TavernAI.Cards respects intellectual property rights and handles copyright concerns in good faith. We follow the spirit of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and equivalent regimes (EU Copyright Directive, UK CDPA), though we have not yet registered a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. This means that during the beta phase we cannot formally invoke OCILLA safe-harbor protections under 17 U.S.C. §512(c) — we will, however, act on valid takedown requests as described below. We plan to register a designated agent before broader public launch.
1. Filing a Takedown Request
Email your request to [email protected]. Please include all of the following so we can verify and act on the request:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on their behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (e.g. title, URL of the original).
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and sufficient information to locate it on the Service (full URL of the card or profile).
- Your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, email).
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the contested use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
Incomplete notices may delay processing. Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a takedown notice may subject you to liability under 17 U.S.C. §512(f).
2. What We Do After Receiving a Notice
- We endeavor to acknowledge valid notices promptly, on a best-effort basis, without any guaranteed response time.
- Where a notice appears valid, we endeavor to disable access to the contested content (hide or remove) promptly, on a best-effort basis.
- We may notify the user who uploaded the content and provide them with a copy of the notice (with personal contact information redacted on request).
- We may log takedowns internally for audit and repeat-infringer tracking.
3. Filing a Counter-Notice
If you believe your content was disabled in error or as a result of misidentification, you may file a counter-notice by emailing [email protected] with:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the content that was removed and the location it appeared at before removal.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the content was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, address, telephone number, email, and a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the courts of competent jurisdiction applicable to the Service operator, or such other jurisdiction as may be required by the applicable copyright regime in your country.
- A statement that you will accept service of process from the complaining party.
Where we receive a valid counter-notice and the original complainant does not, within the timeframe required by the applicable copyright regime, notify us of a court action seeking a restraining order against the user, we may, at our sole discretion, restore the content.
4. Repeat-Infringer Policy
We may terminate the accounts of users we determine, at our sole discretion, to be repeat infringers, taking into account the number and nature of valid notices received, any counter-notices or adjudications, and the overall conduct of the account.
5. Misuse
We reserve the right to reject notices that appear to be filed in bad faith, that target content protected by fair use / fair dealing exceptions, or that are used to suppress legitimate criticism. Repeat misuse may result in your future notices being deprioritised.
6. Contact
Copyright concerns: [email protected]
For non-copyright complaints (harassment, ToS violations, etc.), please email [email protected].
7. Designated Agent Status
We do not currently have a DMCA designated agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. We aim to register one before broader public launch (post beta). Until then, formal OCILLA safe-harbor protections do not apply to this Service, but we will still act on valid copyright takedown requests in good faith and in line with the procedure above.