Copyright and takedowns

Respecting creators

Studfoundry only works if creators can trust that their work won't be sold by someone else. Sellers must only list assets they made or have the right to sell.

Sending a copyright notice

If a listing copies your work, send us a notice using our copyright notice form. You don't need an account. A valid notice includes:

• your name, email address and postal address;
• if you're acting for someone else, who you're acting for;
• a description of your original work and, if you can, a link to where it can be seen;
• the link to the Studfoundry listing;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised by the owner, their agent or the law;
• a statement that the notice is accurate and that you own the work or are allowed to act for the owner;
• your signature, which can be your typed full name.

What happens next

• We email you to confirm we've received it.
• Our team checks it. If it's valid, we take the listing down and add a strike to the seller's store. If it isn't, we tell you why.
• We email the seller to tell them what was removed and why. They see your description of the work and, if you filed the notice while signed in, your Studfoundry username. Your name, email, phone number and address stay with us.
• Files from listings taken down this way can't be uploaded to Studfoundry again.
• People who already got the asset can no longer download it.

Counter-notices

If you're a seller and think your listing was taken down by mistake, you can send a counter-notice from your seller dashboard. Explain why, for example how and when you made the asset, and sign it. We share your statement with the person who sent the notice and our team reviews both sides. If we agree with you, we put the listing back and remove the strike. If the sender tells us they've started legal action, we'll wait for that to be resolved.

Strikes and repeat infringement

Each valid notice adds one strike to the seller's store. Strikes never expire. When a store reaches 3 strikes, we automatically stop it selling and receiving payouts and hide all its listings. The seller can appeal, and a different member of our team will look again.

Misuse

Sending a notice you know is false, or using notices to harm a competitor, may make you legally responsible for the damage it causes, and we may ignore further notices from you or suspend your account. The same applies to false counter-notices.