A music platform, social network, and monetization service providing the best music discovery, sharing, and listening experience while putting artists and rightsholders in complete control of their musical content.
Orfium offers retail sales, micro licensing, royalty-free licensing, derivative works monetization, 3rd party distribution, and publishing. Each service can be opted-in/out on a track-by-track basis at any time with no long-term contracts and all of our services are on a non-exclusive basis.

Orfium offer micro-licenses, which are royalty free licenses with three tiers. The threshold for each license is the greater of the production costs plus the advertising budget of the project or the lifetime direct revenue of the project, whichever is greater. If you have many projects please contact us for blanket license options for both micro-licenses and publishing. The first tier is the Standard License and the permitted threshold limit is $2,000. If your combined total production costs and advertising budget exceeds the threshold than you will need to purchase a higher tier. The second tier is the Extended License, which increases the permitted threshold to $10,000. The third tier is the Premium license, which increases the permitted threshold to $50,000. For any project that exceeds the $50,000 threshold, it generally falls under the scope of publishing depending on the nature of the project and we will either work out a custom deal for you if possible otherwise refer you to the artist's publisher if we aren't administering those rights. If you purchase a license and then later exceed the expected threshold, then you are required to return and upgrade to the correct license for the project.

Free - Any Downloadable Content and/or Streamable Content which the Content Provider makes available on The Platform free of charge to consumers.

Premium Content: Any Uploaded Content in which the content provider set the monetization preferences to either Full Monetization or Advanced Settings Monetization.

Monetization Services: Includes Retail Services, Publishing Administration Services, Content Identification Services, and Content Administration Services.

Retail Services: A category of non-commercial services that includes Retail Digital Downloads, Retail Streaming, and Non-Exclusive Digital Distribution.

Retail Streaming: A sub-category of services, Premium Subscription Streaming and Premium Plus Subscription Streaming, that includes both Interactive Streams and Passive Streams that may be sold and/or licensed directly to the end-user, for non-commercial purposes, on a per-use or subscription Tethered basis.

Premium Subscription Streaming: A Retail Service where consumers are able to Interactively Stream and Passively Stream unlimited Digital Media from The Service for a monthly subscription fee.

Premium Plus Subscription Streaming: A Retail Service where consumers are able to Interactively and Passively Stream unlimited Digital Media and Permanently Download a fixed amount of Digital Media for a monthly subscription fee.

Non-Exclusive Digital Distribution: Uploaded Digital Media is non-exclusively distributed to many different third party retail and streaming platforms

Publishing Administration Services: A category of services that includes Non-Exclusive Publishing, Micro-Licensing, and Content Administration Services.

Non-Exclusive Publishing: Licenses, usually worth more than $500 and custom negotiated for each use by The Service on behalf of the Content Provider, are sold on a flat-rate, subscription, and/or metered-use basis for the purpose of using music in commercial capacities, including but not limited to performances, advertising, television, film, theatre, radio, and video game productions.

Micro-Licensing: Licenses, usually worth $500 or less and standardized for all uses, are sold on a flat-rate, subscription, and/or metered-use basis for the purpose of using Musical Assets in commercial capacities, including but not limited to computer and mobile apps, advertising, television, film, theatre, radio, and video game productions.

Royalty Free Licensing: The Micro-Licensing of copyrighted material or intellectual property for a one time fee without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales.

Content Administration Services: A category of services in which Digital Media are identified, using a fingerprinting algorithm, metadata scanner, or any other means of identification, and claimed for the purpose of monetizing, blocking, and tracking infringing and/or performed uses of the Uploaded Content.

Derivative Work: a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship.

Derivative Works Monetization: Uploaded Digital Media is associated with a remix, sample, cover song, mash-up, parody, and/or any other Derivative Work that contains parts of the composition or sound recording of the Musical Asset, and the owner of the original Musical Asset is granted rights to the monetization of the Derivative Work on The Platform.

Facebook Monetization: Uploaded Digital Media is fingerprinted on Facebook's Content ID system and advertising revenue is generated from uses on Facebook in which the fingerprint is detected.

Vimeo Monetization: Uploaded Digital Media is fingerprinted on Vimeo’s Content ID system and advertising revenue is generated from uses on Vimeo videos in which the fingerprint is detected.

