Copyright & Takedown

Greatest Bits stores no video or audio. Clips play through the official embed players of platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, and remain on those platforms under their terms; if a clip is removed there, it stops playing here. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and posters from TMDB, loaded from those sources and credited. We use this material to identify each artist's work and direct audiences to it, as fair use for criticism, commentary, and reference, and we prioritize official and rights-holder channels wherever they exist.

Whether embedding third-party media is itself a "display" under US copyright law is genuinely unsettled, and courts disagree. Rather than rely on any single reading, we take a conservative, good-faith approach: prefer official and long-standing authorized sources, never re-host or re-upload, credit everything, and remove anything a rights holder asks us to remove. The fastest way to resolve a concern is the process below.

If you are a rights holder (or authorized to act for one) and want material removed, or if you have spotted an error, send a notice through the contact page. To help us act quickly, please include the elements of a standard takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the copyrighted work (or a representative list, if several);
3. identification of the material you want removed, with the specific page URL(s) on this site so we can find it;
4. your contact information (email is fine);
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the 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 owner or authorized to act for the owner.

We aim to respond and remove or correct verified material promptly, typically within a few days, no questions asked. Because we embed rather than host, removal here means taking down the embed or reference; the underlying file stays wherever its platform keeps it, and only that platform can remove it there.

If you believe material was removed in error, you may send a counter-notice through the contact page. Mirroring 17 U.S.C. § 512(g), please include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material and where it appeared before removal;
3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, contact information, and, where applicable, consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court.

The site currently publishes no user-submitted content. If and when contributions open, we will adopt and enforce a policy of removing material from, and barring, anyone who repeatedly posts infringing content, and we will formally designate a copyright agent with the US Copyright Office before that point. We note our intended designated-agent contact here in advance: contact email pending.

Comedian names, special and album titles, network and platform names, and related marks are used nominatively, only to identify and refer to the work and the people who made it. Their use here is not a claim of ownership and does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.