1. MusiXmatch s.p.a (“mXm”) has adopted the following general policy toward copyright infringement.
2. It is mXm’s policy to (1) block access to or remove material that it believes in good faith to be copyright material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers, members or users; and (2) remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders.
3. If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the mXm Web site or service infringes a copyright, please provide a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information:
• a statement that you have identified copyright works which infringe your copyright or the copyright of a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act;
• the location of such works in sufficient detail so mXm can verify their existence;
• a description of the copyright works that you claim have been infringed;
• your full name, address and telephone number and a valid email address on which you can be contacted;
• a statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner of, or otherwise authorized to act on behalf of the owner of, the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The notice should be sent by mail, fax or email to: [ info @musixmatch.com or via fax +3905118899165 ]

4. If you also wish your notice to be considered as a notice in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) you should provide your notice to the address of mXm’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement (“Designated Agent”) (listed at the end of this policy) containing the following additional information:
• a statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and that you, the notifying party, are authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner;
• Your physical or electronic signature (which may include a scanned copy).
5. In accordance with the DMCA, once proper bona fide infringement notification is received by the Designated Agent, it is mXm’s policy:
• to remove or disable access to the infringing material;
• to notify the content provider, member or user that it has removed or disabled access to the material; and
• that repeat offenders will have the infringing material removed from the system and that mXm will terminate such content provider’s, member’s or user’s access to the service.
6. If the content provider, member or user believes that the material that was removed or to which access was disabled is either not infringing, or the content provider, member or user believes that it has the right to post and use such material from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, the content provider, member or user must send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below:
• a physical or electronic signature of the content provider, member or user;
• Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access to has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;
• a statement that the content provider, member or user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the material; and
• content provider’s, member’s or user’s name, address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address and a statement that such person or entity consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial district in which the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is located, or if the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is located outside the United States, for any judicial district in which mXm is located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.
7. If a counter-notice is received by the Designated Agent, mXm may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in 10 business days.
8. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed material may be replaced or access to it restored in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at mXm’s discretion.
9. Please contact mXm’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement at the following address:
via post [ musiXmatch sp.a Via Timavo 34, 50122 Milano Italy] via email [info @musixmatch.com] or via fax [ +3905118899165].

musiXmatch’s Lyrics API will make your life easier. And not only easier, more profitable.

We can distribute content to virtually any platform. Because we adhere to industry standards and a simplified architecture, you can quickly and easily experiment with how best to make use of it.

Lyrics are not only words, they are a leading element to a vast, but often chaotic, music ecosystem that can drive traffic to your site, app or service and can help you increase revenues. That is why we have developed a platform to deliver not only words, but the richest possible set of metadata about that song.

MusiXmatch’s Lyrics API lets you surround your users with detailed metadata about the artists who performed it, the genre, influences, related artists and more.

But we didn’t stop there. We take care of the digital rights management (DRM), clearing this content for legitimate distribution, properly authorized by the rightsholders. You can concentrate on what you do best — providing your users and customers with the best experience.

Our product is highly adaptable to sites and services that:

• need to clear the rights of their lyrics content, meter and report usage and pay out interested third parties;
• want to add lyrics search and display to an existing library of songs; and/or
• want to create a comprehensive library of song-related content, including not only lyrics but also artist biographies, extensive discographies and much, much more.

Our flexible API allows you to simply:

• search lyrics using either unstructured queries or opensource identifiers such as MusicBrainz;
• take advantage of metered search-engine friendly lyric displays without the worry of copyright infringement;
• obtain a complete list of performing artists, organized and filtered in a variety of ways, including biographies and images;
• obtain a complete discography for each performing artist complete with release dates, tracks and cover art.

Contact us if you would like to help develop more tools to help enrich existing metadata!

Go the Developer’s Zone to read more about the API.