Publishing Terms

Every time you publish, you tick this box:

I own this work, or I otherwise have the right to publish it, and I understand that publishing makes this snapshot publicly visible under the Get Out and Jam publishing terms.

We record who ticked it and when, and which version of that wording they agreed to. That record survives everything else on this page: unpublishing doesn't erase it, and neither does a takedown.

The bar is real. Your own compositions and your own arrangements are yours to publish. A transcription of somebody else's copyrighted song generally is not — not even if you typed every note yourself, and not even with credit. “Educational use” is not a blanket permission. If you are unsure whether you have the right, keep the song private or share it with your band or your students, which needs no attestation at all.

Publishing pins the song exactly as it is at that moment and shows the world that pinned version. Carry on editing and the public page does not move — it stays on the snapshot until you publish again. Nobody watches you work.

You choose how public that is: public means the page can be found and indexed; unlistedmeans only people with the link can reach it. Neither one grants anyone access to your workspace, your revision history, or the song's other arrangements — publishing adds a public page, it never widens who can edit.

You can unpublish at any time, from the same place you published. The public page goes dark, the embed stops rendering, and every share link pointing at it stops resolving. The song itself is untouched — the document, its full history, and your attestation record all stay exactly where they were.

What unpublishing cannot do is reach into copies. If somebody made a copy while the song was public and copies were allowed, that copy is theirs and it keeps its attribution back to you. Search engines and other people's caches are also outside our reach, though we ask them to drop the page. That is the honest half of “you can always undo this”: you can always take the page down, and you can never un-publish something people already read.

Publishing has a separate switch for whether other people may copy the song into their own workspace and build on it. It is off unless you turn it on, and it travels with the snapshot you published: turning it off later stops new copies, it does not recall the ones already made.

A copy is a new song owned by whoever made it, carrying a permanent link back to yours as its source. That attribution is part of the copy and survives your song being unpublished or deleted.

We show it. Publishing gives us permission to host your snapshot, render it as a page, serve it inside the embed widget, and let anyone play it back with our tools. It does not transfer your copyright, and it does not give us the right to sell your work. You keep everything you came in with.

We may remove a published page — see below — and we may decline to index or promote one. Nothing here obliges us to keep any particular page up.

If someone files a valid copyright notice about your published song, we take the public page down and email you: what came down, the reference number, and how to file a counter-notice. A takedown is not a deletion — your song stays in your workspace with its history intact, which is what makes it restorable.

If a notice is withdrawn or successfully countered, you can publish the song again yourself. We don't do it for you: publishing carries your attestation, and only you can make it.

After three takedown notices we act on against the same account, that account's ability to publish is revoked. Notices that are withdrawn, dismissed, or successfully countered don't count. Serious or repeated infringement can also end the account, under the Community Guidelines.

The full process, including how to file a notice or a counter-notice, is on the Copyright & DMCA page.

Anything about these terms, or about a specific published song, goes through support. Formal copyright claims go through the DMCA road instead — that one is on the record and has a clock on it.