Copyright & takedown
Last updated: September 2026 · Draft — not yet reviewed by legal counsel.
Takeyard hosts music that its users upload. We do not review uploads before they appear, and we have no way to know who owns what. If something of yours is here without your permission, this page tells you exactly how to get it removed and what we will do about it.
1. If your work is here without permission
Email hello@takeyard.comwith “Copyright” in the subject. To act on a notice we need all of the following — a notice missing any of it will slow things down while we come back to ask:
- What was taken. Identify the work you own, clearly enough that we can tell what it is — a title, a release, a link.
- Where it is on Takeyard.A link to the specific page, or enough detail that we can find the exact file. “Somewhere on your site” is not something we can act on.
- Who you are. Your name, email address, and your relationship to the work — the rights holder, or someone authorised to act for them.
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by you, your agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf.
2. What we do with it
This is a small platform run by one person, so here is the honest version rather than a corporate one:
- We aim to acknowledge a complete notice within two working days, and to act on it promptly after that.
- Where the notice looks well-founded, we disable access to the material. In a shared project this means the file stops being reachable by anyone, including its collaborators.
- We tell the person who uploaded it what was removed and why, and we pass on your notice — including your name and email, because they cannot answer a complaint they cannot see. Do not send us a notice if you are not willing for that to happen.
- The proof ledger entry is not deleted. It records that a specific file was uploaded at a specific time by a specific account — a fingerprint and a timestamp, not the audio. That record is often the evidence a dispute turns on, and destroying it would destroy the thing you may need. The file becomes unreachable; the fact of the upload remains.
3. If you think your upload was removed wrongly
Reply to the notice we send you. Tell us why you have the right to use the material — you wrote it, you licensed it, it is yours to share, or the complaint is mistaken. If it holds up, we restore the file and tell the complainant. If the two of you disagree about the underlying rights, that is a dispute between you: we are not in a position to adjudicate who owns a piece of music, and we will not pretend to be.
4. Repeat infringement
An account that repeatedly uploads material it has no right to will be closed. There is no fixed strike count, because a producer who licensed a sample badly once is not the same as an account uploading other people’s catalogue. We use judgement, and we will explain the decision.
5. Legal basis
Takeyard is operated from Denmark. As a hosting service in the EU, we operate a notice-and-action mechanism under Article 16 of the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), which is what this page is. Our liability for user-uploaded material is limited under the hosting provisions of the e-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) for as long as we act expeditiously once we have actual knowledge — which is precisely why we would rather you tell us than not.
Rights holders in the United States may recognise this process as equivalent to a DMCA notice. We are not a US service and have no registered DMCA agent, but a notice containing the elements in section 1 will be handled the same way.
6. What we do not do
We do not scan uploads against a content-identification database. We have no Content ID equivalent, no audio fingerprint matching against commercial catalogues, and no automated filtering of any kind. Every removal here starts with a person telling us. If you are a rights holder relying on automated detection elsewhere, assume it does not reach this platform.
See also the Terms of Service, which cover ownership of what you upload, and Security, which covers who can reach files in a private workspace.