Last updated: July 28, 2026
This statement describes how copyright and other rights to content in zoebeat ("the Service") are allocated and managed. The statement is governed by Norwegian law, including Act of 15 June 2018 No. 40 relating to copyright in literary, scientific and artistic works (the Norwegian Copyright Act) and related regulations, as well as international conventions including the Berne Convention.
All use of content in the Service must comply with the Norwegian Copyright Act. The Act grants the author exclusive rights to dispose of the work, including by producing copies and making it available to the public, cf. § 3. The term of protection lasts for the lifetime of the author and 70 years after the year of death, cf. § 11.
Anyone who infringes a copyright or other right under the Act may be held liable for damages and reasonable remuneration, cf. §§ 81 and 82, and may be subject to criminal penalties under § 79.
Content in the Service falls into three principal categories, with different rights holders:
(a) Original content created for or by Zoebeat — including graphics, text, trademarks, the code behind the Service, curated playlists, recommendation algorithms and editorial material. Such content belongs to Muvy AS / Zoebeat. Copyright to underlying creative contributions belongs to the individual author under the Copyright Act, and is used by Zoebeat by virtue of licence or employment relationship.
(b) Content that is directly taken from or derived from external sources — including hymns, lyrics, sound recordings or compositions that are part of the common heritage or licensed from rights holders. Such content belongs to the original rights holder. The source and rights holder are identified in the metadata of the individual track or work.
(c) Other content published in the Service that cannot be attributed to a specific creator or user — including general descriptions, translations, genre classifications and derived data — belongs to Zoebeat.
Users who are approved as content creators retain copyright to all original material they upload. By uploading, the creator grants Zoebeat a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, process, stream, index, generate previews of, and make the content available to users of the Service. The licence is limited to the operation of the Service and lasts for as long as the content is published or the account is active.
Creators are responsible for holding all rights necessary for material they upload, including rights to composition, lyrics, performance, recording and any contributors. All uploaded content is manually reviewed by moderators before publication. This review does not relieve the creator of the responsibility to hold the necessary rights.
On notice of alleged infringement, Zoebeat will normally remove the disputed content temporarily and investigate the matter, cf. section 7.
As a user of the Service, you are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to listen to content through the Service's standard functionality. You have no right to download, copy, redistribute, broadcast or publicly perform the content, beyond what follows from mandatory rights under the Copyright Act (for example private use under § 26 within the limits the Act sets).
Listener rights apply only for the time your account is active and the content is published in the Service.
Pursuant to § 29 of the Copyright Act, we may reproduce short quotations from published works where this is done in accordance with proper usage and to the extent the purpose requires. Such quotations credit the author and source where practicable.
Listening to musical works in the Service is not quotation use, but use by licence from the rights holder.
Works whose term of protection under § 11 of the Copyright Act has expired — typically classical hymns, psalms and folk tunes — may be used freely with respect to the underlying rights. Specific recordings and arrangements of such works may nonetheless be independently protected as performers' rights (Copyright Act chap. 2) or producers' rights in sound recordings (§ 20), and these rights are respected.
If you believe that content in the Service infringes your copyright or other rights under the Copyright Act, please send us a written notice containing:
(i) identification of the disputed content (link or track ID), (ii) a description of the right you believe has been infringed and the basis for this, (iii) your contact details, and (iv) a signed statement that the information is correct and that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder.
We will normally review the notice, where appropriate remove the content temporarily, and contact the user who uploaded the content for response. We reserve the right to reject manifestly unfounded notices.
Notices should be sent to: post@muvy.no
Anyone who, wilfully or negligently, infringes a copyright or other right under the Copyright Act may be ordered to pay reasonable remuneration and compensation for economic loss, cf. §§ 81–82. For wilful or grossly negligent infringement, aggravated damages and criminal penalties may also be imposed under § 79.
Enquiries about copyright, licensing or use of content can be directed to:
Muvy AS — post@muvy.no