Copyright desk
AskLyrics is a community platform: much of its content is submitted by users. We respond to complete notices and preserve an audit trail, and we remove user-contributed material that infringes a valid claim. This form asks for the information needed to identify and evaluate one.
For urgent matters, submit one URL per notice and include direct evidence of ownership or authority.
Before you file
AskLyrics is a community platform, and most of what appears here is submitted by users. A notice that identifies the work, the exact URL and your authority to act can be evaluated immediately. An incomplete notice has to be returned for more information, which delays the removal you are asking for.
Name the work you own or represent — the composition, the lyric or the recording — and the rightsholder of record. Where a catalogue is affected, identify a representative work rather than attaching a list without detail.
Give the exact AskLyrics URL. One notice per URL keeps the audit trail clean and lets us act on the uncontested pages straight away instead of holding an entire notice over one disputed line.
Registration details, a publisher or society listing, a contract reference or an authorization from the rightsholder. If you are acting as an agent, say on whose behalf.
A legal name and a monitored email address. We reply to every complete notice, and a counter-notice, if one is filed, has to be forwarded to you.
That the use complained of is not authorized by the rightsholder, its agent or the law, and that the information in the notice is accurate.
Type your full legal name, under penalty of perjury, confirming that you are the rightsholder or are authorized to act for them.
Copyright complaints run on a separate priority workflow from ordinary corrections, so disputed material can be evaluated without erasing the record of what was there and who contributed it.
User-contributed material covered by a valid notice is removed or disabled. Where a page also carries licensed provider text, credits or chart data, the elements under claim are addressed individually rather than by deleting unrelated facts.
The person who submitted the material is told what was removed and why, and is pointed to the counter-notice route if they believe the claim is mistaken.
Accounts that repeatedly submit material they have no right to share are removed, as set out in the Terms of Use and Contributor Guidelines.
Complete notices are reviewed promptly and in the order received. Incomplete ones are returned with a note saying which element is missing, so filing a complete notice the first time is the fastest route.
Yes. If your contribution was removed and you believe the claim was mistaken or misidentified the material, reply to the removal email with your counter-statement, your contact details and your electronic signature. Valid counter-notices are forwarded to the complainant.
Use this form rather than the general contact desk. Notices sent here reach the copyright desk with the fields required for legal review already captured, which is why they are handled first.
Titles, artist names and third-party identifiers remain associated with their owners and are used as reference facts. Chart positions are time-stamped editorial data. If a credit or a dated fact is wrong, that is a correction rather than a copyright claim — send it to the editorial desk.
No. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing carries liability for damages under section 512(f). Notices and their outcomes are retained.
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