Copyright & DMCA Policy

1. Reporting infringement

Send a notice to our designated agent. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3), it must include substantially the following:

• a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on their behalf;
• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed — or, for multiple works at one site, a representative list;
• identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it: the station, the stream or episode URL, and the date and time where relevant;
• your name, address, telephone number and email address;
• a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner.

Please note: knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages under §512(f).

2. What we do when we receive a notice

We act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified. That may mean removing a podcast episode, disabling a feed, deleting a recording, or taking a stream offline. We notify the affected customer and pass on your notice so they can respond.

3. Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address, containing:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the material removed and the location where it appeared before removal;
• a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; and
• your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if outside the United States, any district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the complaining party.

We will forward your counter-notice to the complaining party. Unless they file an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

4. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of customers who repeatedly infringe. In practice: a first valid notice is a warning; a second results in recording and podcast publishing being disabled; a third results in account termination. We may act sooner where the infringement is flagrant.

Counter-notified claims that are withdrawn or resolved in the customer's favour do not count against them.

5. A note to broadcasters

Most copyright problems on this platform are not deliberate. They come from a genuine and very common misunderstanding: that the licence covering your live stream also covers a recording of it. It does not. Before you publish an episode containing music, read Recording & On-Demand Rights. If in doubt, publish your speech content and leave the music out.