The host sees all of it
Name, address, the URLs and the evidence. Hosts commonly forward it to the site in full.
What we file
A notice is a legal document.
Six required parts, sent to the one address that has to act on it.
The six parts
In every notice. No exceptions.
A notice missing any one does not legally put the host on notice. Ours cannot be produced incomplete.
- 01§ 512(c)(3)(A)(i)
A signature
From the owner, or someone authorised to act for them. Ours is signed as your agent.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(i) - 02§ 512(c)(3)(A)(ii)
The work that was copied
What was copied, and where you published it.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(ii) - 03§ 512(c)(3)(A)(iii)
Where the copy is
The exact address, the matching passage, and the page of yours it came from.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(iii) - 04§ 512(c)(3)(A)(iv)
Contact details
Name, address, phone and email. These reach the other side, so you choose which ones.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(iv) - 05§ 512(c)(3)(A)(v)
A good-faith statement
That the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(v) - 06§ 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)
Accuracy, under penalty of perjury
That the notice is accurate and the sender is authorised. This is the sentence that carries the liability.
§ 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)
Where it goes
Five recipients. Five different outcomes.
We check the Copyright Office directory for every filing, because a notice to last year's agent does nothing.
CanCannot
Hosting provider
Can: Remove or disable the page
Cannot: Anything about search results
Proxy, such as Cloudflare
Can: Forward it and name the real host
Cannot: Remove content it does not hold
Domain registrar
Can: In rare cases, suspend the domain
Cannot: Remove a single page
Google Search
Can: Take the address out of results
Cannot: Delete the page from the site
Marketplace
Can: Remove the listing, through its own process
Cannot: Act on a notice sent elsewhere
What the other side sees
Your name is on it.
Google publishes to Lumen
Names, URLs and the explanation go to a public database. Contact details are withheld.
You choose what is used
Before anything is filed. A business name and address, never a home one.
Scope
What we put a notice on.
We file
- Your text, copied word for word
- Your photographs on their page
- A whole page or a whole site cloned
- Your listing copy reused by another seller
We decline
- Someone using your brand name
- A bad review, or something said about you
- Facts, prices, titles, or short phrases
- Commentary, criticism, parody, news
- Work you paid for but never took the rights to
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