Guideline

BanG Dream! AI Singing Synthesizer
“Yumenokessho”

With regard to the use of this product (defined in Article 1), which is sold by Bushiroad Music Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) and developed by Dreamtonics Co., Ltd. and AHS Co., Ltd. (hereinafter the three companies are collectively referred to as the “Companies”), the Company stipulates the Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms”) as stated below concerning the rights and obligations between the Company and the user.

Use of this product is conditional on the user (defined in Article 1) who uses this product complying with the content of the Terms, and if the user uses this product, it will be deemed that the user has agreed to all the clauses stated in the Terms. The conditions separately stipulated by Dreamtonics Co., Ltd. or AHS Co., Ltd. will be applied to the use of Synthesizer Studio Basic/Pro and other editors (hereinafter referred to as the “Editors”) bundled in this product.

Article 1 (Definitions)

  1. “User” refers to a party, irrespective of whether it is an individual or a corporation, that uses the Product.
  2. The “Product” refers to all products included in the speech synthesis software “Synthesizer V AI Yumenokessho” provided by the Company, and it includes all upgraded versions, modified versions, corrective patches, and others related to the part of or whole Product.
  3. “Synthetic sound” refers to any audio output generated by the user’s use of the Product.
  4. “Character” refers to the name, shape, form, design, story, and worldview of the character that is included in the Product, that is derived from the Product, and that is the foundation of the Product.
  5. The “Project” refers to the BanG Dream! Project.
  6. The “Works” refer to the name, shape, form, design, story, and worldview of all works related to the Project.

Article 2 (Establishment of an Agreement)

It will be deemed that the user has agreed to the Terms at the point when the user starts using the Product, and an agreement (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) that includes the Terms will be established between the user and the Company.

Article 3 (License for the Product)

  1. The Company will grant the user a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right to use the Product, on the condition that the user complies with the Terms.
  2. The user may install and use the Product on only one computer at a time. To use the Product on a different computer, please deactivate the Product from the original computer, uninstall the Product, and then install the Product again on the other computer.
  3. Use of paid-content services shall be provided based on conditions specified separately. If a minor will be using the paid-content services, the consent of the minor’s legal representative shall be obtained.

Article 4 (License for Synthetic sounds)

A user that is an individual or organization without corporate status can, by using the methods stipulated in each of the items below, use the Synthetic sounds that it generated itself by using the Product.

  1. If it is not for a commercial purpose, use is possible within the scope stipulated below.
    Cases that are not for a commercial purpose refer to using the Synthetic sounds without the purpose of obtaining profit, and they include cases in which an individual or a production group consisting of a small number of people enjoying a hobby obtains compensation at a level of the expenses required for production such as raw materials and tools.
    1. i. Posting still images and videos containing Synthetic sounds (hereinafter referred to as the “Video that Uses Synthetic sounds”) to SNS or to a site for sharing still images and videos (hereinafter referred to as the “Shared Site”) and obtaining revenue by using a standard advertising revenue model such as a partner program officially provided by the operator of the Shared Site. When posting the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds to the Shared Site, if there is a space for posting an introduction in the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds or on the Shared Site, please be sure to display the name of the Product (“Synthesizer V AI Yumenokessho”) used in the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds in an appropriate place in that introduction, in a size that is sufficiently visible at a glance.
    2. ii. Recording Synthetic sounds in a recording medium (including but not limited to CDs and DVDs) and selling or distributing it for a fee or free of charge
  2. In case the Product is used for the purpose of profit, use shall be possible, only in the extent stipulated below.
    1. i. Posting the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds on the Shared Site and obtaining revenue by using a monetization program (including but not limited to so-called tipping functions) officially provided by the Shared Site’s operator. When posting the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds to the Shared Site, if there is a space for posting an introduction in the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds or on the Shared Site, please be sure to display the name of the Product (“Synthesizer V AI Yumenokessho”) used in the Video that Uses Synthetic sounds in an appropriate place in that introduction, in a size that is sufficiently visible at a glance.
    2. ii. Selling Synthetic sounds for a fee by a method of downloading or streaming through a digital music aggregator (hereinafter referred to as the “Aggregator”) designated by the Company, including the aggregators listed below. When conducting such use, please state the name (“Synthesizer V AI Yumenokessho”) of the Product in a place where it can be confirmed at a glance, such as the name of the song or singer, and then deliver it to the Aggregator. For the detailed delivery method, please follow the Aggregator’s separate stipulations.

