Copyright & DMCA Policy

What this covers

Selin hosts a lot of content that users create or upload, and this policy applies to all of it:

• Posts, photos, videos, Blooms and stories on Connect
• Profile songs and other audio uploads
• Live streams, Hanami audio rooms, and host recordings of them
• Art listed in Galerie, and music, merchandise and tickets listed in the Vinyl marketplace
• Playlists, reviews, comments and profile content
• Material submitted to Selin Ed

We do not pre-screen uploads. Users are responsible for holding the rights to what they post, and for crediting the original creator where a feature asks for it.

AI-generated content

Selin can generate images, video and audio. Those outputs are produced by a model from a user's prompt, not copied from a library — but if you believe a generated item posted on Selin reproduces your protected work, or was made by prompting the model with your work, report it the same way as anything else. We treat those notices seriously and handle them under the same process.

Third-party catalogues

Movies & TV draws on public-domain and openly licensed archives, and Vinyl can connect to your own Spotify or Apple Music account. We do not host or license those catalogues ourselves. If you believe a title we surface is misattributed, or is presented as freely licensed when it is not, tell us and we will remove it from our listings while we look into it — we would rather over-remove than under-remove on a mis-sourced title.

Reporting infringement (takedown notice)

You can flag content in-app wherever a report or flag control appears, which is the fastest route. For a formal DMCA notice, write to our designated agent below and include all of the following — a notice missing these elements may not be actionable:

• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you are reporting, specific enough for us to find it — a direct link or URL, the username of the account, and the song title, post or listing.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Submitting a notice you know to be false can make you liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). If you are unsure whether a use is infringing — fair use, for instance, is a real limit on copyright — consider taking advice before sending one.

Designated agent

Quantum Protection Security Services LLC has designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement, and that designation is registered with the United States Copyright Office in its public DMCA Designated Agent Directory. You can look us up there under Quantum Protection Security Services LLC, or under any of the names we operate as — Selin, Selin AI, selin-ai.com, Selin Connect, Vinyl, Lumen, Galerie or Selin Ed.

Please put "DMCA notice" in the subject line. We acknowledge valid notices and act on them promptly, ordinarily removing or disabling access to the reported material while we assess it.

What happens after a notice

• We remove or disable access to the reported material.
• We notify the user who posted it, and pass on your notice — including the identifying information in it, so consider what you include.
• We record the notice against that account for the repeat-infringer policy below.
• Where a payout is pending on a reported marketplace listing, we may hold it until the matter is resolved.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the agent above. It must include:

• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• Identification of the removed material and the location where it appeared before removal.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or — if your address is 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 sent the original notice.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will forward your counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material.

Repeat infringers

We keep a record of copyright notices against each account and terminate repeat infringers. In practice: a first valid notice is a warning, a second brings a restriction on the affected feature, and a third results in termination of the account. We may skip straight to termination for large-scale or commercial infringement, and a counter-notice that resolves in your favour does not count against you.

Trademark and other rights

To report trademark misuse, impersonation of a brand, or a violation of publicity or privacy rights rather than copyright, write to the same address with "Trademark" or "Rights complaint" in the subject line, describing the right you hold and the material at issue. Impersonation can also be reported in-app.