DMCA / Takedown Policy

Placeholder: draft boilerplate for the MVP prototype. The contact details are fake, no DMCA agent has been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office yet, and the full text needs real legal review before launch.

respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

How to file a takedown notice

If you believe content hosted on this platform infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent including all of the following:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature (or that of a person authorized to act for you).
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
  3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough information for us to locate it (for example, the song page URL).
  4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated agent (placeholder):
Copyright Agent
[Company legal name TBD]
[Street address TBD]
Email: dmca@example.com (placeholder — replace before launch)

Upon receiving a valid notice, we will remove or disable access to the identified material promptly and notify the user who posted it.

Counter-notices

If your content was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same agent including:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the removed material and where it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if outside the United States, a district where we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we may restore the material in 10–14 business days unless the original complainant informs us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement.

Repeat infringers

We maintain a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. Uploads from terminated accounts are removed from battle rotation.

Linked (embedded) songs

Songs added via YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music links are not hosted by us; we embed the official players. For infringement in that content, notices should generally go to the hosting platform. We will still remove an embed from battle rotation when notified of a valid claim.