Copyright Agent

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, you can send a notice to our designated agent. You can also use our simpler report content form, which asks only for the page and a sentence about what is yours. You do not have to send a formal notice to have content taken down.

Designated agent

This is the agent designated with the United States Copyright Office to receive notifications of claimed infringement for this site. Email is the fastest way to reach the agent and the preferred one.

Service provider: FiTerra Holdings LLC
30 N Gould St, Suite N
Sheridan, WY 82801

Designated agent: Copyright Manager
FiTerra Holdings LLC
30 N Gould St, Suite N
Sheridan, WY 82801
Phone: (240) 432-6548
Email: dmca@fiterra.ai

This agent is registered with the United States Copyright Office and is the only address that counts for a copyright notice. A notice sent anywhere else may not reach us and may not start the process below.

FiTerra Holdings LLC is the registered service provider for this site. YieldShield LLC is an affiliate under common ownership and control, and operates the Service.

What a notice must contain

Federal law sets out what a notification of claimed infringement must include (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). A notice should contain:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you say is infringing, and enough information for us to find it, such as the address of the page it appears on.
• Your address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

These requirements come from the statute, not from us, and this page does not describe your rights or ours. If you are unsure whether they apply to your situation, that is a question for your own attorney.

What happens after we receive it

We do not decide who owns a photograph. We are not in a position to and we do not try. What we do is act on notices that meet the requirements above.

• We remove or disable access to the material identified in your notice, expeditiously. If your notice identifies one photograph, the photograph you identify comes down and the rest of the page stays up.
• We tell the person who uploaded it that we have done so, and we send them a copy of your notice, including your name and contact information.
• We tell them they can send us a counter notification if they believe the material was removed by mistake or because it was misidentified.
• If they do send one, we forward it to you, including their name, address, and telephone number, and we tell you the date we received it.
• If we forward a counter notification to you, federal law requires us to restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after we received it, unless you first tell our agent that you have filed a lawsuit asking a court to stop that person from posting it. If you do file, tell our agent in writing and the material stays down.
• We record the notice against the uploader’s account under our repeat infringer policy, which is in our Terms of Service.

Please read this part before you send a notice

Federal law, 17 U.S.C. section 512(f), makes a person liable for damages, including costs and attorney’s fees, if they knowingly make a material misrepresentation that material is infringing. Courts have also held that a copyright owner must consider whether the use is a fair use before sending a notice.

If you are not sure you own the work, or not sure the use was unauthorized, find out before you send. A notice is a sworn statement.

If your work appears here and you did authorize it

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. Property photographs are often taken by a photographer for a brokerage, and permissions get lost along the way. If you would rather sort it out directly with the person who posted it, write to our agent and say so, and we will pass your message along without taking anything down. That is not a notice and it does not start anything.

If material of yours was removed and you think that was a mistake

You can send a counter notification. We explain what federal law requires, and give you a form to fill in, on the counter notification page.

If you would rather not send a formal notice

You do not need to. Our report content form asks for the page, a way to reach you, and a sentence saying what is yours. It exists because a photographer who finds their picture on a page should not have to draft a sworn statement to get it taken down.