How we handle rights
Faydally is partly an archive. This page says plainly what that means: what we hold, what we do with it, and what happens when its owner comes forward.
Last updated 19 August 2026
Two kinds of page
A creator page belongs to someone with an account. They uploaded the work themselves and they control it.
A catalogue page — the app labels these plainly — is maintained by Faydally. The recordings on it were gathered from public archives, from material that has circulated freely for years, and from tapes kept by families and institutes. Nobody is behind it, and we say so on the page itself so you are never misled about who is answering.
What we do with work we did not make
- We record where each recording came from, so we can always answer the question.
- We credit the person it belongs to, by name, everywhere it appears.
- We keep track of what it earns and hold that share for whoever turns out to own it.
- We do not claim ownership of any of it.
Why we do not simply wait to be asked
Advertising is what pays for Faydally to exist, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. What we do not do is quietly treat money earned by someone else's work as ours. Where we have not identified a rights holder, their share accrues against the catalogue and is theirs when they claim it.
If the work is yours
This applies equally to a living scholar, to a family, and to the institute or zawiya that has carried someone's work for decades.
- Take it over. Claim the page and the recordings move to your own account, with their listening history and the earnings held against them.
- Take it down. Ask and it comes off the platform — all of it, in one action, and we do not ask you to justify it.
- Leave it and be credited properly. If the attribution is wrong, tell us.
Start here, or write to rights@faydally.com.
Documents
Claims are often settled by paperwork — a succession certificate, a letter from an institute. We do not keep copies. Whoever reviews your claim looks at the document, notes what it was, who issued it and its reference number, and that is all we retain. Holding a family's certificates is not something we want to be doing.
Getting it wrong
A lecture credited to a scholar who never gave it is a serious matter, not a filing error. We treat a wrong credit with the same urgency as a rights claim, and anyone can report one.
Who decides
People, not software. Nothing is removed automatically because somebody accused it, and no catalogue changes hands because a form was filled in correctly. Every decision is recorded with the reason behind it, so it can be accounted for later.
Holding us to it
None of the above is worth much as an assertion. The numbers — what we hold, how much of it we cannot trace, how long we take to answer, what we have handed back — are published and computed live.