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The rights-ops inbox for music duplicate detection.

Catch unauthorized re-uploads of your catalog across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube — and file court-ready takedowns in one click.

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  • Built on §512(c)(3) evidence
  • Hash-chained audit log per workspace
  • Self-serve from $49/month

The Monday-morning problem

You wake up. Someone re-uploaded your single. Repeat.

Indie labels, distributors, and rights agencies lose an estimated 2–7% of streaming revenue to unauthorized re-uploads, sped-up versions, and AI-generated covers of catalog tracks. The work to fight back lives in Google Sheets, email threads, and DSP web forms. There is no inbox.

  1. Monday

    An artist DMs the label.

    "Someone uploaded my track as 'sped up' and it has 14k streams." Rights ops opens a spreadsheet and starts hunting for the ISRC.

  2. Tuesday

    Hand-rolling a DMCA.

    Copy-paste the work title, the URL, the rights statement, the good-faith statement, the perjury clause, the signature. Email Spotify's takedown alias. Hope.

  3. Friday

    It happens again.

    Same uploader, new track. No audit trail. No queue. No way to tell which of last week's 38 notices actually landed.

The DSP Watch loop

Upload your catalog. We scan. You action the inbox.

Three steps. No procurement call. No fingerprint vendor on the side.

  1. 1

    Upload your catalog

    Drop a CSV, paste an ISRC list, or stream a DDEX feed. Manifest is fingerprinted and locked to your workspace.

  2. 2

    We scan every 60 min

    ISRC, UPC, distributor-of-record, channel reputation, fuzzy metadata. Audio fingerprint on the ambiguous tail.

  3. 3

    Action the inbox

    Findings ranked by actionability score. One click files the §512(c)(3) notice through the right adapter — and writes the audit trail.

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What a finding looks like in your inbox.

Sorted by what you can act on today — not by raw similarity score. Click View evidence package to see the §512(c)(3) PDF we'd file.

Inbox — high-actionability findings Updated 6 min ago
Spotify ISRC match §512(c)(3) ready

Blinding Lights (Sped Up)

Uploader: ChartHits Daily · Released 2026-05-22 · 14,820 streams · ISRC USRC11900001

Matches your master release on ISRC, UPC, and audio fingerprint. Uploader has 1,184 prior takedowns across the catalog. No fair-use signal detected.

Actionability
0.92
Demo data · no takedown will be filed

Evidence package · preview

DMCA §512(c)(3) Notice — DSPWATCH-EVD-20260606-00471 

NOTICE OF CLAIMED INFRINGEMENT — 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)
Filed via DSP Watch, on behalf of the designated rights holder.

1. IDENTIFICATION OF COPYRIGHTED WORK
   Title:        Blinding Lights
   ISRC:         USRC11900001
   UPC:          0602508675553
   Rights holder: [REDACTED LABEL] — verified via catalog manifest
                  ingested 2026-04-12, hash 4b9c…e02f.

2. IDENTIFICATION OF INFRINGING MATERIAL
   Platform:     Spotify
   URL:          https://open.spotify.com/track/[REDACTED]
   Uploader:     ChartHits Daily (artist URI [REDACTED])
   ISRC on file: USRC11900001  (identical)
   First seen:   2026-05-22 09:41 UTC
   Stream count: 14,820 (snapshot 2026-06-06 11:02 UTC)

3. EVIDENCE OF OWNERSHIP & MATCH
   - Deterministic ISRC + UPC match against rights-holder manifest.
   - Audio fingerprint distance: 0.014 (threshold 0.04).
   - Metadata Levenshtein on title+artist: 0.06.
   - Lenz fair-use review: no transformative signal detected
     (no commentary, no parody markers, full-length use).

4. GOOD-FAITH STATEMENT
   I have a good-faith belief that use of the material described
   above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or
   the law.

5. ACCURACY & AUTHORITY (UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY)
   The information in this notice is accurate, and I am authorized
   to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is
   allegedly infringed.

6. CONTACT & SIGNATURE
   Agent:        [REDACTED] — Rights Operations
   Email:        [REDACTED]
   Signed:       /s/ [REDACTED]   2026-06-06

— END EXCERPT —
This is a preview rendered from seeded demo data. The production
PDF is hash-pinned, cryptographically signed, and written to your
workspace's append-only audit chain at the moment of filing.

The evidence pack

Every takedown ships with the six §512(c)(3) elements.

A DMCA notice is only useful if it survives a counter-notice. DSP Watch generates the full 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) notice every time — and hash-pins the PDF to your workspace's append-only audit chain at the moment of filing.

  1. 1

    Identification of the copyrighted work. Title, ISRC, UPC, and rights holder — pulled from your verified catalog manifest.

