Copyright

Email dwin@vibebanger.com with the subject Copyright, and include:

• A link to the page on this site where the music appears — the address of the song page is enough.
• What the work is, and how you know it's yours: a release, a registration, a distributor, wherever it is published.
• Your name and an email address we can reply to.
• A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by you, your agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information you've given is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We need all of it. Without a specific link and a way to reach you, we cannot act on a report, and a vague complaint only slows down the ones that are real.

We read every report. Where it is clear enough to act on, the track comes down first and we look into it afterwards — leaving music up while a dispute is discussed is not fair to whoever made it.

We tell the person who uploaded it what was reported and who reported it, so they can respond. We keep a record of what was taken down and why.

Reply to us and say so. Tell us why the music is yours or why you are allowed to distribute it — you wrote it, you licensed it, the sample is cleared, it is out of copyright. Include a way to contact you.

To be a formal counter-notice, what you send has to include:

• The track that was taken down, and where it used to appear.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address and phone number.
• Your agreement that a court where you live may settle the matter, and that you will accept legal papers from whoever reported it.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

If what you tell us resolves it, the track goes back up. We may pass your response, including your contact details, to whoever reported it, because that is usually the only way the two of you can settle it.

Accounts that repeatedly upload music belonging to other people are closed, and their uploads removed. This is not a numbers game — one deliberate attempt to pass off someone else's work is enough.

We will act on any of these:

• A recording of yours used here without your permission.
• A track that reproduces a recognisable part of your work — a melody, a hook, a lyric.
• Your name, voice or likeness used in a way that presents a song as yours when it isn't.

We are not able to resolve these, and would rather say so than take a report we cannot act on:

• A song that sounds like your style. Style is not something anybody owns.
• A claim that some model, somewhere, was trained on your catalogue. We have no visibility into how a tool was trained before somebody used it here, and no standing to adjudicate it.

A specific recording can be owned, and that is what this page is for. If you are unsure which of these you have, send it anyway and we will tell you.

Much of this catalogue is produced with AI tools, which is stated on each song's own page. That is not a reason a track can escape this policy: if a piece of music reproduces something you made, report it exactly as you would anything else, and we will deal with it the same way.