Repeat Infringer Policy

You receive a strike when we remove or disable access to material you published because we received a copyright infringement notice that complies with 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3).

A strike is withdrawn, and treated as if it never happened, if:

• you file a valid counter-notification and the complaining party does not sue within the statutory period, and we restore the material; or
• the complaining party retracts the notice; or
• we determine the notice was invalid, mistaken, or misidentified the material.

We do not count multiple notices arising from a single upload as multiple strikes, and we do not count notices we reject as non-compliant.

Three strikes within twelve months results in termination of the account and removal of the public artist page.

We may terminate sooner — including on a first strike, and without prior notice — where the infringement is flagrant, where the account exists substantially to infringe, or where a court so orders. We may act on other bases too: nothing in this policy limits our right to enforce the Acceptable Use Policy or the Terms of Service.

We may also, at our discretion, suspend a page rather than terminate an account, where suspension is a proportionate response.

This is the part that matters most to a musician, and we want it unambiguous.

Terminated: your muos.app account, your public artist page, and everything published on it.

Untouched: your songs, charts, lyrics, recordings, and files in the MusicianOS app on your devices and in your own private iCloud. We cannot delete them, because we never had them. Your library is yours. A copyright dispute about something you published on the web does not reach into your instrument.

Your MusicianOS app continues to work at the Free tier. You may export your library at any time.

We will, where practicable and where the law does not require otherwise:

• notify you at your account email when a strike is recorded, identify the material, and tell you how to counter-notify;
• tell you how many strikes you have and what the next one does;
• give you an opportunity to respond before a third strike results in termination.

We do not promise notice where the account is being used substantially to infringe, where notice would frustrate a court order, or where we are legally prohibited from giving it.

Email legal@tippingmaples.com with your account handle and the reason you believe a strike or termination was mistaken. A different person from the one who made the original decision will review it. We will tell you the outcome and the reason for it.

An appeal is not a counter-notification. If you want material restored under the DMCA, file a counter-notification as described in the DMCA Policy — the appeal process does not preserve those rights or that timeline.

We keep a record of every notice received, every strike recorded and withdrawn, every suspension and termination, and the reason for each. That record is what “reasonably implemented” means under §512(i), and we maintain it as a condition of the safe harbor rather than as a courtesy.

We will post changes to this page and update the effective date. Material changes will be notified to account holders by email.