Last updated: 24 October 2026
Welcome to the Terms of Use for this website and all related tools and services (collectively, “the Website”). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not use or access the Website.
By accessing the Website, you agree to these legally binding Terms of Use, which constitute a contract between you and us. We may revise these Terms at any time without notice, and your continued use of the Website constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. The materials on the Website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark laws.
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on the Website for personal, non-commercial, transitory viewing only. Under this license, you may not:
This license terminates automatically if you violate these restrictions. We may also terminate this license at any time. Upon termination, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession, whether electronic or printed.
Videos you make with Clips: The restrictions above apply to the Website itself, not to the videos you create with Clips. You may use videos you export from Clips for any lawful purpose, including commercial use such as organic social media posts and paid advertising. Footage in the Clips library and collections is supplied under stock footage licences that allow commercial use or is our own, and it is licensed to you only as part of the videos you make. You may not extract, download, sell or redistribute that footage on its own, use it in a way that suggests a person or brand shown in it endorses you, or use footage showing recognisable trade marks or logos to promote goods or services. You are responsible for holding the rights to your music and to any footage, images or other material you upload or import yourself, including material taken from YouTube or other third-party platforms, and you indemnify us against any claim arising from that material.
To access certain features, you must create an account and provide accurate, complete, and current information. You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of your account information and the confidentiality of your login credentials. Your account is for personal use only and may not be shared with others. We reserve the right to terminate your account without notice if you violate these Terms.
Payment: Access to premium features requires payment via our payment processor, Stripe. You agree to provide accurate payment information and authorize Stripe to charge your chosen payment method for all purchases, including recurring charges for subscriptions, until you cancel. Prices are subject to change, and applicable taxes may be added. All payments are in GBP. We reserve the right to correct pricing errors or refuse orders.
Cancellation: You may cancel your subscription at any time via Stripe. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid term. No refunds are offered for cancellations or account terminations due to Terms violations. However we want all customers to have the best experience possible so please contact us if you have any issues.
System Requirements: You are responsible for ensuring your device meets the technical requirements to access the Website.
Any content you submit to the Website (“Your Content”) is treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. By submitting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute it in connection with the Website. You agree not to post personal information (e.g., name, email, address) that could identify you, as we cannot prevent its misuse. You assume all risks and liability for Your Content and indemnify us against any resulting claims.
By submitting to our playlists, you agree that your track will be considered for playlist inclusion, with no guarantee of placement. If selected or featured, you grant us permission to use your profile image, album artwork, artist name and song details within our promotion campaigns.
Submission allowances depend on your plan and are applied over a rolling 30-day window. Submissions from free accounts are reviewed as a lower priority than those from paying members, and we may decline, remove, or reorder any track on our playlists at any time and at our sole discretion.
Parts of the Website contain copies of short-form videos originally published on third-party platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, presented together with our own data, metrics, transcripts, scoring and written commentary. These videos are reproduced as they were posted, including their original audio, because the analysis we provide (hook structure, pacing, retention, audio selection, on-screen treatment and comparative performance) is an assessment of the video as a whole and cannot be made from a fragment of it. Our commentary is not presented separately from the video but overlaid on it: throughout the entire duration of playback, time-synchronised annotations identify the specific moments that gain or lose viewer attention, and those moments are used to model and predict a retention curve for the video. A video is therefore only viewable on the Website in an annotated form, as the object of a continuous running critique, and every second of it is the subject of that critique. They are not offered as a standalone media library, a download service, a music service, or a substitute for viewing the creator’s original post.
The audio is itself a subject of our review, and not merely carried along with the picture. We measure the integrated loudness, loudness range and true-peak level of each video’s audio and report whether it is too quiet, too compressed or too hot for the loudness normalisation applied by the platform it was posted to, with specific advice on correcting it. Because integrated loudness is by definition a measurement across the whole of a programme, a shortened excerpt does not merely weaken this analysis, it returns a different and incorrect figure. We further analyse the energy, dynamics and genre characteristics of the audio against the visual edit, assessing whether cuts, hooks and on-screen events are placed with reference to the music. We also apply acoustic fingerprinting to the audio for the specific purpose of identifying the sound recording so that the correct track and artist can be credited, as described below.
