Report copyright infringement

If something on a Cureate board is yours and should not be there, tell us. The form below is a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and a person reads every one of them.

Our designated agent

Cureate has not yet registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. Until it has, the form below is how to reach us about copyright, and we will act on what it sends us; we would rather say this plainly than print a name that is not registered.

File a notice

Every field is one the law requires. Filing a notice in bad faith - about material you do not hold the rights to, or that you know is a fair use - can make you liable for the other side's costs, so please only file one you mean.

The board this is aboutIts address, like cureate.app/mira - or just the handle.

What on the board infringesWhich photo, video, track or piece of writing, and where on the board it is. Enough that we can find it without guessing.

The work you say it infringesWhat it is and where yours can be seen. One work, or a list if the notice covers several.

Your nameThe rightsholder, or whoever is authorized to act for them.

Your emailWhere we reply, and where everything about this report goes.

Your addressA notice has to carry one, and we pass it on with the notice if the board's owner files a counter-notice.

Your phone numberOptional.

I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate, and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

SignatureYour full name, typed. That is the electronic signature both laws ask for.

What happens to your board if we act on a notice

The board comes down - not deleted, hidden, so that nothing is lost while this is sorted out - and when we can tell which file on it the notice is about, Cureate stops serving that file and every identical copy of it. The board's owner gets an email saying which notice it was about, with the reference and a link to reply.

That reply is a counter-notice, and the law is specific about it: file one and we pass it to whoever sent the notice, then put your board, and any file we stopped serving, back up between 10 and 14 business days later, unless they tell us first that they have filed a court action about it, or another takedown still stands against them. The counter-notice form is here.

Repeat infringement

A takedown we act on and that is not reversed counts as one strike against the account that owns the board. At 3 strikes we disable the account: its board comes down and it cannot publish anything more.

A strike that a counter-notice reverses stops counting, because nobody adjudicated the claim. A disabled account can still sign in, read its own board, and file a counter-notice about any of the takedowns behind the strikes - an appeal you cannot reach is not an appeal.