Community
Copyright & DMCA
iDrum respects copyright and expects members to do the same. We respond to notices of claimed infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512).
What iDrum hosts
The song library is facts and links: titles, artists, tempos, drummer credits, and embeds of videos through YouTube's official player. iDrum does not host recordings, transcriptions, sheet music or lyrics of copyrighted songs. Members may only post text and links to their own playing.
Sending a takedown notice
Send notices to our designated copyright agent: Copyright Agent, iDrum, PO Box 227, Penn Valley, CA 95946 · phone (657) 234-3786 · email copyright@idrum.com. (US Copyright Office DMCA designated agent registration DMCA-1086203.)
Include: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) the copyrighted work you say is infringed; (3) the URL of the material on iDrum; (4) your name, address, phone and email; (5) a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.
We remove or disable access to the material promptly and tell the member who posted it.
Counter-notice
If your content was removed by mistake or misidentification, send a counter-notice to the same address with: your signature; the material removed and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, phone, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, outside the US, any district where iDrum may be found) and to accept service from the person who sent the notice. We may restore the material 10–14 business days later unless the claimant tells us they have filed a court action.
Repeat infringers
Each upheld copyright notice is a strike on the account that posted the material. At 3 strikes the account is terminated and the member may not rejoin. Strikes can be removed after a successful counter-notice.
Reporting from inside the community
Signed-in members can also use the report button on any post or entry and choose Copyright. That puts it in front of a moderator straight away, but a formal notice is still needed for a §512 takedown.