  2. 2

    Identification of the infringing material. Platform, URL, uploader handle, ISRC on file, first-seen timestamp, stream count snapshot.

  3. 3

    Contact information for the complaining party. Name, email, postal address — scoped to the workspace's designated agent.

  4. 4

    Good-faith belief statement. That the use of the material is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law.

  5. 5

    Accuracy statement under penalty of perjury. Plus a Lenz v. Universal fair-use review enforced before the notice is dispatched.

  6. 6

    Electronic signature of the authorized agent. Signer-attested at filing time and bound into the hash chain.

ISRC: USRC11900001 UPC: 0602508675553 Fingerprint distance: 0.014 Hash-pinned
Sample evidence PDF — ISRC match region highlighted. Production PDFs are signed and hash-pinned.

Pricing

Self-serve from $49 a month.

Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, all 5 takedown adapters, and the full §512(c)(3) evidence pack. No procurement call.

Starter

$49 /month

For solo artists and small labels protecting up to 500 tracks.

  • Up to 500 tracks
  • Nightly catalog scans
  • All 5 takedown adapters
  • 1 seat
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Growth

Most popular

$199 /month

For distributors and rights agencies running real workflows.

  • Up to 5,000 tracks
  • Scans every 60 minutes
  • REST API + webhooks
  • 5 seats, all roles
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Pro

$499 /month

For catalog-scale rights ops with SSO and audit requirements.

  • Unlimited tracks
  • Priority scans
  • SSO + audit export
  • Unlimited seats
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Need SSO, custom seat counts, or a paid annual contract? Talk to us.

Trusted by indie labels and distributors building catalog enforcement workflows.

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For the engineering buyer

Built like a serious system, not a spreadsheet replacement.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask in week one.

What does DSP Watch actually do?
DSP Watch monitors Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube for unauthorized re-uploads of releases in your catalog. When we find one, we score how actionable it is, package the evidence into a §512(c)(3)-compliant DMCA notice, and let you file the takedown in one click through five built-in adapters: DMCA generic, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Content ID, and distributor forward.
How is this different from Pex, Audible Magic, or Songstats?
Pex and Audible Magic are fingerprint engines sold to enterprise distributors under multi-thousand-dollar contracts. Songstats and Chartmetric are analytics tools — they tell you what is happening, not what to do about it. DSP Watch is the only self-serve rights-ops inbox: deterministic ID match first, AI only on the ambiguous tail, court-ready evidence pack built in, and pricing that starts at $49 a month with no procurement call.
How do you detect duplicates?
We cross-reference ISRC, UPC, distributor-of-record, channel reputation, and fuzzy metadata against your catalog manifest. Deterministic ID matches resolve instantly. The ambiguous tail goes through audio fingerprinting and an LLM-assisted Lenz fair-use review before it ever surfaces as an actionable finding. Scans run every 60 minutes.
Is the evidence actually court-ready?
Yes. Every evidence packet contains the six elements required by 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3): work identification, infringing-material identification, contact information, good-faith statement, accuracy statement under penalty of perjury, and an electronic signature. The PDF is hash-pinned, the action is written to a per-workspace append-only audit chain, and Lenz v. Universal fair-use review is enforced before any notice is filed.
Which DSPs and platforms are supported?
At launch: Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube for both detection and takedown filing. Tidal, Deezer, and Amazon Music are on the M2 detection roadmap. Five takedown adapters ship today: dmca_generic, spotify_form, apple_form, youtube_cid, and distributor_forward.
What does it cost?
Three self-serve plans: Starter at $49 a month for catalogs up to 500 tracks, Growth at $199 a month for up to 5,000 tracks with team seats and webhooks, and Pro at $499 a month for unlimited tracks, the REST API, and SSO. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial and you can cancel anytime from the dashboard.
How are workspaces, roles, and data isolated?
Each customer gets a workspace backed by Postgres row-level security. Five roles ship out of the box: owner, admin, catalog manager, rights ops, and viewer. Every action — ingest, scan, decision, filing, defer — writes to a hash-chained audit log scoped to that workspace, so the entire history of a takedown is independently verifiable.
Do you have a REST API and webhooks?
Yes. The REST API exposes catalog ingest, finding listing, evidence retrieval, and takedown filing on the Growth plan and above. Webhook events fire on finding.created, finding.actioned, takedown.filed, and takedown.acknowledged so you can wire DSP Watch into your existing rights-ops stack without polling.

Stop hand-rolling DMCAs at 9pm on a Tuesday.

Spin up a workspace, ingest your catalog, and watch the inbox fill with pre-evidenced, ready-to-file takedowns. 14-day free trial. No procurement call.

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