DMCA Policy

This project maintains a route for copyright notices. A designated agent registration is not claimed until a matching public U.S. Copyright Office record is verified and linked here.

To file a valid takedown under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, email dmca@animelegends.ai with all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed. If multiple works are involved, a representative list.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with sufficient information for us to locate it — ideally a full URL to the Atlas entry, Discord message, or other page.
4. Your contact information: full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you 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.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

We recommend using the subject line: DMCA Takedown — [Work title]. Attachments should be PDF or plain text.

Upon receipt of a complete, valid DMCA notice, we will:

1. Confirm receipt within 24 hours (business days; 48 hours on weekends or major U.S. federal holidays).
2. Review the notice against the target content — including whether the use constitutes fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107 or falls within another applicable exception.
3. If the notice is valid and no clear defense applies, remove or disable access to the identified material.
4. Notify the user who submitted the content (“alleged infringer”), including a copy of the takedown notice so they can consider whether to file a counter-notification.
5. Log the takedown in our editorial record with the entry ID, the notifier’s identity, the date, and the outcome.

If we determine the notice is defective (missing required elements, facially invalid, or clearly a false claim), we will respond within the same SLA explaining the deficiency.

If you believe your content was removed in error — because the material does not infringe or because your use is authorized by law (including fair use) — you may file a counter-notification.

A valid counter-notification 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 that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your full legal name, mailing address, and phone number.
5. 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 outside the U.S., any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notification.

Send counter-notifications to dmca@animelegends.ai. Upon receipt, we will forward the counter-notification to the original complainant. If the complainant does not file a court action within 10-14 business days, we will restore the removed material.

Consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we maintain and enforce a repeat-infringer policy:

• Strike 1: Takedown executed; user receives written notice explaining the violation and the fair-use rules governing the Atlas.
• Strike 2: Takedown executed; user’s ability to submit new Atlas entries is suspended pending editorial review.
• Strike 3: Account terminated. All content authored by the user is re-reviewed against fair-use rules.

Strikes are not issued for counter-notified takedowns that are ultimately restored. Strikes expire 24 months after issuance if no further action occurs.

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed in error, may be liable for damages — including costs and attorneys’ fees — incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner, or the service provider.

Before filing, consider whether the use falls within fair use. For Atlas entries specifically, the operating framework is published at /legal/vault-posture — entries that comply with the excerpt ceiling, commentary minimum, and attribution rules there constitute transformative scholarship and are unlikely to be infringing.

AnimeLegends.ai operates as an online service provider within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). We have:

• Designated a copyright agent (see above).
• Adopted and reasonably implemented a policy for terminating repeat infringers.
• Accommodated and do not interfere with standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify or protect their works.
• Established an expeditious response procedure (24-hour SLA) for takedown notices.

This policy does not limit any other rights or defenses we may have under law, including fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107 and the transformative-scholarship framework described at /legal/vault-posture.

Questions about this policy: dmca@animelegends.ai. General legal questions: legal@animelegends.ai.