      Aggregators:
      ・TuneCore Japan
      ・BIG UP!
      ・narasu

Regardless of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a user that is an individual or organization without corporate status will use Synthetic sounds in a way other than the above, and/or if a corporate user will use Synthetic sounds in any way, it shall be able to do so only if the Company’s prior consent is obtained.
For details, please contact Bushiroad Music Inc.

Article 5 (Items of Agreement)

For use of the Product and Synthetic sounds, the user shall agree to the items below:

  1. The user shall be able to use the Product on only one computer per license, and cannot use the Product on more than one computer per license;
  2. If the user uses the Product on another computer, the user must completely erase the Product from the computer on which it is already installed;
  3. Some or all contents of the Product may be changed without prior notice to the user;
  4. Advertisement and publicity should be posted on a part of the Product;
  5. Although the advertisement and publicity of the preceding item may contain hyperlinks to websites or information sources, the Company does not warrant any advertisement, product, or other information on or available from such websites or information sources.

Article 6 (Provision of User Support)

  1. The Company shall provide the user with a singing voice database and user support services related to the Product (hereinafter referred to as the “Support Services”) via the support page on the website or by e-mail.
  2. AHS Co., Ltd. and Dreamtonics Co., Ltd. shall provide technical support for the Editors. However, the free version of the Editor “Synthesizer V Studio Basic” is not supported.

Article 7 (Prohibited Items)

The user may not conduct any of the following actions when using the Product or Synthetic sounds:

  1. Actions contrary to the Terms or related terms or rules;
  2. Secondary distribution of waveform data of Synthetic sounds produced by the Product;
  3. Actions that infringe intellectual property rights such as copyrights or trademark rights of the Companies or third parties;
  4. Reproduction for purposes other than creating a backup of the Product;
  5. Altering, modifying, adapting, or analyzing the Product or making it analyzable by a method such as reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly;
  6. Transmitting or entering harmful computer programs such as computer viruses;
  7. Circumventing the Product’s technical restrictions or copyright protection techniques;
  8. Illegaly rewriting or deleting information stored in the Companies’ facilities, or falsifying information available in relation to the Product;
  9. Using the defect of the Product for a fraudulent purpose or communicating such a defect to a third party;
  10. Using part or all of the Product as a component of the user's or a third party's software;
  11. Distributing, as materials, audio files created by using the Product;
  12. Operating the Product over a network;
  13. Hindering the Companies’ operation of the Product;
  14. Discriminating against or defaming the Companies or a third party, or damaging the honor or reputation of the Companies or a third party;
  15. Infringing the privacy of a third party;
  16. Hindering the Companies’ management or operation of the Product;
  17. Transferring, selling, or renting the Product to a third party;
  18. Placing the Product in a situation in which it can be used by a third party;
  19. Allowing a third party to use the Product’s activation code, disclosing, lending, transferring, buying, or selling the Product’s activation code, or providing the Product’s activation code as collateral;
  20. Publicly releasing or distributing Synthetic sounds that contain lyrics that offend the laws and regulations or public order and morals (including antisocial expressions);
  21. Conducting, without the Company’s permission, public release or disclosure of Synthetic sounds that could lead to a misunderstanding that the Synthetic sounds are official productions of the Project;
  22. Publicly releasing or distributing the waveform data of Synthetic sounds created by using the Product in a situation in which a third party can create a derivative work;
  23. Using Synthetic sounds to generate a singing voice synthesis, a speech synthesis model, an algorithm, an application, or a singing voice or sound;
  24. Publicly releasing or distributing Synthetic sounds that contain lyrics that will cause or are likely to cause a misunderstanding that a specific individual, political party, or religious organization is being supported or officially recognized;
  25. Actions that may damage the honor or image of the Product, voice actors, characters, the Works, or the Project related to the Product, or companies related to the Project, or actions that may damage the image or honor of a third party;
  26. Actions that infringe or are likely to infringe the rights of third parties;
  27. Actions that may directly or indirectly cause or facilitate an action of one of the preceding items, or other actions that the Company judges to be inappropriate.

