Payment:

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Once Martine Richards's services have been engaged, the agreed fee is payable within 30 days of invoice via bank transfer.  

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Copyright and Intellectual Property:

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All prices quoted are pro-rata. All copyrights, intellectual property rights, broadcasts rights and any other rights associated with the author (i.e. the artist/worker hired by the hiring company) and the author's works and/or performances shall remain with the author. Upon full payment of Martine Richards's invoice, the following license is granted by the author for usage rights of the works listed as follows:

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License details: The author's works may be used by the hiring company for a period as specified on Martine Richards's invoice, unless otherwise stated, upon which time the works shall cease to be used, or an additional usage payment (equal to the usage payment in the original invoice) shall be made to the author. The author's works may only be used for the agreed product or service (and any of the platforms or mediums) detailed in the invoice line-items, and not in any additional products or services in the future, unless otherwise stated.

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For clarity, this also means that the works may not be used into any text-to-speech, synthetic voice or Al voice models, on any platform or medium, in the present or future. (See AI clause below) 

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The author's works may only be used in the geographical region as specified in the invoice line-items, unless otherwise stated; if no geographical region is stated then the license specifies that this is the hiring companies country location only. The hiring company may not transfer the works, nor this license to any third parties, (including the sale of the hiring company itself) without the written consent of the author.

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Digitisation, synthetisation and performance cloning: 

 

Martine Richards does not consent to their performance, voices and likeness being recorded, used and reproduced for the purposes of digitisation, synthetisation or performance cloning with digital technologies, machine learning systems or equivalent means present and future.

 

Martine Richards does not consent to the processing of their intellectual property and associated rights or personal data for data mining, data synthetisation, digital cloning, training of machine learning systems or equivalent present and future technology for any purpose or in any context.