Copyright & DMCA Policy

PostSesh respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects the people who use PostSesh to do the same. This policy explains how to report content on PostSesh that you believe infringes your copyright, how the person who posted it can respond, and what happens to accounts that repeatedly infringe.

This policy is part of, and incorporated into, the PostSesh End User License Agreement.

1. Reporting content you believe infringes your copyright

If you own the copyright in a work, or you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf, and you believe content on PostSesh infringes that copyright, you may send us a written notice (a "DMCA notice") at the address in Section 2.

To be effective under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If your notice covers multiple works on PostSesh, you may provide a representative list of those works.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed, with enough detail for us to locate it. Because PostSesh content is not publicly addressable by URL, please include as much of the following as you can:
   • the username or display name of the account that posted it,
   • the approximate date and time the content was posted,
   • a description of the content (for example, "the photograph shown in the post" or "the image visible in the account's profile picture"), and
   • a screenshot, if you have one.
4. Your contact information: your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

If your notice does not substantially include all six items, we may not be able to act on it, and we may ask you to resubmit it.

2. Copyright Agent

Send DMCA notices and counter-notices to:

Email is the only method we currently accept for copyright notices, and is monitored.

3. What happens after we receive a valid notice

When we receive a notice that substantially complies with Section 1, we will:

• remove or disable access to the material identified in the notice, generally within a few business days;
• notify the user who posted the material that it has been removed, and forward them a copy of your notice (including the contact information you provided in it); and
• inform that user that they may submit a counter-notification as described in Section 4.

We may remove content, disable access, or suspend accounts at our discretion at any time, with or without a DMCA notice, as permitted by the End User License Agreement.

4. Counter-notification

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake, or that the material was misidentified, you may send us a written counter-notification.

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notification must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, mailing address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which PostSesh may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice, or from that person's agent.

Send counter-notifications to the Copyright Agent in Section 2.

If we receive a valid counter-notification, we will forward it to the person who submitted the original notice. If that person does not notify us within ten (10) business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you from engaging in the infringing activity, we may restore the removed material within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days of receiving your counter-notification.

5. Repeat infringer policy

We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

In practice, this means:

• Each time content is removed from an account in response to a valid DMCA notice that is not successfully countered, it is recorded as a strike against that account.
• An account that accumulates three (3) strikes will be terminated, and the person behind it may be barred from creating a new PostSesh account.
• We may terminate an account sooner than three strikes in cases of severe or obviously willful infringement.
• Termination means the account is disabled, and the posts, comments, and reactions associated with it are removed.

6. Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

Please make sure you actually own the rights you are claiming, and consider whether the use might be fair use, before sending a notice.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date at the top will change when we do. Continued use of PostSesh after an update means you accept the revised policy.