WhoSampled Terms and Conditions
Last Updated: March 4, 2026PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SERVICE
TERMS OF USE
These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in them) (Terms of Use) set out the terms and conditions pursuant to which you may access or otherwise make use of our website https://www.whosampled.com and related apps, including website and app-related services provided by us (collectively, the Service) whether as a registered user or just somebody who is browsing our Service for information purposes. Use of our Service includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our Service.
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our Service, as these will apply to your use of our Service.
By click accepting these Terms of Use or otherwise using our Service, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use our Service.
1. OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS
These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Service:
- Our Privacy Policy (https://www.whosampled.com/privacy/), which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Service, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
The website currently located at https://www.whosampled.com is a Service operated by WhoSampled.com Limited, a private limited company registered in England with company number 06957999 and registered address at c/o Rodliffe Accounting Ltd, 1 Canada Square, 37th Floor, London, E14 5AA, United Kingdom (WhoSampled or us/our). WhoSampled is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A. (Spotify).
3. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may change these Terms of Use from time to time by notifying you of such changes by any reasonable means, including by posting a revised Terms of Use through the Service. Any such changes will not apply to any dispute between you and us relating to the Services that arose prior to the date on which we posted the revised Terms of Use incorporating such changes or otherwise provided notice of such changes. Your use of the Service (including any part or feature thereof) following any changes to these Terms of Use will constitute your acceptance of such changes. The "Last updated" legend above indicates when these Terms of Use were last changed.
4. WHO CAN USE THE SERVICE?
BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU AFFIRM THAT YOU ARE 18 YEARS OR OLDER TO ENTER INTO THESE TERMS, OR, IF YOU ARE NOT, THAT YOU ARE 13 YEARS OR OLDER AND HAVE OBTAINED PARENTAL OR GUARDIAN CONSENT TO ENTER INTO THESE TERMS. If you do not meet the minimum age requirements then you must not register as a user or otherwise use the Service. You must be a human. Use of this Service by "bots" must be done in accordance with the robots.txt rules and is permitted only by search engines for the purpose of indexing our pages.
5. CHANGES TO OUR SERVICE
We may, at any time, update or change our Service (including any part or feature thereof) and any information or other content made available on or through the Service. We shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any loss or damages arising from or in connection with any such updates or changes relating to our Service or Service-related content. Please note that any of the content made available on or through our Service may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
We do not guarantee that our Service, or any Service-related content, will meet your specific requirements or will be free from errors or omissions.
6. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO
Where our Service contains links to other sites, resources or promotional offers provided by third parties (Third Party Materials), these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites, offers or information you may obtain from them. If you access any Third Party Materials, you understand that you do so on the applicable third party's terms and conditions and at your own risk.
We neither control nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, any Third Party Materials (including the accuracy, validity, timeliness, completeness, reliability, integrity, quality, legality, usefulness or safety of Third Party Materials, or any intellectual property rights therein), and we will not be liable to you for loss or damages arising from or in connection with Third Party Materials.
Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be deemed to be a representation or warranty by us with respect to any Third Party Materials. We have no obligation to monitor Third Party Materials, and we may (but are not obligated to) block or disable access to any Third Party Materials (in whole or part) through the Service at any time.
7. USER GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US
Our Service may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Service, including but not limited to tracks, information about artists, contributions to our community forum or comments on tracks or samples. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to either verify or approve such information and materials uploaded by others, and that we do not endorse such information and materials. The views expressed by other users on our Service do not represent our views or values. If you choose to either rely on or make available any information or other content on or through our Service, you do so at your own risk. If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us via the Contact Us page.
8. ACCESSING OUR SERVICE
We do not guarantee that our Service, or any information or other content on or available through the Service, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We reserve the right to suspend, withdraw, block or discontinue your access to all or any part of our Service without notice. We will not be liable to you or any third party if for any reason our Service is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Service, including alternative arrangements if such access is unavailable.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Service through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
9. YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, such information is for your personal use only and you must treat the information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us via the Contact Us page.
If you fail to immediately notify us of any misuse of your account in accordance with these Terms of Use, you, and not us, will be responsible and liable for loss or damages that arise from activities on our Service that occur while a third party is using your account.
10. OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Our Service and all material available through our Service, including but not limited to information, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, trademarks, databases, data and software (together the Content) are owned and controlled by or licensed to us, our affiliates and/or licensors. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All rights in the Content are the sole and exclusive property of WhoSampled or such affiliates or licensors.
Absent our prior express written permission to do so, you must not use, nor authorize nor encourage others to use, any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device, tool or technology to retrieve, index, "scrape" or "data mine" any information or other content made available on or through the Service. For clarity, you shall not use any information or other content available on or through the Service for machine learning purposes; to develop, train, test, or improve any software tool, service, technology, or artificial intelligence system; or to provide or reproduce content from the Service, in whole or in part, as a prompt or input to any such. Further, you shall not distribute or make available any product or service that (a) was developed, either in whole or in part, through the use, including machine learning use, of any information or other content from the Service that was scraped, accessed, acquired, copied, monitored, gathered, or aggregated in violation of these Terms of Use or (b) constitutes or incorporates a software tool, service, technology or artificial intelligence system that was developed, trained, tested or improved through the use of content from the Service (or any information contained therein) in violation of these Terms of Use.
The information and other content on our Service are made available for personal use only.
You may not make any commercial use of our Service or any information or other content made available on our Service without prior authorisation in writing from us.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our Service (including any Content) in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our Service will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
11. INDEMNITY
To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless us and our affiliates, and our and their respective licensors, service providers, successors and assigns, from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses and fees (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of, or activities in connection with, the Service (including any Content) and (b) any violation or alleged violation of these Terms of Service by you.
12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW: (A) THE SERVICE (INCLUDING ANY CONTENT) AND ANY THIRD PARTY MATERIALS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU ON AN "AS IS," "WHERE IS" AND "WHERE AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY; AND (B) WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE AND THIRD PARTY MATERIALS, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND TITLE. ALL DISCLAIMERS OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING IN THIS SECTION AND ELSEWHERE IN THESE TERMS OF USE) ARE MADE FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH US AND OUR AFFILIATES AND OUR AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SHAREHOLDERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "AFFILIATED ENTITIES"), AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. The Service may include inaccuracies, errors and materials that violate or conflict with these Terms of Use. Additionally, third parties may make unauthorized alterations to the Service.
13. LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW: (A) WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE OR DATA, LOSS OF OTHER INTANGIBLES, LOSS OF SECURITY OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS, DATA OR CONTENT (INCLUDING UNAUTHORIZED INTERCEPTION BY THIRD PARTIES OF ANY SUCH TRANSMISSIONS, DATA OR CONTENT), COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES; (B) WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR THIRD PARTY MATERIALS, INCLUDING FROM ANY VIRUS THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; (C) YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SERVICE (INCLUDING ANY CONTENT) OR ANY THIRD PARTY MATERIALS IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICE; AND (D) OUR MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (Y) THE AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO US DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST CLAIM AGAINST US; OR (Z) THIRTY U.S. DOLLARS ($30.00).
For clarity, if you reside in the United Kingdom, nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
14. VIRUSES
We do not guarantee that our Service will be secure or free from malware or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Service. You should use your own virus and malware protection software.
You must not misuse our Service by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material, which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not hack, disable, overburden or otherwise impair our Service. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Service, the server on which our Service is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Service. You must not attack our Service via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990 or, potentially, under similar laws in other jurisdictions. We reserve the right to report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Service will cease immediately.
15. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SERVICE
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Service, or to make contact with other users of our Service, you must comply with the content standards set out in these Terms of Use.
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to our Service will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our Service a limited license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the "Rights You Are Giving Us to Use Material You Upload" section below.
Any user submissions that contain or link to content that allegedly infringers the copyright of a third party may be removed upon request by the copyright holder, In this regard, we note that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe in good faith that materials available on the Service infringe your copyright, you (or your agent) may send to us a written notice, whether under the DMCA or otherwise, requesting that we remove such material or block access to it. You will find information on how to send such a notice to us here: https://www.whosampled.com/copyright/
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Service if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy as set out below.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
16. RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD
For purpose of clarity, you retain ownership of your information and other content that you post on our Service. In addition:
- By posting, uploading or otherwise submitting material to our Service, you grant to us a royalty-free, transferable, worldwide, irrevocable and non-exclusive license to reproduce, publish, communicate to the public, publicly perform, display, distribute and otherwise use such material in any and all media and on any and all platforms in each case now or hereafter known and for any purpose (including promotional purposes), without further reference or payment to you.
