Copyright & Legal Notice

1. Ownership

Riff Boston, including riffboston.com, www.riffboston.com and all related domains, apps, newsletters and social channels (the "Service"), is owned and operated by Riff Boston. All right, title and interest in and to the Service and every asset described below are and remain the sole and exclusive property of Riff Boston.

2. Protected assets

Without limitation, the following are proprietary assets of Riff Boston:

• Brand: the Riff Boston name, the Boston skyline waveform logo and all variations, wordmarks, stencil lettering, favicon, watermarks, badges, banners, icons, slogans and taglines (including "Boston sounds better live.").
• Photography & video: concert and pit photography, live performance images, portraits, promotional images, hero and gallery images, concert clips, video and motion graphics produced by or for Riff Boston.
• Look & feel: visual design, layout, page structure, color palette, typography, design tokens, components, animations, interactions and overall trade dress.
• Editorial content: reviews, portfolio pieces, musician tributes, artist and venue profiles, show descriptions, newsletter issues, Riff Spotlight features and all other written copy.
• Data: show listings as compiled, curated, verified and deduplicated by Riff Boston, venue and artist directories, lineups, calendars, archives, taxonomies and structured data.
• Audio: the Riff player, waveform graphics, playlists and audio presentation.
• Software & functionality: source code, databases and schemas, ingestion and discovery pipelines, verification and deduplication logic, search and filtering, AI-assisted tools, APIs, server functions, automations, scheduled jobs and all features and workflows of the Service.
• Merchandise: merch designs, product artwork and mockups.

3. Copyright and trademarks

These assets are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, database and unfair competition laws. Riff Boston names, logos and marks are trademarks of Riff Boston, whether or not registered. Nothing on the Service grants any license or right to use them, by implication, estoppel or otherwise.

4. Prohibited uses

Without prior written permission from Riff Boston, you may not:

• copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, license, modify or create derivative works from any asset;
• use, remove, crop or alter any logo, watermark, credit or copyright notice;
• imitate the Riff Boston brand, design or look and feel, or use confusingly similar names or marks;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, mirror, frame or bulk-download the Service or its data;
• use any asset or data to train, fine-tune or feed artificial intelligence or machine-learning systems;
• reverse engineer, decompile or replicate the software, features or functionality.

Personal, non-commercial viewing and sharing links to pages is permitted.

5. Third-party content

Band and artist names, album art, performer imagery, venue names and logos, and ticketing marks belong to their respective owners and appear for identification, informational and editorial purposes only. Their appearance does not imply endorsement.

6. Enforcement

Riff Boston actively monitors and enforces its rights. Unauthorized use may result in takedown notices, account termination and civil or criminal remedies, including damages, injunctive relief and recovery of legal fees. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

7. Licensing & notices

For licensing, photo usage, syndication, permissions or infringement notices, contact bealstreetmedia@gmail.com.