AfterTime — End User Licence Agreement
Draft prepared in good faith for review. This is not legal advice and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. See README.md for what still needs one.
Read section 3 before you install. It is the one that matters.
0. How you accept this
The installer shows you this agreement and asks you to accept it before it writes anything. Installing or using AfterTime means you accept it. If you do not accept it, do not install it, and nothing will have been written to your machine.
Keep a copy: it is in the legal/ folder of the package you downloaded, and at https://atinformatics.com/eula.html.
1. What you are getting
A licence to use AfterTime on your own computers, for your own music, personal or commercial. You do not owe a share of what you make with it.
You may not resell AfterTime itself, or take it apart to make a competing product from it.
2. What AfterTime is
A tool that works on the REAPER project you already have open. It measures your session and proposes changes. When you approve one, it writes to your project.
It is not a mixing engineer and it does not have taste. It measures. Every decision about whether something sounds good stays yours.
3. IT CHANGES YOUR SONG. BACK UP YOUR WORK.
This is the important part.
AfterTime writes to your REAPER project. It renames tracks, moves them, sets levels, adds plugins and renders files.
It is built to be safe:
- Every change is shown to you before it runs, and you approve it.
- Every change lands in one undo step. Cmd-Z puts it back.
- It never deletes audio. Takes it sets aside are moved, not removed.
- After it writes, it reads REAPER back and reports what actually happened, not what it intended.
None of that is a guarantee. Software has bugs, DAWs crash, and disks fail.
Keep a backup of any project you point AfterTime at. If a session matters to you, back it up before you start. This is the single most important thing you can do, and no clause below replaces it.
4. No warranty
AfterTime is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will produce any particular musical result.
5. Limit of liability
Read 5.1 first. It is the part that is NOT limited.
5.1 What is never excluded
Nothing in this agreement limits or excludes liability for:
- death or personal injury caused by negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
And, if you are a consumer in the United Kingdom: under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, if AfterTime damages your device or your other digital content — which includes your REAPER projects and your audio files — and that damage was caused by the maker not using reasonable care and skill, you are entitled to a repair or to compensation. That right is not excluded by this agreement and cannot be. It is stated here because this software writes to your projects, so it is exactly the right most likely to matter to you.
Consumers in the EU have comparable protections under their own national law, and those are not excluded either.
5.2 What is limited
Subject to 5.1, and to the maximum extent the law allows, the maker is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, or for loss of profit or goodwill, arising from your use of AfterTime.
Subject to 5.1, total liability for all claims taken together is limited to the greater of (a) what you paid for AfterTime in the twelve months before the claim, and (b) £100.
The £100 floor is deliberate. AfterTime is currently free, and a cap of "what you paid" would be a cap of nothing — which a court is far more likely to treat as an exclusion in disguise and strike out altogether, leaving no limit at all. A real, modest figure is a limit that can survive.
5.3 If you are using AfterTime for your business
If you are not a consumer — a sole trader, a company, or anyone using AfterTime for a commercial purpose — the Consumer Rights Act 2015 does not apply to you. The limits in 5.2 apply instead subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, which requires them to be fair and reasonable.
You agree they are reasonable, on this basis, all of which is true when you install:
- AfterTime is supplied free of charge or at low cost;
- you are told, before you install, that it is beta software;
- you are told, repeatedly and before it writes anything, to keep backups, and backups are entirely within your control and not the maker's;
- every change is shown to you and approved by you before it runs, and lands in a single undo step;
- you can stop using it at any time at no cost;
- the maker is a very small operation and could not carry unlimited exposure to commercial loss on a free tool.
5.4 Claims about your projects
Any claim relating to a specific project must be brought within one year of the change you are complaining about, unless the law gives you longer. This is not an attempt to cut short a statutory period — in Scotland the short negative prescription is five years, and if that applies to your claim it applies whatever this paragraph says.
5.5 Back up your work
Section 3 says it and this section repeats it, because it is the practical answer rather than the legal one: keep a backup of any project you point AfterTime at. No clause above brings a lost session back.
6. Other people's software
AfterTime works with software it did not write and does not own.
- REAPER is made by Cockos Incorporated. AfterTime is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Cockos. You need your own valid REAPER licence.
- Audio plugins — including any made by FabFilter, Universal Audio, Waves, iZotope, Antares or anyone else — belong to their makers. Their names are their trademarks and are used only to say which plugin is which. AfterTime is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them, and using AfterTime does not give you a licence to any plugin you do not already own.
- AI providers you connect are governed by their own terms. See
PRIVACY.md. - Open-source components are listed in
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md, each under its own licence.
7. Your music is yours
AfterTime claims no rights in anything you make with it. Not the recordings, not the arrangements, not the masters. The maker receives no licence to your music and no copy of it.
8. Beta software
This is an early release. Features will change and some will be removed. Known limitations are documented and shipped with the release, unedited.
9. Ending it
You may stop using AfterTime at any time — uninstall it and the licence ends. The licence ends automatically if you breach section 1.
10. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the law of Scotland, and the courts of Scotland have jurisdiction.
Scotland is a separate legal system from England and Wales. A licence that says "England and Wales" does not apply Scots law. If you edit this document, do not let a template overwrite this section.
If you are a consumer in the UK or the EU, this does not take away your statutory rights. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies across Great Britain and cannot be excluded by agreement. If you live in the EU, you may also be able to bring a claim in your own country's courts. Section 5's limits apply only as far as the law allows.
11. The whole agreement
This is the entire agreement about AfterTime. If a court finds one part unenforceable, the rest still stands.
12. If you use AfterTime on material you are not entitled to use
You are responsible for having the rights to the audio you process. If you use AfterTime on material you are not entitled to use, and someone brings a claim against the maker because of it, you will cover the maker's reasonable costs of dealing with that claim.
This section does not apply if you are a consumer. It applies only to business use — a sole trader, a company, or anyone using AfterTime for a commercial purpose. A term like this one against a consumer would not be fair and is not intended to bind one.
13. AI providers you connect
AfterTime can be pointed at a cloud AI provider. That is your choice, your account and your contract with them.
If you configure one, text about your session is sent to that provider — never your audio. See PRIVACY.md for exactly what.
The maker is not a party to your relationship with that provider, receives no copy of what is sent, and is not responsible for what the provider does with it, for their availability, their pricing or their terms. If you need guarantees about that data, read their terms before you connect them, or use a local model so nothing is sent at all.
If you are using AfterTime for business and you send anyone else's personal data to a provider, you are the data controller for that transfer and it is your responsibility to have whatever agreement you need with them.