Legal
Copyright and takedowns
How to tell the operator that material reachable through this site infringes a copyright you hold, and what the operator can and cannot do about it.
What this site stores
This is an index. The database holds titles, descriptions, tags and the addresses of media that lives on third-party servers. It does not hold video files, and there is no way for anyone to upload one: there is no account system and no upload form anywhere on the site.
When a page plays something, the browser asks this server for it and this server fetches it from a third-party host and passes the bytes straight through without keeping a copy. Cover art works the same way. The practical consequence for a notice is this: removing an entry here stops this site from linking to or relaying that material, but it does not delete anything, because the file is on somebody else's server. A notice sent to that host is what removes the file.
Sending a notice
Send it to the agent named below. In the United States, 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) sets out what a notice has to contain, and a notice missing any of it may not be actionable:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for them.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed. If several works on this site are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
- Identification of the material you are complaining about, precise enough for it to be found. In practice that means the full address of each page on this site, one per line.
- How to reach you: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
A notice that misrepresents that material is infringing can carry liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), including the costs of the person whose material was removed.
Designated agent
Notices go here and nowhere else. Every line is a blank:
Whether naming an agent on this page achieves anything depends on where the operator and the servers are. The United States safe harbour is not automatic: it requires registering the agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and keeping that registration current, and other jurisdictions have their own notice regimes that look nothing like this one. Which of them applies to [JURISDICTION] is a question for a lawyer, not for this page.
What happens after a valid notice
The operator intends to remove or disable the identified entries promptly, and to record what was removed and when. How quickly "promptly" turns out to be in practice depends on the operator, so this page does not promise a number of hours it cannot keep. Where a notice identifies the upstream host rather than a page on this site, the operator can only act on the entries here; the host itself has to be contacted separately.
Counter notification
If an entry of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter notification to the same agent. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3) it needs your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared before removal, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the removal was a mistake, your name, address and telephone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of a federal district court for the district in which you live, or, if you are outside the United States, to a district in which the operator may be found.
A counter notification is a legal document with consequences. Do not send one to reverse a removal you cannot defend.
Repeat infringement
The usual repeat-infringer policy terminates the accounts of users who upload infringing material. This site has no accounts and no uploads, so that policy has nothing to attach to. What the operator can do is stop indexing a source that is repeatedly the subject of valid notices, and remove the entries that came from it.
Whether that is enough, and what the policy should actually say, is exactly the kind of question a lawyer has to answer for [JURISDICTION]. Copying a boilerplate account-termination policy onto a site with no accounts would be an assertion the operator could not back up.
General contact
For anything that is not a copyright notice, use [CONTACT EMAIL]. The other documents are on the legal index.