The fine print, in plain language.

The Studio is an experimental company. This page is the most important page on this website. It explains, in exhaustive detail, what we offer, what we do not offer, and what we do not take responsibility for. Please read it.

Last updated: September 30, 2026

1. Acceptance of these terms

By visiting this website, using any of our tools, listening to our music, reading our writing, downloading anything we publish, contacting us, applying for a role, or otherwise interacting with The Studio in any way (each, a "use"), you agree to these terms in full. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, do not use this website or anything we make.

These terms apply to every visitor, user, listener, reader, applicant, collaborator, customer, and casual passerby, whether or not you create an account, pay us money, or identify yourself. There is no separate, lighter version of these terms for casual use. The terms are the terms.

We may update these terms at any time, as described in Section 8. Your continued use of the website after any change means you accept the changed terms.

2. We are an experimental company

The Studio is, by design and by declaration, an experimental company. We build things in public, we try ideas that might not work, we ship early versions, we iterate, we break things, and we learn. This is not a figure of speech. It is the operating model.

What this means for you, concretely:

• Things on this website may be unfinished, unpolished, buggy, or broken.
• Features, pages, tools, songs, videos, and documents may appear and disappear without warning.
• Information on this site may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong, and we may not know it is wrong.
• We do not promise that anything we build will keep working, keep existing, or ever be finished.
• We run experiments on the website itself, including changing layouts, copy, pricing, and functionality, sometimes just to see what happens.

If you are looking for a polished, guaranteed, enterprise-grade, service-level-agreement-backed experience, you will not find it here, and we would rather you know that now.

3. What we offer

To be as clear as possible, here is what The Studio offers:

• Music. Songs, lyrics, recordings, and videos, published as we make them. Some are polished, some are sketches, all are experiments.
• Tools. Small, free web tools and experiments (for example, a BPM tapper, a microphone visualizer, a public-domain song helper). They are toys and utilities, not professional software.
• Writing. Essays, guides, research notes, and documentation about making music, building in public, and running an open company.
• Transparency. We publish an unusual amount of information about how we work, including our process, our numbers, and our thinking. We do this because we want to, not because we owe it to anyone.
• Opportunities to collaborate. From time to time we post open roles and collaboration opportunities. These are real, but they are also experimental and may change or close at any time.

That is the complete list. Everything else on this page describes the boundaries around it.

4. What we do not offer

This section is intentionally blunt. The Studio does not offer any of the following, and nothing on this website should be interpreted as offering them:

• Guarantees. We guarantee nothing. Not quality, not availability, not accuracy, not outcomes, not timelines, not results.
• Professional services. We are not your lawyer, accountant, doctor, therapist, financial advisor, business consultant, or manager, and nothing here creates such a relationship.
• Support or customer service. We may answer messages when we feel like it. We may not. There is no support queue, no response-time promise, and no obligation to help you with anything.
• Uptime or availability. The website, the tools, and the content may go down, break, or vanish at any time, for any reason or no reason, with no notice and no remedy.
• Data preservation. We do not promise to keep your data, your submissions, your messages, or anything else. Back up anything that matters to you.
• Accuracy. We try to be accurate, but we do not promise accuracy. Numbers, dates, facts, lyrics, code, and claims on this site may be wrong.
• Endorsements. A link, a mention, or a collaboration does not mean we endorse you, your work, your views, or your products, and the same applies in reverse.
• Employment. Open roles are opportunities, not job offers, and applying creates no employment relationship and no promise of one.
• Investment opportunities. Nothing here is an offer to sell securities or an invitation to invest. We are not raising money from the public through this website.

5. No claims about anything

We make no claims about anything. To remove all doubt, this includes but is not limited to:

• No claims about the quality, originality, or commercial potential of our music.
• No claims about the accuracy, reliability, or fitness of our tools for any purpose, professional or otherwise.
• No claims about the truth, completeness, or currentness of our writing, guides, research, or documentation.
• No claims about outcomes: we do not claim our music will move you, our tools will help you, our guides will work for you, or our transparency will teach you anything.
• No claims about the future: roadmaps, plans, visions, and "coming soon" notes are aspirations, not promises. They may never happen.
• No claims about other people: anything we say about collaborators, artists, or third parties is our opinion at a moment in time, not a verified fact.

If you find yourself relying on something you read here as though it were a verified claim, please stop and re-read this section.

6. No warranties of any kind

Everything provided by The Studio, including this website, its content, its tools, its music, its writing, and any services, is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including but not limited to:

• Implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
• Warranties of title and non-infringement.
• Warranties arising from course of dealing, usage, or trade practice.
• Warranties that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components.
• Warranties that defects will be corrected, or that content will be accurate or current.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions, our warranties are limited to the minimum extent required by law, and no further.

7. Limitation of liability

We basically do not take responsibility for anything. In legal terms:

To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Studio, its founder, its collaborators, its contributors, and its affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) this website, our tools, our music, our content, or any of our services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or related to these terms or your use of anything we provide will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).

This limitation applies regardless of the legal theory (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise) and even if any limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. If you are using our free tools and free content and paid us nothing, our liability to you is effectively zero, which accurately reflects the price you paid.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of certain damages, so some of these limitations may not apply to you. Where they do not apply, our liability is limited to the minimum extent the law requires, and no further.

8. We may change everything at any time

We may change the website at any time. This includes, without limitation:

• Adding, removing, or redesigning any page, section, feature, tool, song, video, or document.
• Changing any text, image, price, rate, date, or number on the site.
• Discontinuing the website entirely, temporarily or permanently.
• Changing these legal terms themselves.

We may make these changes without notice to you, without your consent, and without any liability or obligation to you. We do not promise to announce changes, keep changelogs, maintain archives of old versions, or preserve anything that used to be here.

