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Copyright Policy (DMCA)

Copyright Policy

Reporting Claims of Copyright Infringement

We take claims of copyright infringement seriously. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. If you believe any materials accessible on or from this site (the “Website”) infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access to them) from the Website by submitting written notification to our copyright agent designated below. In accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), the written notice (the “DMCA Notice”) must include substantially the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Website, a representative list of such works.
  • Identification of the material you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material.
  • Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number, and, if available, email address).
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  • A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate.
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Our designated copyright agent to receive DMCA Notices is:

Creation Rights Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent / Legal Department
Scarbrough Building, 522 Congress Ave., Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78701, USA
Email: legal@creationrights.com

If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your DMCA Notice may not be effective.

Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Website is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

Counter Notification Procedures

If you believe that material you posted on the Website was removed or access to it was disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter notification with us (a “Counter Notice”) by submitting written notification to our copyright agent designated below. Pursuant to the DMCA, the Counter Notice must include substantially the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • An identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access disabled.
  • Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number, and, if available, email address).
  • A statement under penalty of perjury by you that you have a good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  • A statement that you will consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or if you reside outside the United States for any judicial district in which the Website may be found) and that you will accept service from the person (or an agent of that person) who provided the Website with the complaint at issue.

Our designated agent to receive Counter Notices is:

Creation Rights Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent / Legal Department
Scarbrough Building, 522 Congress Ave., Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78701, USA
Email: legal@creationrights.com

The DMCA allows us to restore the removed content if the party filing the original DMCA Notice does not file a court action against you within ten business days of receiving the copy of your Counter Notice.

Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Website was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

Repeat Infringers

It is our policy in appropriate circumstances to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. Creation Rights may disable, suspend, or terminate accounts or workspaces of users who are repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Repeat infringement evaluation may include notices, counter-notices, court orders, account history, private workspace activity, metadata records, and evidence logs. It is our policy in appropriate circumstances to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. We maintain a strike system:

  • First valid DMCA Notice: Warning issued to the user.
  • Second valid DMCA Notice: Account restricted (new uploads disabled).
  • Third valid DMCA Notice: Account terminated.

Restoration Procedure

Creation Rights may restore removed or disabled material if the original notice sender does not file an action seeking a court order within the statutory period after receiving the counter-notice, subject to applicable law, platform safety, private workspace controls, and other rights or contractual restrictions.

Private Workspaces and Asset-Level Takedown

For private workspaces, Creation Rights may restrict access to an asset, preview, derivative, transaction record, public share link, publishing workflow, or output while preserving metadata, contract versions, consent records, audit logs, and evidence needed to assess the claim, maintain legal records, or resolve disputes.

Metadata and Evidence Preservation

A takedown or disablement action may not delete all related records. Creation Rights may preserve asset IDs, hashes, metadata, clause codes, user actions, timestamps, contract records, licence records, consent records, payment records, correspondence, and audit logs where needed for legal, security, accounting, dispute, or compliance purposes.

Platform Metadata Effects of Takedown

When a DMCA takedown is processed, the following updates occur within the Platform's metadata system:

  • Rights Status: Changes to DISPUTED for the affected asset.
  • Risk Score: Recalculated to reflect the dispute event.
  • Compliance Flags: Dispute flag added.
  • Payout Gate: If payout gates have not yet run, the Dispute/Fraud gate will fail, blocking payout. If payout has already occurred, a transfer reversal may be initiated per the Refund Schedule.
  • Cross-Sector Impact:If the disputed asset has been adapted for use in other sectors (cross-sector chain), all counterparties linked to the asset's lineage chain will be notified.
  • AI-Generated Content: Where the disputed content includes AI-generated elements, the AI provenance metadata is relevant to the infringement analysis. The DMCA process applies equally to AI-generated content, though copyright subsistence in purely AI-generated works is uncertain under current US law and a certification from Creative Intellectual Property Foundation will be used for evidence to determine meditation and action between parties.

Non-Copyright Rights Disputes

The DMCA covers copyright claims. Claims involving trademarks, publicity rights, NILP, privacy, biometrics, defamation, trade secrets, contracts, union/guild restrictions, or other non-copyright rights should be submitted through Creation Rights support or legal notice channels. Creation Rights may still restrict access while reviewing non-copyright rights disputes.

UK Online Safety Act 2023

The Platform also serves UK-based users and complies with applicable duties under the UK Online Safety Act 2023. Content reported as infringing from UK users will be processed through both the DMCA takedown procedure and the UK notice-and-takedown framework. UK rights holders may also pursue claims under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA).