Política de Direitos Autorais

Effective date: 2026-09-11 Version: 2026-09-11

Chord Collect respects the intellectual property rights of songwriters, publishers, and other creators, and expects users to do the same. This Policy explains how we handle copyright claims about content published to the Community, including the Catalog Content we publish ourselves, how account holders can respond, and the limits of what we do with content you keep private.

This Policy implements the notice-and-takedown approach of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") §512 and the hosting-provider framework of EU law (Directive 2000/31/EC and, where applicable, the Digital Services Act), as a matter of policy for user-published content regardless of location. It applies alongside §4 to §9 of the Terms of Service and the Community Guidelines. As explained in §7, that hosting-provider framework does not extend to the Catalog Content we publish ourselves, for which we offer a separate, simplified process.

1. Scope: what this Policy acts on

This Policy applies to content published to the Community. That means songs and playlists that have been made public, whether by another user or by our own official account (see §7), and messages posted in group chat that other group members can see. It does not apply to content kept private in your own library, notebook, or personal notes, which is covered separately in §6.

2. Submitting a notice about user-published content

If you believe user-published content on Chord Collect infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] including:

Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed (e.g. song title, songwriter/publisher, and, if available, a link to an authorized copy)
Identification of the specific content on Chord Collect you claim is infringing, with enough detail (e.g. a link, or the song title and the publishing user's display name) for us to locate it
Your contact information (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, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf
Your physical or electronic signature

We may act on notices that substantially meet these requirements even if not every element is present, and we may disregard notices that are clearly abusive, incomplete, or made in bad faith.

3. What we do when we receive a valid notice

On receiving a notice that reasonably identifies infringing content published by another user to the Community, we will, without unreasonable delay:

Remove or disable public access to the identified content
Notify the account holder that their content was removed and why, and provide a copy of the notice (with the reporter's contact details redacted, unless the reporter consents to disclosure)
Record the notice against the account for repeat-infringer tracking under §5

We do not remove or inspect content in your private library as part of this process (see §6).

4. Counter-notice

If your published content was removed and you believe this was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to [email protected] including:

Identification of the content that was removed and where it was published
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the content was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction described in §18 of the Terms of Service
Your physical or electronic signature

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. Unless the complainant informs us within a reasonable time that they have sought a court order to restrain the reinstated activity, we may restore the content. The counter-notice process in this section applies to content published by another user; it does not apply to the Catalog Content described in §7, for which there is no counter-notice step.

5. Repeat infringers

We maintain a record of copyright notices upheld against each account. An account that accumulates repeated, substantiated notices will face escalating consequences: a warning, then temporary suspension of Community publishing, and ultimately termination of the account, in appropriate circumstances and consistent with §15 of the Terms of Service. Our official account, which publishes Catalog Content under §7, is not subject to this repeat-infringer count; content removed from it is handled entirely under §7. See §6 of the Privacy Policy for how long we keep a record of a notice.

6. Your private library is not searched or removed on copyright notice

Copyright notices under this Policy act on content that has been made public. We do not scan, search, or remove songs, chord charts, notes, or files kept in your private library or personal notebook in response to a copyright notice, and we do not treat storing a personal copy for your own practice the same as publishing it. This reflects both the scope of hosting-provider takedown obligations, which apply to publicly accessible content, and personal-use exceptions available in many jurisdictions (for example Turkish copyright law, FSEK Art. 38, and the EU private-copying exception).

This is not an unconditional promise. We reserve the right to access, disable, or remove content, including content in a private library, where required by a binding court order, a valid legal process we are obligated to comply with, or where necessary to prevent imminent harm to the security of the Service or its users. Outside those circumstances, private libraries are not affected by a copyright notice.

7. Catalog Content published by Chord Collect

Part of what you find in the Community is Catalog Content: songs that we ourselves compile and publish through our own official account, as described in §1 and §8 of the Terms of Service. Catalog Content is compiled from publicly available chord and lyric transcriptions and our own editorial work; we do not identify the specific third-party site a given transcription was originally drawn from.

We do not claim the hosting-provider safe harbor described in the introduction to this Policy for Catalog Content. Because we compile and publish this content ourselves rather than merely hosting what a user uploaded, the notice-and-takedown framework in §2 to §4 does not apply to it in the same way. Instead, if you are a rights holder and believe a Catalog Content song should not be available on the Service, contact [email protected] with the song title, the artist or songwriter, and, if available, a link or other reference identifying it. We do not require the full notice format in §2, do not run a counter-notice process for this content, and will remove or unpublish the identified song, and any public copy of it that other users have saved to their own library through the Community, without unreasonable delay. If you ask us not to make the work available again, we will add it to an internal list we check before adding a matching song to the catalog in the future.

A small number of demonstration songs are also included with every new account so you can try the app's features before adding your own library; these are handled the same way as other Catalog Content under this section.

8. Notices concerning personality rights

A notice about content that violates your personality rights rather than your copyright (for example, use of your name, image, or likeness without consent) may be sent to the same address, [email protected], and will be handled under the same framework as far as it applies, consistent with applicable law including Turkish Law No. 5651 Art. 9.

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