If a page you bookmarked disappears, a tool you liked stops working, or a price you saw yesterday is different today, that is normal operation, not a malfunction, and not a breach of anything.

9. Pricing, payments, and refunds

9.1 Pricing can change at any time

We may change our pricing at any time, for any product, service, role, collaboration, or offering, without notice. A price listed today is a snapshot, not a commitment. We may raise prices, lower prices, introduce new prices, or remove prices entirely, whenever we choose.

Posted rates for open roles (for example, hourly rates for vocalists, producers, or partners) are starting points for conversation, not binding offers. Actual compensation, if any, is whatever is agreed in writing for a specific engagement, and we may change posted rates at any time.

9.2 Payments

Where we accept payments (for example, for access, products, or services we may offer now or in the future), payment terms will be stated at the point of sale. We may use third-party payment processors, and your payment information is subject to their terms and privacy policies as well as ours.

We may refuse, cancel, or refund any transaction at our sole discretion.

9.3 Refunds

Unless a specific written refund policy applies to a specific purchase, all payments are final and non-refundable. Given the experimental nature of everything we do, you should assume that anything you pay for is a contribution to an experiment, not a purchase of a guaranteed outcome.

Where we do offer refunds, they are granted at our sole discretion, and our decision is final.

9.4 Taxes and fees

You are responsible for any taxes, duties, or fees arising from your transactions with us. Prices may or may not include applicable taxes, and we may change how we present prices at any time.

10. Intellectual property and open source

The Studio publishes much of its work openly, but "open" does not mean "free of all restrictions," and it does not mean we have waived our rights.

• Unless a specific piece of content carries an explicit open license (such as a Creative Commons license or an open-source software license), all content on this website, including text, images, music, lyrics, videos, code, and design, is the property of The Studio and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
• Where we do apply an open license, the terms of that license govern your use of that specific content. Read the license. It is the actual rule, not the vibe.
• Our name, logo, and branding are ours. Do not use them in a way that implies endorsement, partnership, or affiliation without our written permission.
• Just because we are transparent about how we work does not give you the right to copy our business, impersonate us, or misrepresent your relationship with us.

11. Your submissions and content

If you send us anything, including DMs, emails, demos, videos, applications, ideas, feedback, or other materials (each, a "submission"), the following applies:

• Do not send us anything confidential. We will treat every submission as non-confidential.
• By making a submission, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, and display it, in any medium, for any purpose, including publicly.
• You represent that you own or have the rights to everything you submit, and that your submission does not infringe anyone else's rights.
• We have no obligation to review, respond to, credit, compensate, or return any submission.
• We may publish submissions, including your name or handle, at our discretion.

12. Third parties, links, and platforms

This website links to, embeds, or references third-party websites, platforms, and services (including social media, streaming services, payment processors, and video hosts). We do not control them, we do not endorse them, and we take no responsibility for them.

• Your use of any third-party service is governed by that service's own terms and privacy policies, not ours.
• We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, or practices of third parties, or for anything that happens to you on their platforms.
• A link or embed is a convenience, not an endorsement and not a partnership.
• If a third-party embed breaks, shows something unexpected, or disappears, that is between you and the third party.

13. Our tools and experiments

Our web tools and experiments (the BPM tapper, the microphone visualizer, the public-domain song helper, and anything else we build) are provided as curiosities and utilities, not as professional instruments.

• They may be inaccurate. A tuner may mistune, a metronome may drift, a visualizer may mislead. Do not rely on them for professional work, performances, recordings, or anything with stakes.
• Tools that access your microphone or other device features do so only in your browser, but we make no promises about privacy, security, or data handling beyond what your browser itself provides.
• We may change, break, or remove any tool at any time without notice.
• We are not responsible for anything you create, record, publish, or do with our tools.

14. Music, lyrics, and creative content

• Our music is art, not a product with specifications. We make no claims about its quality, originality, meaning, or effect on you.
• Lyrics are creative expression. They may be fictional, exaggerated, metaphorical, or just wrong. Do not treat them as statements of fact, advice, or autobiography.
• We do not claim our music will help, heal, inspire, or affect you in any particular way. If it moves you, we are honored. That is not a promise.
• Streaming counts, view counts, and other numbers we publish are snapshots that may be approximate, outdated, or wrong.

15. Not advice of any kind

Nothing on this website is advice. Specifically, nothing here is:

• Medical, health, or wellness advice. We are not medical professionals. Do not make health decisions based on anything here.
• Mental health advice or therapy. Our music may touch on difficult experiences, but it is art, not treatment. If you are struggling, please contact a qualified professional or a crisis line in your country.
• Legal advice. This legal page is our terms, not legal counsel for you.
• Financial, investment, tax, or business advice. Our transparency about money is documentation, not guidance.
• Career advice. Our open roles and guides describe what we do, not what you should do.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Studio, its founder, collaborators, and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the website or anything we provide; (b) your submissions; (c) your violation of these terms; or (d) your violation of any law or any third party's rights.

We may assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, at our discretion, and you agree to cooperate with us in that defense.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or related to these terms or your use of anything we provide will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Denver County, Colorado, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction.

You agree to bring any claim within one (1) year of the events giving rise to it, or it is permanently barred, to the extent permitted by law.

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.

18. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These terms are the entire agreement between you and The Studio regarding your use of the website and anything we provide.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them freely, including in connection with a sale or reorganization of the company.
• Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.
• Electronic communications. By using the website, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, and you agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement for writing.

19. Contact

Questions about these terms? The best way to reach us is a DM on Instagram: dlaney__. We may or may not reply (see Section 4), but the inbox is real.

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