Copyright Information · DailyWorship

This page covers the practical side of copyright on DailyWorship: ownership of generated tracks, the protections that reduce the risk of copying existing works, and how rights holders can request a takedown. For the conceptual overview, see Copyright & Intellectual Property.

Who owns a generated track#

When you generate a track on DailyWorship:

You hold the rights to use it under the license attached to your tier — see Licensing Information.
The platform retains the right to use anonymized aggregate metadata (style, mood, theme) for service improvement and to display public tracks in the discovery feed.
No human composer or lyricist co-owns the track; generated tracks are produced by software, not co-authored by us.

Remember the AI-copyright caveat: copyrightability of purely AI-generated content is unsettled (see Copyright & Intellectual Property). The license we grant you is enforceable as a contract regardless of whether copyright subsists.

What we do to prevent copying existing works#

Prompt-level moderation#

Prompts that explicitly reference known copyrighted material — for example, asking for a track that "sounds exactly like" a named song, or quoting more than a short snippet of copyrighted lyrics — are blocked before generation. See Blocked Prompts.

Lyric similarity detection#

Generated lyrics are compared against a corpus of known copyrighted worship lyrics. If a generated lyric exceeds an internal similarity threshold, it is regenerated; repeated failure errors out the generation and credits your quota.

Audio similarity detection#

Generated audio is fingerprinted and checked against known commercial worship recordings. Tracks exceeding an internal similarity threshold are quarantined and reviewed before release. Most such cases turn out to be coincidental overlap on common chord progressions, but we review every one.

These checks run automatically; you'll only notice them if a generation errors out for similarity reasons.

What you should still do#

No automated check is perfect, so before releasing a track commercially:

Read the lyrics carefully.
Listen for melodic familiarity — if a melody strongly reminds you of an existing song, regenerate or keep it internal.
When in doubt, hold off — a commercial release is hard to retract.

Designated Copyright Agent#

Notices of claimed infringement should be sent to our designated agent:

Name / Role: Copyright Officer
Operating entity: Intelligent Singularity Inc.
Address: Suite C, 16644 - 71 St, Edmonton, AB T5Z 0N5, Canada
Email: copyright@dailyworship.net
Telephone: +1-780-800-4008

This agent receives notices under both the U.S. DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512) and Canada's notice-and-notice regime (Copyright Act §§ 41.25–41.26).

If you believe a track infringes your copyright#

To file a takedown:

Email copyright@dailyworship.net with the subject "Copyright takedown".
Include:

The URL of the allegedly infringing track on DailyWorship.
A description of the copyrighted work you own and identifying material.
Your contact information (name, email, postal address).
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them.

We review every request and respond, typically within 5 business days.
If the takedown is valid, the track is removed and the creator is notified.

A counter-notification process is available for creators who believe a takedown was filed in error; details are in the Terms of Service.

This process mirrors the U.S. DMCA and is compatible with Canada's notice-and-notice regime and other jurisdictions' takedown rules.

Repeat infringers#

Accounts that repeatedly publish tracks taken down for infringement are subject to suspension or termination. The platform exists to help worship leaders make original music, not to launder copyrighted work.

Public-domain hymns and traditional material#

A large body of worship music is public domain — for example, most hymns published before about 1925 in the U.S. (cutoffs differ by country). Generating a worship track inspired by, quoting from, or arranging a public-domain hymn is within the platform's intended use. See Generating for Special Occasions.

Scripture#

Scripture text in its underlying form is not copyrightable, but specific modern translations may be (for example, NIV, ESV). Quoting Scripture in lyrics is normal worship practice; if you use a copyrighted translation extensively in lyrics intended for commercial release, check that translation publisher's permissions.

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