Rights & Licensing Statement

LTBR FM is an internet-only radio service operated from the United Kingdom. Its entire audio output - music, station identifications, jingles, production beds and spoken segments - is original content created for the station. The service does not transmit any sound recording, musical work, literary work or performance controlled by PPL, PRS for Music, MCPS, or any other collecting society, record label, publisher or performer.

Accordingly, the service does not hold, and is not required to hold, a PPL licence or a PRS for Music licence. The operator of LTBR FM warrants that the service is fully entitled to communicate its output to the public in the United Kingdom.

All music broadcast on LTBR FM is generated for the station using AI music-generation services, under the operator's direction, from briefs, style specifications and lyrics authored by the operator. Each track is produced specifically for a fictional artist created for the station and has never been commercially released by any label, distributor or aggregator.

The operator of LTBR FM warrants that the following applies to every recording in rotation:

• •The recording was generated under a paid subscription tier that grants commercial use rights, and was downloaded through the provider's approved channel within the applicable allocation.
• •The recording is not a copy of, and does not reproduce any part of, any pre-existing sound recording.
• •No human performer took part in the recording, and no performer's rights under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 subsist in it.
• •Any lyrics were written by the operator or were generated as part of the same process; none are taken from any existing published work.

Station identifications, jingles and production audio are produced by the same process, or by text-to-speech and audio tools used under their commercial terms. No sampled material from any commercial recording, broadcast or aircheck is used.

Sound recordings. Under s.5A and s.9(2)(aa) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, copyright in a sound recording belongs to its producer - the person by whom the arrangements necessary for making the recording are undertaken (s.178). For every recording broadcast on LTBR FM, that person is either the operator or the generation-service provider, from whom the operator holds an assignment or licence permitting reproduction, distribution, public performance and communication to the public. No recording is owned by, or licensed to, any PPL member.

Musical and literary works. To the extent copyright subsists in the underlying compositions and lyrics, it belongs to the operator - either as human author of the lyrics and briefs, or as the person who made the arrangements necessary for the creation of any computer-generated work (s.9(3)). No work is registered with, or controlled by, PRS for Music or MCPS. The operator is not a PRS or MCPS member.

Performers' rights. No performance by an individual is embodied in any recording; no rights under Part II of the Act, and no entitlement to equitable remuneration under s.182D, arise.

Communication to the public (s.20). Because the operator owns or is licensed in every right engaged by transmitting the service, no consent from any third party or collecting society is required for communication of the service to the public in the United Kingdom, whether by the operator directly or by a directory or aggregator linking to the stream.

Broadcasting regulation. The service is delivered by internet only and is not a licensable broadcast service under the Broadcasting Acts.

The operator maintains a provenance record for every item of audio in rotation, recording: title; fictional artist; generation service and model version; date of generation; account tier at the time of generation; download record; and authorship of any lyrics. This record is available on request to any rights holder, collecting society, directory or aggregator with a legitimate interest, and is updated whenever content is added to rotation.

If you believe any audio transmitted by LTBR FM reproduces a work or recording in which you hold rights, contact rights@ltbr.fm with the approximate broadcast time, a description of the content and the basis of your claim. The operator will remove the item from rotation pending investigation within two working days of receipt and will respond in writing.

This section is a licence. It is granted by the operator of LTBR FM to any person who uses the service's live audio output in content they create, on the terms below. No application, registration or attribution is required.

Scope. You may use the live output of LTBR FM - the Icecast stream at https://stream.ltbr.fm/live, the presenter-free Icecast stream at https://stream.ltbr.fm/live-nodj (the same programme without the spoken segments), the YouTube simulcast, the website player and the Receiver application - as background or accompanying audio in content you produce and publish, including live streams, video-on-demand recordings, clips, highlights, edited videos and short-form video, on any platform (including Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook), whether or not the content is monetised. The licence is worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive, and covers the music, station identifications, jingles, production audio and spoken segments alike.

Attribution. No attribution is required. A mention of the station is welcome but is not a condition of this licence.

What is not permitted. This licence does not permit you to:

• •extract, rip or re-upload any recording, jingle or spoken segment as standalone audio or music, whether alone or compiled with other material, and whether or not identified as the station's;
• •distribute any recording through a record label, distributor, aggregator or music streaming service, or register any recording, or any fingerprint of it, with YouTube Content ID, Audible Magic or any other content-identification system, collecting society or rights database;
• •claim authorship or ownership of any recording;
• •remove, alter, obscure or circumvent any fingerprint, watermark or metadata embedded in the audio;
• •use the station's name, marks, presenters or output to state or imply endorsement, sponsorship or partnership;
• •use the output in content that is unlawful.

Platform detection and claims. The operator does not control, and gives no warranty about, the behaviour of any platform's automated content-identification system. What the operator warrants is set out in sections 1 to 4: every recording is owned by or licensed to the operator; none has been released through any label, distributor or aggregator; and none has been registered with any content-identification system or collecting society. If a claim, strike, mute or demonetisation is applied to your content in respect of LTBR FM audio, contact rights@ltbr.fm with the platform, the URL of the content, the name of the claimant and the title they cite. The operator will supply the provenance record for the recording concerned (section 4) and a written statement supporting your dispute within two working days, and will contact the claimant directly where appropriate.

Duration and changes. This licence applies to content published while it is in force. The operator may amend or withdraw it for future use by publishing a new version of this statement; content published under an earlier version remains licensed under that version. The licence terminates automatically for anyone who breaches it.

Governing law. This licence is governed by the law of England and Wales.

The operator of LTBR FM confirms that the statements above are true and accurate as at the date shown, that they apply to the entirety of the service's output, and that this statement will be updated before any content is transmitted to which it would not apply.

A signed declaration identifying the operator is provided on request to directories, aggregators, collecting societies and rights holders with a legitimate interest, via rights@ltbr.fm.