Just like in a traditional producer agreement or beat sale agreement, a Beat Lease Agreement allows an artist to incorporate a producer’s instrumental beat into a new recording by the artist. But unlike those agreements, in a Beat Lease Agreement the producer maintains full ownership of the copyright in the beat while giving the artist either an exclusive or non-exclusive license to use the beat, typically for a set period of time (years) and/or a set number of exploitations (sales and streams).
Popular beat leasing marketplaces include Beatstars and Traktrain.