Terms & Legal

Coda is a real-time jam-session tool operated by Coda Media Group (“Coda”, “we”, “us”). By creating an account, joining a session as a guest, or otherwise using the app, the web app or the audience screen, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Coda.

Parts of Coda depend on services operated by other companies — Spotify, Apple, Genius and others listed in section 7. When you use those parts, you are also bound by those companies’ own terms, and we cannot waive them on your behalf.

• You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to consent to processing of your personal data where you live, to hold a Coda account.
• You may sign in with a magic link sent to your email address, or with a Google or Apple account. You may also join a session as a guest without an account; guest sessions are anonymous, can join but cannot host, and their data may be removed once the session ends.
• You are responsible for activity under your account, and for keeping access to your email and any linked sign-in provider secure.
• Session codes are shareable by design. Anyone holding a code can join that session, so treat a code as you would an invitation link.

Coda hosts synchronised jam sessions: a shared clock, a shared tempo, a song queue, playlists, tab and chord display, lyrics, and an audience screen. Session state is held in memory on our real-time server and mirrored to a cache; the durable record lives in our database.

Coda is offered as-is and is under active development. Features may change or be withdrawn, and we do not guarantee that a session, a song lookup or a third-party provider will be available at any given moment. Nothing in Coda should be relied on for a performance where failure would cause you loss.

Coda lets you upload Guitar Pro files and build playlists and setlists. You keep ownership of everything you upload. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce and display that content solely to operate Coda for you and the people you share a session with — nothing more, and it ends when you delete the content.

By uploading, you confirm that:

• you own the file or otherwise have the right to upload and share it in the way Coda will use it;
• sharing it with the members of your sessions does not infringe anyone else’s copyright, moral rights or licence terms; and
• the file contains nothing unlawful.

Uploaded files are de-duplicated by content hash, so an identical file uploaded by two people is stored once. Deleting your copy removes your access and your reference to it. If you believe material on Coda infringes your rights, write to [email protected] with enough detail to identify the work and the material, and we will investigate and remove it where the claim is made out.

You agree not to:

• scrape, bulk-download, cache beyond ordinary use, resell or redistribute any metadata, cover art, lyrics or chords that Coda obtains from a third-party service;
• use Coda, or any content reaching you through it, to train a machine-learning or AI model — this is prohibited by our agreement with Spotify and by others of our providers;
• attempt to access another user’s account, another session’s state, or our servers, keys or database other than through the app;
• interfere with the real-time server, including flooding it with connections or messages, or manipulating clock-sync data;
• reverse-engineer Coda except to the extent that right cannot lawfully be excluded; or
• use Coda for anything unlawful, or to upload or display material that is infringing, abusive or harmful.

Coda does not own, licence out or sell any music. Song titles, artist names, album titles, cover art, lyrics, chord charts and tablature displayed in Coda remain the property of their respective rights-holders — artists, songwriters, publishers, labels and the services listed in section 7.

That material is shown to you for personal, non-commercial reference while you play, in the same way sheet music on a stand is. It is not offered for download, sale or redistribution, and Coda grants you no rights in it. Coda plays no audio recordings and streams no music.

Performing copyrighted music in public may require a licence from a collecting society in your country. That is your responsibility, not ours.

Coda is built on the services below. Each entry says what it does, what data reaches it, and what the provider requires of us and of you.

The Coda name, logo, interface, design and software are owned by Coda Media Group and protected by copyright and trademark law. These terms give you a personal, revocable, non-transferable licence to use Coda as it is offered — and nothing more. You may not copy, resell, sublicence or create a competing service from any part of it.

Coda is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all implied warranties, and we do not warrant that Coda will be uninterrupted or error-free, that clock sync will hold to any particular accuracy on your network, or that third-party content — cover art, lyrics, chords, tabs, tempo — will be accurate, complete or available.

We are not liable for loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however it arises. Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or £100.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from content you upload, from your use of Coda in breach of these terms, and from any infringement of a third party’s rights by you.

You may stop using Coda and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that puts our service or our providers’ agreements at risk, or where we are required to by law — with notice where it is practical to give it.

We may change these terms as Coda changes or as our providers’ requirements change. The date at the top records the last revision; material changes will be notified in the app or by email, and continuing to use Coda after they take effect means you accept them.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and its courts have exclusive jurisdiction, save that a consumer may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence.

Questions, rights requests and copyright notices go to [email protected].