Copyright and DMCA

We respect the rights of artists, songwriters, labels and publishers. When we receive a valid notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we remove or disable access to the material named in it expeditiously, and we keep a record of what we did and when.

Disabling access can mean one of several things depending on what was reported: the recording stops being served to anyone, the page it sat on is replaced by a notice, or both. We do not need to delete our only copy of a file to stop serving it, and we usually do not, so that access can be restored precisely if a notice is withdrawn or a licence is agreed.

Send notices to our designated agent at dmca@unreleased.world. Reports of other kinds of abuse go to abuse@unreleased.world.

A notice sent to this address reaches a person. If you are a hosting or infrastructure provider forwarding an abuse case, please include your case reference so we can reply against it.

So that we can act on your notice rather than ask you for more, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) asks it to include:

• identification of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;
• identification of the material you say infringes it, and where it is on unreleased.world — a full link to each item is what lets us act quickly and precisely;
• your name, address, telephone number and email address;
• a statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and
• your physical or electronic signature.

Please be accurate. Section 512(f) makes a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages.

The form below lays your notice out in the order the statute lists, adds both required statements, and opens it in your own email client so it arrives signed and from an address that is yours. Nothing you type here is sent to us or stored until you send that email.

We disable access to the material named in a valid notice, record what we did, and let the member who posted it know what was removed and why. Where the notice names a page rather than a single file, we may replace the playback part of that page with a notice while leaving the page itself in place.

We will reply to the address you give us. If your notice is incomplete we will tell you what is missing rather than ignore it.

If you believe your material was disabled by mistake or misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to dmca@unreleased.world with: the material and where it was before it was disabled; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief it was disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; your consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which unreleased.world may be found); and your signature.

We may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the person who sent the original notice tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity.

We close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, and we may remove content or limit an account at any time under our Terms of Service.