Copyright notices & takedowns

Short version: if something on Choreo infringes your copyright, tell us and we'll take it down quickly. If we take down something of yours by mistake, tell us and we'll put it back. Both directions are described here, and both are logged.

Our designated agent

Send copyright notices to our DMCA designated agent, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office:

DMCA Agent, Dance Labs
Email: dmca@dancelabs.org
Directory listing: dmca.copyright.gov/osp

You can also use the Report button in the app — the flag icon in the bottom-right corner, on every screen. It works signed out, and a copyright report there collects the same sworn statements this page describes.

Sending a notice

To act on a copyright notice we need all six of these:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the work you say is infringed.
3. Identification of the material on Choreo you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it — a share link, a clip, a timestamp.
4. Your contact details: address, phone, email.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

Please consider whether the use might be fair use before you send it. We consider it before we act, and the law expects you to as well. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing creates liability for the other side's damages and legal costs under 17 U.S.C. §512(f).

What we do with it

1. We log it — every notice gets a timestamped record that cannot be edited or deleted afterwards.
2. We consider fair use, and record that we did.
3. We act expeditiously — material we remove comes down promptly, not on a weekly batch.
4. We tell the uploader why, with the substance of the notice and instructions for a counter-notice.
5. We record a strike against the uploader's account where the notice is valid and uncontested — see the repeat-infringer policy.

Counter-notices

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice with:

1. Your signature.
2. Identification of what was removed and where it was before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the removal was a mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and phone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if you're outside the US, any district where we can be found), and that you'll accept service from the person who sent the notice.

We forward valid counter-notices to whoever sent the original notice. If they don't tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they've filed a court action, we put your material back. That window is the statutory one under §512(g) — we calculate the dates when your counter-notice arrives and tell you both of them, so nobody has to take our word for when it runs out.

Reports that aren't about copyright

The Report button also handles claims that aren't copyright, and some of them we treat as more urgent, not less:

• "That's my child" and "that's me, and I was under 18" — handled first, content hidden while we look, measured in hours.
• Likeness — an adult who didn't agree to being in a video that's here.
• Stolen choreography — a credit dispute. This one is a house rule rather than a legal finding: we can add credit, unlist a routine, or hold a payout, but we don't decide who owns a dance.

Reports of child sexual abuse material are reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by 18 U.S.C. §2258A. We preserve rather than delete such material for that purpose, with access restricted to that purpose.