1. Purpose
This Copyright / DMCA Policy describes the proposed process for copyright complaints involving user-submitted or user-linked material on Velvet Room. It supplements the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
This draft is designed for a U.S.-based operator but is not publication-ready until GGIRL Technologies LLC designates and registers a DMCA agent, locks contact details, and implements the operational notice/counter-notice workflow.
2. Respect for Copyright
Users may upload or share only material they have the right and lawful basis to use. Velvet Room may remove or disable access to material that infringes copyright or other intellectual-property rights and may take action against repeat or abusive infringers.
3. DMCA Designated Agent - PUBLICATION BLOCKER
A service provider seeking the protections associated with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) must maintain public designated-agent contact information and register the designated agent electronically with the U.S. Copyright Office. The final policy must identify the same current agent information published in the Copyright Office directory.
Designated Agent: [DMCA AGENT NAME / TITLE]
Organization: GGIRL Technologies LLC
Mailing Address: [DMCA MAILING ADDRESS]
Telephone: [DMCA PHONE]
Email: [DMCA EMAIL]
4. Notice of Claimed Copyright Infringement
A copyright owner or authorized agent may send a written takedown notice to the designated agent. To be effective under the DMCA, the notice should include substantially:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for the owner.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list where multiple works are involved.
- Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient for Velvet Room to locate it, such as a specific URL, profile/post/media identifier, or other precise locator.
- Contact information reasonably sufficient to reach the complaining party.
- A statement of good-faith belief that the complained-of use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.
5. What Velvet Room May Do After a Compliant Notice
Where applicable, Velvet Room may act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the identified material and take reasonable steps to notify the user who supplied it. A copyright removal is not necessarily a final determination that infringement occurred.
Content may also be removed under the Terms or Community Guidelines independently of the DMCA process.
6. Counter-Notification
If material was removed or disabled because of a DMCA notice and the user believes the action resulted from mistake or misidentification, the user may submit a written counter-notification to the designated agent containing substantially:
- The user's physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before removal.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification.
- The user's name, address, and telephone number, plus the jurisdiction-and-service-of-process statements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3).
7. Restoration After Counter-Notice
After a compliant counter-notification, the DMCA framework generally calls for restoration of the material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after receipt, unless the original complainant informs the service provider that a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement has been filed. The operational workflow must be implemented before this timing is promised publicly.
8. Repeat Infringer Policy - IMPLEMENTATION REQUIRED
Velvet Room intends to maintain and reasonably implement a policy for terminating, in appropriate circumstances, accounts of repeat copyright infringers. The final policy must define the internal strike/review process, treatment of retractions and counter-notices, account/persona scope, recordkeeping, and appeal interaction without creating an automatic formula that ignores context.
9. Misrepresentation and Abuse
Do not knowingly submit a materially false copyright notice or counter-notification. Velvet Room may act on abuse of the copyright process under the Community Guidelines, and federal law may impose liability for certain knowing material misrepresentations.
Copyright complaints must not be used to harass users, expose hidden personas, obtain private information without lawful process, or circumvent the no-screenshot rule. A complainant should identify material using URLs/IDs or other lawful evidence rather than taking prohibited screenshots of Velvet Room.
10. Privacy and Disclosure
Takedown notices and counter-notifications may contain personal contact information and legal statements. Velvet Room may forward a complaint or counter-notice to the other party as required by the DMCA process, disclose information as required by valid legal process, and retain records needed to administer copyright disputes subject to the final retention matrix.
11. Other Intellectual-Property Complaints
Trademark, publicity, privacy, impersonation, counterfeit, or other rights complaints may require a different process. The DMCA process is specifically directed at copyright claims and should not be used as a substitute for unrelated claims.
12. Publication Requirements
- Register and maintain GGIRL Technologies LLC's DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and publish matching contact information.
- Implement verified notice intake, identity/contact verification, resource-location handling, removal/disablement, uploader notice, counter-notice, restoration timing, and litigation-hold state.
- Implement repeat-infringer recordkeeping and ensure account-level enforcement does not publicly expose sibling personas.
- Integrate copyright removals with moderation audit records and the final appeals/enforcement architecture.
- Wire canonical /copyright and /dmca routes before launch.
13. Operator
Operator: GGIRL Technologies LLC, New Hampshire, United States.
Legal contact: [LEGAL EMAIL] | DMCA agent: [DMCA AGENT / CONTACT] | Legal notice address: [LEGAL NOTICE ADDRESS]