MusicMinutes claims no ownership of any third-party video, sound recording, musical composition, performance, trade mark or likeness appearing in these features. All rights remain with their respective owners. We identify and display the original creator’s handle, and the title and artist of the sound recording used, taking these from the source platform’s own credit where it gives one and from acoustic fingerprinting where it does not, so that a recording is acknowledged even where the original post left it uncredited. We link to the original post.
Our position is that this use is permitted as fair dealing for the purposes of criticism and review under section 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, with sufficient acknowledgement as described above, and, to the extent the laws of the United States apply, as fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107. We recognise that this is a question of fact and degree on which reasonable people may disagree. Nothing in this section asks you to accept our view: if you hold rights in material we have used, section 7 sets out how to have it removed, and we will act on your request without requiring you to argue the point or establish a claim.
Simple removal: no legal claim required. If you are a creator, artist, rights holder, label, publisher or an authorised representative, and you would prefer that your material is not used on the Website, you do not need to send a formal legal notice or explain why. Ask us and we will remove it. Requests can be made at musicminutes.co/remove-your-video or by email to [email protected]. You will be asked to identify the material (a social media handle for a video, or an ISRC or track link for a recording), to confirm your connection to it, and you may attach supporting evidence. On receipt, matching material is ordinarily hidden from the Website straight away, before any human review, and we aim to complete our review within 5 working days. Where a request is upheld we also block that creator or handle from being added to the Website again.
Formal copyright notices. You may instead send a formal notice of claimed infringement, and nothing in this section limits your right to do so or waives any remedy available to you. For notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, our designated agent is:
Paul Nicholls
MusicMinutes
7 Willow Court, London Road
Sawbridgeworth CM21 9FD
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7904 446667
Email: [email protected]
A notice should identify the copyrighted work, identify the material claimed to be infringing and its location on the Website, give your contact details, and include statements that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised and that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act for the owner. We respond to valid notices expeditiously.
Reinstatement. If material has been removed and you believe the removal was mistaken or misidentified, contact us at the address above and we will review the decision and reinstate the material where appropriate.
Repeat infringement. We maintain and enforce a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers, and of permanently excluding sources whose material has repeatedly been the subject of upheld removal requests.
Videos, audio, data, transcripts, scores and commentary made available through our analysis features are provided solely for the subscribing user’s own research, review and educational use within the Website. You must not download, screen-record, capture, scrape, extract, re-host, redistribute, republish, sell, or make available to any third party any video or audio obtained from the Website, and you must not use any such material to create, reproduce, upload or distribute content on any other platform. Nothing on the Website grants you any licence to use any third-party sound recording, musical composition, video or trade mark.
Our analysis is provided “as is” and is commentary, not advice or endorsement. You are solely responsible for how you apply, adapt or imitate any strategy, format or technique discussed on the Website, and for obtaining any licence or permission your own content may require. You agree to indemnify us against any claim arising from your breach of this section.
The Website and its materials are provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the materials or that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses. We are not liable for changes to third-party platforms (e.g., Instagram) that affect the Website.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we and our suppliers shall not be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, loss of data, profits, or business interruption) arising from your use or inability to use the Website, even if we have been notified of the possibility of such damages. If applicable law does not allow these limitations, they may not apply to you.
The materials on the Website may contain technical, typographical, or other errors. We do not warrant that the materials are accurate, complete, or current. We may update or remove materials at any time without notice but are not obligated to do so. We are not responsible for changes to third-party platforms affecting the Website.
The Website may link to third-party sites we do not operate. We are not responsible for their content or practices and do not endorse them. Use of linked sites is at your own risk.
We may revise these Terms at any time without notice. The current version is posted on the Website, and your continued use constitutes acceptance.
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in England and Wales for any disputes arising from these Terms.
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