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My API Wrapper was reported for infringing on Spotify's IP. Don't know who to contact!

My API Wrapper was reported for infringing on Spotify's IP. Don't know who to contact!

I'm unsure who to contact in this case, but I wrote an object-oriented Spotify API wrapper a couple of years ago and put it open source on NPM. 

 

https://www.npmjs.com/package/enhanced-spotify-api

 

I made a website for the documentation and was hosting it on Vercel.

 

Recently I got an email from Vercel stating my site had been taken down because it:

 

  • Enabling digital piracy or facilitating the infringement of copyright material.
  • Distributing illegal content.
  • Assisting unlawful activity by providing auxiliary services.
  • Abusing our platform and the free offering.

After explaining to them it was just an API wrapper, they told me it was Spotify themselves who had asked the site be taken down, stating it "infringing on Spotify's IP".

 

Spotify hasn't made any efforts to contact me, but I'd like to do whatever is needed to fit their Terms of Service and adjust the project however I need to.

 

Is there anyone from Spotify that can help me resolve this?

 

The wrapper doesn't do anything but offer endpoints available, the users still have to create their own app in the dashboard to get a Spotify API key. Not sure how this project, which simply increases accessibility to their API is a threat.

 

Please help!

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