Copyright & DMCA Policy

Effective [[ EFFECTIVE DATE ]] · Last updated [[ DATE ]]

BandCue respects copyright. Users upload tab, notation, lyrics, and set lists, and we respond promptly to valid notices of infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We also terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.

Designated agent for copyright notices

Notices of claimed infringement should be sent to our designated agent, registered with the United States Copyright Office:

Designated Agent: [[ AGENT NAME ]]

Organization: [[ LEGAL NAME — must match the Copyright Office registration ]]

Address: [[ FULL PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS — not a P.O. box ]]

Telephone: [[ PHONE ]]

Email: [[ DMCA EMAIL — e.g. copyright@bandcue.app ]]

This address is for copyright notices only. General questions, support requests, and account issues sent here will not receive a response — please use the contact address on our Terms of Service page instead.

How to report infringement

To be effective under the DMCA, your written notice must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be actionable, and we may not be able to act on it.

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works at one site are covered by a single notice, a representative list of them.
  3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it. On BandCue the most useful identifiers are the song or set list title, the uploading user's display name, and a direct link.
  4. Your contact information — address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized 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 the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

A note specific to sheet music

Sheet music generally involves two distinct copyrights: the underlying musical composition, and the particular published edition or engraving. If your claim concerns one and not the other, saying so in your notice helps us act accurately and narrowly.

What we do when we receive a valid notice

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send our designated agent a written counter-notice containing all four of the following:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, address, and telephone number, together with 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, for any judicial district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice, or their agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the person who filed the original notice. If they do not notify us within ten business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the activity, we may restore the removed material, generally within ten to fourteen business days of receiving the counter-notice.

Repeat-infringer policy

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright.

A valid, uncontested notice results in a strike against the uploading account. A strike is not recorded, or is withdrawn, where a counter-notice succeeds, where the complaining party retracts the notice, or where we determine the notice was invalid. Accounts that accumulate [[ NUMBER — commonly 3 ]] strikes are terminated. We may terminate an account sooner where the infringement is severe, deliberate, or at scale.

Terminated users may not create new accounts. Content uploaded by a terminated account may be removed from the public library.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. Please be sure of your claim before filing, and consider whether the use is authorized by law before sending a notice.

If you are unsure whether you can upload something

Keep it private. Private content in BandCue is visible only to you and to the bandmates you invite into a rehearsal room; it does not appear in the public library. This is the right setting for material you are working from but do not have distribution rights to.