ABUSE & TAKEDOWNS

Abuse & takedown

Two kinds of report arrive here, and they need opposite things. One is a legal procedure that must be exact. The other needs to be fast. Pick the one that describes your situation — neither is behind the other.

DRAFT Not yet in effect

NOTE

Neither form on this page sends anything. There is no server behind them. They assemble a complete, correctly-ordered report and hand it to you to send from your own mail client — so you keep the sent copy, and the timestamp is yours, not ours.

Two ways to report

URGENT · FEW QUESTIONS Illegal or non-consensual content Child sexual abuse material, an intimate image shared without consent, a sexual deepfake of a real person. Report it now → PROCEDURAL · SIX ELEMENTS Copyright takedown (DMCA) Material Horoptic hosts that infringes work you own or represent. Six elements are required by statute. Start a notice →

Illegal or non-consensual content

You do not need an account, a lawyer, or a legal statement to use this. Tell us where it is and we act. If you are the person in the material, you do not have to describe it — a link is enough.

This page is not an emergency channel, and it does not replace law enforcement.

If a child is at risk, or you are in danger, contact your local emergency number and your national reporting hotline first. Do that whether or not you also report here — this form only reaches a review queue that people read during working hours.

What happens after you send it

Material we host and can identify from your report comes down while we review it. We do not wait for the review to finish first.
Where the law requires it, we preserve what we must and report to the appropriate authority. We do not ask your permission first, and we do not need you to have contacted them.
If you left an email address, we reply to it once the review closes. If you did not, nothing further comes back to you — that is the trade for reporting anonymously.

Copyright takedown (DMCA)

A notice must contain all six elements below. One missing element does not start the clock — the notice is not effective, we cannot act on it, and you would have to send it again. So this form accounts for each element as you go, and will not tell you a notice is ready until all six are there.

We can only remove material Horoptic hosts. Horoptic is local-first: most projects and media live on the editor's own machine and never reach us. If the material is only on someone's device, there is nothing here for us to take down, and a notice will come back saying exactly that.

The six required elements

17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). This list is the notice's structure, in order.

ELEMENT LEDGER 0 / 6 ELEMENTS COMPLETE

01 A signature from the complainant — physical or electronic. EMPTY 02 Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed. EMPTY 03 Identification of the material to be removed, and enough detail to locate it. EMPTY 04 Contact details for the complainant — address, telephone, email. EMPTY 05 A statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized. EMPTY 06 A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and the complainant is authorized to act. EMPTY

Elements 5 and 6 are statements you make, not information you supply.

TAKEDOWN NOTICE · DRAFTING NOTHING LEAVES THIS TAB

Your signature

Typing your name here is your signature on this notice. It carries the same weight as signing on paper.

Full legal name

Signing as

Dated — taken from your device clock and written into the notice.

The work you hold rights in

What is being infringed — not what you found. If one notice covers several works, list them all.

Identify the work

Where the original can be seen Optional, but it speeds review

The material to remove, and where it is

Precise enough that we can find it without guessing. This is the element that most often fails.

What the material is

Exact locations — one per line

How to reach you

The statute requires all three of address, phone and email. If we accept the notice, these are forwarded to the person whose material comes down — that is how a counter-notice reaches you. Use business details if you would rather not give personal ones.

Organization Optional Email

Telephone

Mailing address

ELEMENTS 5 & 6 · STATEMENTS, NOT DATA

Read each statement. To adopt it, type the phrase shown beneath it — there is no checkbox, because a checkbox is too easy to tick without reading. A knowingly false notice carries liability for damages and legal costs.

Good-faith statement

NOT ADOPTED

I have a good-faith belief that the use of the material described above, in the manner complained of, is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

Type GOOD FAITH to adopt this statement

Accuracy and authority, under penalty of perjury

NOT ADOPTED

I state under penalty of perjury that the information in this notice is accurate, and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Type AUTHORIZED to adopt this statement

Both reports work by plain email

The forms on this page need JavaScript, because they run entirely in your browser. Nothing else on the page does. Both reports work perfectly well by plain email — the forms only save you retyping the headings.

URGENT joelzyla@gmail.com

Send the link or project ID. Nothing else is required. Do not attach the content.

All six elements must be in the message. Copy the skeleton below and fill it in.

Subject: [DMCA] Takedown notice

1 · SIGNATURE
Name:        (your full legal name — typing it is your signature)
Signing as:  (the rights holder / agent for …)
Date:        (today)

2 · THE COPYRIGHTED WORK
(what you hold rights in — title, creator, kind of work)

3 · THE MATERIAL TO BE REMOVED, AND WHERE IT IS
(what the material is)
Locations:
  - (URL, share link, or project ID — one per line)

4 · CONTACT DETAILS OF THE COMPLAINANT
Email:        (required)
Telephone:    (required)
Address:      (required)

5 · GOOD-FAITH STATEMENT
I have a good-faith belief that the use of the material described above,
in the manner complained of, is not authorized by the copyright owner,
its agent, or the law.

6 · ACCURACY AND AUTHORITY, UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY
I state under penalty of perjury that the information in this notice is
accurate, and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on
the owner's behalf.

(Keep statements 5 and 6 word for word. Leaving either out means the
notice is not effective and we cannot act on it.)

Counter-notices & repeat infringers

If your material was removed and you believe the notice was wrong or the use was lawful, you can send a counter-notice. It has its own required elements, including a statement under penalty of perjury and consent to jurisdiction. We forward it to the original complainant, and unless they tell us they have filed suit, the material can go back.

Accounts that repeatedly host infringing material lose access.

Designated agent

A service provider that wants safe-harbour protection has to name an agent to receive copyright notices, and register that agent publicly. Horoptic has not done this yet.

Designated agent for copyright notices NOT YET DESIGNATED

No agent has been registered, so there is nothing truthful to print here yet. This block stays empty rather than filled with a name that is not real. Notices sent to [email protected] are read and acted on in the meantime — that address is live.

NAME: — not yet designated
ADDRESS: — not yet designated
PHONE: — not yet designated
EMAIL: [email protected] (live now)

How to reach us

Both forms on this page end in an ordinary email, so you can skip them entirely and write to us directly. Nothing is lost by doing that — the forms only help you get the required parts in one message.

ILLEGAL OR NON-CONSENSUAL CONTENT [email protected]

Send a link or a project ID. No format required.

All six elements must be in the message to be effective.

Not a copyright or safety matter? Billing, access and account questions go to Help. This page is only for takedowns and abuse reports, and sending other things here slows the ones that matter.