Terms of Use

One set of terms for every V13 Media Group property, covering how you can read, share, link to, and comment on our work.

The short version

Welcome to V13 Media Group. These Terms cover how you may use our websites — reading, sharing, linking, and commenting. They are not a contract for our store, our community, or our client services; those each have their own agreements, and we tell you where to find them below. Read our work, link to it generously, don’t steal it, and be decent in the comments. That’s most of it. Lead with Love & Logic.

(The summary above is for convenience only. The sections below are the Terms.)

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the websites operated by V13 Media Group (“VMG”, “we”, “us”), a sole proprietorship registered in Ontario, Canada.

These Terms apply to the websites and web properties listed in the Covered Properties Schedule in Section 12 (together, the “Sites”). By accessing or using any of the Sites, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Sites.

These Terms are website-use terms only. They govern reading, browsing, linking to, and interacting with content on the Sites. They do not govern:

  • Purchases from our store. Sales, refunds, shipping, and returns are governed by the policies published on our Shopify-hosted store.
  • Membership in our community. The Green Room, our membership community for independent creators, is hosted on Skool and governed by Skool’s terms of service and the community’s own rules.
  • Email newsletters. Delivery of our newsletters is handled by our email platform under its own terms; your subscription can be cancelled at any time using the unsubscribe link in every issue.
  • Client, author, and artist engagements. If you have a signed agreement with VMG or any of its divisions, that agreement governs the services it covers and prevails over these Terms wherever the two conflict.

2. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated Terms at the canonical URL above, update the effective date, and record the change in the version log at the bottom of this page. Material changes will be flagged in the version log. Your continued use of the Sites after an updated version takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

3. Our content and your permitted use

The content on the Sites — articles, reviews, interviews, photographs, artwork, audio, video, graphics, logos, and design — is owned by VMG or used under licence from its owners, and is protected by Canadian and international copyright and trademark law.

You may:

  • read, view, and stream content on the Sites for personal, non-commercial use;
  • share links to our content anywhere, including on social media;
  • quote brief excerpts of our articles with clear attribution and a link to the original.

You may not, without our prior written permission:

  • republish, reproduce, or redistribute our content in whole or substantial part;
  • use our content to train, fine-tune, or ground artificial-intelligence models or datasets;
  • scrape, harvest, or systematically download content or data from the Sites;
  • use our names, logos, or trademarks in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation;
  • remove or alter any copyright notices, photo credits, or attribution.

Photographs and press assets made available through our press portal are provided for editorial use under the conditions stated there.

4. Linking to the Sites

We encourage links to our content. When linking, you must not (a) imply that VMG endorses you, your organization, or your products or services unless we have said so in writing, or (b) frame or embed our pages in a way that obscures their origin. We may withdraw linking permission in specific cases at our reasonable discretion.

5. Third-party links and embedded content

The Sites contain links to, and embedded content from, third-party services (for example, embedded video and audio players and links to external websites). We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, or practices. A link or embed is not an endorsement. Your use of any third-party service is governed by that service’s own terms and privacy policy. Embedded players may set cookies and collect data as described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Comments and submissions

Some of the Sites accept reader comments through Disqus, a third-party commenting service. To comment, you must be at least 18 years old. Your use of Disqus is also governed by Disqus’s own terms and privacy policy.

Licence. You keep ownership of what you write. By posting a comment or sending us an unsolicited submission (such as a tip, letter, or pitch), you grant VMG a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce, and quote that material on the Sites and in our editorial and promotional channels, with attribution where practical. This licence is limited to operating and promoting the Sites; we do not take ownership of your work, and we will not sell your submission to third parties.

Manuscripts and creative work. Do not send unsolicited manuscripts or creative work through the comments. Submissions to our publishing division are governed by the submission terms published on that division’s site, and nothing in these Terms grants us publication rights in creative work.

Conduct. You must not post content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene, infringing, deceptive, or spam; impersonate any person; or post another person’s private information without consent. We may moderate, edit for length or clarity, decline to publish, or remove any comment at our discretion, and may restrict commenting privileges for abuse.

7. Acceptable use of the Sites

You must not: interfere with the operation or security of the Sites; attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, account, or data; introduce malicious code; use bots or automated means to access the Sites other than ordinary search-engine indexing; or use the Sites in violation of any applicable law.

8. Copyright complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect the same of our readers and contributors.

  • Canada (notice-and-notice). If you believe content on the Sites infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated copyright contact: info@v13.net (subject line: “Copyright Notice”), including identification of the work, the location (URL) of the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, and a statement of your interest or right in the work.
  • United States (DMCA). If you are in the US or prefer to proceed under the DMCA, send a notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to the same contact. We will respond to valid notices, which may include removing or disabling access to the identified material.

9. Disclaimers

The Sites and their content are provided free of charge, on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We work hard to be accurate, but we do not warrant that the Sites will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any content — including reviews, opinions, interviews, and third-party statements — is complete, current, or suitable for any particular purpose. Editorial opinions are those of their authors.

Nothing on the Sites is professional advice. Content about the music, publishing, or media industries is general information, not legal, financial, or business advice for your situation.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, VMG, its owner, staff, and contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Sites or their content. To the same maximum extent, our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the Sites will not exceed CAD $100.

Consumer-law carve-out. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any right or remedy you have under applicable law that cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified by agreement — including rights under Ontario consumer protection legislation, other Canadian provincial consumer law (including the Quebec Consumer Protection Act), and, for users in the United Kingdom, the Consumer Rights Act 2015. In those cases, our liability is limited to the minimum extent the law allows.

11. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Ontario, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Any dispute arising out of these Terms or your use of the Sites will be resolved in the courts of the Province of Ontario, and you attorn to their jurisdiction — except that, if you are a consumer and the law of your place of residence gives you a non-waivable right to bring or defend proceedings in your local courts or under your local law, nothing in this section takes that right away. These Terms do not require arbitration, and nothing in them prevents you from commencing or participating in a class proceeding where the law gives you that right.

12. Covered Properties Schedule

These Terms apply to the following VMG web properties:

Primary sites

Property

URL

V13 Media (flagship publication)

https://v13.net

V13 Media Group (corporate site — canonical home of these Terms)

https://mediagroup.v13.net

V13 Music

https://music.v13.net

V13 Press

https://press.v13.net

V13 Promo

https://promo.v13.net

V13 Store (Shopify-hosted; commerce terms apply there)

https://v13.store / https://store.v13.net

Legacy site

https://ventures.v13.net

Newsletter subscription pages (platform-hosted)

Property

URL

Newsletter subdomains hosted on our email platform

https://v1llag3voice.v13.net, https://industryinsider.v13.net, https://verseandvision.v13.net

Redirect domains (forward to the sites above): v13.news, v13.press, v13.promo, v13.social, v13.store, v13.media, v13.tattoo, v13.group.

For certainty, these Terms also apply to v13.net and every subdomain of v13.net operated by VMG, whether or not listed individually above. Note that v13.store is a separate registered domain (not a subdomain of v13.net) and is therefore listed expressly. Websites of operator-owned founder brands are not VMG properties and carry their own terms and policies.

Community, social, and video channels (including the Green Room on Skool and our channels on YouTube and other platforms) are governed primarily by those platforms’ own terms; these Terms apply to VMG’s conduct and content there to the extent the platform terms allow.

13. General

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any policy expressly referenced in them, are the entire agreement between you and VMG regarding use of the Sites. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization or transfer of the business.

14. Contact

V13 Media Group Email: info@v13.net Mailing address: 205 Frederick St, 1208, Toronto, ON M5A 1N2

Page last updated: July 19, 2026