Terms of Service

Governing the use of the Hooka software and its cloud generation service.

1. Provider

See Legal Notice for full provider details. The provider is the contracting party for all software use and cloud generation.

2. Contract Formation

A usage agreement is formed when you create a Hooka account and accept these Terms at sign-up. Generating MIDI requires an account.

3. Rights to Generated Output — The Key Point

3.1 Your Rights

All MIDI files generated with Hooka (Lead, Chords, Full Export) belong to you. You receive a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use the output, including:

• Commercial use in your own beats, tracks, and releases
• Sale, licensing, and transfer to third parties
• Editing, remixing, and sampling
• Use in streaming, sync deals, advertising, film, and games
• Registration with performing rights organizations (GEMA, ASCAP, BMI, SACEM, etc.)

Hooka claims no royalties, percentages, sample clearance fees, or credits. You are not required to credit Hooka in any form. Revenue from beats based on Hooka output belongs 100% to you.

3.2 Non-Exclusivity

Important: Hooka uses a generative AI model. This means:

• It is technically possible that two users with identical settings (such as key, scale and progression) may receive very similar or, in isolated cases, identical melodies.
• In practice this is unlikely given the combinatorial space of parameters, but cannot be ruled out.
• Your usage right in the generated output is non-exclusive. You cannot claim worldwide exclusivity over a melody that another Hooka user could theoretically also receive.
• For your concrete use (your beat, your release, your license) this typically makes no legal difference — your usage right remains unrestricted.

If you need absolute worldwide exclusivity for a specific melody (e.g. a major-label sync deal), further edit the Hooka output, combine it with original elements, or compose the decisive hook manually.

3.3 No Copyright Claim by Hooka

Hooka makes no copyright claim over generated output. Under current German law (§ 2 UrhG), purely AI-generated output without human creative contribution is not protected by copyright — the personal intellectual contribution arises from your arrangement, editing, and context, not the model itself.

3.4 How Output Is Created

Hooka creates output with third-party AI language models, guided by your musical settings and Hooka's own rules. Hooka does not use recordings or MIDI files of existing songs as input for a generation. We have no control over how third-party models were trained and give no assurance that output never resembles existing works. Check output before commercial use as you would any other musical idea.

4. Rights in the Software

The Hooka VST3 and AU plugins, Standalone application, cloud infrastructure, and backend remain the property of the provider. You receive a non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the software.

Prohibited:

• Reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling the software (except as required by mandatory law)
• Reselling, transferring, or renting the software or account access
• Automated mass generation to exhaust third-party credits or for bulk export
• Circumventing credit limits, rate limiting, or authentication
• Using the cloud backend outside of the plugin

5. Credits, Pricing, Availability

• Hooka is currently free of charge. There are no paid plans, subscriptions or top-ups.
• Each new account receives a one-time allowance of 300 credits, equal to 30 full MIDI generations. One full MIDI generation consumes 10 credits.
• The provider may grant additional credits at its discretion, for example for feedback. There is no entitlement to additional credits.
• Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred and expire when the account is deleted.
• The cloud service is provided without uptime guarantees. Maintenance, outages, and model changes are possible.

6. No Hit Guarantee, No Warranty of Fitness

Hooka delivers MIDI source material for Trap/Hip-Hop leads. We expressly do not warrant that:

• the output will produce a hit
• a particular artistic quality will be achieved
• the output will suit a specific commercial purpose
• the output is unique (see section 3.2)

7. User Conduct

You agree not to use Hooka to:

• Generate content that violates applicable law
• Harass, discriminate against, or harm third parties
• Circumvent technical protection measures
• Conduct automated bulk scraping or DoS attacks against the backend

In the event of a violation, the account may be suspended without prior notice.

8. Liability

Hooka is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, and for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health.

In cases of simple negligence, Hooka is liable only for breach of material contractual obligations (cardinal duties). Liability is in such cases limited to the foreseeable, contract-typical damage.

Hooka accepts no liability for damages arising from use or non-use of generated output (e.g. lost profit from a beat, legal disputes with clients over exclusivity), to the extent permitted by law.

Mandatory statutory liability under the German Product Liability Act remains unaffected.

9. Right of Withdrawal

As the current version is free of charge, no statutory right of withdrawal applies. For any future paid version, the then-applicable statutory withdrawal provisions (§§ 355 ff. BGB) will apply, with a separate cancellation notice.

10. Changes to These Terms

We may change these Terms for the future, for example when paid plans are introduced. We will inform registered users by email at least four weeks before changes take effect. Changes to your rights in generated output (section 3) or to paid features require your express consent. You may terminate the agreement at any time by deleting your account.

11. Miscellaneous

• German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.
• Place of performance and jurisdiction for merchants: the provider's registered seat (see Legal Notice).
• Should any provision be invalid, the remainder remains in force.
• The provider is neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.