- You agree that we have the right to modify, adapt, edit, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, and/or otherwise treat in any way such material at our discretion, with or without naming you as the provider of the material, and the right to sub-license our rights to our affiliates and other third parties in the normal course of our business.
- Where applicable and to the extent permitted under applicable law, you agree to waive, and not to enforce, any "moral rights" or equivalent rights in connection with any material that you post, upload or otherwise submit to our Service.
You agree that your use of the Service and any content uploaded to the Service is governed by the User Guidelines, which are available here, and the Platform Rules, which are available here. The User Guidelines and Platform Rules are hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use by reference. By accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the User Guidelines and Platform Rules, as they may be updated from time to time. In the event of any irreconcilable conflict between these Terms of Use and the User Guidelines and/or Platform Rules, these Terms of Use shall govern with respect to the Service to the extent of such conflict.
18. INTERACTIVE SERVICES
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Service, including but not limited to:
- Chat rooms (e.g. our Community Forum);
- Blogs (e.g. Charts and News pages)
We have the right, but not the obligation, to seek to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our Service, and, where we do exercise such right, we will seek to determine in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.
However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our Service, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
We reserve the right but have no obligation to refuse material for inclusion on our Service.
19. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this policy through your use of our Service. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use upon which you are permitted to use our Service, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Service. Permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Service is likely when you are deemed to be a repeat infringer. A repeat infringer is a user who has been notified of multiple infringing activities.
- Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Service. For example, any Contribution which contains or links to content that allegedly infringes the copyright of a third party will be removed upon request by the copyright holder.
- Issue of a warning to you.
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
- Further legal action against you.
- Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
The following provisions shall survive termination of these Terms of Use: Sections 6-19 and 21-26.
20. LINKING TO OUR SERVICE
You may link to any page on our Service that is publicly accessible, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to make any use of content on our Service other than that set out above, please contact us via the Contact Us page.
21. THIRD PARTIES
Our Service uses YouTube and the YouTube API Services. By using our Service, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms).
22. TRADE MARKS
"WhoSampled" is a trade mark of WhoSampled.com Limited. Unauthorised use of the trade mark would constitute a violation of our intellectual property rights.
You must not modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with us or our trade mark.
23. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTIONS
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, these Terms of Service, and any dispute, claim, and/or controversy that in any way relates to or arises in connection with these Terms of Service or your relationship with us (Dispute), are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New York, except to the extent preempted by or inconsistent with federal law. Further, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal or state courts located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, to resolve any Disputes. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the parties agree to waive any right to a jury trial in connection with a Dispute or to litigate a Dispute on a class action basis.
24. GENERAL
All failure by us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us and govern your use of our Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and us (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of these Term of Use). These Terms of Use are not intended to grant rights to anyone except you and us and in no event shall these Terms of Use create any third-party beneficiary rights. You may not assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without our express prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of our rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without restriction.
25. APPLE-SPECIFIC TERMS
In addition to your agreement with the foregoing terms and conditions, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the following provisions apply with respect to your use of any version of our apps (each an App) that is compatible with the iOS operating system of Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Apple is not a party to these Terms of Use and does not own and is not responsible for an App. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or other support services for an App and shall not be responsible for any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses with respect to an App. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims from you or a third party relating to an App or your possession and/or use of an App, including, but not limited to: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that an App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, You may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for such App to You. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App. In the event of any third-party claim that an App or your possession and use of an App infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, Apple will not be responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Any questions, complaints or claims relating to an App, including those pertaining to intellectual property rights, must be directed to us in accordance with the "CONTACT US" section below. The license you have been granted herein is limited to a non-transferable license to use an App on an Apple-branded product that runs Apple's iOS operating system and is owned or controlled by you, or as otherwise permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in Apple's Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. In addition, you must comply with the terms of any third-party agreement applicable to you when using an App, such as your wireless data service agreement. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms of Use and, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, they will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms of Use against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof; notwithstanding the foregoing, our right to enter into, rescind or terminate any variation, waiver or settlement under these Terms of Use is not subject to the consent of any third party.
26. CONTACT US
To report misuse, any concerns or for further information in connection with the Service, please contact us via the Contact Us page. Further, California residents may reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 210-6276 or (800) 952-5210.