Copyright policy

Template — last updated 8 October 2026. Have this reviewed by a lawyer before launch. The agent details below come from Admin → Settings; the registration itself is done at copyright.gov (see docs/dmca-agent.md).

yawrn.studio hosts websites that people build, upload to and publish. We respect copyright and expect the people who use the service to do the same. This page says how to tell us about material you believe infringes your rights, what happens next, and what we do about people who infringe more than once. It follows the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512.

1. Our designated agent

Notices of claimed infringement go to our designated copyright agent, registered with the US Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory:

Agent registration pendingUntil the agent is registered, send notices to hello@yawrn.ai with “Copyright notice” in the subject line.

Email is the fastest route. A notice sent anywhere else — a form on a published site, a support address, a social account — may not reach us and does not count as received.

2. Sending a takedown notice

To be valid under §512(c)(3), your notice must be in writing and include all of the following:

Your physical or electronic signature, or that of someone authorised to act for the copyright owner.
Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed (or a representative list, if there are several).
Identification of the material you say is infringing and enough information for us to find it — the full address of the page or file on yawrn.studio or on the connected domain.
Your contact details: a postal address, a telephone number and an email address.
A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, their agent or the law.
A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

A notice that leaves most of this out is not a valid notice. If yours is nearly complete we will tell you what is missing. Knowingly misrepresenting that material infringes can make you liable for damages under §512(f).

3. What we do with a valid notice

We act expeditiously — normally within one business day — to remove or disable access to the material, by unpublishing the page or deleting the file. We tell the account holder what was removed, give them a copy of the notice, and record a strike against the account (section 5). We keep a record of every notice.

4. Counter-notices

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same agent. It must include:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed by mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US federal district court for your district (or, if you are outside the United States, any district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

We forward the counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice and tell them the material will go back online in 10 business days. We restore it between 10 and 14 business days after forwarding, unless that person tells us first that they have filed a court action to restrain you from the material.

5. Repeat infringers

We have adopted and apply this policy:

Each valid takedown notice we act on is a strike against the account that owned the material. A counter-notice that stands removes the strike.
Two strikes within twelve months bring a written warning.
Three strikes within twelve months, or any case of flagrant and obvious piracy, end the account: its sites are unpublished and the person may not open another.
We may act on fewer strikes where the facts justify it, and nothing here limits our right under the Terms to remove content or close accounts.

6. Other rights

Trademark complaints, privacy complaints and anything else that is not a copyright claim should be sent to hello@yawrn.ai; this page and the §512 timeline apply to copyright only. If you build a site by copying another site's style with our AI, you are responsible for making sure you are not infringing anyone's rights (Terms, section 5).