How our catalog is made — and why we're happy to explain
The Oktava catalog is created with AI music tools under the service's creative direction and is not registered with any collecting society — authors' or neighbouring-rights. That's not small print; it's the product. This page explains each part of that sentence.
Made with AI, directed by people
Every Oktava track starts as output from AI music tools and becomes a catalog track only after human work: the service's team sets the brief, generates, selects, edits and masters what goes in. The tools are the instrument; the creative direction is ours.
We disclose this openly, including where the law asks for it and where it doesn't. Disclosure of AI-generated content is becoming a legal requirement in some jurisdictions — Article 50 of the EU AI Act is the best-known example. No hype about the technology, and no embarrassment about it either: what matters legally is not how the music was made, but whether a society has it in its repertoire — ours doesn't.
Made for the service, closed by design
Every track is created for the service: there are no external artists to pay, no third-party recordings to clear, no work-for-hire chains to audit — we assign ISRC codes ourselves. The catalog is closed by design.
Tracks are streamed only inside the Oktava player and are not published on Spotify, YouTube or anywhere else. A closed catalog is what keeps the legal position clean — and we treat that as operating rule number one.
Registered nowhere
The catalog is not transferred to any collecting society — authors' or neighbouring-rights, in any country. That's exactly why the catalogue-scoped promise works: a society can license what's in its repertoire. Ours isn't. Your certificate and playback log document that this is what's playing.
Why competitors don't like this page
In this segment it's common to promise "royalty-free" in the marketing and then, in the terms, shift the licensing obligation to the client — a clause saying collecting-society fees are the venue's own problem. The homepage sells peace of mind; the contract sells it back.
Read any provider's terms before trusting their homepage — ours included. Our terms say what this page says.
Questions, answered
Is AI music even copyrightable?
Jurisdictions differ, and the doctrinal debate is real — we won't pretend otherwise. Our position doesn't depend on its outcome: it rests on the service's creative direction of the catalog and on the fact that the catalog is in no society's repertoire — whatever courts decide about AI authorship, there is still nothing for a society to license. We follow the cases, including the German proceedings around Suno.
Can a track leak outside the player?
Tracks are streamed only inside the Oktava player and aren't published anywhere else — no Spotify, no YouTube, no downloads. That closed loop is operating rule number one, because the legal position depends on it.
How big is the catalog and how often does it grow?
The catalog grows continuously: new tracks are added as they pass curation, and channels are refreshed so regulars don't hear the same rotation. The dashboard shows the current channel lineup for your location.
This information is provided for general reference and is not legal advice.