DMCA Takedown Notices

When your work appears online without permission, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives you a remedy that doesn't require a lawsuit: a takedown notice. Sent to the host or platform where the material appears, a properly drafted notice obligates the recipient to remove the infringing content promptly if it wants to keep its legal safe harbor. Most reputable hosts and platforms comply quickly with a notice that meets the statutory requirements — and reject or ignore ones that don't, which is where careful drafting earns its keep.

We handle the process end to end: confirming your rights in the work, identifying the infringing material and where it's hosted, drafting a notice that satisfies every element the statute requires, submitting it through the correct channel, and following up if the platform is slow to act. We also work the other side of the statute: if a takedown notice has been wrongly aimed at your own content, we evaluate the claim and prepare a counter-notice to have the material restored.

For businesses that host user-submitted content — forums, marketplaces, review sections, anything users can post to — we also register your designated DMCA agent with the Copyright Office, a simple filing that is a prerequisite to the safe-harbor protection many site owners assume they already have. Takedown and counter-notice work is handled at a flat fee. If a takedown dispute escalates into litigation, we will refer the matter to appropriate counsel.