IP Policy
TRACK RECORD™
Last updated: August 2026
Our approach
Track Record respects musicians, rights holders and the people who make the things our users love enough to share. We are a UK-based service and this policy explains how we handle copyright and other intellectual-property concerns.
Track Record never stores or streams commercial music recordings on its servers. Tracks on a mixtape are references — links to recordings hosted by third-party services such as YouTube — and playback happens through those services' own embedded players, under their own terms. Our users are asked to link only to recordings made available legitimately on those services (for example, a video uploaded by the artist or label's official channel).
What Track Record does host is material our users create and upload themselves: written notes, voice recordings, photographs, videos and mixtape cover artwork. Users are asked to upload only material they created, own, or have permission to use. This policy covers both kinds of material, because the route for removal is different for each.
Your responsibilities as a user
When you add a track, link to legitimate sources. When you upload context or cover artwork, upload only what is yours to upload: your own photos and videos, your own words and voice, artwork you made or are licensed to use. Two situations deserve particular care: cover artwork should be your own image rather than an album cover or other copyrighted image you found online; and videos you record may capture music playing in the background — short incidental capture at a party is a normal part of home video, but do not upload videos whose purpose is to reproduce a recording.
Accounts of users we determine to be repeat infringers will be terminated.
Removing an embedded track
If you are a rights holder and your concern is a recording playing through an embedded third-party player, the most effective step is to contact the hosting service directly (for example, via YouTube's copyright process), because removal there removes the recording everywhere it is embedded, including Track Record. If you would prefer that Track Record remove a specific link from a specific mixtape, contact us using the notice process below and we will act on valid notices.
Reporting infringement in content we host (notice and action)
We operate a notice-and-action process consistent with the UK Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and, for users in the EU, Article 16 of the EU Digital Services Act. To report material hosted by Track Record that you believe infringes your copyright, send a notice to track-record@outlook.com including:
- An explanation of why you believe the material infringes your rights, sufficiently substantiated for us to assess it, including identification of the work you claim is infringed (or a representative list if there are several).
- The exact location of the material — the URL of the mixtape, tile or item concerned, and enough description for us to find the specific element (for example, "the cover artwork" or "the video attached to tile 4").
- Your name and email address, and a postal address and telephone number if you are willing to provide them.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorised by the rights holder, their agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, where you are acting for someone else, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder.
- Your electronic or physical signature.
What we do when we receive a notice
We review notices promptly, diligently and without discrimination, and where a notice gives us actual knowledge of unlawful material we act expeditiously to remove or disable access to it. We will confirm receipt, tell you the outcome of our review, and, where appropriate, tell the user who uploaded the material what was removed and why, with a statement of our reasons. We may restore material where a review or counter notice shows removal was mistaken. Nothing in this policy obliges us to adjudicate disputes between parties; where a dispute is genuinely contested we may keep material down pending resolution, restore it, or invite the parties to resolve the matter directly or through the courts, at our discretion.
Because a delivered mixtape is a gift with sentimental value, where we must remove an element we remove the narrowest thing we can — the specific image, video or link identified — and preserve the rest of the mixtape and its context wherever possible.
Counter notices
If material you uploaded has been removed and you believe this was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter notice to the same address, including: identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement, made in good faith, that you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification (for example, because you own the material, are licensed to use it, or its use is permitted by law, such as under a copyright exception); your name, address and email address; and your signature. We will pass counter notices to the complaining party. Unless the complainant tells us within 14 days that they have begun legal proceedings, we may restore the material at our discretion.
Misuse of this process
Submitting knowingly false infringement notices or counter notices is unlawful and may expose you to liability. Consistent with Article 23 of the Digital Services Act, we may suspend processing of notices from parties who frequently submit manifestly unfounded notices, after warning them.
For US rights holders (DMCA)
If you are a US rights holder, we will also respond to notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. A compliant DMCA notice contains materially the same elements listed above, including the two statements (good-faith belief, and accuracy under penalty of perjury) and your signature, and should be sent to our designated agent.
Note that under Section 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages. Counter notices under Sections 512(g)(2)–(3) should follow the counter-notice process above and include consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate US federal district court, or, for addresses outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found.
Trademarks and other IP rights
If you believe a user is infringing your trademark or another intellectual-property right, contact us at the same address with: your identification and contact details; identification of the right concerned, with evidence of your ownership of it (for registered rights, the registration details; for unregistered rights, evidence sufficient to establish them); identification of the challenged use and where it appears; a statement that the use is unauthorised and that you believe in good faith it is unlawful; and a statement that your notice is accurate, signed by you or your authorised agent. We will review such notices under the same process described above and take the action we consider appropriate, including removal.
About this policy
This policy is governed by the law of England and Wales. It sits alongside our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and may be updated from time to time; the current version will always be available at track-record.org/copyright. Underlying rights in the UK arise principally under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.