Luminous.Works LLC
The full agreement follows. It is binding, so it is written carefully; but it is also meant to be readable, so where a section can be said in plain language it is.
This End User Licence Agreement (the "Agreement") is a legally binding contract between you (the "Licensee", whether an individual or a single legal entity) and Luminous.Works LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company (Wisconsin LLC ID L088081), registered office 2800 E. Enterprise Ave Ste 333, Appleton, WI 54913, United States, registered agent Northwest Registered Agent LLC (the "Licensor").
It governs your use of any Luminous.Works software product you have licensed, together with its documentation, sample content, presets and updates delivered under the same major version (collectively, the "Software"). Luminous.Works products are released under divisional imprints — including Lumina.Aerospace, LuminousWorks and Martinville — and all of them are the intellectual property of Luminous.Works LLC and are licensed under this Agreement.
You accept this Agreement by installing, activating or using the Software.
This is the master agreement and it applies to every product. Individual products may also have their own licence agreement, recorded in the Luminous.Works EULA registry and bundled with the installer. Where a product-specific agreement differs from this one, the product-specific agreement governs that product, and this document fills any gap it leaves.
The agreement that applies to you is the one in effect on the date of your purchase, for the version you purchased. We do not change terms mid-version.
Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and payment of all applicable fees, the Licensor grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use the Software on machines you personally own or are authorised to control, up to the number of seats included in your tier, solely for your own use — or, for entity licensees, for the internal business use of the named entity.
Seats are the only thing the tier changes about your rights under this Agreement. A one-seat licensee and a five-seat licensee have identical rights over their output, identical update entitlement, and identical protection under every other section here.
Each purchase issues one licence key. Activating the Software on a machine consumes one seat against that key.
Luminous.Works products are sold in three tiers — Sonnet, Opus and Opera — which run company-wide across every division. The tier names describe the category of licence. They do not fix a price or a seat count: each product sets its own, and a tier may carry different terms from one product to the next.
The seat count governing your licence is the one published at the point of sale and encoded in the licence file the Software holds. That file, not this page, is the authority on what you bought — the Software reads it directly, so your entitlement is a verifiable fact rather than something you have to establish by email.
Two things about seats that work in your favour, stated so you can rely on them:
Activation requires a one-time internet connection. After the Software has been activated, it does not require, and does not make, any further connection to the Licensor.
You may move your licence between your own machines as often as you want, without asking us. Deactivate on the old machine, which frees the seat, then activate on the new one.
If a machine is lost, stolen, or dies before you could deactivate it, email owner@luminousworksllc.com and we will free the seat for you. We will not make you argue for it.
You may:
You may not:
The Software is licensed, not sold. The Licensor retains all right, title and interest in it, including all intellectual property rights, all trademarks and divisional marks, the visual identity and design systems, and the underlying audio engines and algorithms. No rights are granted except those expressly set out here.
Stated without hedging, because producers need to be able to rely on it:
Everything you make with the Software belongs to you. Recordings, bounced audio, rendered exports, MIDI files, exported images, presets you author, and project files are your sole property. Use them in commercial releases, beat battles, sample packs, sync licensing, film and television cues, video games, advertising, or anything else — royalty-free, without attribution, and without any further licence from us.
This Agreement places no restriction whatsoever on your output, and no section of it may be read to create one. This clause survives termination of the Agreement, including termination for breach: work you have already made stays yours permanently, whatever later happens to the licence.
All updates within the same major version are provided at no additional cost — a version 1 licence covers every 1.x release. Major version upgrades (for example 2.0) may be offered as paid upgrades. Your update entitlement is recorded in your licence file and checked by the Software itself, so it is a verifiable fact rather than something you have to argue for by email.
Support, where offered, is provided via owner@luminousworksllc.com. The Licensor provides updates, patches and support at its discretion.
A licence is revoked if it is refunded or charged back, or if this Agreement is terminated for breach. Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy, which is generous and forms part of your bargain with us.
When a licence is absent, invalid or revoked, the Software is locked. In that state it displays the activation panel, and audio passes through unchanged rather than going silent — a plugin that goes quiet inside a session reads as a broken plugin, and we would rather show you the reason than leave you debugging one. Rendering and export functions are disabled while locked.
Locking is not a penalty and does not affect anything you have already made. See section 9.
What the Software transmits, what we store, and what we refuse to collect is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of this Agreement. In summary: the Software contacts us once, at activation, and never again; it never transmits your audio, your projects or any usage data.
Nothing in this section limits any warranty or remedy that consumer law in your country gives you and does not allow to be excluded.
Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to you only so far as that jurisdiction permits.
This Agreement runs until terminated. It terminates automatically, without notice, if you fail to comply with any provision of it. On termination you must stop using the Software, uninstall it, and destroy all copies in your possession or control.
Sections 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 survive termination — including, as stated in section 9, your permanent ownership of everything you made.
You represent that you are not located in, and will not export the Software to, any country or to any person subject to United States, United Kingdom, European Union or Jamaican trade sanctions or export-control restrictions.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Wisconsin, except that the Licensor may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings there.
This Agreement, together with the product-specific agreement for your product (section 2), the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Licensor regarding the Software, and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings. No modification is effective unless in writing and signed by an authorised representative of the Licensor. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force.
Luminous.Works LLC
A Wisconsin limited liability company · WI LLC ID L088081
2800 E. Enterprise Ave Ste 333, Appleton, WI 54913, United States
owner@luminousworksllc.com ·
luminousworks.com