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Notices

Report content or send a notice

Sonic Weaver members can post visualizers with music. Before a member posts music they tell us they own it or have permission to share it, but we cannot check every post. If you believe something on Sonic Weaver uses your work without permission, or breaks the law in another way, tell us here and we will review it by hand. You do not need an account.

This is Sonic Weaver's own notice process. It follows the notice-and-notice rules of Canada's Copyright Act and the notice-and-action approach used in the UK and the EU. It is not the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) process: Sonic Weaver has not registered a designated agent with the US Copyright Office. We accept and review notices from anywhere in the world, including notices written in the DMCA format.

To report something that breaks the Community Guidelines but not the law, use the Report button on the content instead.

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Every field is required unless it says optional.

What kind of problem is it?
Your right in the work
Statements

We store your notice with your name, contact details and statements, and send a copyright notice, with your name, to the member it concerns, as Canadian law requires. Sending a notice you know is false can have legal consequences.

What happens after you send it

  1. We confirm on screen that we received it and show your reference. For a copyright notice, the same screen says whether we forwarded it to the member or why we could not. Keep your reference: an email receipt is not guaranteed.
  2. If the notice is a complete copyright notice about a post, we mute that post's audio at once while we review it. The post's visuals keep playing. Nothing else is removed before a person has looked at it.
  3. We review the notice against the content by hand. We decide as soon as we can.
  4. We decide, and may: take no action; hide or remove the content; and add a copyright strike to the member's account.
  5. We tell you and the member. You get our decision and the reasons. The member gets our decision, the reasons, and how to challenge it.

We do not give you the member's name, email or other personal details unless they agree, a court orders it, or the law requires it.

Copyright notices and Canadian law

Sonic Weaver is operated from Canada. When we receive a copyright notice that meets the requirements of Canada's Copyright Act, we forward it electronically to the member who posted the content, as soon as we can, and tell you that we have forwarded it or why we could not. We keep the records that identify that member for six months from the day we receive your notice, or for one year if you tell us within those six months that you have started court proceedings. We do not charge for this.

Forwarding a notice is separate from our own review: we forward every valid notice, and we also review it under this page and the Community Guidelines. The forwarded notice includes your name, but not your postal address or email.

Please do not include an offer to settle, or a demand for payment or for the member's personal information. Under Canadian law such a notice is not a valid notice of claimed infringement, and we will not forward it. Sending a notice that you know is false can have legal consequences.

Notices from the UK and the EU

If you are in the UK or the European Union, use this same form for copyright and for any other content you believe is illegal. We review every notice with care and without bias, tell you our decision and the reasons without undue delay, and tell the member what we decided, why, and how to challenge it. Nothing is decided by automated means, except that a complete copyright notice about a post's music mutes that audio while we review it.

Counter-notices and repeat infringers

If we hid or removed a member's content because of a copyright notice, the member can send a counter-notice from their settings. We send it to the person who sent the notice, with the name and contact email the member gives us, so they can take it up directly. If that person tells us within 10 business days that they have started court proceedings, the content stays down until that is resolved. Otherwise we decide on the evidence from both sides and tell both of them the result. This is our own process; it is not the US DMCA counter-notice process.

When we uphold a copyright notice we may add a copyright strike to the member's account. We see how many copyright notices have been upheld against a member, and members who repeatedly post work they do not have the rights to are banned once the ban is approved by hand. A successful counter-notice removes the strike.