Label Discovery Program — Artist Release and Participation Terms

Last updated: 24 August 2026

This Agreement is between you (“Artist,” “you”) and Toggle Media, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Toggle Media,” “we,” “us”), which operates Cold XVI. By opting into the Label Discovery Program (the “Program”), you agree to these terms.

1. The Program

The Program is a curated publication. On a periodic basis, we distribute a selection of artist profiles to subscribers who identify themselves as music industry professionals (“Label Subscribers”), and we may feature selected artists on our owned social media channels.

Selection is at our sole discretion. Meeting a score threshold makes you eligible; it does not entitle you to inclusion in any particular issue or to inclusion at all.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to participate in the Program. You represent that you are.

3. Grant of Rights

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and create excerpts of the following (“Your Materials”), solely for the purposes described in Section 1:

• (a) the audio recording(s) you submitted, in whole or in excerpt;
• (b) your Cold XVI scores, sub-scores, and analytical breakdowns;
• (c) your artist name, legal name, likeness, photograph, biography, and publicly available performance metrics; and
• (d) the contact information you provide.

This license is non-exclusive. You retain all ownership in Your Materials. Nothing here transfers copyright, master rights, publishing rights, or any interest in your compositions or recordings.

3A. Promotional Use and Right of Publicity Consent

You separately and expressly consent, under Fla. Stat. § 540.08 and any comparable law, to Toggle Media’s use of your name, artist name, likeness, score, and submission excerpts for purposes of trade — specifically, to promote Cold XVI and the Program itself. This includes use in sample Issues shown publicly, on the Program’s public-facing pages, in Toggle Media’s social channels and advertising, and in describing Program outcomes.

You may revoke this promotional consent prospectively at any time by writing to legal@cold16.com.

3B. Cold XVI Beats and Attribution

If your submission uses an instrumental supplied by Cold XVI, that instrumental is licensed to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution (“CC BY”) license, in the version identified in the credit displayed with your submission. You acknowledge that:

• (a) attribution to the producer is a condition of that license, not a courtesy;
• (b) Toggle Media will display producer attribution on the Program file, on exported video, and in Program distributions, and you will not remove or obscure it; and
• (c) the producer’s attribution remains attached to the submission permanently, including after you withdraw under Section 9.

Toggle Media grants you a non-exclusive license to use the supplied instrumental in your submission and in Program materials. This license is separate from and does not affect any rights you hold in your vocal performance.

4. Your Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that:

• (a) you own or control all rights necessary to grant the license in Section 3, including rights in any underlying instrumental, beat, sample, interpolation, or featured performance;
• (b) if you used a licensed or leased instrumental, your license permits the distribution and promotional uses described in this Agreement;
• (c) Your Materials do not infringe any third party’s copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other rights;
• (d) you are not subject to any exclusive recording, publishing, management, or agency agreement that prohibits your participation, or you have obtained any required consent; and
• (e) Your Materials do not contain unlawful content or content depicting an identifiable real-world victim of a crime.

5. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless Toggle Media, its officers, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of a breach of your representations in Section 4.

6. No Representation, No Agency, No Fee

This is important. Read it.

• (a) Toggle Media is not your agent, manager, attorney, or representative, and does not act on your behalf in any capacity.
• (b) Toggle Media does not procure, offer, promise, attempt to procure, or negotiate employment or engagements for artists, and does not hold itself out as a talent agency or talent agent within the meaning of Fla. Stat. § 468.401 et seq. The Program is a publication. We list; we do not represent.
• (c) Toggle Media charges you nothing for Program participation and receives no compensation, commission, finder’s fee, percentage, registration fee, or other consideration — from you, from any Label Subscriber, or from any third party — in connection with your participation or with any agreement you may enter into.
• (d) Participation in the Program is not available for purchase, is not a feature or benefit of any paid Cold XVI subscription tier, and no payment to Toggle Media of any kind increases your likelihood of selection. Eligibility is determined solely by score, and selection solely by editorial judgment.
• (e) Any communication, negotiation, or agreement between you and a Label Subscriber is solely between you and that party. We are not a party to it, we do not review it, and we are not responsible for it.

We strongly recommend you retain your own attorney before signing anything with a label.

7. No Guarantee

We make no promise that any Label Subscriber will contact you, listen to your submission, or offer you anything. We make no promise regarding the identity, number, or seniority of Label Subscribers. Program inclusion is not an endorsement of you by any label.

8. No Confidential Relationship

Your Materials are submitted voluntarily and non-confidentially. No confidential or fiduciary relationship is created between you and Toggle Media, or between you and any Label Subscriber, by your participation.

You acknowledge that Label Subscribers receive material from many sources and may independently develop, acquire, or work with material similar to yours. Neither we nor any Label Subscriber assumes any obligation with respect to ideas, styles, or approaches disclosed in Your Materials.

9. Withdrawal

You may withdraw from the Program at any time through the app or by writing to legal@cold16.com. On withdrawal:

• we will stop including you in future distributions and will remove you from future social features;
• we cannot recall issues already distributed, and Label Subscribers may retain copies already received; and
• we will delete your Program contact information from our active distribution records within 30 days.

10. Compensation

You receive no payment for Program participation.

11. Changes

We may modify these terms. Material changes will be communicated to participating artists, and continued participation after notice constitutes acceptance. If you don’t agree, withdraw under Section 9.

12. Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Venue for any dispute lies in Palm Beach County, Florida.

13. Entire Agreement

This Agreement, together with the Cold XVI Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Program. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

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By opting in, you confirm you have read and agree to these terms.

Artist name: ______________________ Date of acceptance: ______________________ Acceptance method: in-app affirmative click, logged with timestamp and IP