License terms for Irrvogel's MIDI Text Display

When these terms apply

• If you buy a license key, these license terms and the terms of sale together apply to your purchase.
• If you only use the demo and buy nothing, these license terms apply to that use (section 1).

These license terms cover the use of the software: the rights of use, activation and computers, the online check, demo mode and the use of the software without our license server. The terms of sale cover the purchase: payment, withdrawal, refunds, warranty, liability and the blocking of a license key (section 12 of the terms of sale).

The Windows installer installs the software only after you accept these license terms, and this acceptance adds no new duties to a purchase you have already made.

1. What you may do

You may install and use the software for your own purposes, privately or professionally. You receive a right to use the software, and we keep all rights in the software except the right of use you receive.

The demo is the software in demo mode, which is how it runs without a valid activation (section 5). Anyone may install and use the demo free of charge for their own purposes, privately or professionally, on any number of their computers and without a time limit, within the limits of section 5. A license key extends this to the full software as described next.

Your license is one right of use for you or your business, and it covers the full software on up to two of your computers at the same time. Any other use of the full software is not covered by the license, for example on a third computer at the same time, by another person with your key (except staff of your business), or with a bypassed license check. The license check is a technical protection measure. We may remove an activation that the license does not cover, but before that we warn you by email, as described in section 12 of the terms of sale.

You receive the software by download and each new version is a further delivery. You may use every version you received without time limit, because the license does not expire.

Activated computers keep working without the license server. While the license server is out of service, new activations, the unlock of new versions and the license management page wait until it works again.

Every version of the software already contains a second way to activate it: with your own license key, without the license server. This way stays switched off while the license server works and is switched on by a file that we sign (the switch-on file). Anyone may pass this file on, and the software checks our signature.

"Out of service" means that our license server does not answer requests from the internet in general, and a problem with the connection or network of a single customer does not count. If our license server is out of service for more than 60 days in a row, we publish this file within a further 30 days, and before we close our business or shut the license server down for good, we publish it first. From then on every version of the software can be activated with your license key without the license server, including versions that we publish after the file, and this works with the license key that was valid on the last day the license server worked. This needs your own license key and is not a free full version for everyone. In this mode the software cannot count computers, but the limit of two computers still applies. From then on the software no longer contacts the license server. This promise does not include new features, and for updates section 7 applies.

The license management page, replacement keys and remote removal need the license server and are no longer available after a final shutdown.

You may transfer your license as a whole to one other person. Three conditions apply.

• The license is deactivated on all your computers before the transfer.
• You tell us the email address of the new owner, because we need it to move the license and send the new owner a key.
• After the transfer you no longer use the software with this license.

A transfer does not need our consent and is not misuse.

2. What you may not do

• Publish your license key or pass it on to others, except by transferring the whole license as described in section 1.
• Sell or give your license key to more than one person, or split the license, for example by passing on the use on one of the two computers.
• Remove, bypass or change the license check, or use the software with a modified license check.
• Reverse engineer or copy the software, see section 2a.
• Remove copyright notices or third-party notices.
• Pass on copies of the software to others, including the demo. Everyone can download the demo from our website.

2a. Protection of the software

The software is protected by copyright, and for computer programs the law has no exception for private copies (§ 40d Abs 1 of the Austrian Copyright Act, UrhG). The following therefore applies to private and non-commercial use as well as to professional use.

You may not, yourself, through others or with tools such as AI systems:

1. decompile or disassemble the software, translate it back into a readable form in any other way, or extract its program code.
2. extract images, texts, data or other files of ours from the software, remove, bypass or change the license check, or use the software with a key generator or a substitute license server.
3. use the software, its program code or files, or anything obtained under points 1 and 2, to make or distribute a copy, an adapted version or another program that contains our program code or files or a substantially similar expression of them.
4. give our program code or files, or anything obtained under points 1 and 2, to an AI system or another program as training data, for fine-tuning, or as input in order to reproduce or rebuild the software or parts of its program code.

We reserve the use of the software and its files for text and data mining, including for training AI systems (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG, Article 4(3) Directive (EU) 2019/790). This concerns only our software. We do not use your texts, files or anything else you make with the software for training AI, and the software does not send them to us.

The following stays allowed:

• What the law allows and a contract cannot exclude, each within the limits set out there, namely (1) a backup copy, (2) observing, studying and testing how the software works while you load, display, run or store it (§ 40d Abs 3 UrhG), (3) copying and adapting it as needed for its intended use (§ 40d Abs 2 UrhG), and (4) decompiling the parts needed to make an independently created program work together with the software (§ 40e UrhG).
• Using what you create with the software, for example your MIDI files, also with AI tools.
• Asking for help, for example by describing a problem or sharing a screenshot or an error message.
• Components of other authors (section 10) stay under their own licenses, and this section does not limit the rights those licenses give you.

This section does not protect the ideas and functions of the software and does not stop anyone from writing their own program with similar functions without using our program code or files.

3. Activation and computers

This section applies to license keys and the computers activated with them. The demo needs no activation.

