For artists

The Triple C artist licence

Version 2026-10-28, kept for the record: tracks sent while it was current were sent under it. The current version.

The short version

Here's the deal in plain English. It's a free, non-exclusive licence, so you can do anything else you like with your music.

You keep

  • Ownership of your music, and the freedom to release or license it anywhere.
  • Your SOCAN and Re:Sound royalties, which keep working as usual. If you're a member, make sure your songs are registered.
  • The right to ask us to stop playing it at any time.

All we ask

  • Your OK to play it on air, online and in our archives, under a royalty-free licence.
  • A little room for radio edits, like a quicker fade, the odd bleep or talking over the intro. You agree not to object to those edits (that's the "moral rights" part).
  • Permission to feature your name, photos, bio and short clips to promote you and the station.
  • Your word that the music is yours to give us, and that you'll stand behind that if anyone claims otherwise.

1. Who this is between

"Triple C", "we" and "us" means Triple C Radio, the not-for-profit station that runs this website. "You" means the artist who owns the music, and the person submitting it on the artist's behalf. If you're submitting for a band, you're agreeing for every member. The "Track" is the recording you upload, the song in it, and any artwork, photos, bio and links you send with it.

2. What you're letting us do

You give Triple C a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the Track for the station, which means:

  • broadcasting and streaming it, live or on a delay, on any of our channels (radio, web, apps, smart speakers and directories that carry our stream);
  • including it in recordings of our programs, and making those available on demand, as replays, podcasts or in our archive;
  • playing short excerpts (up to 60 seconds) to promote you or the station, on air, on our website and on social media;
  • listing it on your Triple C artist page and in our track listings, with play counts and listener likes.

Non-exclusive means you're free to release, sell, stream and license the Track anywhere else, to anyone, at any time.

We won't sell copies of the Track, license it to anyone else, or put it in advertising for other products or brands.

3. Radio edits

Radio needs some flexibility, so you agree we can:

  • shorten it, fade it in or out, or play part of it;
  • mute or bleep words that can't be broadcast;
  • adjust its volume and loudness to match the rest of the station;
  • talk, or play a station ID, over the intro or outro, and mix it into the songs before and after it.

For these edits only, you waive your moral rights (your right under Canadian copyright law to object to changes to your work, and to be credited every time it's played). We'll still credit you whenever we reasonably can. We won't remix, re-record or otherwise change your music beyond these edits without asking you first.

4. Your name and image

You let us use the artist's name, the photos, artwork and bio you send, and your public social links, to identify and promote you and the station, including on your Triple C artist page. You can send us new ones, or ask us to remove any, at any time.

5. Money

Triple C does not pay a fee, royalty or share of revenue to you for playing or using the Track under this licence, including if the station earns money from donations, grants or sponsorships.

This licence doesn't change anything you're owed through collective societies such as SOCAN (for songwriters and publishers) or Re:Sound (for performers and record labels). Where Canadian law requires broadcasters to pay those societies, those payments are handled separately by the societies. If you're a member, register your songs with them.

6. What you promise us

  • You have the authority to give us this licence: you own the Track, or everyone with rights in it (bandmates, co-writers, producers, publishers, your label) has agreed to it.
  • What you told us about the rights is true: who wrote the songs, whether any writer belongs to SOCAN or a similar group, and who owns the recordings. Where a writer belongs to SOCAN or a similar group, or a label owns the recording, you understand that we'll rely on our licences with the collective societies for those rights.
  • It doesn't include samples or other material you haven't cleared.
  • Playing it won't break anyone else's rights or any agreement you've signed.
  • You're 18 or older, or your parent or guardian agrees to this with you.

If any of this turns out not to be true, let us know straight away and we'll take the Track down.

Standing behind your promises. If someone makes a claim against Triple C because one of these promises wasn't true, you agree to defend Triple C against that claim and to cover the reasonable costs, damages and legal fees it causes us. We'll tell you about the claim promptly, and we won't settle it in your name without asking you.

7. Taking your Track off Triple C

You can ask us to stop at any time by sending us a message. We'll stop scheduling the Track within 14 days. Program recordings, podcasts and promotional clips we've already published may stay up, but we'll remove them too if you ask and it's reasonably possible.

8. No promises to play

Sending us a Track doesn't mean we'll play it. We listen to everything, and we decide what goes on air.

9. How long this lasts

The licence starts when you submit and lasts until you ask us to stop (section 7). If we update these terms, the new version only applies to tracks submitted after the change.

10. Questions

Ask us anything about this licence, or ask us to take a Track down, using our contact form.