Copyright and takedowns

Notices of claimed copyright infringement go to our designated agent. A notice sent anywhere else — a reply on social media, a sticker, a support question — has not reached the agent.

• Agent: Copyright Agent, Ordinary Nerds, L.L.C.
• Email: hello@slapwars.lol
• By post: 2810 N Church St, STE 89093, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States

Our filing with the U.S. Copyright Office's DMCA directory is in progress. Notices sent to the agent above are read and acted on now.

These are the statute's requirements rather than ours. A notice missing one of them may be one we cannot act on:

• your physical or electronic signature, as the owner of the right or someone authorised to act for them;
• what work you say has been infringed — one work, or a list if there are several;
• which sticker you mean. Its /s/ link is the fastest way to say it, because that address identifies exactly one sticker;
• how we can reach you: address, telephone, email;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorised to act for the owner.

We can take a sticker off the wall and kill its link and its logo without notice, and we do that first and ask afterwards when a notice looks complete. Taking a sticker down is not deleting it: the row behind it stays, because it is also the record of a payment. What that means in full is in the terms.

We tell whoever slapped it what happened and why, as far as we can reach them — there is no account here, only the browser that made the sticker.

If your sticker came down over a copyright complaint and you think that was wrong, send a counter-notice to the same agent. It needs your signature, which sticker it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, your contact details, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court where you live — or, if you are outside the United States, where we are.

A complete counter-notice goes to the person who complained, with your contact details, and we tell them we will put the sticker back in 10 business days. Unless they tell us within those days that they have gone to court to stop you, we restore it no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we received your counter-notice.

We end the use of Slapwars by repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Here, an owner whose stickers draw three valid copyright notices within 12 months, not answered by a successful counter-notice, is a repeat infringer: we take down all their stickers, kill their links and logos, and refuse new stickers from them and from links to their domains. Because an identity here is a token in a browser rather than an account, we also act on anyone we can reasonably tell is the same person. Unused paid credit is refunded as the terms say.

Knowingly misrepresenting that something infringes — or that it was taken down by mistake — can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. This is not us being unfriendly: it is what the statute says, and it applies to both sides of this page.

This page is for copyright. A trade mark complaint, somebody passing themselves off as you, a link to malware — those go to the addresses on the imprint. What is allowed on a sticker in the first place is on the acceptable use page.