Copyright & Takedown Policy

Short version

This is a one-page site for the musician Lowkey718, plus a handful of legal pages, run by Lowkey718. The music, artwork, photos and video on it belong to the artist, or are used with permission. We take other people's copyright as seriously as our own. If you believe something here uses your work without permission, tell us and we will look at it. This page explains how.

One thing to know before you write: nobody but the operator publishes here. There are no visitor accounts, no uploads, no comments, no other artists' pages. Everything on this site was put here by Lowkey718. So a takedown notice is not a filing with a platform. It is a message to us about our own page, and it lands with the person who can actually fix it.

Before you send: what this site is not

The formal notice-and-takedown machinery in United States copyright law was built for services that host other people's material, and that want the safe harbor which goes with doing that properly. This site hosts nobody else's material. We are not claiming that safe harbor, and we have not registered a copyright agent with the United States Copyright Office, because there is no third-party content here to register one for.

That does not make your complaint weaker. It removes a layer. But it does mean some of the machinery you may be used to, in particular the statutory counter-notice and the put-back clock that follows it, is not what happens here. What actually happens is described below.

Sending us a copyright complaint

Send it by email to lowkey718booking@gmail.com. Put Copyright notice in the subject line so it does not get lost.

Please include all six of the things below. That list is the format United States copyright law sets out for a takedown notice, and it is the format most rights holders, labels and lawyers already use, so it is the quickest way to get us the facts. Send the same information wherever in the world you are writing from.

The six things a notice should contain

• The work you own. Identify the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. A song title, a photo, a piece of artwork, a video. If one notice covers several works, a clear list is fine.
• The material you want removed. Point us to exactly what on this site is the problem, with enough detail that we can find it without guessing. A direct link, the image file name, or a plain description of where on the page it sits.
• How to reach you. Your full name, a mailing address, a phone number, and an email address.
• A good-faith statement. A line saying you believe in good faith that the use you are complaining about is not authorised by you, by your agent, or by law.
• An accuracy statement. A line saying the information in your notice is accurate, and that under penalty of perjury you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
• Your signature. Physical or electronic. Typing your full name at the end of the email counts as an electronic signature.

If something is missing we would rather write back and ask for it than ignore you. But an incomplete notice may sit longer, and if we cannot tell what the material is or who you are, we may not be able to act on it at all.

Two things worth checking before you send: that the material is really yours, and that our use is not already covered by a licence you or a label granted, or by fair use. We are not a court and we do not decide who owns what. We make a practical decision, and we would rather make it with the full picture.

What happens after we get a notice

• We aim to acknowledge your email within five business days. This site is run by a very small operation and there is no ticketing system behind that address, so if something is genuinely urgent, say so in the subject line.
• If the notice looks well founded on its face, we normally take the material down or hide it while we look into it. Taking something down is not us agreeing that you are right. It is us being careful.
• If the complaint is about something inside an embedded player, we can remove that embed from this page. We cannot remove anything from Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music or SoundCloud themselves. See the last part of this page.
• We keep a copy of the notice and a record of what we did about it.
• If the material reached us from someone else, such as a photographer, a designer or a licensor, we may pass your notice on to them, including the contact details in it, so they can respond. If you would rather we held something back, say so and we will do what we can, though we may not be able to resolve the complaint without giving the other side enough to answer it.
• We will tell you what we decided. There is no charge for any of this and no form to fill in.

If we took something down by mistake

Because we published the material ourselves, there is no platform sitting between you and us. If we removed something in error, we can simply put it back. In practice this route matters most to the artist, to a photographer or designer, or to anyone else whose work we were using with permission.

Write to lowkey718booking@gmail.com and tell us:

• what was removed, and where on the site it appeared before it came down;
• why you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification;
• anything showing the use was permitted, such as a licence, a release, a credit line, or an email agreeing to it;
• your name and a way to reach you.

We do not ask you to swear a statement under penalty of perjury, and we do not ask you to agree in advance to be sued in any particular court. Those requirements belong to the statutory counter-notice procedure for hosting platforms, and we are not one, so asking for them would be theatre. What we will do is read what you send. Where two people are both claiming the same work, we will normally tell each of them what the other has said and leave the material down until it is sorted out between them. Restoring something that turns out to be infringing costs us more than leaving it down costs anyone. None of this is legal advice, and the right answer in any particular case can differ, so talk to a lawyer if the stakes are real.

Repeat infringement

Most sites answer this by promising to close the accounts of repeat infringers. There are no accounts here and nobody else posts, so that clause would be decoration. Here is the version that actually applies, which is about our own conduct.

• If a notice shows we used something we had no right to use, we remove it and we do not put it back.
• If the same source keeps producing well-founded complaints, for example a supplier of artwork or stock imagery, we stop using material from that source.
• If an outbound link or an embed on this page keeps pointing at material that has been found infringing, we remove the link or the embed.

False or bad-faith notices

A copyright notice is a serious document. United States copyright law provides that a person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation, either that material is infringing or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for the damages and legal costs that misrepresentation causes. Exactly how that provision applies to a site like this one is a question for a court rather than for us, and we mention it only so that nobody is caught out by it.

None of that is aimed at people with a genuine complaint, including people who turn out to be mistaken. It is aimed at the small number of notices that are plainly not about copyright at all, or that come from someone with no apparent connection to the work. If we decide not to act on a notice, we will tell you so and tell you why.

Content on other platforms

This page embeds players from Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and SoundCloud, and links out to Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Amazon Music, iTunes, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Threads.

We do not host, control or moderate anything on those services. If your complaint is about a track, video, image or post that lives on one of those platforms, you need to send your notice to that platform. Each of them runs its own copyright process, and only they can remove material from their own service. A notice sent to us cannot take anything down over there.

What we can do is remove the embed or the link from this page. If that is what you want, say so and we will handle it.

Contact

Copyright notices, replies about something we removed, and any question about this page go to lowkey718booking@gmail.com. This site is operated by Lowkey718, in New York, USA.

Nothing on this page is legal advice, and nothing on it waives or limits any right, remedy or defence either side may have.

Contact

Questions about this page, your data, or a takedown request:
Lowkey718
lowkey718booking@gmail.com