Important: By purchasing the Independent Artist Release Kit, you agree that it is a digital educational product. No specific streams, sales, income, followers, playlist placements, media coverage, contracts, audience growth, career opportunities, or other results are promised or guaranteed.
1. Digital Product
The Independent Artist Release Kit is a downloadable digital product. Delivery is electronic. No physical product is included unless expressly stated in writing.
2. No Earnings or Results Guarantee
OwnYourOwn.music, OYO Music, and Lumumba Investments LLC do not make any promise or guarantee regarding earnings, revenue, profit, music streams, sales, followers, playlist placement, media attention, audience growth, label interest, contracts, bookings, career advancement, or any other business or creative result. Outcomes vary based on many factors outside our control, including the artist, music, audience, market conditions, budget, timing, effort, execution, and third party platforms.
3. Educational Information Only
The kit and website are provided for general educational and informational purposes only. They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, employment, management, or other professional advice. You remain responsible for your own business, creative, financial, and legal decisions.
4. License and Permitted Use
Your purchase grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the kit for your own music releases and internal business purposes. You do not purchase ownership of the underlying templates, design, written content, branding, or intellectual property.
- You may use and reuse the materials for your own releases.
- You may customize worksheets and templates for your own internal use.
- You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, publicly post, share, copy for others, or package the materials as a competing or derivative commercial product without written permission.
5. Refunds and Digital Delivery
Because the kit is a digital product delivered electronically, purchases are intended to be final once access or delivery has been provided, except where a refund, cancellation right, or other remedy is required by applicable law. Nothing in these terms limits any nonwaivable rights available to California consumers or other consumers under applicable law.
6. Third Party Services
The website or kit may reference streaming platforms, social networks, distributors, DJs, playlists, blogs, media outlets, payment processors, or other third party services. Unless expressly stated, those references do not create an endorsement, partnership, sponsorship, or guarantee of access, placement, approval, or performance. Third party services may change their rules, pricing, features, or availability at any time. Payments are processed through Stripe and may also be subject to Stripe's applicable terms and privacy practices.
7. User Responsibility
You are responsible for verifying that your music, artwork, marketing materials, claims, advertising, outreach, and business practices comply with applicable laws, platform rules, contracts, copyright requirements, publicity rights, and other obligations that apply to you.
8. Intellectual Property
OwnYourOwn.music, OYO Music, the Independent Artist Release Kit, related graphics, written materials, templates, and original site content are owned by or licensed to Lumumba Investments LLC and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. No rights are granted except the limited license expressly stated in these terms.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website and digital materials are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any particular business, promotional, financial, or career outcome.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Lumumba Investments LLC, OwnYourOwn.music, and OYO Music will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or lost profit damages arising from or related to use of the website or kit. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, total aggregate liability relating to the applicable purchase will not exceed the amount paid for that digital product, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
11. California Law
To the extent permitted by applicable law, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute that must be brought in court will be subject to courts located in Los Angeles County, California, unless applicable consumer law requires another forum or otherwise provides a nonwaivable right.
12. Severability and Entire Agreement
If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law. These terms, together with any policies or disclosures expressly incorporated by reference at the time of purchase, form the agreement governing the purchase of the kit.
Last updated September 10, 2026.