Article 8 (Intellectual Property Rights)

All intellectual property rights (this refers to patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, and copyrights) and all other rights for the Product and the text, images, programs, and other data that make up the Product belong to the Companies or to third parties that have given the Companies permission for use. Regardless of the provisions of the Agreement, the user may not reproduce, transfer, lend, translate, modify, or conduct any other use of such items without the Company’s permission.

Article 9 (Temporary Suspension or Restriction of Use)

  1. In cases that fall under any of the items below, the Company shall be able to suspend provision of all or part of the Product and restrict use of the Product without notifying the user in advance:
    1. i. In case regular or emergency inspection or maintenance work will be conducted for the system related to the Product;
    2. ii. In case it becomes necessary to ensure the security of users, such as the occurrence of unauthorized access or cyber attacks;
    3. iii. In case it has become impossible to provide the Product due to force majeure such as fire, power failure, natural disaster, or revision or abolition of an important law or regulation;
    4. iv. In case the user has violated Article 7 (Prohibited Items);
    5. v. Other cases where the Company reasonably judges that suspension of this service is necessary.
  2. The Company shall not bear any liability even if provision of the Product is suspended or use of the Product is restricted pursuant to Paragraph 1 and damage arises to the user.

Article 10 (Exemption from Liability and Damage Compensation)

  1. The Company does not guarantee the suitability, for any purpose, of the Product, Synthetic sounds, or any other content or information that the Companies provide to the user.
  2. The Product is provided on an as-is basis and the Company does not make any guarantees, either expressly or implicitly, that the Product does not infringe the rights of third parties or about the Product’s quality, performance, merchantability, or suitability for a specific purpose.
  3. The user shall prepare, at the user’s own expense, the hardware and software, communication lines, and other facilities necessary for use of the Product. The Company shall not bear any liability for damage caused to the user because of such facilities.
  4. The Company (in this paragraph, including the Company’s suppliers, agents, and distributors and the Company’s officers and employees) will not bear liability for providing compensation for any claims, lawsuits, or damage (including ordinary damage, special damage, direct damage, indirect damage, consequential or incidental damage, contingent damage, lost profit, or any other damage of any kind, regardless of whether or not the Company could have foreseen the possibility of the occurrence of such damage) that arise due to the user’s public release, distribution, or other use of the Product or Synthetic sounds.
  5. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply if this Agreement constitutes a “consumer contract” stipulated in the Consumer Contract Act (Act No. 61 of 2000). In such a case, if damage caused to the user is based on the Company’s default or tort, the Company shall be liable for damage compensation to the user, limited to the amount equivalent to the price paid when the user purchased the Product and only if it can be recognized that the Company had deliberate intention or gross negligence for the default or tort.

Article 11 (Termination of Agreement)

  1. In the case that falls under any of the items below, the Company shall be able to cancel the Agreement without giving the user any notice. The Company will not bear any liability for damage that arises for the user in such a case.
    1. i. If the user uninstalls the Product or its duplicate;
    2. ii. If a new agreement is concluded due to the user's purchase of an upgraded version of the Product;
    3. iii. If the user violates any of the clauses of the Terms;
    4. iv. If the Company notifies the user of the fact that the Agreement will be terminated.
  2. If the Agreement is terminated for any reason, the user must eliminate the Product and all the copies thereof in the user’s possession.
  3. Even if the Agreement is terminated, the provisions of Article 4, Article 7, Article 8, Article 9.2, Article 10, Article 11.2, Article 11.3, Article 13, and Article 16 through Article 18 shall continue to validly exist.

Article 12 (Changes of the Terms)

The Terms may be changed based on the provisions of Article 548-4 of the Civil Code. If the Company changes the Terms, the Company shall use means that the Company judges to be appropriate (such as posting on the official website) to notify the user of the date of the change of the Terms and the content thereof, and the changed Terms shall become effective as of the Terms’ date of change specified in that notification.