• A computer is activated with your license key. Activation needs an internet connection once, and again after you install a newer version (section 4). The computer can make it itself or, with offline activation, another device can, for example another computer or a phone. This does not apply once the switch-on file is published (section 1).
• You can deactivate a computer inside the software at any time and then activate another one, and there is no limit to this.
• A computer you no longer have can be removed remotely (remote removal), which is possible twice in any 30 days, and each use becomes available again 30 days later. How often you activate a computer is not limited, as long as no more than two are activated at the same time.
• A computer that someone else activated with your license key without your consent can be removed remotely as not yours ("That wasn't me"). This does not count as a remote removal, and we are told and check the license. A computer that you activated yourself, or that was activated with your consent, stays yours in this sense, also after you sold it or gave it away. To remove such a computer, use a remote removal or write to support.
• A reset removes all computers of a license at your request, for example after a transfer or when support helps you.
• A computer counts from its activation until it is deactivated in the software, removed remotely (also as not yours) or removed by a reset, even if the software no longer runs on it. After that you may use the full software on it again only after a new activation. After a transfer you may no longer use the full software with this license. If you cannot remove a computer you no longer have because both remote removals are used up, write to support@irrvogel.com and we reset the license.
• If your key is lost or someone else has it, you can get a replacement key once every 30 days. The old key stops working, but computers that are already activated keep working.

4. Online and offline

After activation the software does not need the internet.

• Each time the software starts, it checks the license on your computer. This needs no connection.
• When your computer happens to be online, the software also asks our license server, silently, about once a day and right after you install a new version. If the request does not get through, the software tries again once an hour, and you can also start this request yourself.
• If there is no connection or the server cannot be reached, nothing changes and the software keeps working as before.
• Only a signed message from our license server can return the software to demo mode, which happens when you removed the computer, when the license was reset, or when the license key was blocked (withdrawn, refunded or misuse, see section 12 of the terms of sale).
• You may block the software from the internet, for example with a firewall, and the software keeps working, but this does not extend your right of use (section 9).

Updates and new versions

• When your computer is online, the software checks for updates at most once a day and shows an update only if the update information is signed by us. The software never installs anything by itself.
• Each new version needs a license confirmation issued after the release date of that version. A computer that is online gets this confirmation automatically, and until then the new version runs in demo mode. This does not apply once the switch-on file is published (section 1).
• A computer that is never online gets this confirmation through a new offline activation, which is free and does not use another of your two computers.

What the software sends and to whom is described in the in-software privacy notice, and there is no usage tracking.

5. Demo mode

Without a valid activation the software runs in demo mode, and you may use it in demo mode free of charge.

Demo mode limits which part of your text becomes MIDI notes and which settings you can change. The manual of your version lists these limits.

MIDI files written in demo mode contain a MIDI text event that marks them as made with the demo.

A license key removes the limits of demo mode.

6. Hearing and loudness safety

Audio software can produce very loud sounds, for example through a wrong setting, a damaged file, a fault in the host program or a fault in the software itself. Very loud sound can damage your hearing and your speakers or headphones.

• Start playback at a low volume and raise it slowly.
• Be especially careful with headphones.
• Lower the volume before you load a new project, preset or file.
• If you hear distortion, sudden loud noise or anything unexpected, stop playback at once.

MIDI Text Display makes no sound of its own and sends MIDI notes to an instrument in your host program, and that instrument decides how loud the notes are. Check the instrument's volume before you start playback. Audio on the track passes through MIDI Text Display unchanged. Without audio input, MIDI Text Display outputs silence.

7. Updates and support

For consumers, we provide updates, including security updates, that keep the software in conformity for as long as you can reasonably expect. For consumers the statutory warranty applies (see section 10 of the terms of sale).

Your license covers every future version of MIDI Text Display. A new version unlocks with the same license key at no extra cost.

Minimum period for updates, including security updates

until the support end stated for each version on the product page and in the manual, at least 5 years after the release of that version

Support contact

support@irrvogel.com

Security reports

security@irrvogel.com

8. Liability

Towards consumers we are liable under the statutory rules. In particular we are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for personal injury, and under product liability law.

Towards business customers we are not liable for damage caused by slight negligence, but this does not apply to personal injury or to liability under product liability law, and our liability for intent and gross negligence is not limited.

These rules apply to paid software, free software and the demo alike.

9. Ending the license

We may block a license key only for the reasons and in the way set out in section 12 of the terms of sale, which are a withdrawal, a refund or misuse. Section 12 of the terms of sale also says when we end the contract for misuse and refund the price, and in which cases your right to use the full software ends.

Once your right to use the full software has ended, you may use only the demo, also on a computer that has not yet received the block, for example because it is offline or behind a firewall.

10. Third-party software

The software contains components from other authors under their own licenses. Their notices are in the file THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt that comes with the software.

VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

11. Not for sale in the USA

The software is not offered for sale in the USA, and section 13 of the terms of sale says which purchases are refused. The demo and the free software may be downloaded everywhere.

12. Applicable law and courts

Austrian law applies. If you are a consumer and live in another country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of that country. As a consumer in the EU you can bring a claim against us in Austria or at the courts of the place where you live. We can bring a claim against you only at the courts of the EU country where you live. For business customers the competent court in Klagenfurt has exclusive jurisdiction.

13. Changes to these license terms

We may change these license terms for future purchases, and each version has a number that is shown at the top, in the line "Terms version".

Your purchase keeps the version that applied when you bought, and a new version applies to your purchase only if you agree to it. Accepting license terms in the installer of a later version does not change the version that applies to an earlier purchase. Your statutory rights are not affected.

14. Contact

Email support@irrvogel.com. The postal address and further details are in the Impressum at irrvogel.com/impressum.