Copyright

Your music stays on your devices

Host-Caster plays music you already have. Songs you import are stored on your phone or in your browser and are never uploaded to our servers. Music from YouTube, Spotify and internet radio plays in those services' own players or straight from the station, under their terms. We do not host, copy, sell or distribute music, and we do not provide a music catalog.

You are responsible for having the right to play the music you use with Host-Caster. Personal listening is what it is for; see our Acceptable Use Policy about playing it in public.

Our own content

This website, the Host-Caster name and logo, and the hosted service are ours. The Host-Caster app's source code is open source under the MIT license, which lets anyone use, change and share it under its terms. The Inter typeface is used under the SIL Open Font License. Other names, like the AI, voice and music services Host-Caster works with, belong to their owners.

Reporting infringement (DMCA notice)

If you believe something on our website or service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our copyright agent with:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. a description of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;
3. where the material is on our service, with enough detail for us to find it (for example a link);
4. your name, postal address, phone number and email address;
5. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.

Copyright agent: Host-Caster. Email support@host-caster.com.

Notices that knowingly misrepresent infringement can make the sender liable for damages. Since songs are not stored on our servers, a notice about a song someone plays on their own device is best sent to wherever that song came from.

Counter-notice

If we removed something of yours and you believe it was a mistake or you have the right to use it, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with: your signature; what was removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address and phone number, with your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts for your address (or, outside the US, any place where we may be found) and to accept service from the person who sent the notice. We may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the sender tells us they have gone to court.

Repeat infringers

We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright, in suitable circumstances.