Favist runs two services with different relationships to other people's work. Here is a plain description of both, and of the line we do not cross.
Effective September 15, 2026Last updated August 30, 2026
Favist is a place to collect and share the things you love. It is built to work with the people who make that work: artists, studios, authors, publishers, podcasters, creators, and the platforms that license them. It is also, since 2026, a place where you can retrieve a video you posted yourself and keep it somewhere sensible. Those two things need different explanations, so this page gives both rather than one description that only fits half the product.
When you save music, films, books, podcasts or other catalogue items to a collection, Favist stores a reference: the title, the cover art, the metadata and a link, drawn from official provider catalogues and APIs and used within their terms.
Playback happens through the official players of licensed services, on their infrastructure and under their terms. Favist does not stream, rip or re-encode licensed catalogue media. For this part of the product Favist is the menu, not the kitchen.
Favist also provides tools that retrieve publicly accessible media files from third party platforms, currently Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Vimeo, and, where you ask, store them in your account or publish them on a page you control.
You direct the retrieval and you carry the rights. When you use these tools, you are the party responsible for having the rights to the file you retrieve. Favist does not review, endorse, or acquire any rights in that material. Where you instruct us to store or publish it, we host it as user content at your direction, subject to our acceptable use rules and to removal on notice.
The line we do not cross
We do not provide tools that circumvent technological protection measures, reach private or restricted content, or defeat platform access controls. Where a platform protects its content with such a measure, our tools do not support it. That is why the supported list is the list it is, and why it is shorter than it could be.
What we keep. Where you do not ask us to save a retrieved file, we keep it only for the brief period needed to deliver it to you. Where you do ask us to save it, we store it for you like any other file in your account, and you can delete it at any time. We are honest about this rather than claiming we never store anything, because storing what you ask us to store is the point of the feature.
Every Favist collection is a recommendation pointed back at the original source. Sharing on Favist drives streams, views, sales and new audience to rights holders. That alignment is deliberate: when creators get found and get paid, Favist works.
On the retrieval side, the alignment is different but real. Creators are the heaviest users of these tools, because the file they most often want back is one they made themselves and no longer have. Keeping the tools narrow, keeping them honest about storage, and refusing to support protected content is how a tool like that stays defensible.
We honour the rights of copyright owners and act on valid notices. Favist Inc. maintains a designated agent registered with the United States Copyright Office, publishes a full notice and counter notice procedure, and terminates repeat infringers.
The agent's details, the required elements of a notice, the counter notice route, and the form: Copyright and DMCA policy.
If you would rather talk than file, reach us at copyright@favist.ai. If you represent a platform, label or catalogue and want to build something together, partnerships@favist.ai.