Copyright

Copyright on Umbel

Umbel respects the intellectual propertyrights of others and we expect people on Umbel to do the same. It’s ourpolicy—in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion—to disable orterminate the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedlycharged with infringing copyrights or other intellectual property rights.
 
In keeping with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which you can read atthe US Copyright Office website ,we’ll respond quickly to claims of copyright infringement on Umbel that arereported to our designated copyright agent, identified below.
 
If you’re a copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of one, you canreport alleged copyright infringements on Umbel by completing the DMCA Noticeof Alleged Infringement and sending it to our designated copyright agent. 

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When we get your DMCA notice, we’ll takewhatever action we think is appropriate, which may include removing the reportedcontent from Umbel. 

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If we remove content in response to a DMCAnotice, we may notify the person who saved it on Umbel so they have theopportunity to send a counter-notice. We may also send a complete copy of thenotice to others, as appropriate.

Submit a copyright complaint

To submit a DMCA notice, just fill out ourcopyright complaint form.

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If you'd prefer not to use this form,please send the following information to our designated copyright agent:

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1. Identify the copyrighted work you believe has beeninfringed. If you’re reporting multiple copyrighted works, you can provide arepresentative list of those copyrighted works.
2. Identify the content on Umbel you claim to be infringingyour rights, including the information we need to help us find it, like the URLto the page on Umbel.
3. Provide your mailing address, phone number and emailaddress.
4. Include your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature (for example, by typing your full name).
5. Include both of these statements in the body of yournotice:

• ~~"I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (for example, as a fair use)."
• ~~"I hereby state that the information in this notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I’m the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that’s allegedly infringed."
  

If the work you’re reporting is an image,you can ask us to remove all copies of the image. At the beginning of yournotice, just ask us to “remove all Pins that contain the image.” Please notethat we can only remove identical copies of an image—if an image file has beenresized or altered, we won’t be able to find or remove it. 
 
Send your completed DMCA notice to:
 
Umbel Copyright Agent
651 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-1532
Fax: +1 415 762 7100
Email: copyright@Umbel.com

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Note: This email address should only beused for copyright complaints. If you need to get in touch with us for anyother reason, please visit our Help Center .

What if I get a copyright
complaint (DMCA) notification?

If you’ve gotten a notification that oneof your Pins has been removed for a copyright complaint, it means the contentowner asked us to remove it. If you want us to forward the information from thecopyright complaint notification, just email us at copyright@Umbel.com tolet us know (we may remove some personal contact information). 

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If your account gets too many copyrightcomplaints, you could lose the ability to save Pins on Umbel, or we may disableyour account altogether.
 
If you think we made a mistake removing your Pin, you can file acounter-notice. When we get a valid counter-notice, we’ll remove the complaintfrom your account's record.  
 
Note: There are legal and financial consequences for fraudulent or bad faithcounter-notices. Before submitting a counter-notice, make sure you have a goodfaith belief that we removed the content in error, and that you understand therepercussions of submitting a false claim.

How to file a counter-notice

If your content is removed as the resultof a copyright takedown notice, you’ll receive instructions about how to file acounter-notice in the email notification we send you. Please note that youshould only submit a counter-notice if you believe that the content was removedbecause of a mistake or misidentification. 

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When we receive a valid counter-notice,we’ll remove the complaint from your account’s record. If you asked us toreinstate the content that was removed, we will forward your counter-notice tothe party that reported that content. The information they receive will includeyour contact information, which they may use to contact you directly.

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If we provide your counter notification tothe party that reported the content, and they do not notify us that they havefiled an action in court or before the Copyright Claims Board to keep thecontent down, we will reinstate the content. This process can take up to 14business days. 

Content Claiming Portal

Umbel also offers the ContentClaiming Portal, a tool that enables creators to claim their content and decideif and how it appears on Umbel. 

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Anyone who owns exclusive copyright tocontent can apply for access to the ContentClaiming Portal . We’ll review those applications to see if therights holder is a good fit for the tool. If a rights holder’s application isapproved, they’ll be able to upload their original content and tell us whetherthey want the content to appear on Umbel or not. Their selected enforcementwill apply to both existing matches and future matches added to Umbel. 

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To learn more, visit our Content Claiming Portalarticle .