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DMCA Policy

Last updated: October 9, 2026

As songwriters and producers, we know what it means when someone’s work is used without permission. Fort Never respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects visitors to fortnever.com (the “Site”) to do the same. This DMCA Policy explains how to tell us about material on the Site that you believe infringes your copyright, how to respond if your material was removed, and how we protect our own work. It follows the procedures of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

This page is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether material infringes your rights, or whether a use might be a fair use, consider talking to an attorney before sending a notice.

1. Our copyright contact

Send copyright infringement notices and counter-notices to our designated copyright contact:

Fort Never, Attn: Copyright Agent
Austin, Texas, USA
Email: [email protected]
Subject line: “DMCA Notice” or “DMCA Counter-Notice”

Email is the fastest way to reach us. If you need a postal address to serve a formal notice, email us and we will provide one. This contact is only for copyright matters. Messages about orders, bookings, or other topics sent to this subject line may not get a reply, so please use our regular contact form for those.

2. What this policy covers

This policy applies to content hosted on fortnever.com, including text, images, audio, video, and files in our store, as well as content posted by visitors, such as journal comments. It does not cover:

  • content embedded from third-party platforms (such as YouTube, Spotify, or SoundCloud), which is hosted by that platform. Please use that platform’s own copyright reporting process as well, so the material is removed at its source;
  • content on other websites that simply links to us; or
  • trademark complaints, privacy concerns, or defamation claims. Email us about these separately, and we will review them on their own merits.

3. Filing a notice of infringement

If you believe that material on the Site infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, send us a written notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), the notice must include all of the following:

  1. Signature. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Typing your full legal name at the end of an email is acceptable as an electronic signature.
  2. The copyrighted work. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If several works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.
  3. The infringing material. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed or disabled, with enough information for us to find it. The exact URL of the page, and a description of where the material appears on it, is the most helpful.
  4. Your contact information. Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you, such as your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. Good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. Accuracy statement. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Before sending a notice, please consider whether the use could be a fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107, for example a short quotation in a review, commentary, or educational article. Copyright owners are expected to consider fair use before requesting removal.

What happens next

  • We review each notice. If it is complete, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified.
  • If the material was posted by a visitor, such as in a comment, we will take reasonable steps to notify that person and provide a copy of the notice (we may remove your phone number or address from the copy if you ask).
  • If a notice is missing required elements, we may contact you to ask for the missing information. We may not be able to act on an incomplete notice.
  • Where the material is something we published ourselves, we will review it, remove or replace it if appropriate, and reply to you directly. We would always rather fix an honest mistake quickly than argue about it.

4. Filing a counter-notice

If material you posted was removed because of a DMCA notice, and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), the counter-notice must include all of the following:

  1. Signature. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material. Identification of the material that was removed or to which access was disabled, and the location where it appeared before removal (for example, the URL).
  3. Statement under penalty of perjury. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  4. Contact information and consent to jurisdiction. Your name, address, and telephone number, and 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, any judicial district in which Fort Never may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or that person’s agent.

What happens next

When we receive a valid counter-notice, we will promptly send a copy to the person who filed the original notice and tell them that we will restore the removed material or stop disabling access to it in 10 business days. We will restore the material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice, unless we first receive notice that the original complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material.

Please be aware that your counter-notice, including your contact information, will be shared with the person who sent the original notice.

5. Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner, or the service provider as a result. Do not send a notice or counter-notice unless you are confident it is accurate. Because statements in notices and counter-notices are made under penalty of perjury, false statements can also carry other legal consequences.

We may disregard notices that appear to be fraudulent, abusive, or sent for reasons unrelated to copyright, such as attempts to silence criticism or remove fair commentary.

6. Repeat infringer policy

In line with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts and commenting privileges of users who are repeat infringers. We may consider a user a repeat infringer if we receive valid notices about material they posted on more than one occasion, or if a court finds that they infringed. We may also block access by users we reasonably believe are infringing copyrights, at our discretion, even without multiple notices. A user whose material was restored after a valid counter-notice will not have that notice counted against them.

7. Our own copyrights

Fort Never’s work is protected by copyright and other laws. Copyright in the material below is owned by Fort Never, its members and songwriters, or the collaborators and licensors who created it, as applicable:

  • Sound recordings and compositions, including the album Home and its tracks, the singles “We Keep Catching Fire” and “Take A Look At Us Now,” and any demos, stems, or unreleased material;
  • Lyrics and musical works written by our songwriters;
  • Artwork, including the Home album cover and our logo and merch designs;
  • Photographs on the Site and in our press kit, which may also be owned by the photographers who took them;
  • Music videos, such as “Fly High” and “Paradigm,” and the rights of their directors and producers; and
  • Written content, including journal articles and the text of this Site.

Buying a download or streaming our music gives you a personal listening license only. It does not give you the right to upload, share, sync, sample, or redistribute our work. See section 7 of our Terms & Conditions for details, and see our sync licensing terms if you would like to use a track in a video or other project.

Press and fan use. Press may use images and materials from our press kit for coverage of Fort Never, with credit. Fans are welcome to share our official links and embeds. For anything else, just ask.

Reporting misuse of our work. If you see our music, artwork, or photos being used without permission, such as an unauthorized upload or a product using our artwork, we would appreciate a heads-up at [email protected]. Include a link and a short description. We may contact the website or platform involved, using its own copyright procedures.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this DMCA Policy from time to time, for example to reflect changes in the law or in how we handle notices. The “Last updated” date at the top of the page shows when it was last revised.

9. Contact

Copyright questions, notices, and counter-notices: [email protected]. Fort Never, Austin, Texas, USA.