Legal Agreement

Because of all of the controversy going on with downloaded music and internet radio stations being shut down and held liable for broadcasting, it has been suggested that we include some type of a legal agreement and disclaimer to be clear as to the use of the content contributed to Localtone Radio. This is not meant to scare anyone from contributing. On the contrary, we want the Localtone Radio community to give credit where credit is due for contributed content and have everyone follow the legal copyright laws.

Localtone Radio is very serious about copyright material. Anyone who is using the site to post material that they are not the owner, both in terms of audio and lyrics will have their account suspended and be reported to the true owner of the material.

It also must be noted that uploaded audio is able at this time o be downloaded in its entirety from the audio player on the site. Due to technical limitiations in the open source player we are using, we publish the playlist of the songs to the player and the player allows the user to download the entire song if they wish. The short story is that if you are contributing audio, listeners do have a way to download those audio files in the future if they wish. We are implementing a new player to fix this limitation.

Localtone was founded with the focus to help local artists who are currently or have at one time been based in the Minneapolis, MN metro area to publicize themselves. You can trust that we will in no way use your audio in poor taste and if we do use it for example in a commercial or podcast we will contact you using the email address from you Localtone Radio user account and get prior authorization.

Please contact us with any questions you may have on this agreement.

Justin Grammens
Localtone Radio