DMCA and copyright notices
This page explains how to tell us that material on Echoteka infringes your copyright, and how a user whose material was removed can respond. It follows section 512 of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). It is information, not legal advice.
1. Where to send a notice
Send notices to info@echoteka.ai. Our contact for copyright notices is Irina Georgieva, ECHOTEKA Ltd., 2A Zhatva Str., Bistritsa village, 1444 Sofia, Bulgaria.
2. What a notice must contain
A notice must be in writing and include all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):
- A physical or electronic signature of the person authorised to act for the owner of the copyright.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed, or, if several works are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
- Identification of the material you claim is infringing and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, such as the link to the track or the page where it appears.
- Your name, postal 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, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
A notice that leaves out these elements may not be treated as a notice under the DMCA.
3. What we do with a notice
When a notice meets the requirements above, we remove or disable access to the material identified in it, without undue delay. We may also remove copies held by the service. We may tell the account that uploaded the material that it was removed and why.
4. Counter-notice
If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)):
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before it was removed.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, address and telephone number, and 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 your address is outside the United States, of a judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.
If we receive a counter-notice that meets these requirements, we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice. If that person does not start a court action within the period the law allows, the material may be restored. We do not restore material on our own assessment of who is right.
5. What happens to removed files
Audio files are kept only for a limited time:
- Results for visitors without an account are held in a short-lived cache, by default about one hour.
- Free accounts keep their uploaded audio and masters for 1 day; accounts that have bought credits keep them for 30 days. The files are then deleted by a periodic clean-up. We do not promise the exact minute of deletion.
- Track clips are deleted automatically 30 days after they are made.
A file that is the subject of a valid notice is removed from the service as described in section 3. You can also delete your account yourself; see account deletion.
6. Repeat infringers
We may suspend or close the account of a user who repeatedly uploads material that is the subject of valid notices.
7. Other rights holders and places
We also receive notices from rights holders outside the United States. We handle them under the same procedure. Nothing on this page is a legal commitment beyond what applicable law requires.
8. Contact
Irina Georgieva is our contact for copyright notices. Questions that are not about a notice go to support@echoteka.ai.