Gecko Tracks License
Gecko Tracks are musical Backgrounds that can be used by the licensee to create original songs. Each Gecko Tracks Background is distributed in two audio formats, MP3 and MIDI, with an accompanying PDF showing the key, tempo, and chord changes in the associated audio files. This license governs the use of the Gecko Tracks Backgrounds.
In this document, Gecko Tracks backgrounds are referred to as "Backgrounds" and original songs created by the licensee using Backgrounds are referred to as "Songs." The licensee is referred to using words such as "you" and "your."
You may sell, give away, or otherwise distribute, without paying any royalties or licensing fees to Gecko Tribe (beyond the cost of purchasing the original Gecko Tracks license,) any Songs you create using the Backgrounds, subject to the following conditions:
- The original files may NOT be redistributed.
- Songs must include original elements such as added melodies or significant changes to at least 75% of their running time, with no more than 2 consecutive measures remaining unchanged other than the introduction that appears at the beginning of each Background (the first few measures.)
- Songs may only be distributed in formats that do not enable easy extraction of the Background. For example, Songs may NOT be distributed in MIDI format, because it would be easy to remove your original melody, leaving only the Background. And Songs may NOT be distributed as multi-track audio files where the Background and your original melody are in separate tracks, because it would be easy to remove your original melody track, again, leaving only the Background. In other words, the Background audio must be mixed with your original melody or other changes into an audio or video file, such as an MP3, WAV, MP4, etc., so that they cannot easily be separated.
- The previous restriction applies even if the Background has been altered.
- Songs may NOT be licensed to others to use to create Songs with. In other words, you may not simply modify a Background and redistribute it for others to use the way that Gecko Tracks are intended to be used by you.
- Licenses are non-transferrable.
- Licenses to different Backgrounds within one pack may not be split between people or companies.
You may freely modify the MIDI and/or MP3 files in any way you wish to create your Songs.
Gecko Tribe, LLC retains the copyright for the Background, but you may keep all royalties from your Songs that would normally be due to Gecko Tribe as a song writer.
A single user license entitles a single person to use Backgrounds as described above in the creation of Songs. Additional musicians may be involved in the composition and recording of the Song as long as the licensee is one of the primary participants in the process.
A company license entitles all employees of a company to use Backgrounds as described above to create Songs for the company as long as at least one employee is a primary participant in the Song creation process. Employees wishing to use Backgrounds to create songs of their own (ie. not for the company) must obtain their own Gecko Tracks license.
Happy creating!