DMCA & Copyright Policy

Submitting a takedown notice

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), send written notice to our designated agent that includes all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner (or someone authorized to act on their behalf).
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing: URL(s), filename(s), and any other reasonably specific locator so we can find it.
4. Your contact information: address, phone, email.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the owner.

Our designated agent

A full street mailing address for the designated agent is available on written request to the email above and is on file with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory. During the period prior to the Copyright Office registration being confirmed, you may submit notices to the email address above; we will act on them, but note that safe-harbor registration is only effective after confirmation on the Copyright Office directory.

What we'll do with a valid notice

On receipt of a notice that substantially complies with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), we will expeditiously (ordinarily within 2 business days) remove or disable access to the identified material, record the action in our internal takedown log, and notify the uploader by email (to the address associated with their workspace or upload link) of the takedown and their right to submit a counter-notice.

Repeat infringer policy

We maintain and enforce a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of workspace owners and users who are repeat infringers:

• A “strike” is a takedown notice that was not overturned by a valid counter-notice or by our own review.
• Two strikes within any rolling 12-month period result in a written warning and a 7-day suspension.
• Three or more strikes within any rolling 12-month period result in termination of the workspace account. We reserve the right to terminate earlier for egregious or willful infringement.
• Strike records are retained for the length of the relevant account plus two years.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that removal was the result of mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice containing:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material and its location before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number.
5. A statement of consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the US, any judicial district in which GoBrief may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or their agent.

On receipt of a compliant counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. If the original complainant does not notify us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action seeking an order to restrain the uploader from infringing, we will restore the material in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C). We do not make the restoration decision on our own authority; we follow the DMCA's statutory counter-notice timeline.

Uploader notification

Affected uploaders are notified in writing (email) of (a) any takedown, including a copy of the notice with the sender's personal contact information redacted where appropriate, and (b) the outcome of any counter-notice they submit.

False claims

Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing (or that it was removed by mistake) can result in liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Before you file a notice, please make sure your claim is accurate.