Terms of Service

By accessing or using Paid or Played?, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Paid or Played? is provided by Lorenzo Schiavone as a browser-based educational calculator for estimating master recording recoupment scenarios from numbers that you enter.

Paid or Played? is not legal, financial, tax, accounting, or music business advice. It does not create an attorney-client, adviser-client, fiduciary, or professional relationship.

Music contracts can define royalty bases, reserves, deductions, recoupable costs, cross-collateralization, audit rights, publishing, neighboring rights, payment timing, and other terms in different ways. Check the actual contract and get qualified advice before signing or relying on a deal.

The calculator depends on the numbers and assumptions you enter. You are responsible for verifying those inputs and deciding whether the selected model fits your deal.

• Check the contract definitions for revenue, deductions, costs, reserves, royalty base, and payment timing.
• Do not treat any estimate as a promise of future payments.
• Do not use Paid or Played? as your only review before accepting, rejecting, or renegotiating an agreement.
• Do not enter confidential or sensitive deal information unless your browser, device, and network environment are appropriate.

Paid or Played? currently has no accounts, subscriptions, saved projects, or payments. If those features are added later, these Terms and the Privacy Policy should be updated before they are used.

Use Paid or Played? lawfully and responsibly. You may not:

• use the service for unlawful, deceptive, or harmful activity;
• interfere with, overload, scan, or attack the service or its hosting infrastructure;
• copy, frame, resell, or commercially exploit the service in a way that suggests endorsement without permission;
• remove copyright, trademark, or attribution notices from the service; or
• use automated scraping or extraction that harms availability, security, or normal use.

Paid or Played?, including its name, interface, text, design, and calculator implementation, is owned by Lorenzo Schiavone or licensed for use in the service. Subject to these Terms, you may use the service for personal or internal evaluation of music deal scenarios.

These Terms do not transfer any ownership rights to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

The service may rely on your browser, hosting providers, open-source software, email software, and other third-party infrastructure. Those third parties may have their own terms and privacy practices. Paid or Played? is not responsible for services it does not control.

Paid or Played? is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lorenzo Schiavone disclaims warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, and error-free operation.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lorenzo Schiavone will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost opportunities, contract losses, or business interruption arising from use of or inability to use the app.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot be limited by law.

Paid or Played? may be changed, suspended, or discontinued at any time. These Terms may also be updated. The effective date above shows when this version was published.

Before starting a formal dispute, you agree to try to resolve the issue informally through the Contact page. Any mandatory consumer or data-protection rights remain unaffected.

Questions about these Terms can be sent through the Contact page.