Article 13 (Confidentiality)

  1. The user and the Company shall keep confidential, and may not divulge or disclose to any third party, any of the other party’s technical, business, or work-related information that is disclosed by the other party for the purpose of provision of the Product and that is disclosed as confidential information (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Confidential Information”). Provided, however, that this will not apply to the cases in each of the items below:
    1. i. Cases of disclosure based on a law or regulation;
    2. ii. Cases of disclosure based on an order by a court or a government agency;
    3. iii. Cases of disclosure in litigation, arbitration, or other legal proceedings for the purpose of pursuing rights under the Agreement;
    4. iv. Other cases in which disclosure to a third party is reasonably required in accordance with one of the preceding items.
  2. Confidential Information shall not include information that can be certified in writing as falling under any of the items below:
    1. i. Information that the recipient of the information possessed before receiving the information;
    2. ii. Information that was public knowledge or in the public domain at the time when the recipient of the information received the information;
    3. iii. Information that became public knowledge or came into the public domain, through no fault of the recipient of the information, after the recipient of the information received the information;
    4. iv. Information that was lawfully obtained from a duly entitled third party, without bearing an obligation of confidentiality, after the recipient of the information received the information;
    5. v. Information that the recipient of the information developed independently without using the Confidential Information.

Article 14 (Elimination of Antisocial Forces)

  1. The user represents and warrants that the user, the user’s own company, the user’s company’s officers, or a party that controls the user do not fall under any of the items below:
    1. i. An organized crime group, a member of an organized crime group, an associate member of an organized crime group, an entity for which five years have not passed since the entity ceased to be an organized crime group, a company related to an organized crime group, a racketeer, an organized crime group that claims to be involved in social movements, an organized crime group that claims to be conducting political activities, a crime group involved in intellectual crime, or another antisocial group or individual that is equivalent to such groups (hereinafter referred to as the “Organized Crime Group Member, etc.”);
    2. ii. A group or individual that commits, either itself or by using a third party, fraud, violent demands or actions, use of threatening language, actions of unjust demands, actions of obstructing business, or actions of damaging honor or reputation.
  2. The user represents and warrants that the user, the user’s own company, the user’s company’s officers, persons who have substantial management rights, or persons who are substantially involved in management or others do not fall under any of the items below:
    1. i. Having a relationship that can be recognized as the Organized Crime Group Member, etc. is controlling management;
    2. ii. Having a relationship that can be recognized as the Organized Crime Group Member, etc. is substantially involved in management;
    3. iii. Having a relationship that can be recognized as the person is unjustly using the Organized Crime Group Member, etc., such as for the purpose of wrongfully benefiting the party, the party's own company, or a third party, or for the purpose of inflicting damage on a third party;
    4. iv. Having a relationship that can be recognized as the party is involved in providing funds, etc. or providing benefits, etc. to the Organized Crime Group Member, etc.;
    5. v. Having a deep human, capital, or economic relationship with the Organized Crime Group Member, etc. or an antisocial group or individual equivalent thereto, or having a relationship that is socially reprehensible;
    6. vi. Being otherwise equivalent to one of the preceding items.

Article 15 (Prohibition of Transfer and Others of Position)

  1. The user shall not be able to transfer, set as collateral, or otherwise dispose of the user's position and rights and obligations for use of the Product to any third party.
  2. At the time of commencement of use of this service, the user shall agree in advance and without objection to the fact that, if the Company transfers business pertaining to this service to a third party, the Companies’ status and rights and obligations under the use agreement, the user registration matters, and all other information provided by the user to the Company will be succeeded to the transferee of that transfer. The term “business transfer” in this paragraph shall include not only the transfer of business stipulated in Article 467 (1) (i) and (ii) of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) but also any case in which business pertaining to this service is transferred to a third party.

Article 16 (Severability)

Even if any provision or part thereof of the Terms is judged invalid or unenforceable under an applicable law or regulation, the other provisions of the Terms and the remaining portions of the provision for which a part was judged invalid or unenforceable shall continue to validly exist.

Article 17 (Governing Laws)

The laws of Japan shall be applied in relation to establishment, efficacy, performance, and interpretation of the Terms.

Article 18 (Court of Jurisdiction)

The Tokyo District Court shall be the court with exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance for all disputes that arise between the Company and the user concerning the Terms or use of the Product.

Enacted on December 1, 2023