ICloud Match - is it account specific

Hi, we've seen that you can now sign up for iCloud Match, so that you can access your iTunes account - music, film, books etc from anywhere as it stores your whole account on iCloud.  However, it asks you for a user id when you sign up for it.  Both me and my husband have separate accounts and wonder whether I will be able to access this service if he purchases it via his account.  Or whether I would have to sign in as him to access it?
Has anyone signed up for this yet and come across this issue - or is it advisable to start a new iTunes joint account which we can both access?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
I can confirm that protected AAC files bought under the account name not used for the iTunes Match service are not copied or matched in iTunes Match, they are deemed ineligible.
I can't say for sure whether purchased AAC files bought under the non iTunes match account are eligible or not. I don't have any purchased AAC items listed as ineligible, but I can't be sure I have any non iTunes Match account purchased AAC content, although I think I have. (Unless you go through all your tracks one by one it's not easy to see who's account they were bought under as there is no way to search by account name).

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