Copyright & Takedown Policy
If something published on QuickStave infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with the details listed below. You do not need an account, and you do not need a lawyer to write to us.
1. Who this is for
This page is for rights holders and their representatives. You do not need to be a QuickStave user to use it.
QuickStave users looking for guidance on what they may publish should read the Acceptable Use Policy, which explains the common cases — scanned editions and arrangements in particular.
2. How to send a notice
Email [email protected]. To let us act quickly, please include:
- The link. The URL of the score, embed, or page you are reporting. One notice can cover several, if you list them.
- The work. What is being infringed — title, composer, publisher, edition, and where the original can be seen if that helps.
- Your rights in it. Whether you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them, and for whom.
- Your contact details. A name and an email address we can reply to.
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rights holder or permitted by law, and that the information you have given is accurate.
Plain English is fine. We would rather have a clear email that is missing an item than no report at all — if something is unclear we will ask.
3. What we do
We acknowledge notices and aim to assess them promptly, normally within a few working days. We are a very small operation, so this is a genuine target rather than a guaranteed turnaround.
Having reviewed a notice we may:
- make the score non-public, so the link no longer resolves publicly;
- ask the user to remove or change the content;
- restrict the account's ability to publish;
- decline to act, if the report appears mistaken or the use looks lawful.
Where we act, we tell the user what was removed and why, and that they may respond — unless the law prevents us from doing so.
Taking a score down makes it non-public. It does not delete the user's copy, and it does not stop them obtaining a copy of their own work under Terms §12. Where a work turns out to be infringing, our remedy is to stop publishing it, not to confiscate it.
4. If your score was taken down
Reply to the message we sent you and explain why you believe the content should be restored — for example that you hold the rights, that you have the publisher's permission, that the work is in the public domain in your jurisdiction, or that the notice identified the wrong score.
We will look again, and where appropriate we will put the score back and tell the person who reported it. Notices are sometimes wrong, and automated rights-enforcement is frequently wrong; we do not treat a notice as automatically correct.
5. Repeated infringement
Accounts that repeatedly publish infringing material will lose the ability to publish, and may be closed. We look at whether there is a pattern and whether earlier warnings were ignored, rather than counting incidents mechanically.
As everywhere else in these policies, losing the ability to publish does not mean losing your music.
6. Misuse of this process
Sending deliberately false notices wastes our time and removes other people's lawful work. We may disregard notices from a source that has repeatedly reported content in bad faith, and knowingly false statements can carry legal consequences for the sender.
7. Contact
Copyright notices:
[email protected]
Other content reports:
[email protected]
We are working on an in-product Report button so a problem can be flagged from the score itself. Until then, email is the way to reach us, and it is read by a person.
Questions about this document? [email protected]. See also our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, Refund & Cancellation Policy, Copyright & Takedown Policy, Sub-processors, and Privacy Policy.