determine legal ownership.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the rooot. Parties defined in the Terms of Service and buyers relying on your grants from all claims, demands, proceedings, investigations, losses, liabilities, judgments, settlements, penalties, interest, damages, and reasonable legal and professional fees arising from or relating to:
rooot. may control the defence and settlement with counsel of its choice. You will cooperate and may not settle in a way that admits fault by, imposes obligations on, or fails to fully release an indemnified party without our written consent. This does not require you to indemnify rooot. for its own fraud or wilful misconduct or where prohibited by law.
You may stop selling and remove Content subject to section 11. We may reject, restrict, suspend, or terminate seller access, Content, claims, profiles, downloads, or payments immediately for legal, curation, quality, rights, payment, fraud, security, sanctions, tax, risk, or Terms reasons. We may discontinue seller features or the marketplace. Where practical and lawful, we may provide notice or an opportunity to address a curable issue, but are not required to do so.
Termination does not affect completed buyer licenses or eliminate accrued adjustments, reserves, taxes, disputes, repayment duties, or liability. Provisions that by their nature should survive do survive, including ownership and authority warranties, rights needed for prior transactions, buyer licenses, moral-rights consents, claim ratification and release, records, payment adjustments and set-off, taxes, cooperation, indemnity, disclaimers, liability limits, disputes, and general terms.
Seller features, catalog services, processing, analytics, earnings estimates, payment services, and Content are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, rooot. disclaims all warranties, including title, non-infringement, merchantability, fitness, accuracy, availability, sales, payment timing, and uninterrupted operation. We do not guarantee that review detects rights issues or that a buyer complies with a license.
The limitation of liability, individual-claim rule, Ontario governing law, Toronto forum, pre-suit notice, assignment, severability, changes, notices, and other general provisions in sections 17–20 of the Terms of Service apply to these Seller Terms. A later update applies prospectively on reasonable notice and does not revoke valid prior buyer licenses or undo surviving grants, claim terms, adjustments, or liabilities.
Seller, payout, tax, rights, and legal questions may be sent to rooot. at support@rooot.online. Include your account email, producer profile, kit or Sound URL, transaction or payout identifier, and enough information to investigate.