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Copyright & takedowns

Effective July 21, 2026

ChartBlazer is a tool for writing drum charts — your own map of how to play a song. This page explains what that means for copyright, what we ask you to keep out of a published chart, and how to ask us to remove something.

What a drum chart is

A chart is your work about someone else's song. The section names, bar counts, energy levels, playing notes and grooves are your reading of the arrangement — usually simplified, often not literally what the record's drummer played, and useless as a substitute for the recording. Song titles and artist names aren't copyrightable, a song's structure is a fact about it, and drum grooves are common vocabulary. Publishing that is ordinary and fine.

The part to be careful with: cues

The Cues column is the one place a chart can quote someone else's writing. Song lyrics are copyrighted, and there's no free-pass word count — "just a line" is still a copy. That's why the column is called Cues rather than Lyrics:

  • Use a fragment, not the verse. A cue's job is to tell you where you are — a few words, a count, "2nd time only", "big hit on the last 1". If someone could read the song off your chart, it's too much.
  • Private charts are your business. Writing a full lyric into a chart only you can see is personal use. This is about what you publish or share.
  • Don't publish what isn't yours to publish. Sheet music you bought, another publisher's chart, or someone else's transcription pasted in — none of that becomes yours by being retyped.

When you publish or share a chart you're confirming you have the right to do so. See §3 and §4 of the Terms.

Our designated agent

ChartBlazer has a designated agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office to receive copyright notices:

The same designation is on file and publicly searchable in the Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory under Infoblazer LLC.

Asking us to remove something

If you own a work — or act for the owner — and believe something on ChartBlazer infringes it, email copyright@infoblazer.com with "Copyright" in the subject. To let us act quickly, include:

  • the link to the chart, comment, or page (a chart's URL is the fastest way to identify it);
  • the work you're claiming — title, writer or publisher, and where we can see it;
  • what specifically is infringing, if it's part of a page rather than all of it;
  • a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law;
  • a statement that the information is accurate, and that you're the owner or authorised to act for them;
  • your name, and an address and email we can reply to.

We review reports promptly. Where a claim looks valid we'll unpublish or remove the content and tell the user what happened and why. You don't need a lawyer to write to us, and you don't need to use any particular form of words — a clear email with a link will get the content looked at.

If we removed something of yours

We'll tell you what was removed and why. If you believe it was a mistake — the cue was your own words, the chart was your original work, or the claim named the wrong chart — reply to that email and say so, with your reasons. Most of these are settled by explaining what happened; if the material was removed in error we'll put it back.

You can also send a formal counter-notice, which starts a process with fixed steps and a deadline for us to restore the material. Terms §4 lists exactly what a counter-notice has to contain. Note that knowingly misrepresenting something in either a takedown notice or a counter-notice can make you liable for the other side's damages and legal costs, so both are worth taking seriously.

Removing a published chart never deletes your copy: an unpublished chart returns to being a private chart in your account, still editable and still yours. We remove charts from public view rather than from your library.

Repeat infringement

Accounts that repeatedly publish other people's material will lose the ability to publish, and may be closed. This is judged on the pattern, not on a single mistake — one over-long lyric cue gets a note from us, not a ban.

Other people's charts

Cloning a public chart is a feature, not infringement: publishing a chart grants every user a licence to view, play, print and clone it (Terms §3). What you may not do is sell someone else's chart, or a clone of it — only your own original work. If someone is selling your charts, tell us.

Questions: copyright@infoblazer.com. Also see our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.