Copyright Policy

Sending Us a Copyright Notice

So that we can act on your notice, please include all of the following. These are the elements set out in the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code, Section 512(c)(3); we ask for the same information whatever law you are relying on, because it is what we need in order to identify the material and reach the right account.

1. 1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
2. 2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. 3. Identification of the material you are asking us to remove or disable, with enough information for us to locate it. A shared-space link, a document name, or the URL of the page in question is normally what we need.
4. 4. Information sufficient for us to contact you, including your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
5. 5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. 6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Title 17 United States Code, Section 512(f) provides for civil damages, including costs and legal fees, against a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing. Whichever law applies to you, a notice sent without a genuine and well-founded belief may expose you to liability.

Please note that we may share the identity and the contents of a copyright notice with the account holder whose material it concerns, so that they can respond to it. By sending a notice you accept that it may be passed on in that way.

What We Do With a Notice

Where a notice identifies material clearly enough for us to find it, we review it, restrict access to the material if that is the appropriate response, and inform the account holder, passing on the notice so that they can answer it. Because the material sits in a customer's private shared space rather than on a public page, restricting access ordinarily means the customer and the people they had given access to can no longer open it.

Repora is operated from Ireland by an Irish company. We handle notices under Irish and European Union law, including the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 and the EU Digital Services Act, and we apply the procedure above to notices sent under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well. Nothing on this page is a statement that we have registered a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office, and nothing on this page should be read as a claim to any particular statutory immunity. If the status of a notice matters to your legal position, take your own advice.

Counter Notice: Asking Us to Restore Material

If you have received notice that material of yours has been taken down or made inaccessible because of a copyright claim, you may send us a counter notice asking for it to be restored. Send it in writing to dmca@repora.com. It should contain the elements set out in Title 17 United States Code, Section 512(g)(3):

1. 1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. 2. A description of the material that was taken down, and where it was held before it was taken down.
3. 3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake, or because the material was misidentified.
4. 4. Your name, address and telephone number, and 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, of any judicial district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.
5. 5. Your email address, so that we can reply to you.

We pass a valid counter notice to the party who sent the original notice. What happens next depends on whether they take the matter further.

Repeat Infringer Policy

We take copyright infringement seriously. We keep a record of the copyright notices we receive and make a good-faith effort to identify accounts that are the subject of repeated, well-founded notices. An account holder who repeatedly stores infringing material in Repora may have their account suspended or terminated, in line with our Terms of Use.

Related Pages

Our Terms of Use set out the agreement covering accounts, subscriptions and termination, and our Privacy Policy explains what we do with the personal data in a notice — including that we forward a notice to the account holder it concerns. For anything that is not a copyright notice, use the contact form.