Soundcloud is a popular website/app amongst internet music
lovers and artists worldwide, providing a platform for the
uploading of music (and other forms of art) by artists and users
alike to be shared with the Soundcloud community. Developed in
2008, Soundcloud is recognized as an effective promotional tool,
often compared to other similar websites/apps such as MySpace and
YouTube.
Unfortunately, it also shares other less desirable similarities
with such user driven media upload sites: an elevated potential for
copyright infringement of third party rights. Soundcloud does not
monitor the content that is uploaded to the platform according to
its "Terms of Use" (in fact it states in its "Terms
of Use" that there is "no legal obligation to
monitor" the uploaded content), seemingly trusting that users
will not infringe third party rights, an act that is prohibited
according to these same "Terms of Use".
