Copyright & Content Reports
Last updated: October 11, 2026
Reporting copyrighted material
If you own the rights to a work and find it here without permission, write to support@backingscore.com. You do not need an account.
Tell us who you are, which work it is, and a link to the content. We review every report, and if it has merit we block access to the content.
1. What is hosted here
The platform hosts editorial content and work users choose to save or share.
- Our catalog. Interactive books, chapter guidance, scores and listening examples published by our editorial team with the required source permissions. Nothing reaches the public catalog without a curator publishing it — users cannot publish to it.
- User Drive. Account storage for your own scores and permitted material. Uploading does not automatically publish a file; any supported sharing action is separate. Private uploads are not automatically added to the public catalog or search.
- Shared Cinema work. Users can explicitly publish eligible package versions and community visual styles. Packages contain settings and MIDI edits; community styles contain visual recipes. Neither grants rights to a score or recording, and neither makes a private source public.
2. Reporting copyrighted material
Write to support@backingscore.com. You do not need an account to report. Where a report button is shown next to content, that works too and reaches the same queue.
Please include:
- Who you are, and your relationship to the work (owner, publisher, agent)
- Identification of the work
- A link to the content you are reporting
- A way for us to reach you
3. What happens after a report
Every report lands in a queue that a human reviews. If we find the report has merit, we block access to the content.
Blocking access is not deletion. The uploader keeps their file and can still see it in their own Drive, marked as restricted. We do this deliberately: a report can be mistaken, and destroying someone's work on the strength of an unverified claim is not a neutral act. We record who took the action and when.
4. If your content was restricted
Reply to the notice we sent you, or write to the address above. Tell us why you believe you have the right to use the material — you own it, you licensed it, it is in the public domain, or the report identified the wrong item. We will look again.
5. Repeat infringement
We keep a record of restricted content per account. Accounts that repeatedly upload material they have no right to share may lose upload access or be closed.
6. A note on public domain music
Three things get confused often, and the difference matters when you report or when you upload:
- A work can be in the public domain while a specific engraving of it is still protected. Beethoven is public domain; a modern publisher's edition of it is their typesetting.
- A recording of a public domain work carries its own rights, separate from the composition.
- A file downloaded from a score-sharing site is not automatically free to reuse — it is somebody else's transcription.
6b. Books, performances and video exports
Check the licence for the particular edition and media you use. Reading a book, seeing a public sample, or subscribing to Creator does not automatically permit redistributing its score or publishing a recording or video. Cinema’s export check controls platform access; it does not settle rights in the composition, engraving, recording, photos or performer footage. Use your own or appropriately licensed material and respect any edition-specific export terms.
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