Copyright & DMCA.

1. Designated Copyright Agent

There are two ways to reach the agent, and both produce a record: the takedown-notice form (Section 2) or the counter-notification form (Section 4) — each hands you a reference number the moment you file — or email:

The agent above handles copyright notices only. Other abuse (phishing, malware, scams) goes through [email protected] or the report form; general legal questions go to [email protected].

2. Reporting infringement (takedown notice)

If you believe content hosted on Athmane infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act for, file a takedown notice. The form collects every element the statute requires and refuses an incomplete notice rather than accepting one that cannot support a takedown. You may also write to the Copyright Agent by email; either way the notice must include all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works).
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and enough information for us to locate it — include the full URL(s). Published apps are served from <name>.athmane.app, so that is normally the address to copy.
4. Your contact information (name, address, telephone, email).
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner, or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Incomplete notices may not be actionable. Submitting a materially false notice may expose you to liability for damages under § 512(f).

3. What we do with a valid notice

A notice filed through the form is acknowledged immediately, on the screen that submits it, with a reference number of the form DMCA-2026-…. That reference is the acknowledgement of receipt — keep it, and quote it in any correspondence. We do not email a copy, so nothing about the acknowledgement depends on your mail reaching us or ours reaching you. A notice sent to the agent by email instead is acknowledged by the agent when it is read; there is no automated acknowledgement on that route.

On a notice that substantially complies with Section 2, we then:

• record it, with every sworn element, under the reference you were given (Section 5);
• review it — a person, not a filter — and either act on it or refuse it, and record which;
• expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material where we act, by unpublishing the app and blocking the slug against re-publication;
• forward a copy of the notice to the account that published the material, as a notification in their console: the work claimed, the material identified, the complainant’s name and email address, and the reference. We hold back the complainant’s postal address and telephone number at this stage — those stay in the record, and the statute makes them part of what a complainant receives if a counter-notification is filed, not part of what a takedown discloses; and
• count it toward that account’s repeat-infringer standing (Section 5).

We refuse notices too, and we keep those as well. A refused notice is not counted against the account it named, and the account is not told about it.

4. Counter-notification

If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)). It must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, postal address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which the service provider may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the takedown notice, or from that person’s agent.

You do not need to look that court up in our Terms, and this policy does not choose it for you: § 512(g)(3)(D) names it, and the sentence above states what it names. Our own choice of governing law and forum is a separate matter, still open, and it does not bear on a counter-notification.

On a valid counter-notification we record it and compute the statutory window: the material may be restored no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we receive it (§ 512(g)(2)(C)), unless the original complainant first tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity. The form shows you both dates when you file. They count weekdays only — a public holiday moves them later.

Restoring the material is not automatic in the sense of happening without us: publishing again is an action the account owner takes, and we lift the block that prevents it.

5. Repeat-infringer policy (§ 512(i))

We maintain and reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

We count validated copyright complaints per account. A complaint is validated when a person has reviewed the notice and we have acted on it — a notice that has merely arrived is not a strike, or filing complaints would be enough to terminate anyone. An account that reaches 3 validated complaints is in scope for termination review, and its published apps may be taken down; egregious conduct can bring that forward. Termination is a decision a person makes with the count in front of them, not an automatic consequence of the count reaching a number.

We keep the records the count is drawn from: every notice and counter-notification we receive, complete with its sworn statements, and every decision we record against one — including the ones we refuse. A refused notice is kept precisely so it is visible that it was not counted.

6. Trademark & other IP

For trademark, publicity, or other non-copyright complaints, contact [email protected] with the same locating detail (URL + description). These fall under the Acceptable Use Policy rather than the DMCA process above.