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Last Updated: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Please read this entire Voice Talent Agreement so you know and understand the terms and conditions you are agreeing to when you sign:
Agreement Terms & Conditions
Non-Disclosure
1. The Discloser intends to disclose information (the "Confidential Information") to the Recipient for the purpose of and relating to the project and Product of the Company, or any other work discussed through any form of communication (the "Purpose").
2. The Recipient undertakes not to use the Confidential Information for any purpose except the Purpose, without first obtaining the written agreement of the Discloser.
3. The Recipient undertakes to keep the Confidential Information secure and not to disclose it to any third party who need to know the same for the Purpose, who know they owe a duty of confidence to the Discloser and who are bound by obligations equivalent to those in clause 2 above and this clause 3.
4. The undertakings in clauses 2 and 3 above apply to all of the information disclosed by the Discloser to the Recipient, regardless of the way or form in which it is disclosed or recorded but they do not apply to:
- a) any information which is or in future comes into the public domain (unless as a result of the breach of this Agreement); or
- b) any information which is already known to the Recipient and which was not subject to any obligation of confidence before it was disclosed to the Recipient by the Discloser.
5. Nothing in this Agreement will prevent the Recipient from making any disclosure of the Confidential Information required by law or by any competent authority.
6. The Recipient will, on request from the Discloser, return all copies and records of the Confidential Information to the Discloser and will not retain any copies or records of the Confidential Information.
7. Neither this Agreement nor the supply of any information grants the Recipient any license, interest or right in respect of any intellectual property rights of the Discloser except the right to copy the Confidential Information solely for the Purpose.
8. The undertakings in clauses 2 and 3 will continue in force indefinitely.
9. This Agreement is governed by, and is to be construed in accordance with, English law. The English Courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of, or in connection with, this Agreement.
Recordings Creation
10. The Freelancer agrees to create the Recordings to the highest possible professional standard and quality.
11. The Freelancer agrees to create Recordings for all of the text that are sent over, without leaving any out, unless instructed by the Company.
12. The Freelancer agrees to create the Recordings in batches and send them over batch by batch to make the processing of the Recordings as efficient as possible.
13. The Freelancer agrees to re-record any and all Recordings that are deemed not to the standard of the Company, don't meet length requirements, or contain errors or mistakes.
14. The Freelancer agrees to record all Recordings within a batch in one single audio file, to keep similar & related text elements organised together, for more efficient processing.
15. The Freelancer agrees to record all Recordings in a high-quality professional microphone in 16-bit WAV quality and format.
16. The Company has the right not to use any or all of the Recordings at any point, for any reason.
17. The Freelancer agrees to create additional Recordings in the future as and when text is changed or added to the Product database.
Copyrights
18. The Freelancer agrees to transfer the full intellectual property copyrights of any and all Recordings delivered, to the Company. The intellectual property copyrights of any Recordings will then become the sole property of the Company to be used in any way or form it wishes for the Product (Instant Readings).
19. The Freelancer shall not use any of the Recordings for any purpose other than the sole purpose of delivering these Recordings to the Company for its use.
Royalty Share
20. In exchange for the Recordings copyrights, the Company agrees to pay the Freelancer 10% royalty payment of each sale of the Product that solely and entirely uses the Recordings created by the Freelancer. In the cases where a fraction or portion of the Product uses the Recordings created by the Freelancer, a pro-rata percentage of the 10% royalty share would be applied. For example, if 10% of the text readings in the Product use the Recordings created by the Freelancer, 10% of 10% would yield a 1% royalty payment for that specific sale. If 100% of the text readings in the Product use the Recordings created by the Freelancer, 100% of 10% would yield a 10% royalty payment for that specific sale. If no (zero) Recordings created by the Freelancer are used in the Product, then no royalty payment is due for that specific sale.
Payments
21. Any and all sales made, that use any of the Translations created by the Freelancer, will be paid on the 1st day of each month for the sales made during the previous month. For example, sales made that use any of the Translations created by the Freelancer during June, 2022 will be paid July 1st, 2022, and so on. Payments will be released when the total unpaid accrued royalty amount reaches $25 USD or more.
22. Any royalties earned below $25 USD will be rolled over to the next monthly payment until it reaches $25 USD or more.
23. Payouts will only happen once your unpaid royalty balance reaches at least $25 USD and anything less than this amount will be held until the balance reaches this threshold.
24. Royalty payments will be sent to the PayPal email or bank account details provided by the Freelancer.
Updates
25. This Agreement overrides any previously signed version of this Agreement.
26. The Company has the right to update the agreement at any point in the future where the Freelancer can choose one of two options: A) To cease being a contributor and withdraw their contribution from the product, or B) Continue keeping their contribution in the Product under the new terms & conditions.