Terms and conditions

01Who provides the service

SONARA (working name) is a service of NAYSOF IBÉRICA, S.L., Tax ID B93682623, registered office at Paseo de Reding 43, 1º Izda, 29016 Málaga (España). You can write to us at hola@naysof.es. Full details are in the Legal notice.

02What SONARA is

SONARA is a talent show for music created with artificial intelligence. Creators upload their songs, the audience listens and votes blind, licensed judges score them and the best ones reach the weekly Top 10, the home page and the live shows.

Nobody can pay to climb the ranking. The terms of the Pro plan and the rules of each contest with prizes are published separately before they start, and they complement these terms.

03Who can use SONARA

• Listening and voting: anyone with an account. If you are under 14, you need permission from your parent or guardian to create one.
• Uploading songs: adults (18+) only. We will ask you to confirm it in your account before your first upload.
• One account per person. You are responsible for what happens with it: do not share your password.

04The golden rule: AI-made music only

Only songs whose audio was generated entirely with an accepted AI tool on a paid plan that allows you to publish them can enter SONARA.

• You may use lyrics you wrote yourself, as long as you declare it when uploading.
• Voices or instruments recorded by people are not allowed, nor are voice models of other people. A model of your own voice is only allowed if you ask us first and we verify your identity.
• Being made with AI does not make a song legal. If it copies someone else's melody, lyrics or recording, or imitates a real person's voice, it is still forbidden.

Details are in the AI & rights policy.

05Accepted tools and plans

This table is read live from our database. We review it every quarter because tools change their terms often.

• The paid plan must be active when you generate and when you download the song. Upgrading later does not cover earlier songs.
• Udio is not accepted: its terms forbid publishing its songs on platforms like SONARA.
• Other tools are not accepted for now either. If you want to suggest one, write to us.

06What we ask when you upload a song

• The tool, the plan, the date you generated the song and the link to the song in that tool.
• The original file, exactly as you downloaded it. Do not re-tag it: the title, cover art and other details are added on SONARA.
• Proof of your plan (a screenshot of the billing page or the invoice).
• The lyrics, if any, and who wrote them: the AI, you or both.
• Whether you are a member of SGAE, AIE, AGEDI or another collecting society.
• Some declarations, stored with date and time: that the song is AI-made, that you used a paid plan, that the file is the original, that there is no real person's voice, that your prompt did not include other people's names, lyrics or audio, that you have the right to upload it, that you grant the Creator license to NAYSOF and that you accept the “Made with AI” label.

Lying in a declaration or in the proof is a serious offence.

07How we check: automatic + human

Every song goes through two filters before it can compete for real:

1. 1Automatic check. We read the digital provenance seal (C2PA or “Content Credentials”) that some tools add to the file. For Suno songs we also ask Suno's official verification service. And we compare the audio fingerprint with other SONARA songs and with those already removed, to catch duplicates and re-uploads.
2. 2Human review. A team member reviews doubtful songs and every Top 10 candidate before the Top 10 is published and before a song plays on the home page or at a live show: ownership, plan, lyrics, voice, title and cover art.

Depending on the result, your song can be:

• No automatic detector is infallible. That is why we never apply a final penalty based only on an automated tool, and a person always reviews a partial match or a possible version of another work.
• Our filters must not block uses the law allows, such as quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche. If you think your song is one of them, say so in your appeal.

08Moderation and content removal

• Anyone, with or without an account, can tell us about illegal content or content that breaks these rules through the Report form. They get an acknowledgement of receipt straight away.
• If the rights holder, or the person whose voice, name or image was used, tells us, we provisionally remove the song within 48 hours (usually instantly) while a person reviews it.
• While a song is reported or removed, we freeze its votes, prizes and featured spots. If it was playing on the home page, we switch straight away to the next verified song. At a live show we can cut the audio or the broadcast.
• If you hold intellectual property rights and we do not remove the content within 3 days of your request, you can go to the Second Section of Spain's Intellectual Property Commission.
• Every decision that affects you (removal, disqualification, demotion in the ranking, frozen prizes or account suspension) comes with a statement of reasons: what we did, based on which facts, whether any automated tool was involved, which rule we relied on and how you can appeal.
• If someone frequently sends clearly unfounded reports (for example, pretending to be the rights holder), we may stop processing their notices for a while, after warning them.
• If we detect a threat to someone's life or safety, we will inform the authorities.

09Penalties by level

Penalties depend on how serious the breach is and whether there was bad faith:

• Strikes expire after 12 months.
• If we discover a breach after a prize has been paid, we may claim it back under the contest rules.
• Every penalty comes with its statement of reasons and can be appealed.

10How to appeal

If you disagree with a decision about your song or your account, you can appeal from My songs, on the affected song, or by writing to hola@naysof.es.

• It is always reviewed by a person, never by a machine.
• We reply with a reasoned decision within 10 working days at most.
• While it is being resolved, the affected song is not available to the public, as Spanish law requires (art. 73.10 of Royal Decree-law 24/2021).
• If we agree with you, we restore the song and, where appropriate, its votes and position.
• You can also use the mediation service of the First Section of Spain's Intellectual Property Commission (Ministry of Culture). None of this prevents you from going to court.

11Your songs and the license to NAYSOF

• Uploading a song does not take away any rights you have over it. For SONARA to work, you grant us a non-exclusive license, explained in the Creator license.
• You are responsible for what you upload. If someone makes a claim against NAYSOF because your declarations were false, you will have to cover it as set out in that license.
• SONARA does not train AI on your songs and does not let others do so through the platform.

12Using the platform properly

It is forbidden to:

• Manipulate votes or plays: bots, multiple accounts, buying or swapping votes.
• Harass, threaten or insult other people, or post content that incites hatred.
• Impersonate another person or pretend to be another artist.
• Copy SONARA data in bulk (scraping) or try to get around its security measures.
• Use it for anything illegal.

13Liability

• SONARA hosts songs uploaded by its users. We act diligently when we are told about illegal content, but we do not review everything before it is published.
• Nothing in these terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer.

14Changes to these terms

If we change something important, we will let you know reasonably in advance. The version and date of this text are shown at the top of the page.

15Contact and governing law

• Point of contact for users and authorities: hola@naysof.es. We answer in Spanish and English, and a person will reply.
• To report content, use the Report form.
• Spanish law applies. If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim before the courts where you live.