DMCA & Copyright Takedown

Filing a DMCA notice

If you believe content on modenu.com infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our designated agent at [email protected]. To be valid under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), your notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or an authorized agent.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, including its URL on our site.
4. Your name, address, telephone number and email.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed 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 copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

What happens next

When we receive a facially valid DMCA notice we typically act within one to three business days. We will:

• Remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material.
• Notify the affected author or contributor.
• Document the notice in our internal takedown log.

We are not lawyers and we do not adjudicate copyright disputes. Our role is limited to removing material in response to compliant notices and to processing counter-notices.

Filing a counter-notice

If your content has been taken down and you believe the takedown was mistaken (for example, because your use is licensed or falls under fair use), you can send a counter-notice to [email protected]. A valid counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the removed material and the URL it appeared at 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, address and telephone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court in the location of your address, or if you are outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found.

Response to counter-notices

If we receive a valid counter-notice we forward it to the original complainant. Unless the complainant files a lawsuit within 10-14 business days, we may restore the removed material.

Repeat infringers

In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable laws, we have a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, users, contributors or advertisers who are repeat infringers of intellectual property rights. Even a single flagrant infringement can result in termination.

Trademark, defamation & other claims

The DMCA only covers copyright. If your complaint is about a trademark, defamation, privacy or another category, please write to [email protected] with the URL, a description of the issue and any documentation you can share. We treat these complaints seriously but they are not subject to the DMCA workflow.

Bad-faith notices

Submitting a false or bad-faith takedown notice is a serious matter. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. Please do not use the DMCA process to silence criticism or reviews you disagree with; complaints about editorial content should go through our Corrections Policy instead.

Documentation we retain

We keep a copy of every DMCA notice and counter-notice we receive, together with a timestamped record of the action we took, for at least three years. This documentation is used to comply with legal obligations, to enforce our repeat-infringer policy and to defend against bad-faith or automated takedown campaigns. It is stored securely and never shared publicly except when required by law or court order.

Practical guidance for rights holders

If you are a rights holder submitting notices at scale, a few practical tips will get faster action:

• List each infringing URL on its own line rather than bundling them into a single paragraph.
• Include a short, verifiable description of the copyrighted work — title, registration number if any, sample URL of the original.
• Send notices from a corporate domain rather than a free webmail address; automated notices from free webmails go into a slower review queue.
• Avoid sending duplicate notices for the same URL within 24 hours; that also slows us down.