Music Licence
The straightforward terms governing how music purchased and downloaded from NREW may be used.
One collection. One business location. One straightforward licence.
Each NREW music product is supplied through a one-off purchase. For business use, one purchased licence covers one physical business location.
You receive permission to use the purchased music under these terms. Ownership of the music and its intellectual property rights remains with NREW or the relevant rights holder.
1. About This Licence
This licence is an agreement between:
NREW, referred to in this licence as “NREW”, “we”, “us” or “our”;
and
the individual, business or organisation that purchases or uses the music, referred to as “you” or “the Licensee.”
NREW owns or controls the rights necessary to grant the permissions described in this licence.
Your purchase gives you permission to use the music in accordance with these terms. It does not transfer ownership of the music or its associated intellectual property rights to you.
2. What Your Purchase Includes
Each purchased NREW music product includes:
- the music files identified on the relevant product page;
- permission to use those music files under this licence; and
- a copy of, or access to, the applicable NREW Music Licence.
Each collection or volume is licensed separately.
Purchasing one NREW collection does not give you permission to use any other NREW collection unless it has also been purchased.
This is a one-off purchase. It is not a subscription and does not require recurring payments.
Subject to compliance with this licence, your permission to use the purchased music does not expire.
3. The Licence We Grant You
NREW grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to use the purchased music for the purposes expressly permitted below.
“Non-exclusive” means NREW may license the same music to other customers.
“Non-transferable” means you may not sell, give, assign or transfer your licence to another person, business, organisation or location.
The licence remains valid unless it is terminated because of a breach of these terms.
4. Business Use
For business use:
One purchased licence covers one business location.
A business location means one individual physical premises, such as:
- a shop;
- salon;
- barbershop;
- restaurant;
- café;
- hotel;
- office;
- gym;
- studio;
- clinic;
- reception area;
- waiting room;
- showroom;
- leisure facility; or
- other commercial premises.
At the licensed location, the music may be used as background music through the location’s internal sound system or suitable playback equipment.
The music may be played during normal business activities and during private events held at the licensed location, provided that the music itself is not being sold, redistributed or presented as a separately ticketed musical performance.
5. Businesses With More Than One Location
A separate licence must be purchased for every business location where the music will be used.
For example:
- one salon requires one licence;
- three salons require three licences;
- ten retail premises require ten licences.
When purchasing through the NREW website, the required number of licences may be obtained by increasing the product quantity.
A head office, franchise owner, group company or other central purchaser may purchase licences on behalf of multiple locations, provided that the quantity purchased equals or exceeds the number of locations using the music.
A licence purchased for one location may not be rotated, shared or moved between different active locations.
If a licensed business permanently closes or relocates, the licence may move with that same business to its replacement location, provided that the music is no longer used at the former premises.
6. Home and Personal Use
An individual purchaser may use the purchased music for private listening:
- at home;
- on personal devices;
- in a private vehicle; and
- in other genuinely private, non-commercial settings.
Personal use does not permit public performance, commercial exploitation, redistribution, online publication or use on behalf of another person or business.
A personal licence may not be shared between households.
7. Permitted Copies
You may make a reasonable number of copies of the purchased files solely for:
- playback at the licensed business location;
- playback on your personal devices where personal use applies;
- secure backup;
- storage on a private internal system; or
- transfer between devices that you control and use in accordance with this licence.
Any copy remains subject to this licence.
You must take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access to or distribution of the files.
8. Employees and Service Providers
You may allow your employees to access the music only where necessary to operate playback at the licensed location.
You may also provide temporary access to a genuine IT, installation or audio-service provider where reasonably necessary to configure equipment at the licensed location.
Such access does not give the employee or service provider an independent licence.
They must not retain, reuse, share, distribute or exploit the files for any other customer, location or purpose.
You remain responsible for the use of the files by anyone to whom you provide access.
9. Uses Not Included
Unless NREW gives you separate written permission, this licence does not permit use of the music:
- in advertising;
- in television or radio advertisements;
- in films, programmes or documentaries;
- in podcasts;
- in audiobooks;
- in online courses;
- in mobile applications;
- in computer or video games;
- in public broadcasts;
- on internet radio services;
- in live-streamed content;
- in promotional videos;
- as production music;
- as hold music supplied to third parties;
- in content created for clients;
- as part of a paid performance, class or event where the music is a principal element; or
- in any product, service or content offered for sale or commercial distribution.
These uses may require a separate written licence from NREW.
Incidental capture of the music in a casual recording made at the licensed location does not automatically amount to a breach, provided that the recording is not produced or promoted primarily to distribute, feature or exploit the music.
