Copyright Policy & DMCA

We take intellectual property seriously and expect everyone using ciota.lol to do the same. This Policy lays out how to file a copyright notice, how we handle counter-notifications, and what happens when an account keeps infringing. We follow the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the equivalent laws that apply where the dispute is.

None of this is legal advice. If you are not sure whether something actually infringes, or whether your use is covered by fair use or a license you are working under, talk to a lawyer before sending us a notice.

Send copyright matters to our designated contact at legal@ciota.lol.

Notices and counter-notices come in by email only. Submissions that do not substantially meet the requirements below may be held up or turned away.

If you believe content on ciota.lol infringes a copyright you hold, send a written notice to our designated contact that includes all of the following:

• A clear description of the copyrighted work you say is being infringed; if you are flagging multiple works, a representative list.
• The exact ciota.lol URL or URLs holding the material, specific enough that we can find each piece of it.
• Your full legal name and reliable contact info, including an email address we can write back to.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on their behalf.
• A physical or electronic signature.

Filing a notice means you agree we may pass the contents (your contact details included) on to the user who posted the material, and may publish or share redacted versions for transparency or legal-compliance reasons.

Once a valid notice lands with us, the typical response is to disable or remove the reported material and let the user who posted it know. While a claim is being looked at, we may also pause related features.

If we took down content of yours because of a DMCA notice and you think it was pulled by mistake or misidentified, you can file a counter-notification with our designated contact. Include all of the following:

• Identification of the removed material and the URL where it lived before the takedown.
• Your full legal name and reliable contact info, including an email address we can use to reach you.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the content was removed or disabled as the result of a mistake or misidentification.
• Your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts for your address, plus your acceptance of service of process from the original notice’s sender or their agent.
• A physical or electronic signature.

A valid counter-notification gets forwarded to the original claimant. Unless they tell us they have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order, we may put the material back within a reasonable amount of time.

After a valid counter-notification, we restore material in line with the law that applies, unless the claimant goes to court. Removed material may be held briefly to comply with legal obligations, preserve evidence, or work through the dispute, and account functionality can be limited while everything is pending.

Accounts that rack up repeated copyright violations, or pull off something egregious, can be suspended or terminated. The decision factors in how many valid notices we have received, whether the user actually responded, and the account’s enforcement history. We may also pull linked content, switch off features, or apply other measures to keep abuse in check.

Notices and counter-notices that are incomplete, abusive, automated, deceptive, or aimed at suppressing lawful speech can be rejected. Senders who keep filing defective or bad-faith claims can be rate-limited or blocked from filing with us at all.

Copyright questions and submissions go to legal@ciota.lol. For everything else, write to support@ciota.lol.