Effective July 25, 2026
We unpublish first and discuss afterward. If you tell us something shouldn't be here, it comes down while we look into it — not after we've decided who's right.
The reason collegiate performances vanish is that a livestream is covered by a school's performance licenses while a permanent replay is not — that needs synchronization rights for every copyrighted work on the program. We are not trying to route around that. We are trying to make it administrable.
So the founding pilot archives only material that is already clear:
Nothing publishes without an active agreement with the institution that made the recording, and every entry displays the basis on which it appears. Broader repertoire will only be added through a standardized permission process built with publishers and counsel — never by assuming.
Send a note to [email protected] with:
You do not need to hire a lawyer or send anything formal to get our attention. An email that says "that's my piece and I didn't agree to this" is enough for us to take it down.
What happens next. We remove or unpublish the material promptly on receipt — normally the same day, and in any case within two business days. Then we write back, tell you what we found, and either keep it down or explain what permission we believe covers it and ask whether you agree. If we got it wrong, we say so.
You never need a reason. Email us and your program's recordings come down — a single recording or all of them — within fourteen days, and sooner if you say it's urgent. Your institution owns its recordings; we hold only a revocable permission to host them.
Any student or alumnus who appears in a recording or a performer roster may ask to have their name removed, or the recording they appear in taken down. Write to us directly. We will not ask you to justify the request or route you through your school.
If you publish or administer educational choral and instrumental repertoire, we would rather talk with you early than surprise you later. We are actively looking for a workable, standardized way to license collegiate performance archives — one that pays rights holders and doesn't require every music department to negotiate alone. If that's a conversation worth having, we'd welcome it.
Stuart Nelsen, Founder
The Rostrum LLC · Tuscaloosa, Alabama
[email protected]