Brands and e-commerce companies
Product photos, catalog images, videos and descriptions copied by copycat stores, marketplaces and fake social pages.
Your product photos on a copycat store, your launch video reuploaded by another channel, your articles republished word for word, your internal documents posted online. When the content is yours, a DMCA notice is one of the most direct ways to take the copies down. We file it with every platform, host and search engine involved, as your authorized agent.
Get a free assessmentWe work with companies and the people whose names carry them. We file for content that the company, or the person we represent, owns.
Product photos, catalog images, videos and descriptions copied by copycat stores, marketplaces and fake social pages.
Articles, reports, research and courses republished in full on other sites, often ranking next to the original.
Internal presentations, training material and documents the company created that were posted online without authorization.
Keynotes, interviews and photos the company commissioned, reused by accounts that pretend to be you or your firm.
Your own photos, videos and recordings reposted or monetized by channels and pages with no right to use them.
Most removal requests ask a platform to judge whether content breaks its rules. A DMCA notice is different: when it contains the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a provider that wants to keep its safe harbor has to respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material. For content your company owns, that makes copyright one of the clearest grounds available.
The difficulty is scale and detail. Copies spread across stores, social accounts, file hosts and search results; each provider has its own form or designated agent; and a missing element, a wrong URL or a counter-notice can stall the case. Read our guide to DMCA takedown notices if you want to file one yourself. If there are many copies, or they keep coming back, we handle it for you.
Copyright covers the work, not the subject. These are the cases where the content is yours and a notice applies.
Blog posts, research, white papers or course material republished word for word on other sites, sometimes outranking your original on Google.
Catalog images, campaign photos and videos your company produced, used by copycat stores, marketplaces and resellers you never authorized.
Presentations, manuals, training videos or documents your company created, uploaded to file hosts, forums or social media.
Fake pages and accounts that use your logo artwork, photos and posts to look like you. The copied items can be removed by copyright notice and the account reported for impersonation.
Keynotes, webinars and interviews the company owns, reposted or monetized by channels that cut them out of context.
Section 512 of the U.S. Copyright Act sets the rules every notice has to follow. This is general information, not legal advice.
A notice must be a written communication to the provider’s designated agent that includes substantially a signature of a person authorized to act for the owner, identification of the work, identification of the infringing material with information to locate it, contact details, a good faith statement that the use is not authorized and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the sender is authorized to act for the owner. [1]
To keep its safe harbor, a provider must publish an agent to receive notices and register it with the Copyright Office, which maintains a public directory of those agents. The Office notes that every designation expires three years after it is first registered. [1] [3] [2]
Copyright vests initially in the author of the work. For a work made for hire, the employer is considered the author and owns the rights unless the parties agreed otherwise in a signed written instrument. Content your staff create for the company is usually the company’s to enforce. [4]
After a valid counter-notice, the provider restores the material not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days after receiving it, unless the sender of the original notice first tells the designated agent that a court action has been filed. [1] [2]
Under § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing is liable for the damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, of those injured by it. We file only for content you own or are authorized to enforce. [1]
A copyright notice is one route. When copied content comes with impersonation, defamation or a ranking problem, we combine it with these.
Every removal route we use, from DMCA takedowns to platform policy reports and legal requests.
Reuploaded videos and channels using your footage, plus videos that break YouTube’s other policies.
Fake and impersonation accounts, stolen content and defamatory posts on Instagram.
Impersonating profiles and videos reusing your footage or creative work on TikTok.
When a copy cannot come down, we push it off page one with accurate, authoritative content.
A confidential, documented process, filed for you or your company as copyright owner, or by us as your authorized agent.
We confirm what the company owns, find the copies across platforms, sites and Google, and flag any that need another route, such as a defamation or impersonation report.
For each copy we identify the platform form or the designated agent of the site and its host, and check fair use risks before anything is sent.
We file complete notices with the six required elements, through each platform’s own channel, and request removal from Google Search where the copies rank.
We follow up until each provider decides, tell you when a counter-notice arrives and its legal deadline, and watch for reuploads.
How the notice works, what each platform asks for and what copyright does not cover.
The six elements of § 512(c)(3), where to send it, a template and the counter-notice rules.
What Google, YouTube, Meta, X, Reddit and other platforms remove, with their official copyright forms.
A negative review is not a copyright case. What each review platform removes and how.
False statements are a defamation question. The rules, deadlines and removal options, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Cannot find what you are looking for? Send us your question and we answer within one business day.
Send your questionIt finds copies of content you own, identifies the right platform form or designated agent for each, files notices that meet 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) and follows up until each provider decides. We act as your authorized agent, so notices are filed for the company or person who owns the copyright.
Yes, they are separate requests. A notice to the website or its host targets the page itself; a notice to Google targets the search result. Google generally sends copyright notices to the public Lumen database, without the contact fields, so we file in the company’s name or as its agent.
No. Copyright covers work you own, not what others write about you. Using it for that is likely to fail and, if knowingly false, creates liability under § 512(f). We handle those cases through platform policies, defamation requests or suppression instead, and we tell you which route fits before any work begins.
We tell you when it arrives and what the deadline is. By law, the provider restores the material 10 to 14 business days after receiving a valid counter-notice unless you notify it that you have filed a court action. That decision belongs to you and your attorney; we give you the facts and the deadline.
The notice is signed by the copyright owner or by us as authorized agent. Some platforms pass the rights owner’s name and the reporter’s email to the uploader, which is one reason companies use an agent. Every client signs an NDA, and so do we.
Content removal is billed only when the URL is verified offline. We review your case for free first, and we answer within one business day.
Send us the links to the copied content and we review them for free: which copies qualify for a DMCA notice, which need another route and how we file them. We answer within one business day.
Last reviewed 2026-11-04. This page is general information, not legal advice.