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Copyright policy
Carnival follows the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). If a Carnival site uses your work without permission, send us a notice and we remove it. If your site was removed and you think it was a mistake, send a counter-notice. Carnival sites end in .carnival-staging.page; we can act only on those.
Designated agent
Send copyright notices to Carnival's designated agent:
- Name: Copyright Agent, [LEGAL ENTITY NAME]
- Address: [DMCA AGENT ADDRESS]
- Email: copyright@carnival.dev
The quickest way to send one is the notice form, which asks for every part below.
Copyright notices
A notice must include:
- The copyrighted work you say is infringed. For several works, a list of them.
- The material on Carnival you say infringes it, with the address of each page or file, so we can find it.
- Your name and email address. Add a postal address and phone number if you like.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material isn't authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name counts.
To email a notice instead, send every part to copyright@carnival.dev, with the work on a line that starts "Work:". Anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material infringes can be liable for damages (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)).
After a notice
- We aim to act within 1 business day.
- If the notice is complete and names a Carnival site, we remove the site: it goes offline, and visitors see that it is unavailable for legal reasons (HTTP 451). We may also block the removed files from being published again.
- We email the site's owner what was removed and why, with your name and the work your notice names. We never send them your email address, postal address, phone number or signature.
Repeat infringers
We close the accounts of repeat infringers. A strike is a removal we uphold after a notice, and a third strike within 12 months suspends the account and takes its other sites offline. One notice naming several sites counts as one strike. A removal reversed after a counter-notice never counts, and one whose counter-notice is still open counts only if the person who sent the notice files a lawsuit.
Counter-notices
If your site was removed after a copyright notice and you believe it was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice with the counter-notice form, or email one to copyright@carnival.dev. It must include:
- The material that was removed, and the address where it appeared.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed because of a mistake or a misidentification.
- Your name, postal address and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district of your address (or, if you are outside the US, any judicial district in which Carnival may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice, or their agent.
- Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name counts.
We send your counter-notice, with your contact details, to the person who sent the notice. Unless they tell us they have filed a lawsuit to keep the material down, we put your site back 10 to 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice, with the time it had left, and the removed files can be published again. If you have 3 live sites by then, end one first. Anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material was removed by mistake can be liable for damages (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)).