Copyright and DMCA

1. Designated agent

Notices of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. §512(c) should be sent to our designated agent. The details below must match our registration with the U.S. Copyright Office; until that filing is on record they are marked as such.

Service provider

Deadnorth LLC, operating Still On Tour

Agent

[TO BE FILED — Deadnorth LLC designated agent name]

Address

[TO BE FILED — Deadnorth LLC agent mailing address]

Phone

[TO BE FILED — Deadnorth LLC agent phone]

Email

[email protected] (subject: DMCA)

2. What is and is not here

• No audio is stored or served. Recordings link to their hosts; a notice about a recording goes to the host.
• No images. Nothing can be uploaded.
• Setlist facts — song titles, dates, venues, running order — are historical facts and are not copyrightable. The compilation is ours and the members’. If a catalog record is wrong, that is a correction, not a takedown: [email protected], or propose it to the Committee.
• What remains is member-written text: posts, comments, bios, descriptions, EPKs. That is what a notice can be about.

3. Filing a notice

Use the report form with the Copyright reason, or email the agent. A notice must contain the six elements below or it is not effective and we may not act on it. Incomplete notices get one reply asking for the missing element.

1. Identification of the work you say is infringed (or a representative list if there are several).
2. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail to find it — the address of the post or page, at minimum.
3. Your contact information: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email.
4. A statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
6. A physical or electronic signature — a typed full name is enough — of the owner or the person authorised to act.

On a valid notice we hide the material promptly, forward the notice (with your contact details) to the member who posted it, record a copyright strike against their account, and preserve a copy for the counter-notice window. Knowingly misrepresenting that material infringes is itself actionable under §512(f).

4. Counter-notice

If your content was hidden on a notice and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the agent. It must contain:

1. Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before it was removed.
2. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
3. Your name, address and telephone number.
4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or their agent.
5. Your physical or electronic signature.

We forward the counter-notice to the original claimant. Unless the claimant tells us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after receiving the counter-notice. The preserved copy is held for 21 days for that purpose and then blanked.

5. Repeat infringers

Three actioned copyright strikes in 12 months ends the account. Any strike removes posting trust for 30 days. A strike is “actioned” when we hid content on a valid notice and no counter-notice restored it. Strikes expire after 12 months and are revoked on a successful counter-notice or appeal. Termination comes with a statement of reasons and the appeal route on the Moderation and transparency page.

6. Records

Notices and counter-notices are kept for three years. Counts of notices received and counter-notices filed are published yearly. Nothing in this page is legal advice; if you are unsure whether a notice is warranted, consult someone who can advise you.

Not a copyright matter

Someone using your name or likeness, or posting your personal information, is not a copyright question. Use the impersonation or privacy reasons on the report form. Intimate content shared without consent has its own page.