Your Copyright, Your Music: What We Never Touch

One of the biggest fears artists face when joining a new platform is losing control of their own music. Stories of rights grabs buried in terms of service, exclusive licensing clauses that prevent you from posting elsewhere, and platforms that claim partial ownership just for hosting your tracks. These fears aren't unfounded. They are based on real experiences that have burned real artists. TipTop was designed with a simple principle: your music is yours, and that never changes.

100% Copyright Retention

When you upload a track to TipTop, you retain 100% of your copyright. Full stop. We don't acquire any ownership stake in your music. We don't claim any rights beyond what's necessary to host and stream your track on our platform. The intellectual property remains entirely yours.

This isn't a promotional talking point that gets quietly reversed in paragraph forty-seven of our terms of service. It's a foundational commitment. Your song, your recording, your composition, your rights.

No Exclusive Deals

TipTop does not require exclusivity. You are free to have your music on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, and anywhere else you choose, simultaneously. We don't ask you to remove your tracks from other platforms. We don't penalise you for being available elsewhere. We don't offer preferential treatment to artists who go exclusive with us.

Your distribution strategy is your business. If TipTop is one of ten platforms where your music lives, that is perfectly fine. If TipTop becomes your primary home because you prefer the tip model, that is great too. The choice is always yours.

What We Do Need

For TipTop to work, we need a limited, non-exclusive licence to stream your music to listeners on our platform. This is standard for any music hosting service, and it covers only what's necessary for the platform to function. Specifically, we need permission to store your audio files on our servers, stream them to listeners, and display your track metadata such as title, artist name, and cover art.

That licence exists solely so we can operate the service. It doesn't give us the right to sell your music, sublicence it to third parties, use it in advertising, or do anything beyond making it available to listeners on TipTop.

Withdraw Anytime

If you decide TipTop is not for you, you can remove your tracks at any time. There's no lock-in period. There's no penalty for leaving. There's no cooling-off period where we continue to host your music after you request removal. When you take your tracks down, they come down.

Any tips you have already earned remain yours. Removing your music does not forfeit your existing balance. You can still withdraw your earnings after your tracks are gone.

Why This Matters

In a landscape where some platforms bury rights claims in dense legal language, we think clarity matters. Artists shouldn't need a lawyer to understand what happens to their music when they upload it somewhere. Here's our commitment in plain language:

• We never own your music
• We never claim a share of your copyright
• We never require exclusivity
• We never prevent you from using other platforms
• We never hold your music hostage if you want to leave
• We never touch your earnings if you remove your tracks

Your Creative Freedom

Copyright ownership is about more than legal technicalities. It is about creative freedom. When you own your work completely, you control how it is used, where it appears, and what deals you make. You can licence your track to a film, sell it as a limited release, remix it, or give it away for free. Those decisions belong to you because the music belongs to you.

TipTop is a platform for earning tips from listeners who love your work. That is our role. Nothing more, nothing less. We provide the stage, the audience brings the support, and the music remains yours through every step of the process.

Your music, your rules. Upload to TipTop and keep every right you have always had.