Copyright & Takedowns

What users may upload

Only recordings they own or otherwise have the rights to. Our Terms require it, and owning a copy of a commercial record — a file, a disc, a stream — is not the same as having the right to upload it to a service.

Bridges produced by the Service are newly composed instrumental music. We do not copy, sample or splice audio out of a user’s uploads into a bridge, and our models are trained only on licensed and public-domain material.

Reporting infringing material

If you own a copyright, or are authorised to act for someone who does, and you believe material on Seam Engine infringes it, send a notice to our designated agent:

So that we can act on it, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) requires your notice to include all of the following. A notice missing these may not count as effective:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed — or, if there are many at one location, a representative list.
• Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. A URL is usually the fastest way.
• How to reach you: address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorised to act for the owner of the right concerned.

We act on complete notices expeditiously: we remove or disable the material, and we tell the user who posted it, passing on a copy of your notice.

Please be careful about what you send. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing makes you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. If you are not sure whether a use is authorised, consider asking a lawyer before filing.

If your material was removed

If you believe we removed something by mistake or misidentification, you can send a counter notification to the same address. Under § 512(g)(3) it must contain:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before it was removed.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district where you live, or — if you are outside the United States — of any district where we may be found; and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

We forward a valid counter notification to whoever complained. If they do not tell us within ten business days that they have gone to court to restrain the activity, we may restore the material in ten to fourteen business days.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe. In practice:

• A complete notice we act on is recorded as a strike against the account, unless a counter notification resolves it in the user’s favour or the complainant withdraws.
• At the first strike we warn the user and point them at this page. At the second we suspend uploading. At the third we close the account and refuse re-registration.
• We may skip straight to closing an account where the infringement is deliberate or at scale, and we keep the records needed to apply this consistently.

Trademarks, artists and examples on this site

Artist names and track titles shown anywhere on this site are the property of their respective owners and are used only to identify the recordings being referred to. The album covers in the front-page demo are the records’ own artwork, shown from Apple’s catalogue to identify each recording and linked to it; they belong to their owners and we claim no rights in them. The demo’s audio examples contain short excerpts of the named recordings on either side of a passage our model composed, presented only to show the join. Seam Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any artist, label or rights holder named on this site. If you own one of those rights and would rather we did not refer to or use your work, write to us and we will take it down — you do not need to send a formal notice for that.

Contact

legal@seamengine.com