You can submit a DMCA Notification if you are a copyright owner or authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right under copyright that is allegedly infringed.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD ONLY SUBMIT A NOTIFICATION IF YOU OWN OR CONTROL THE COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL THAT IS CLAIMED TO BE INFRINGING BECAUSE UNDER 17 U.S.C $ 512(F), ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY MATERIALLY MISREPRESENTS THAT MATERIAL IS INFRINGING MAY BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES.
When a copyright owner’s work is purportedly being infringed on or through a service provider’s service, the copyright owner may send a notification of claimed infringement (often referred to as a “takedown notice”) to the service provider’s designated agent. Horus is registered with the US Copyright Office as a service provider and designated agent (as required under DMCA 17 USC 512).
The designated agent for Horus is as follows:
legal@horusmusic.co.uk
Nick Dunn
Legal Department
Horus Music Limited
346 Loughborough Road
Leicester
LE4 5PJ
England
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes infringement to be legally effective the notification must be in writing and sent to the above email address or address. Your notice must include all the following information:
- A full description of the copyright works that you are claiming have been infringed. If this is more than one work, please list all.
- Include your full name, address and telephone number, a valid email address on which you can be contacted, and your Horus username.
- A description of the sounds that you claim are infringing and the Horus URL(s) where such tracks can be located. (for example, melody, lyrics, sample).
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright holder, its agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in the Notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is not authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right under copyright that is allegedly infringed; and
- The physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed. DMCA Counter Notification If you have received a notification that some of your work has been removed from one of our platforms. If you own or control the rights to the work you sent us, and you believe that your material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send us a DMCA Counter Notification as described below. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD SUBMIT A COUNTER NOTIFICATION IF YOU OWN OR CONTROL THE COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL THAT IS CLAIMED TO BE INFRIGING BECAUSE UNDER 17 U.S.C $512 (F), ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY MATERIALLY MISREPRESENTS THAT MATERIAL WAS REMOVED OR DISABLED BY MISTAKE OR MISDENTIFICATION MAY BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES. To be valid, your DMCA Counter Notification must be in writing and include all the following:
- 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 of the United States, for any judicial district in which Horus Music may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the Claimant or an agent of such person;
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
- A statement under the penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;
- Your physical or electronic signature. You can send all the above information to the address above After the Counter Notification is Received As soon as we receive your counter notification we will send it to the Claimant and inform them that Horus will replace the removed work or cease disabling access to it unless the Claimant notifies Horus within 10 business days that he or she has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity with regard to the material posted online by you using the Horus service. If Horus receives notification that the Claimant has filed such a lawsuit, it will be unable to replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it. If Horus does not receive such notification, it may, in its sole discretion, replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it.
Please be aware that when we send the Counter Notification to the Claimant it includes your personal information. By submitting a Counter Notification, you consent to having your information revealed in this way. We will not forward a Counter Notification to any party other than the Claimant.
