DMCA Notice and Takedown Policy

The rights of copyright owners are taken seriously here, and claims of infringement are responded to in line with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Read the next section before sending anything. Because of how this site works, a notice aimed at the wrong party costs you time and achieves nothing.

What this site does and does not host

This website hosts no music, no podcast episodes and no third-party media of any kind. It has no media library, and no user uploads anything to it.

The tool runs in your browser and contacts public services directly:

Titles and cover art come from Spotify's public oEmbed endpoint, and the cover image itself is served from Spotify's own image network.
Song audio is never downloaded at all. It plays only inside Spotify's official embedded player.
Podcast shows and episodes are found through Apple's public podcast directory, and an episode MP3 is downloaded from the host the publisher itself distributes it from, straight to the visitor's device.

So if your complaint is about a media file, the copy of that file lives with Spotify, with Apple's directory listing, or with the podcast publisher's own host, and a notice sent to that party is the one that can actually remove it.

What we can act on is material published on this website itself: our own pages, text and illustrations, and any link on this site that points at infringing material. Send us a notice for those and it will be dealt with.

How to file a DMCA notice

Send your notice by email to the address at the foot of this page, with “DMCA Notice” in the subject line.

Under section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, a valid notification must be a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works at a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of those works.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit it to be located. For this site, that means the full page address on https://spotifymusicdownloader.org.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the complaining party to be contacted, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an email address.
A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

A notice that leaves out one of these elements may not be effective. Material identified in a valid notice is removed, or access to it disabled, promptly on receipt.

Warning about misrepresentation

Section 512(f) of the DMCA is worth reading before you send anything.

Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or its licensee, or by the service provider who is injured by the misrepresentation.

Fair use, licensed use, and use authorised by the rights holder are all lawful. If you are not certain that the use you are complaining about is infringing, consult a lawyer before filing. Nothing on this page is legal advice.

Counter-notification

If material of yours was removed from this site and you believe the removal was the result of a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same email address, with “DMCA Counter-Notification” in the subject line.

Under section 512(g)(3), a counter-notification must include substantially all of the following:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material.
Your name, address and telephone number, and 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 the service provider may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notification or an agent of that person.

On receipt of a valid counter-notification, a copy is forwarded to the original complaining party. The removed material may be restored in not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days, unless the complaining party first notifies us that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity.

Repeat infringers and where to send notices

It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances, to remove or disable access to material that is the subject of repeated valid notices and to decline further dealings with parties who repeatedly infringe.

Notices and counter-notifications are sent to the email address below. No postal address for service is published on this site; email is the only channel.

Acting on a notice is not an admission of liability and is not a waiver of any right or defence.