Copyright & DMCA

1. What this page is

Lemniscate Labs LLC operates Lemniscate as an online service provider under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. This page sets out our designated agent, how to send a takedown notice, how to send a counter-notice, and our policy on repeat infringers. It applies to lemniscate.network, app.lemniscate.network and the Lemniscate apps.

2. What we can and cannot act on

We can act on material we actually host: public channels, public posts, the public group directory, public profiles and public media.

We cannot act on private messages, private groups or calls. Those are end-to-end encrypted — we do not hold the keys and we cannot read, review or remove their contents. A notice about private content cannot be processed, because the material is not on our systems in a form we can access. This is a property of the product, not an attempt to obstruct any lawful claim.

3. Designated agent

Send notices to our designated agent:

DMCA Agent, Lemniscate Labs LLC
30 N Gould St STE R
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States
Email: [email protected]

Lemniscate Labs LLC · · Domestic Limited Liability Company, State of Wyoming, USA. Lemniscate is a service of Lemniscate Labs LLC and is covered by this designation.

Email is the fastest route and is monitored. Notices sent to other addresses may be delayed.

4. Sending a takedown notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all six of the following. An incomplete notice may not trigger our obligations, and we may ask you to complete it.

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works at one location are covered, a representative list is enough.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it — a direct link, or the exact channel, post or profile.
4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

Please be accurate. Under § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees.

5. What we do when a valid notice arrives

• We remove the material or disable access to it expeditiously.
• We take reasonable steps to notify the user whose material was removed, and we pass on a copy of the notice.
• We record the notice against the account for the purposes of section 7 below.
• We tell the user how to send a counter-notice if they believe the removal was a mistake.

6. Sending a counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was an error or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) to the same agent. It must include:

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

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we forward it to the party who sent the original notice. Unless that party tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we restore the material no fewer than 10 and no more than 14 business days after receiving your counter-notice.

7. Repeat infringer policy

We have adopted and we reasonably implement the following policy, and every user is informed of it through these pages and our Terms of Service.

• Each valid takedown notice is recorded as a strike against the account that posted the material.
• A strike is withdrawn if the material is restored following a counter-notice, or if the notice is retracted.
• Three strikes within twelve months lead to termination of the account, including its public channels and its listing in the public directory.
• We may terminate sooner in clear cases — for example wholesale republication of a protected work, or evasion after a previous termination.
• A terminated user may not open a replacement account. We treat circumvention as a further ground for termination.
• Terminations are decided by a person, not automatically, and are recorded.

8. Standard technical measures

We accommodate and do not interfere with standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify or protect their works, within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(2), where such measures are available to us and apply to material we host.

9. Trademarks and other complaints

This page covers copyright. For trademark complaints, impersonation, or other unlawful content, use the in-app Report function or write to [email protected]. For requests from authorities, see our Law Enforcement Guidelines.

10. Governing law

This policy is part of our Terms of Service and is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming and the federal law of the United States. Nothing here is legal advice.