DMCA Takedown Requests and Copyright Infringements

After receiving a Blogger DMCA takedown notification this afternoon (24/08/2011 - 12:50 CET), in relation to one of our freebies posts (#67), I guess I better put up this page with our DMCA policy. It might save all of us involved a lot of unnecessary hassles.

If any of the posts on this blog should be in violation of your rights as copyright holder, in particular the Freebies posts, please leave a comment at the bottom of that post, ask for removal, indicate clearly what track in that post you want removed and leave your email so I can contact you to verify your claim. I will remove your comment and the included email address as soon as it was emailed to me (which should happen immediately).

I will take down the offending track(s) immediately, since I work from the assumption that all freebies posted here come from official sources and are offered as promotion. If however you fail or refuse to properly identify yourself as a legitimate copyright holder, as required by DMCA laws and regulations, I might add the track back, so, to all jokers and clowns; don't even consider harassing us.

You can save yourself a lot of time and money by not going via Google's / Blogger's DMCA takedown system. It is not in our interest to infringe on anybody's copyrights and that is definitely not our intention with the freebies.

The Freebies are supposed to be promotion, coming directly from labels or promo agencies. But since we are in no position to verify all that, all of the time, it is not impossible that something of questionable legal status slips through unintentionally every now and then. (Probably coming via other blogs I follow).

Just ask, and we'll remove it.

As for the album streams, you'll have to contact the service that is hosting the streams to remove them. We don't upload anything anywhere so we don't have any control over any of those servers, and logically therefore we can not remove anything from them either. Both Grooveshark and Soundcloud have their own DMCA takedown systems in place and both take it seriously, so don't hesitate to contact them if you feel your rights are being infringed upon.

It's probably unlikely any problems will occur on bandcamp, reverbnation or any other service we might use to stream from, but if it should happen, contact them directly as soon as possible and they'll deal with it accordingly.

Thank you for your cooperation