Yapp

Copyright (DMCA) policy

The short version

  • Don’t post other people’s photos, music or creative work without permission.
  • If you own a copyright and think something on Yapp infringes it, send a notice to our designated agent.
  • If your content was removed by mistake, you can send a counter-notice.
  • We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

Yapp follows the notice-and-takedown process of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. section 512). This policy explains how to use it.

Contents
  1. Our designated agent
  2. What a notice must include
  3. What we do
  4. Counter-notices
  5. Repeat infringers

Our designated agent

[Designated agent name], Latency LLC, [Designated agent address]. Phone: [Designated agent phone]. Email: dmca@joinyapp.app.

What a notice must include

  1. Your physical or electronic signature, or that of someone authorized to act for the owner.
  2. The copyrighted work you believe was infringed, or a list if there are several.
  3. Where the material is on Yapp, in enough detail for us to find it (for example, the username and what the post or message shows).
  4. Your name, address, phone number and email.
  5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized by the owner, its agent or the law.
  6. A statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

A notice that knowingly misrepresents that material infringes can make you liable for damages (section 512(f)).

What we do

When we receive a complete notice, we aim to remove or disable the material promptly and tell the person who posted it, with a copy of the notice where the law allows.

Counter-notices

If you believe your content was removed by mistake or misidentification, send our designated agent a counter-notice with:

  1. your physical or electronic signature,
  2. what was removed and where it was before,
  3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification,
  4. your name, address and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, outside the US, any district where Yapp may be found) and will accept service from the person who sent the notice.

We send the counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action, we restore the material within 10 to 14 business days of receiving the counter-notice.

Repeat infringers

We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright, in appropriate circumstances. You can appeal an account closure in the app.