Copyright and takedowns

This page is part of our Terms of Service.

What people may share

Making original work is hard, and most of what is made here is original: notes clicked into a grid and sounds we provide. It can also include audio people import. The rules are simple:

• Share only what is yours to share. You may not use the service to make or spread work that uses other people's material beyond what fair use or your own licence allows.
• A song that contains imported audio can be shared with a link, but it is never listed publicly, never appears in Explore or search results, and cannot be opened for remixing.
• Imported audio and stems are private to the account that brought them in.

Musical ideas such as chord progressions, drum patterns, scales and genres are not owned by anyone, and using a common one is not copying.

Our own name and logo are trademarks. Ask us before using them to promote something.

Reporting something

The quick way. Every shared song and shared library item has a Report this link. Choose "It is not theirs to share", add any details, and send. You do not need an account. We review every report.

A formal notice. If you own a copyright, or act for someone who does, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) gives you the right to notify us that someone on the service has infringed your work. To be effective, the notice must be in writing and include:

1. a physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act for the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. identification of the copyrighted work or works you say have been infringed; if there are many, a representative list of them;
3. a way for us to locate the material you believe is infringing, such as the address (URL) of each item on the service;
4. your name and contact information so that we can get back to you: an email address is best, but a telephone number or postal address works too;
5. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

What we do

1. We review the report, usually within a few working days.
2. If it holds up, we take the item down. It becomes private at once and cannot be shared again. We tell the person who shared it, and why, and pass on the notice so they can respond.
3. People who infringe repeatedly lose the ability to share and, if it continues, their account.
4. If the report does not hold up, we dismiss it. Knowingly false reports are themselves a breach of our terms.

Taking something down does not delete the owner's project. It removes it from public view.

Counter-notice: if your work was taken down by mistake

If you believe your material was removed by mistake or misidentification, you can send us a written counter-notice. It must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature, or the signature of a person authorised to act for you;
2. a description of the material that was removed;
3. a description of where the material appeared on the service before it was removed;
4. your name and contact information so that we can get back to you: an email address is best, but a telephone number or postal address works too;
5. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
6. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, of the federal courts for Texas, United States, where we are located;
7. a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice, or their agent. In other words, you are naming that person as someone who can send legal documents to you.

We will pass your counter-notice to the person who complained. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 working days that they have gone to court to keep the item down, we may restore it.

Where to send notices

Copyright notices and counter-notices go to our designated agent: [DMCA AGENT]

You can also reach us through [email protected].

Second Order Ventures LLC, Texas, United States.