Real people. Real voices.
Real music we can celebrate.
Atrium Music represents music made by people. Every song, cue and recording we pitch is written, performed and produced by human beings, and that is the promise we make to the music supervisors, editors and filmmakers who trust us.
This policy explains what that means in practice. It applies to every artist, composer and producer who works with Atrium, and to every new submission from the date you receive it.
Human-made means a person made every creative choice you can hear, and a person performed or programmed every part. That covers four things.
The melody, harmony, rhythm, arrangement and lyrics come from you and your credited co-writers.
Every instrument is played or programmed by a person, note by note.
Every vocal is sung or spoken by a real person who agreed to be on the recording.
Every sound in the track was created for it, so the people credited can account for everything in it.
Atrium does not accept music that contains generative AI, samples, or melodic loops from sample libraries, in any amount and at any layer of the track.
Any part of a song, instrumental or vocal, created with a generative AI platform. This includes melodies, chords, beats, lyrics, stems, full tracks, and cloned or synthetic voices.
Or any similar tool, including AI features built into other apps.
Any portion of someone else’s recording, however short, and however it has been pitched, chopped or processed. This applies whether or not the sample has been cleared.
Licensed or cleared samples are not accepted either.
Pre-made loops, phrases and construction kit parts that carry melody, harmony or vocals, from Splice or any similar library. This includes guitar, keys, synth, string and vocal loops and chops, even when the license calls them royalty free.
Or any similar library, including loops bundled with your DAW. Single drum and percussion one-shots from these libraries are fine.
The reason is simple. A royalty-free loop is licensed to thousands of other creators, so the same part can turn up in someone else’s release and trigger ownership claims on yours. When a client licenses music from Atrium, we need to be able to say it is yours and yours alone.
The tools of modern recording are welcome, as long as a person is making the music with them.
If you are not sure whether something fits, ask before you submit. We would much rather answer a quick question than turn down a finished track. These are the cases worth checking with us:
We ask four things of everyone who submits music to Atrium.
Our cue submission form opens with a human-made music confirmation, and we review a track once it is signed.
You are responsible for the contributions of your co-writers, producers, session players and vocalists, so make sure they know this policy.
Hold on to project files and stems. We may ask to see them if a question comes up about how a track was made.
If you learn that a track already with us contains AI, a sample or a melodic loop, let us know right away so we can sort it out together.
A track that does not meet this policy will not be represented by Atrium.
“I have read the Atrium Music Human-Made Music Policy. I confirm that the music I submit to Atrium is human-made as described here, and contains no generative AI, no samples and no melodic loops from sample libraries.”
Thank you for making real music with us.