Copyright & DMCA Policy

This page is published by Peyton Christopher Schlicht, trading as ImagineSite, United States. Postal address: [[POSTAL ADDRESS]]. Email: pschlicht12@yahoo.com.

“We” and “the studio” below mean that business. “You” means whoever is reading — a copyright owner sending a notice, or a customer whose material was taken down.

Customers upload material to the studio: logos, photographs, documents. Those files are stored on our systems, and the sites we build with them are served back at preview links. We treat material a customer gave us the way the law treats hosted material — we did not choose it, and if it infringes someone's copyright we take it down when we are told.

The honest limit, because our two tiers are not the same.

• Pro. The website is generated from the brief and the files the customer gave us. That is material stored at a user's direction, and notice-and-takedown is the right process for it.
• Signature. The website is designed and built by hand, by the studio. When a person here chooses an image or writes a page, calling it “stored at the direction of a user” is a stretch, and we are not going to lean on a shield that probably does not reach. If something we made infringes your work, we are answerable for it directly — write to us and we will deal with it ourselves.

On the customer side of that, the arrangement is written down rather than assumed: customers promise us they own or have licensed what they send and indemnify us if that turns out to be wrong (Terms §9); if material we produced is credibly claimed to infringe, we replace it, get the rights, or refund it (Terms §12); and we keep the right to remove content, disable a preview or suspend a project when a credible complaint arrives (Terms §13).

Either way, the address is the same and so is the answer: send the notice, we read it, we act on it.

So that a notice can identify the right thing, here is where material actually sits:

• Preview links. Every generated site gets a preview URL containing a long random token. Those pages are marked so search engines will not index them, but the URL is public: anyone who has the link can open it, and the underlying storage address resolves too. A takedown notice can and should name preview links, not only a published website. (Customers are told the same thing in Terms §10.)
• Uploaded files. Logos, photos and documents a customer uploads are stored at their own public token URLs, on the same terms — unguessable, but readable by anyone holding the link.
• Published websites. A site the studio has published for a customer. If it is on a domain we do not host, say so in your notice and we will tell you honestly what we can and cannot reach.

United States copyright law (17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)) sets out six things a takedown notice needs. A notice missing them may not oblige us to act, and we may have to come back to you for the rest — so please include all six the first time.

1. 01Your signaturePhysical or electronic. Sign as the copyright owner, or as someone authorised to act for the owner.
2. 02The work you ownIdentify the copyrighted work you say was copied. If several works are involved, a list of them is fine.
3. 03The material to remove — and where it isGive us the exact address. That means the full preview link (the /preview/… URL we sent the customer), the direct file link to an uploaded image or document, or the address of the published page. “Somewhere on your site” is not enough for us to act on.
4. 04How to reach youYour name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. 05A good-faith statementA statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. 06An accuracy statement, under penalty of perjuryA statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Address it to the designated agent in section 5 and send it by email. There is no takedown form and no automated system — notices are read by a person.

Notices under §512(c)(3) should be addressed to the studio's designated agent:

As stated at the top of this page, that designation has not been registered with the United States Copyright Office yet, and this page will not claim otherwise. In the meantime, notices sent to pschlicht12@yahoo.com reach the studio and will be acted on.

If your notice identifies the material clearly enough for us to find it, we remove or disable access to it expeditiously. In practice that means the preview link stops working and the stored files are gone, or the material comes off the published page.

How that is actually done, since you are entitled to know. There is no automated takedown tooling in our system, and no button in our admin console that switches off a single preview link. Disabling one means a person deleting the stored files by hand. That does work — once the files are deleted, both the preview link and the direct file address stop resolving — but it is a manual act by one person, not a switch. We are not going to invent a response-time guarantee we have no machinery to keep. We act as fast as a small studio reasonably can, and we confirm to you when it is done.

We then tell the customer whose project the material belongs to what was removed and why, and we pass on a copy of your notice. The law expects that, and it is how they get the chance to reply. Assume the person you complained about will see your notice, including your contact details.

We do not decide who owns what. We act on valid notices and on valid counter-notices, and we leave the merits to you and the other side.

What we cannot reach: if the URL was shared, cached, archived or copied elsewhere before we acted, or if a customer has published the same material somewhere we do not host, our removal does not touch those copies. We will tell you plainly what we removed and what is outside our control.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send us a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. §512(g). Send it to the same address. It needs four things:

1. 01Your signaturePhysical or electronic.
2. 02What was removed, and where it wasIdentify the material and the address it appeared at before we removed or disabled it.
3. 03A statement under penalty of perjuryThat you believe in good faith the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. 04Your details and consent to jurisdictionYour name, postal address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district your address is in (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district where the studio may be found); and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice, or from their agent.

When we get a valid counter-notice we forward it to the person who sent the original notice. If they do not tell us that they have filed a court action seeking to stop the activity, we may restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice — that window is the statute's, not ours, and we do not restore anything before day 10.

Two honest warnings. A counter-notice is a sworn statement and it hands your name, address and phone number to the complaining party; it also consents to a court's jurisdiction. And restoring material is, like removing it, a manual action here — we may also decline to keep hosting material that has become a dispute, in which case we will return your files to you rather than restore them.

In appropriate circumstances we terminate the projects and the working relationship of people who infringe repeatedly. We judge that case by case, on the pattern of valid notices — a notice that is withdrawn, retracted, or successfully counter-noticed does not count against anyone.

How we keep track, precisely. Every notice we receive is kept in the studio's records, and every action we take on a project — suspending it, unpublishing it, replacing or deleting its files — is written to an internal, append-only log attached to that project, which nobody can quietly edit later. That log is what a repeat-infringement decision is read off. There is no automatic strike counter, no scoreboard, and no threshold that trips by itself: a person reads the history and decides. We tell you that rather than advertising a “three strikes” system we do not have.

The record is internal. We do not publish strike counts, and we do not share one customer's history with another customer.

There are no user accounts to close here; access to a project is by the private link we send. So “termination” means what it actually is in our system: preview links disabled, uploaded material deleted, work on the project stopped, any support plan cancelled, and no further orders accepted. Money already paid is dealt with separately under the refund policy.

Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — can be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Please do not use this process to remove something you simply dislike, or a competitor's legitimate page. If you are unsure whether you own the rights, ask a lawyer before you send the notice.

This process is for copyright. For trademark complaints, defamation, privacy concerns or anything else about content we host, email pschlicht12@yahoo.com and describe the problem. There is no statutory procedure for those, and we will not pretend there is — we will read it and respond.