10. Prohibited Uses
You must not, and must not allow anyone else to:
10.1 Resell or Redistribute the Music
You must not sell, share, gift, lend, publish, upload, transfer, distribute or otherwise provide the music files to another person or organisation.
10.2 Upload the Music to Streaming or Sharing Services
You must not upload the music to services including, but not limited to:
- Spotify;
- Apple Music;
- Amazon Music;
- YouTube Music;
- SoundCloud;
- Deezer;
- Bandcamp;
- music libraries;
- stock-media platforms;
- file-sharing services; or
- public download platforms.
10.3 Register the Music With Content-Recognition Systems
You must not register, submit or claim the music through:
- YouTube Content ID;
- Meta Rights Manager;
- Audible Magic;
- music fingerprinting services;
- rights-management platforms;
- collecting societies; or
- any similar content-identification or royalty-collection system.
10.4 Claim Ownership
You must not claim that you created, composed, produced, commissioned or own the music.
You must not remove or alter copyright information, metadata, identifying information or notices supplied with the music.
10.5 Reproduce or Adapt the Music for Distribution
You must not:
- remix;
- sample;
- edit;
- rearrange;
- add vocals to;
- create derivative tracks from;
- extract individual musical elements from; or
- otherwise modify the music
for publication, sale, licensing, distribution or use outside the purposes permitted by this licence.
Reasonable technical adjustments for playback at the licensed location, such as volume balancing, equalisation or creating an internal playlist, are permitted.
10.6 Use the Music for Artificial Intelligence
You must not use the music, files, audio, metadata or any extracted part of them:
- to train an artificial intelligence system;
- to develop or improve a machine-learning model;
- to create an audio dataset;
- for model evaluation or benchmarking;
- for voice, music or audio cloning;
- for automated music generation; or
- to create content intended to imitate, reproduce or derive from the music.
10.7 Create a Competing Product or Service
You must not use the music to create or support:
- a competing music catalogue;
- a background-music subscription service;
- a music-streaming service;
- a downloadable music package;
- a stock-music library;
- a playlist service supplied to other businesses; or
- any other product or service through which third parties can access or use the music.
11. Ownership and Intellectual Property
The purchase price is payment for a licence to use the music. It is not payment for ownership of the music.
All rights, title and interest in the music and associated materials remain with NREW or the relevant rights holder.
This includes, where applicable:
- copyright;
- rights in the sound recordings;
- rights in the musical content;
- database rights;
- trademarks;
- product names;
- artwork;
- written descriptions;
- metadata; and
- other intellectual property rights.
NREW reserves every right not expressly granted under this licence.
12. Proof of Licence
Your order confirmation, invoice or other NREW purchase record acts as evidence of your licence.
You should retain:
- your order confirmation;
- your purchase receipt;
- the email address used for the order; and
- a copy of this licence.
For business purchases covering multiple locations, you should also retain a record identifying the locations covered by the quantity purchased.
NREW may ask for reasonable evidence of purchase if it needs to confirm that a particular use is licensed.
13. Future Releases and Updates
Your purchase covers only the music files included in the product at the time of purchase, unless NREW expressly states otherwise.
It does not automatically include:
- future volumes;
- new collections;
- replacement editions;
- remastered editions;
- additional tracks; or
- future updates.
Any future products must be purchased separately unless NREW chooses to provide them without additional charge.
14. Availability of Downloads
The ability to download files through the NREW website may be subject to a stated download period, download limit or account-access period.
The expiry of a website download link does not, by itself, end a valid licence for files that were properly downloaded and are being used in accordance with these terms.
You are responsible for downloading the files within the period stated at the time of purchase and keeping an appropriate backup.
NREW does not guarantee that replacement downloads will remain available indefinitely.
15. Refunds and Faulty Digital Content
Refund requests are handled in accordance with:
- the NREW Refund Policy;
- the NREW Terms and Conditions; and
- any statutory rights that apply.
Nothing in this licence excludes or limits rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Because the products are supplied as digital downloads, cancellation rights may be affected once downloading or access begins where the customer has given the legally required consent and acknowledgement.
If digital content is faulty, incorrectly supplied or does not conform to the contract, the customer may have statutory remedies.
16. Third-Party Music and Services
This licence applies only to music purchased directly from NREW and identified as covered by the NREW Music Licence.
It does not grant rights in:
- music supplied by another provider;
- commercial radio broadcasts;
- television broadcasts;
- third-party streaming services;
- music independently added to an NREW playlist; or
- any other third-party content.
Where you use other music or broadcasts at your premises, you are responsible for determining whether additional permissions or licences are required.
