Legal Stuff

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Terms of Service

By using MixWave Radio, you agree to the following:

• You will not complain about song selection. The AI is sensitive.
• You acknowledge that "24/7" is more of a goal than a promise.
• You will not attempt to sue us. We have $14 and a Mac Mini.
• You accept that your music taste will be judged silently.
• You will tell at least one friend about us (please, we need listeners).
• You understand that vibes are non-refundable.

Privacy Policy

What we collect: Basically nothing. We can see how many people are listening. That's it. We don't know who you are, where you live, or what you're doing while listening to our station. Frankly, we'd like to keep it that way.

Cookies: We might use cookies. We honestly don't remember. If we do, they're the boring analytics kind, not the delicious kind.

Third parties: We don't sell your data because we don't have your data. Also, nobody's buying.

GDPR compliance: If you're in Europe, you have rights. We support that. We also have no idea what data we'd even give you if you asked. It's probably just a number that says "1 listener" next to a timestamp.

Copyright Notice

All original sound recordings and musical compositions broadcast on MixWave Radio remain the property of their respective artists, labels, publishers, and rights holders. That part is straightforward.

What is less straightforward — and worth being transparent about — is the nature of what MixWave Radio's AI actually does with those recordings before they reach your ears.

The Transformative Use Argument

MixWave Radio does not play original recordings in their original form. The AI processes each track through neural network stem separation — isolating vocals, drums, bass, and instrumentation — and algorithmically recombines those elements into a continuous, blended broadcast. The output is a novel composition: a real-time, non-repeating algorithmic arrangement that did not exist before the broadcast moment and will not exist again.

Under the fair use doctrine as articulated by the Supreme Court in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994), the central question is whether the secondary use is transformative — whether it "alters the original with new expression, meaning, or message" and serves a different market function than the original. We believe ours does, on several grounds:

• Functional transformation. The source recordings are not delivered as discrete, identifiable songs. They are processed into an ambient, algorithmically generated broadcast — a fundamentally different product from a song file, a stream, or an album. Courts have recognized that changing the functional purpose of a copyrighted work can support a transformative use finding. See Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F.3d 202 (2d Cir. 2015); Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir. 2007).
• No market substitution. MixWave Radio is non-interactive. Listeners cannot request specific songs, skip tracks, rewind, or access on-demand playback. A listener tuning into an AI-generated, stem-blended radio broadcast is not receiving a product that substitutes for purchasing the original recording, streaming it on a licensed platform, or accessing an official licensed remix. The market function is distinct. Under Campbell, market harm is not presumed where the secondary use serves a clearly different purpose and audience function.
• AI processing as creative transformation. In Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., June 2025), the court described AI transformation of lawfully acquired copyrighted works as "exceedingly transformative" and "spectacularly so." While that case involved text rather than audio, the underlying principle — that AI processing of lawfully acquired source material to produce qualitatively different output can constitute transformative use — is applicable here. We process recordings that are lawfully accessible. The AI's output is not the recording. It is something the recording became.

We acknowledge that this area of law is genuinely unsettled. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 598 U.S. 508 (2023), narrowed the transformative use doctrine, and the circuit split between Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films (6th Cir., strict liability for any sound recording sampling) and VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone (9th Cir., de minimis exception applies) remains unresolved by the Supreme Court. No court has directly addressed real-time AI stem separation in a broadcast context. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

What we can say is that we operate in good faith, prefer royalty-free and Creative Commons licensed material wherever available, and take rights holder concerns seriously.

DMCA & Rights Holder Contact

If you are a rights holder and have a concern regarding content broadcast on MixWave Radio, please contact us directly. We will respond, review the concern, and act accordingly — without the need for formal proceedings if it can be avoided.

DMCA Agent / Rights Inquiries:
[email protected]

Satirical Advertising & Content

Some advertisements and content appearing on MixWave Radio — including but not limited to the Sveden House Smorgasbord promotion — are works of original satire and parody. They are not real advertisements for real businesses, and no actual products or services are being offered.

Why this is legal, briefly:

• Satire is protected speech. In the United States, satirical and parodic expression is protected under the First Amendment. Courts have consistently upheld the right to publish clearly absurdist, humorous, or satirical content even when it depicts fictional businesses, products, or services.
• The "reasonable person" standard. Legal protection for satire generally requires that a reasonable person would not interpret the content as stating actual facts. A coupon offering a complimentary frontal lobotomy from a smorgasbord at 333 W. Screwy St. meets this bar comfortably.
• No real trademark or brand is impersonated. Sveden House Smorgasbord is an entirely original fictional creation. It is not a parody of any existing restaurant, business, or brand. There is no trademark to infringe. It simply does not exist.
• All persons depicted are fictional. Any names, testimonials, or individuals referenced within satirical content on this site are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and almost certainly funnier for it.
• No medical advice is given or implied. Nothing on this site constitutes medical advice. Do not seek a frontal lobotomy. The Rectum Flush Punch Card is not a real product.

We did not consult a lawyer before publishing this. We did, however, think about it for longer than was probably necessary, and we feel good about where we landed.

Disclaimer

MixWave Radio is provided "as is" which is legal speak for "if something breaks, that's unfortunate."

We are not responsible for:

• Sudden urges to dance at inappropriate times
• Neighbors who don't appreciate house music at 3 AM
• Existential crises caused by AI-generated transitions
• Lost productivity due to extended listening sessions
• The Mac Mini's emotional state
• Your ears, should they fall off

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to update this page whenever we feel like it, which is rarely. If we make changes, we won't notify you because let's be honest, you're never coming back to this page. You only clicked it by accident or out of morbid curiosity.

Legal Inquiries

For legal inquiries, please send a formal letter to our legal department. Just kidding, there's no legal department. Send an email or something. We'll panic and then respond.

Last updated: Whenever this was written. Time is a construct.