Copyright Policy
Effective date: September 9, 2026
This page shows this edition as last amended on 3 October 2026; earlier wordings are kept and available on request.
In short: Only upload audio you own or are licensed to use. Tonamorph separates and transcribes audio; it does not clear samples — if you put someone else's recording through it, you still need a licence from the owners of the recording and of the song before you release anything that contains the result. If you believe content processed through our Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent with the details below. We remove infringing material, notify the user, accept counter-notices, and close the accounts of repeat infringers.
1. Overview
1.1 Gregory Diachenko respects the intellectual property of others and expects users of Tonamorph to do the same. This policy explains what you must do before uploading audio, and how rights holders can report infringement.
1.2 We follow the notice-and-takedown procedure of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) for everyone, wherever they are, and we also act on notices under the EU Digital Services Act (Article 16) and other applicable laws.
2. Your responsibilities
2.1 Upload only what you have the right to upload. By submitting a clip you represent and warrant that you own the sound recording and the underlying musical work, or that you hold all licences and permissions needed for us to process it as described in the Terms of Service (/legal/terms), and that processing it does not infringe anyone's rights.
2.2 The Service does not clear samples. Separating a track into stems, extracting MIDI, or changing its pitch or tempo does not give you any right to use the original recording or composition. Output derived from someone else's recording is a derivative of both the master recording (usually owned by a label or the artist) and the composition (usually owned by songwriters and publishers). If you release, perform, distribute, sync or monetise a track that contains such Output, you need licences from both. Obtaining them is your responsibility, and we cannot help you get them.
2.3 Platforms match audio. Streaming and video platforms use automated fingerprinting. Output derived from a commercial recording can be matched even after separation, transposition or slicing, and the platform may mute, block, demonetise or take down your upload or restrict your account. That is between you and the platform.
2.4 "Royalty-free", "free" and Creative Commons audio is not automatically usable. Many royalty-free licences forbid redistributing the audio as stems or samples; NonCommercial and NoDerivatives Creative Commons licences forbid exactly what the Service does for commercial or transformative use. Read the licence text, not the marketing page.
2.5 Your own recordings are yours. Music you wrote and recorded, or that you commissioned under a written buy-out, is the intended use of the Service.
2a. Why "it's only a short sound" is not a rule you can rely on
A recording carries two separate rights: one in the composition and one in the sound recording itself. Taking a single drum hit out of a commercial release copies the recording, whoever wrote the song, and a composition being out of copyright does not put a modern recording of it out of copyright.
Courts have not agreed on how short is short enough. In the United States the Sixth Circuit held that there is no trivial-amount exception for sound recordings (Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films, 2005); the Ninth Circuit reached the opposite conclusion (VMG Salsoul v. Ciccone, 2016). In the European Union the Court of Justice held that even a very short sample can infringe the phonogram producer's right where it remains recognisable (Pelham, 2019). Disagreement between courts is uncertainty, not permission.
This is why the responsibility in section 2 sits with you. Tonamorph works like any sampler: it does what you ask of the audio you give it and does not judge where the audio came from. That is also why we do not describe any use as "educational" or otherwise suggest that a label changes what you are permitted to do — it would not, and we will not imply that it does.
3. How content is stored
Uploaded audio and generated results are stored privately and are deleted automatically 24 hours after upload. They are never public, never shared with other users and never used to train models. Because content disappears quickly, a notice often arrives after the material is already gone; we still record the notice against the account and apply the repeat-infringer policy in section 8.
4. Designated agent for copyright notices
Send infringement notices to our designated agent:
Gregory Diachenko — Copyright Agent 36 Brodetsky Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6905155, Israel Email: legal@tonamorph.com (subject line: "Copyright notice")
Use this address only for copyright notices. Support questions go to support@tonamorph.com.
5. What a notice must contain
To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include:
- a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act for them;
- identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed (or a representative list if there are several);
- identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough information for us to find it — because content is private, this means the account email address or user ID, the job ID if known, and the approximate date and time of the upload;
- your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
Notices under the EU Digital Services Act should contain the equivalent information required by Article 16(2): an explanation of why the content is illegal, its exact location, your name and email, and a good-faith statement.
Misrepresentation has consequences. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including our and the user's costs and legal fees.
6. What we do when we receive a valid notice
6.1 We review the notice promptly and, if it is complete, remove or disable access to the material identified (if it still exists) and record the notice against the account.
6.2 We notify the user whose content was identified, give them a copy of the notice (with your contact details, as the law requires), and tell them how to file a counter-notice.
6.3 We may suspend the account while we assess the notice if the reported use appears to be part of a pattern.
6.4 If the notice is incomplete, we will tell you what is missing. We may ignore notices that are plainly abusive or automated without human review.
7. Counter-notice
7.1 If you believe your content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the designated agent in section 4. It must include:
- your physical or electronic signature;
- identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal (job ID and date);
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
- your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if you are outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.
7.2 On receipt of a valid counter-notice we forward it to the original complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the infringement, we may restore the material (where it still exists) or lift any related account restriction 10 to 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.
8. Repeat infringers
8.1 We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. A user is treated as a repeat infringer when we have received two or more valid infringement notices concerning their account within any 12-month period that were not successfully counter-noticed, or when a single incident shows deliberate, large-scale infringement.
8.2 We also reserve the right to close the accounts of users who are the subject of one notice where the circumstances warrant it, and to refuse service to anyone previously terminated under this policy.
8.3 Notices are counted against an account whether or not the material still existed when the notice arrived.
9. Trademarks and other rights
This procedure is for copyright. To report a trademark issue, a privacy or publicity-rights issue (for example a voice or likeness used without consent), or other unlawful content, email legal@tonamorph.com with the same level of detail, and we will handle it under the Terms of Service and applicable law.
10. No legal advice
Nothing in this policy is legal advice. Whether a particular use of a recording needs a licence depends on the facts and on the law where you are; consult your own adviser.
11. Contact
Gregory Diachenko · 36 Brodetsky Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6905155, Israel · Copyright notices: legal@tonamorph.com · Support: support@tonamorph.com · https://tonamorph.com