This licence grants only the rights that NREW owns or controls and is legally able to grant.
17. Compliance With Law
You are responsible for using the music lawfully and in accordance with any rules that apply in the country, territory, industry or location where it is used.
You must not use the music:
- in connection with unlawful activity;
- in a deliberately misleading or fraudulent manner;
- in a way that infringes another person’s rights; or
- in material that promotes hatred, abuse, discrimination or serious harm.
18. Breach and Termination
NREW may terminate this licence if you materially breach its terms.
Where a breach can reasonably be corrected, NREW may first give you an opportunity to correct it within a specified period.
However, NREW may terminate the licence immediately where the breach involves:
- deliberate redistribution;
- resale;
- unauthorised uploading;
- false ownership claims;
- Content ID registration;
- AI training;
- creation of a competing music product or service; or
- another serious or repeated misuse.
When a licence is terminated, you must:
- stop using the music;
- remove it from playback systems;
- delete all copies in your possession or control; and
- require anyone to whom you provided authorised temporary access to delete their copies.
Termination does not affect any rights or remedies arising from an earlier breach.
19. Limitation of Liability
Nothing in this licence excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.
Subject to that qualification, NREW will not be responsible for:
- indirect or consequential loss;
- loss of profit;
- loss of revenue;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of business opportunity;
- loss of goodwill;
- loss caused by incompatible equipment or software;
- loss resulting from unauthorised access to files after delivery; or
- loss caused by use of the music outside the scope of this licence.
NREW does not guarantee that the music will produce a particular commercial, emotional, behavioural or financial result.
For customers acting in the course of business, NREW’s total liability arising from a particular purchased product will not exceed the amount paid for that product, except where liability cannot lawfully be limited.
Nothing in this section affects a consumer’s statutory rights.
20. Transfer of a Business
This licence does not automatically transfer when a business, franchise, brand, premises or its assets are sold or transferred.
A proposed transfer of the licence must be approved by NREW in writing.
NREW may request reasonable information about the proposed new licensee and may refuse a transfer where it would extend or materially change the licensed use.
21. Changes to This Licence
The version of the licence supplied or made available when you purchase the music will normally govern that purchase.
NREW may update the licence for future purchases.
NREW will not materially reduce the permissions already granted for a completed purchase unless:
- a change is required by law;
- a change is necessary to protect intellectual property or prevent misuse; or
- you agree to the change.
An update that clarifies wording without materially reducing your existing permissions may apply from the date it is published.
22. No Waiver
If NREW does not immediately enforce a provision of this licence, that does not mean that the provision has been waived.
A waiver is effective only when confirmed by NREW in writing.
23. Severability
If any provision of this licence is found to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be treated as modified to the minimum extent necessary.
If it cannot be modified, it will be removed.
The remaining provisions will continue in effect.
24. Entire Agreement
This licence, together with the relevant product description, order confirmation, Refund Policy and Terms and Conditions, forms the agreement governing your licensed use of the music.
If there is an inconsistency concerning permitted music use, this NREW Music Licence takes priority unless another document expressly states that it overrides this licence.
25. Third-Party Rights
Unless expressly stated otherwise, a person who is not a party to this licence has no right to enforce it under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
26. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales.
If you are acting in the course of business, the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes relating to this licence.
If you are a consumer, you may also have the right to bring proceedings in the part of the United Kingdom or other jurisdiction where you live, where applicable law provides that right.
27. Contacting NREW
Questions about this licence or requests for additional permissions should be sent to:
Email: support@nrew-radio.com
Website: nrew-radio.com
Please include your order number and a clear explanation of the intended use.
Licence Summary
This summary is provided for convenience. The full licence terms above apply.
Business use
- One licence covers one purchased collection at one business location.
- Multiple locations require multiple licences.
- The music may be played as background music at the licensed premises.
- The licence is based on a one-off purchase, not a subscription.
- The licensed use does not expire while the terms are followed.
Personal use
- The music may be enjoyed privately at home and on personal devices.
- Files must not be shared outside the purchaser’s household.
Not permitted
- Reselling or sharing the files.
- Uploading the music to streaming or sharing platforms.
- Registering the music with Content ID or similar systems.
- Claiming ownership or authorship.
- Using the music for AI training.
- Creating a competing music product or service.
- Using the music in advertising, video, podcasts, broadcasting or client productions without separate written permission.
One collection. One business location. One straightforward licence.
Revision History
Need additional permission?
Contact NREW before using the music for advertising, video, broadcasting, podcasts, client work or any purpose not expressly included in this licence.

