Internal · Draft for team review

DMCA Copyright Policy + Designated Agent

Status: DRAFT for team review. Not legal advice — have counsel confirm before publishing.

Owner: Jude / Remy

Two actions to make this live:

1. Register the Designated Agent with the US Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory (dmca.copyright.gov). Fee is $6, filed online, renewed every 3 years. You get a public record listing the agent who receives takedown notices.

2. Paste the section below into the Terms of Service, with the [bracketed] agent details filled in to exactly match what you registered in step 1 (the registration and the posted contact must be consistent, or the safe harbor can be challenged).

Why this matters: designating an agent is the precondition for the DMCA Section 512(c) safe harbor. With it, Greenlight is shielded from copyright liability when a user uploads someone else's photo, as long as you take reported material down. Without it, that shield does not apply. It is a one afternoon task with real protection.

⬇ Download the policy (.md)

Terms of Service — Copyright Policy (paste-ready)

Copyright and DMCA Policy

Greenlight respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks its members to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. Section 512, Greenlight will respond promptly to notices of alleged copyright infringement that are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent and that comply with the requirements below.

Reporting infringement. If you own a copyright, or are authorized to act for the owner, and you believe that material on Greenlight infringes that copyright, please send a written notice to our Designated Copyright Agent that includes all of the following (see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c)(3)):

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for the owner;
Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed;
Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it (for example, the profile or the specific photo);
Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated Copyright Agent. Notices must be sent to:

[Agent full name or role, for example "DMCA Agent"]

[Company legal name, for example "Greenlight [Inc./LLC]"]

[Street address]

[City, State ZIP]

Email: [dmca@greenlightdate.com]

Repeat infringers. Greenlight will, in appropriate circumstances, disable or terminate the accounts of members who are found to repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others.

Counter notification. If you believe that material you posted was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send a written counter notification to our Designated Copyright Agent, as allowed under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g). We may restore the material unless the original complainant files a court action seeking to keep it down.

Misrepresentation. Under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages.

Operational notes (internal, do not publish in the ToS)

Set up dmca@greenlightdate.com as a real, monitored address (Cloudflare Email Routing to the shared inbox, same as support@). The agent email in the ToS must actually reach a person.
When a valid notice arrives: locate the material, disable or remove it, and log the notice (who, what, when) so the repeat-infringer policy is enforceable. Keep a simple running log.
The counter-notification path is optional to advertise but easy to include; keep the same log.
Re-file the $6 registration every 3 years — the Copyright Office does not auto-renew and a lapsed registration can forfeit the safe harbor.

This document is an internal draft, not legal advice. Have counsel confirm the language and the registration details before publishing.