Copyright & DMCA policy

Every track on AGsoundtrax is submitted by a named composer who warrants, in writing, that the music is their own work. We take that seriously, and we take it just as seriously when someone believes a work here infringes theirs. This page is how to tell us, and what happens next.

Reporting an infringement

If you believe music on this site infringes a copyright you own or represent, send a notice to our designated copyright agent:

Copyright Agent, AGsoundtrax, LLC
info@agsoundtrax.com(subject line: “DMCA notice”)

For your notice to be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512, it must include:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed.
• The URL or track title of the material on this site you say is infringing, precise enough for us to find it.
• Your 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 owner of the right, or authorized to act for the owner.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

What we do with a notice

A valid notice suspends the track promptly: it stops being licensable while we investigate, and the composer who submitted it is told the same day, with the notice attached. We do not sit on these. Knowingly false notices carry legal liability of their own under § 512(f), so please be sure before you write.

Counter-notice

A composer whose track was suspended may send a counter-notice to the same address, containing: identification of the removed material, a statement under penalty of perjury of a good-faith belief the removal was a mistake or misidentification, their name, address and phone number, consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for their address (or, outside the United States, any judicial district in which AGsoundtrax, LLC may be found), and their signature. Unless the original claimant tells us within 14 business days that they have filed a court action, the track may be restored.

Repeat infringers

An account that submits infringing material more than once is closed, and its catalogue removed. Licenses already sold to customers in good faith are handled under the terms of use: we may require the use to stop and will provide a comparable replacement license at no cost.

Not just the law's minimum

The formal procedure above is the legal floor, not the ceiling of how we treat this. If you are unsure whether what you found is infringement, or you are a composer worried about a claim, write to us in plain words. A person answers.