Free Radio Play: An elective digital radio service in which Musical Assets are streamed/broadcasted, both non-interactively and interactively, to users of The Platform for free. All Content Providers who opt-in to Free Radio play agree to forgo any mechanical, performance, or any other royalties related to Free Radio Play streams.

Broadcast Service: Making Uploaded Content available for use to 3rd parties to create a pre-recorded or live performance to multiple simultaneous listeners, including via online radio, podcast episodes, DJ sets, terrestrial radio, and performances in a public setting. The two types of Broadcast Services include Onsite Broadcasts and Offsite Broadcasts, where the Content Provider has the option to participate in either type, both, or none. Further, the Content Provider has the option to make music available for free or for a licensing fee.

Onsite Broadcast Service: A type of Broadcast Service where the Uploaded Content is curated by a 3rd party and performed to users on The Platform. Common examples include where users on The Platform listen to a live or pre-recorded radio show, podcast episode, or DJ set while using The Platform.

Offsite Broadcast Service: A type of Broadcast Service where The Platform is used by a 3rd party to perform Uploaded Content in a public setting. Common examples of public settings include restaurants, bars, clubs, radio transmissions, DJ sets, television transmissions, phone and computer applications, and websites that are not part of The Platform.~

For all Uploaded Content enrolled in the Derivative Works Monetization service, The Content Provider has the right to specify consumer policies and monetization settings of all Digital Media uploaded by third parties to The Platform that are a derivative work of the Content Provider's original Uploaded Content, except in cases where the third party receives expressed consent by the rights holder of the derivative work. Both The Content Provider and the third party rights holder retain the copyright of their respective work and both have the right to have the content removed from The Platform.

For all Uploaded Content designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY," You authorize others the right to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the Digital Media, even commercially, as long as the original creator is credited for their original creation. This is the most accommodating of creative commons licenses offered. For more information, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

For all Uploaded Digital Media designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY-SA," You authorize others the right to remix, tweak, and build upon the Digital Media even for commercial purposes, as long as credit is given to original creator and the Digital Media is licensed under the identical terms. This license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses. All new works based on the original creator's work will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.

For all Uploaded Digital Media designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY-ND," You authorize others to redistribute, commercially and non-commercially, as long as the Digital Media is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original creator. For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode.

For all Uploaded Digital Media designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY-NC," You authorize others to remix, tweak, and build upon the Digital Media non-commercially, and although any new works must also acknowledge the original creator and be non-commercial, derivative works do not have to be licensed on the same terms. For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.

For all Uploaded Digital Media designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY-NC-SA," You authorize others to remix, tweak, and build upon the Digital Media non-commercially, as long as they credit the original creator and license their new creations under the identical terms. For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.

For all Uploaded Digital Media designated as creative commons and marked as "Attribution CC BY-NC-ND," You authorize others the right to download the Digital Media and share the Digital Media with others as long as they credit the original creator, but they cannot change the Licensed Digital Media in any way or use it commercially. For more information, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.

In all cases, Payable Earnings on Uploaded Content will be 80% of Base Earnings, less: (i) applicable taxes or other withholdings required by applicable law; (ii) bad debts or other uncollectible sums; (iii) legal and other reasonable fees incurred in enforcing this Content Provider Agreement or the Terms of Service; (iv) Transaction processing fees (such as credit card fees, PayPal fees, and Bank fees); (v) any monies payable to third parties who have a copyright interest in the Uploaded Content, including but not limited to performance rights organizations, performance rights societies, publishers, and songwriters and/or composers; (vi) any digital performance royalties; (vii) any digital broadcast/streaming royalties (viii) any mechanical royalties; and (ix) any amounts owing by You to The Platform under this Content Provider Agreement or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, The Platform is entitled to off-set against any amount owing to You, all amounts to which it is or may be entitled under this Content Provider Agreement or otherwise at law.

All Subscription and license revenue will be prorated based on metered use, and included in Base Earnings. Payable Earnings are inclusive of any and all performance royalties, mechanical royalties, and digital royalties that are otherwise collected by 3rd party agencies, including but not limited to Performance Rights Organizations (such as ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), Licensing Agencies (such as the Harry Fox Agency), and Collection agencies (such as SoundExchange and Song Trust). In the event that The Service does make a payment to a third party, such as a PRO, the amount will be deducted from Payable Earnings. All net payments received from sublicensing transactions are to be included in the Content Provider's Base Earnings.