Third Parties Makeing False Copyright Claims

[WillJames1]

Hey can anyone help me! I'm having issues with a third party making a false copyright claim on my music. They do not have any rights in the sound recording and only making false claims out of spite. Spotify has taken my album down, this is extremely sad and frustrating. How do you counter claim and get your music back up? I can really use some help, Thanks!

[OneByBoo · Accepted solution]

Hi there @WillJames1,

thanks for reaching out !

As this is a copyright/artist profile issue, please contact Spotify for Artists support team through this contact page.

Their are the correct Spotify factor to answer questions with such nature.

Bear in mind that due to the current Covid-19 situation, it might take them a bit more time to respond.

Thanks for your patience.

Good luck 🙂

[LeonCelo]

Hello OneBoyBoo 
Unfortunately your solution is useless after writing to the Spotify for Artists team you get this answer "

Thanks for reaching out to us. 

We’ve taken a look backstage, and it seems your single was made unavailable as a result of a copyright claim.

Your label or distributor should’ve received notice from our Content team, which includes the name and email address of the claimant.

The claimant will have received an email from our Content team. If you’ve resolved the dispute with the claimant, just ask them to reply to that email to withdraw their claim and confirm the outcome of the dispute.

Your label or distributor will be able to answer any further questions you have.

" If you then contact your distributor, as with most artists for example Distrokid they say they are powerless and you should please contact Spotify directly. This situation results in a perpetual loop of emails that will never fix the problem and make life difficult for independent artists like me. Today a song of mine was wrongly removed from Spotify for copyright reasons shortly after another artist wrote to me on Instagram that he had my song taken down and he is aware that I can do nothing about it except convince him to release the song again this has given him the power to blackmail me over all my earnings of the song even though I own all rights to the song. What Spotify is doing here is opening up a market for criminals and supporting scammers as opposed to up and coming artists. I really hope Spotify changes this in the future and gives innocent artists the opportunity to prove that in many cases it is a scam instead of taking their music down and putting it in the power of the scammers.

[rahulsinghbaghel]

You are right

[abhishekd]

Today one of my songs got removed from Spotify which I was unaware of after getting in touch with Spotify artist support they said to me that We’ve taken a look backstage, and it seems your single was made unavailable as a result of a copyright claim. But I don't know how because I have released that song a month ago and now is telling me that you don't own the song that is pretty annoying and they told me to get some support from your distributor I don't know what result is going to come out lets see hope for a positive outcome 

[t6amygdala]

This was NEVER solved. Nettspend’s career is getting destroyed by false copyright claims and Spotify won’t do anything to help. Spotify is a despicable corporation.

[jajuu]

I have fallen victim to the same issue. A hater has made a false copyright claim and had all of my top songs removed without any warning. Waited 14 days after counter DMCA notice and now Distributor has reinstated songs on all platforms apart from Spotify.  They were back on Apple music within minutes.  Spotify has a stupid internal policy which requires the claimant to send an email confirming the outcome. Why the **bleep** would he do that?? It's a fake account and email trying to sabotage my account. I'm still awaiting response from Spotify.. Seems to be a never ending cycle. I have songs with over 5m views that have been deleted for no reason. There must be a way to resolve this ?

[vaporchrome]

Any update on this? I am going through a very very similar situation and I am trying to figure out how to submit a counter DMCA in the first place. 

[jajuu]

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

I had the same issue with a hater making false copyright claims on music that I own... First step is to submit a counter DMCA notice via your distributor, after 14 days, depending on the distributor, they will reinstate the music, Tunecore are good with that, Symphonic are USELESS and didn't reinstate my music even after the claimant failed to respond. TuneCore reinstated it to all platforms HOWEVER, SPOTIFY have an internal policy which doesn't allow them to reinstate the music, even after no response from claimant, I spent a month emailing spotify and running around in circles, I lost over 10k in revenue in 4 weeks, and after countless emails, they still wouldn't reinstate it on Spotify. They kept sending me to the distributor who couldn't do anything.

In the end, I uploaded the songs via a different distributor, and VOILA! The songs were on Spotify again within 2 days! This is the only way to do it. So now I have 2 distributors for the same Releases, one for Spotify only and the other one for the rest of the platforms LOL!  I would recommend submitting a DMCA notice, waiting 14 days and then REMOVING all the songs and reuploading with a different distributor. This will save weeks of **bleep**ing around which won't get you anywhere in the end!

[jajuu]

Which distro are you with? you should reply to their email about the claim with a counter DMCA notice that looks like this:

DMCA Counter Notification:

Request to Restore Access to Posted Material

I hereby request that *insert distributor name*/Spotify restore access to the following material:

Single Name: 

Artist: 

UPC: 

Under penalty of perjury, I have a good faith belief that this material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.

I may be contacted at: *insert email*  or *insert address*

I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which I reside, and will accept service of process from the person who submitted the takedown notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(1)(C), or their agent.

(Or, if located outside the U.S.:) I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which is headquartered.

Name: 

electronic signature:

[alvinpandey]

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