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Copyright & takedown

Last updated September 6, 2026

CoLabRoom is published by Decibel Zero LLC. If something on CoLabRoom uses your work without permission, this page tells you exactly how to have it removed, what a notice has to contain to be acted on, and what happens next. If you are the person whose work was removed, the counter-notice section is for you.

What we do and don't host

CoLabRoom stores recordings that people upload to their own rooms, and generates chord charts and lyric transcriptions from them. That means a recording somebody uploads is stored on our servers, and we will act on a valid notice about it.

The chord tool on this website is different and worth stating plainly: it stores nothing. Audio sent to it is held in memory for as long as the analysis takes and then dropped. There is no upload folder, no database row, and no copy afterwards — so there is nothing there to remove.

Chord charts themselves are not copies of a recording. A chord progression is not protected expression, and a chart describing one is not a reproduction of the song it describes. Lyrics are a different matter, and a notice about transcribed lyrics is one we will act on.

Sending a notice

Send it to our designated agent. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) a notice has to contain all six of the following, and one that is missing pieces may not be something we can act on:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or somebody authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you want removed, and enough detail for us to find it — a link, a song title, a username, or all three.
4. Your contact details: address, telephone number, and email.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner.

You can also report something from inside the app — open the profile, song or recording, choose Report, and pick It uses music that is not theirs. That reaches the same place. It is not a substitute for a formal notice if you need one on the record, but it is faster and it works from a phone.

What we do with it

1. We read it. A person reads every one — there is no queue that only a script looks at.
2. If it is valid, we remove or disable access to the material promptly.
3. We tell the person who uploaded it what was removed and why, and we pass on your notice.
4. We tell them they can send a counter-notice, and how.

We keep a record of notices and what we did about them. That record is what the repeat infringer policy below runs on.

Answering a notice about your work

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake — you own it, you licensed it, or the use is lawful — you can send a counter-notice to the same address. Under §512(g)(3) it needs:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of what was removed and where it was before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district — or, if you are outside the United States, of any district where we may be found — and that you will accept service from the person who sent the original notice.

We will forward it to whoever sent the notice. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action, we may restore the material.

Both a notice and a counter-notice are sworn statements. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — carries liability for damages under §512(f). This is not a form to fill in casually in either direction.

Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe. In practice:

• A valid notice we act on is recorded against the account that uploaded the material.
• A second one gets a written warning that the next will end the account.
• A third ends it. The person is told, and they can retrieve their own original work before it closes.

A notice that is successfully answered by a counter-notice does not count. Neither does one we decide is invalid. We can act sooner than three where the infringement is flagrant — uploading a commercial catalogue, for instance, is not a strike-counting situation.

What we ask of you

Nothing on this page changes the simplest version, which is in the Terms: don't upload work you don't have the rights to. Working out the chords of a song you love is one thing. Putting somebody else's record into a shared room, or publishing their lyrics, is another, and it is the sort of thing that ends accounts.

Contact

Decibel Zero LLC — copyright@colabroom.com for copyright, support@colabroom.com for everything else.