Davincii LLC

Copyright Claims.

Davincii registers and administers musical compositions on behalf of the songwriters who engage us. If you believe a work we administer is misregistered — the writers, the splits, or the ownership — this page explains how to tell us and what happens next. Effective August 22, 2026.

We don't host or distribute recordings, so this isn't a takedown form. It's the direct line for registration and ownership conflicts on compositions in our catalog.

Who this is for

Publishers, administrators, collection societies, songwriters, and co-writers. Typical claims: a work registered with incorrect writer splits, a writer credited who didn't contribute, a composition already administered by another publisher, or shares claimed at a society that overlap with an existing registration.

Designated contact

One address handles all of this, and it is monitored by the people who can act on it.

Davincii LLC, Copyright Claims. Email info@davincii.co with the subject line "Copyright claim". Email is the only channel for claims. We do not publish a street address, and we do not take claims by phone, because a claim needs the documents attached to it. If you need a postal address for formal correspondence, ask at the same email and we will give you one.

How to file a claim

Email info@davincii.co with the subject line "Copyright claim" and include:

1. The work. Title, and any identifiers you have — ISWC, ISRC, society work numbers, or a link to the registration you're disputing.
2. Your claim. What you believe is wrong, and what the correct ownership or splits are.
3. Your standing. Who you are and how you're connected to the work — writer, publisher, administrator, or society — with documentation where you have it (split sheets, agreements, society registrations).
4. Your contact details. So we can reach you with questions and confirm the outcome.

What happens next

We confirm receipt within one business day and investigate against our records and the societies' — the registration files, acknowledgments, and the documentation on both sides. If a registration of ours is wrong, we correct it at every society where it was filed. Where another rightsholder's claim to a work is confirmed, our practice is to relinquish our shares entirely rather than leave a conflict sitting at the societies — conflicted registrations freeze royalties for everyone, and we'd rather the money flow to the right people than sit in a dispute queue.

If we believe our registration is correct, we'll explain why and share the documentation we relied on.

While a claim is genuinely open, royalties on the affected work can be held. Section 3.5 of our Terms of Service sets the rule we follow: a hold covers only the amounts actually in dispute, we tell the writer when we place one, we review it at least quarterly, and we release it as soon as the dispute is documented as resolved. The societies do the same upstream, so a work can sit in suspense at The MLC whatever we decide here.

If a claim is made about your work

If you are the writer we administer and someone claims one of your works, we will tell you what was claimed, who claimed it, and what they sent, and we will ask you before we change anything. You can answer with your own evidence: split sheets, session files, dated drafts, distributor or society records, a sample clearance, or a co-writer's confirmation. Send it to the same address with "Copyright claim" in the subject line. If your evidence holds up, our registration stands and we say so to the claimant. If it doesn't, we correct or relinquish, and we tell you before we do. Nothing here is a formal legal notice under any statute, and answering us is not a substitute for whatever a court or a society may require of either side.

Repeated and bad-faith claims

A claim that turns out to be wrong is normal; catalog data is messy and honest mistakes are most of what we see. A pattern is different. Where someone repeatedly files claims we determine to be baseless, or files them to freeze a competitor's royalties, we stop treating that sender as a good-faith claimant, tell the relevant societies, and may decline to process further claims from them without documentation up front. The same cuts the other way: an account of ours that keeps drawing confirmed infringement claims is handled under Section 4 of the Terms of Service.

Infringing material

If you believe a song in our catalog infringes your copyright — not a registration error, but the composition itself — email the same address. Section 5(c) of our Terms of Service requires every writer to confirm that their songs do not infringe anyone else's rights and that any samples or interpolations are cleared in writing. That is the promise we hold them to, and it is a narrower thing than claiming a song is wholly original: a track built on a cleared sample is fine, an uncleared one is not.

Where we reasonably determine that a work or an account is involved in infringement, we may suspend administration of the affected works, or suspend the account, under Section 4 of the Terms of Service. Where it is practicable we tell the writer first and give them a chance to respond. Royalties they legitimately earned are still paid.