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Report Copyright Infringement

Procedure For Alleging Copyright Infringement

Notice and Notice Regime. BeatsUnion will respond appropriately to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the notice to notice tool in Canada’s Copyright Act, as set forth below. If you own a copyright in a work (or represent such a copyright owner) and believe that your (or such owner’s) copyright in that work has been infringed by an improper posting or distribution of it via the BeatsUnion Service, then you may send us a written notice. The Copyright Act lists the specific information that must be included in a notice for it to comply with the Notice and Notice regime.

Notices must:

  1. State the claimant’s name and address, telephone number and email address;
  2. State your relationship to the owner of the copyright material (for example: self, manager, lawyer, etc);
  3. Identify the copyright material that is alleged to have been infringed and the claimant’s interest or right with respect to that material;
  4. Specify the location data (e.g. the web address associated with the alleged infringement);
  5. Specify the infringement that is alleged;
  6. Specify the date and time of the alleged infringement;
  7. A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner of the copyrighted work, its agent, or the law; 
  8. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner of the copyrighted work or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf; and
  9. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

The Copyright Act also lists the specific information that must not be included in a notice for it to comply with the Notice and Notice Regime. 

Notices must not contain:

  1. An offer to settle the claimed infringement
  2. A request or demand, made in relation to the claimed infringement, for payment or for personal information
  3. A reference, including by way of hyperlink, to such an offer, request or demand
  4. Any other information that may be prescribed by regulation.

BeatsUnion may not respond to notices that do not comply with the above specification as such notices are deemed to be invalid under the regime, and BeatsUnion may elect to remove allegedly infringing material that comes to its attention via notices that do not comply with the notice and notice regime as identified in Canada’s Copyright Act. 

A notice of alleged infringement is separate from any lawsuit for copyright infringement. Please note that any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability. We may send the information that you provide in your notice to the person who provided the allegedly infringing work. That person may elect to send us a Counter-Notification.

BeatsUnion may, in appropriate circumstances, remove the infringing work and terminate a repeat infringer’s access to the Service.

Procedure For Alleging Infringement of Other Intellectual Property

If you own intellectual property other than copyrights and believe that your intellectual property has been infringed by an improper posting or distribution of it via the Service, then you may send us an email that includes all of the following:

  1. a legend or subject line that says: “Intellectual Property Infringement Notice”
  2. a description of the intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing or is the subject of infringing activity is located that is reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (please include the URL or page of the Service on which the material appears);
  4. your full name, address, telephone number and email address;
  5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the owner of the intellectual property, its agent, or the law;
  6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that all the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the owner of the intellectual property at issue (or, if you are not the owner, then your statement must indicate that you are authorized to act on the behalf of the owner of the intellectual property that is allegedly infringed); and
  7. your electronic or physical signature.

We will act on such notices at our sole discretion. Any user of the Service that fails to respond satisfactorily to BeatsUnion with regard to any such notice is subject to suspension or termination. We may send the information that you provide in your notice to the person who provided the allegedly infringing material.

BeatsUnion’s policy on this topic may change from time to time without notice to you.  Please check back regularly to this page for the most up to date version of the policy.