If something on Popcue is yours.

People may only put into Popcue material they have the right to use, which the Terms of Service say in as many words. If you believe something here infringes your copyright or trademark, tell us and we will deal with it quickly.

1. Where content can be seen

Almost everything in Popcue is private to the person who made it: goals, notes, cards and the images attached to them are shown only to their owner. The one thing another person can see is a display name, on the leaderboard of a small, invitation-only project. That shapes what a notice can point at, but it does not change whether you can send one. You can.

2. Sending a notice

Use the notice form and choose “Copyright notice”, or write to our Grievance Officer (details on the legal notice). Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)) a notice must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature (typing your full name counts);
2. the copyrighted work you say is infringed, or a representative list if there are several;
3. the material you say infringes it, and enough information for us to find it;
4. your address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

3. What happens next

• You get a reference number at once, and a person reviews the notice.
• If it is complete and the material is on Popcue, we remove it or disable access to it, and we tell the person who put it there, with the reasons and how they can respond. That statement of reasons is also what the EU Digital Services Act (Art. 17) requires.
• If a notice is incomplete, we tell you what is missing.

4. Counter-notices

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice through the same form. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3) it must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. the material that was removed and where it appeared before;
3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, outside the US, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice.

We send a copy to the person who sent the notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action, we restore the material within 10 to 14 business days of receiving the counter-notice.

5. Repeat infringers

We close the account of anyone who, in appropriate circumstances, infringes repeatedly. In practice: an account that is the subject of three valid notices within twelve months, not counting any resolved by a successful counter-notice, is closed, and we may close one sooner for a flagrant case.

6. Outside the United States

• EU and EEA. Any notice about content you believe is illegal, including an infringement, can be sent through the same form, which asks for what Art. 16 of the Digital Services Act requires.
• India. A complaint that content infringes a copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary right goes to our Grievance Officer, who acknowledges it within 24 hours and acts on it within 36 hours.
• Anywhere else. Use the form. We apply the same standard.