Mindspace Professional
Music licensing for hypnotherapists
Mindspace music may be used underneath your own spoken voice, in your own work: client recordings, podcasts and courses you sell. You may publish that work anywhere, including YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud. You may not use the music bare, alter it, resell it, or monetise anything containing it.
- Who it covers
- You, and your own practice
- What you get
- A dated licence with its own reference, issued as you make each recording
- How long
- Work published while subscribed stays licensed afterwards
How it works
You make a recording in the Session Mixer. The moment it is ready, a licence is issued for that exact file, carrying your name, the track you used, the date and a reference of its own. It downloads alongside the audio.
The reference is written into the audio file as well, so a recording and its licence can always be matched. Every licence issued is recorded, so a lost copy can be replaced.
In short
You may
- Put it under your own spoken voice
- Give the recording to your clients
- Use it in a podcast
- Use it in a course you sell
- Publish on YouTube, Vimeo or SoundCloud
- Keep using work you published while subscribed
You may not
- Use the music on its own, with no voice
- Edit, remix, shorten or extend it
- Sell, share or upload the music itself
- Monetise anything containing it
- Pass the licence to anyone else
In summary: under your own voice, anywhere, for as long as you like. Never bare, never altered, never resold, never monetised.
What the licence looks like
This is a specimen. Yours arrives filled in.
MINDSPACE MUSIC LICENCE
Two ways to make a recording
Build it in the Session Mixer, or download the track and work with it in your own software. The rules are identical either way.
What you may do
You may play this music in your practice — in session, in a treatment room, in a waiting room — for as long as your subscription runs.
You may put this music underneath your own spoken voice and give or sell the result as your own work. That covers recordings you make for clients, podcasts, and online courses you charge for.
You may shape the music to fit your work: trim it, fade it, set its level, place it under your voice. That is the ordinary business of making a recording, whichever software you use.
You may publish that work anywhere, including YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud.
This permission does not expire. Work you publish while your subscription is active stays licensed after it ends.
Your voice has to be in it
No recording may be made or published without your spoken word in it. Your voice must account for at least a fifth of the finished recording. In practice most run between a third and a half, which is simply what a session sounds like.
The music with a few words at the start is not a recording of your work. It is the music, with an introduction.
What you may not do
You may not share the music itself with anyone — not the original file, not a copy, not a version you have altered.
You may not publish the music on its own. Anything you put in front of the public must carry your voice, at the share set out above.
You may not release it as music, and you may not resell it in any form, altered or not.
You may not monetise anything containing this music. No advertising, no channel monetisation, no paid placement. This is not about the money: Content ID would let one practitioner's upload generate copyright claims against another's, and the licence protects you from each other.
If your subscription ends
Work already published stays licensed. You may not make new recordings from the music, download further tracks, or keep playing it in session.
This licence covers the track named above, issued to
the person named above. It is not transferable. Quote the reference in
any correspondence.
Mindspace · mindspace.music ·
composer Rob Hulford
Questions
Can I give the recording to my client to keep?
Yes. A recording you make for a client is theirs to keep and listen to. The licence restricts sharing the music itself, not the work you made with it.
Can I put it on YouTube?
Yes, as long as the video is not monetised. That means no advertising on it, no channel monetisation, no paid placement. Vimeo and SoundCloud are the same.
Why can I not monetise it?
Not for the money. Platforms match audio automatically, so one practitioner monetising a track would generate copyright claims against every other practitioner using the same music. The restriction protects you from each other.
Can I use it in a course I charge for?
Yes. A paid course is your own work with your own voice in it, which is exactly what the licence covers. Monetisation here means letting a platform run advertising against the music, not charging for your own teaching.
Can I use the music on its own, with no voice?
In your own practice, yes: play it in the room as much as you like. What you may not do is publish or share it bare. Anything you put in front of the public must carry your voice.
Can I shorten a track or loop part of it?
Inside your own project, yes. Trimming, fading and setting the level are how music gets placed under a voice. What you may not do is let a version of the music leave that project.
What happens if I stop subscribing?
Everything you have already published stays licensed, for good. You cannot make new recordings or download further tracks.
Can a colleague use my licence?
No. A licence is issued to one person for their own practice and is not transferable. A colleague needs their own subscription.
I have lost my licence. Can I get another?
Yes. Every licence issued is recorded against your account, so quote the reference and it can be reissued. The reference is also written into the audio file itself.
Does the licence expire?
No. A licence issued for a recording covers that recording permanently, whether or not you are still subscribed.
Can I use it in a video for a client, not for the public?
Yes. Private client work is the most straightforward use there is.
How much of the recording has to be my voice?
At least a fifth of it. Most sessions run between a third and a half, which is simply what talking over music sounds like. The music with a few words at the start does not qualify.
Can I download a track and use it in Logic Pro or Audacity?
Yes. The Session Mixer and your own software are two routes to the same thing, and the rules are identical either way.
Do I need to credit Mindspace?
No. You are welcome to, and practitioners often do, but nothing in the licence requires it.