Legal Notice & Copyright

A historical archive

ErieHardcore.com is a project that documents the history of the hardcore, punk, and underground music scene in and around Erie, Pennsylvania. Its core purpose is educational, historical, and archival: to preserve a record of the bands, shows, venues, people, recordings, and artwork that make up this local music history so that it is not lost.

The site may carry advertising for upcoming local shows and may offer its own branded merchandise to help cover hosting costs and support the archive. Any such activity relates to the site itself and to the promotion of live events. The third-party photographs, artwork, recordings, and other copyrighted materials described below are not sold, licensed, or offered for sale on this site, and are not used on merchandise without the rights holder's permission.

Ownership of materials

This site contains material — including photographs, flyer and poster art, album and release artwork, logos, audio recordings, song titles, lyrics, video, and text — that is the copyrighted property of the bands, artists, photographers, labels, designers, and other rights holders who created it. Those rights holders retain all rights in their work.

The operator of ErieHardcore.com claims no ownership of these third-party materials and makes no claim that they are original works of the site operator. Where a work is credited, the credit reflects our best available information; corrections are welcome. The compilation, organization, database structure, written descriptions, and original editorial content of this site are the work of the site operator.

Fair use

We believe the use of these materials on this site constitutes "fair use" as set out in 17 U.S.C. § 107. The materials are presented:

• for educational, historical, and archival purposes;
• in a transformative context — organized, dated, cross-referenced, and annotated as part of a documentary record of a regional music scene, rather than for the original entertainment or promotional purpose of each work;
• using only the portion of each work needed to identify and document it (for example, reduced-resolution images and short excerpts); and
• in a way that does not substitute for, compete with, or diminish the market for the original works, and that in many cases drives interest and attention toward the artists and their releases.

If this is your work

We want this archive to be accurate and to respect the people who built this scene. If you are a rights holder and you would like your material to be credited differently, updated, or removed, please contact us at info@eriehardcore.com and we will respond promptly. Please identify the specific material and your relationship to it so we can act on your request.

Message boards

The message boards at boards.eriehardcore.com are a community discussion space. By creating an account or posting there you agree to these terms and to the board rules.

• Your posts are yours, and public. You keep ownership of what you write and upload. By posting, you give ErieHardcore.com a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, and distribute your posts and images as part of the boards and the site's archive of the scene's history. Posts and your username are visible to anyone, including people without an account and search engines.
• You are responsible for what you post. Only post material you wrote or have the right to share, and do not post anyone's private information, threats, harassment, illegal content, or spam. Posts are the views of the people who write them. They are not statements by, and are not endorsed by, the operator of this site.
• Moderation. We do not review every post and are not obliged to. We may edit, move, lock, or remove posts and images, and suspend or close accounts, at any time and at our discretion, with or without notice, including for breaking the rules or putting the community at risk.
• Deleting your posts. You can delete your own posts at any time. Deleted posts and their images are removed from the boards. Quotes of your post inside other members' replies, copies already shared elsewhere, and routine backups may remain for a time.
• Copyright and other complaints. If something on the boards infringes your rights or should not be there, email info@eriehardcore.com with a link to the post, what it is, and your relationship to it. Rights holders should say which work was copied and where the original is. We respond promptly and will remove material that should not be on the boards.
• No guarantees. The boards are provided as is, without promises that they will always be available, error-free, or that posts will be kept. To the fullest extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for user posts or for loss arising from use of the boards.
• Who can use them. You must be at least 13 years old.

No affiliation

Reference to any band, label, venue, or organization does not imply that they endorse, sponsor, or are affiliated with this site.

Last updated: October 15, 2026