Copyright and DMCA Policy

1. Our approach

VodChamp respects copyright. Our users may only upload, import and clip material that they own or have permission to use. We respond to notices of claimed infringement that meet the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

This page is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether something infringes your copyright, or whether a use is allowed, for example as fair use, consider asking a lawyer before you send a notice.

2. How to report copyright infringement

If you believe that material stored on VodChamp infringes a copyright that you own or act for, send a notice to our designated agent. The quickest way is the form at the bottom of this page. You may also send it by email or post to the agent named in section 6.

Your notice must include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name counts.
2. A description of the copyrighted work you say was infringed. If there are several, a list of them.
3. What the infringing material is and where it is on VodChamp, with enough detail for us to find it. Links are best.
4. Your contact details: name, postal address, phone number and email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith 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 are authorised to act for the owner.

We cannot act on a notice that leaves out these parts. Be careful: under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly makes a false claim in a notice can be made to pay damages, including costs and lawyers’ fees.

3. What happens after a notice

• We review the notice. If it is complete and valid, we remove the material or switch off access to it.
• We tell the user who added the material, and we may send them a copy of the notice, including your name and contact details.
• We keep a record of the notice.

4. Counter-notice: if your content was removed by mistake

If we removed or disabled your material because of a notice, and you believe that was a mistake or that the material was wrongly identified, you can send a counter-notice to our designated agent by email or post. It must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. What material was removed or disabled, and where it was before that happened.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or disabled by mistake or because it was wrongly identified.
4. Your name, postal address and phone number.
5. A statement that you accept the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is, or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which HMarquis LLC may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or that person’s agent.

What happens next: we send a copy of your counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless that person tells us that they have filed a court action against you, we may put the material back, not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after we received your counter-notice.

The same warning applies: knowingly making a false statement in a counter-notice can make you liable for damages.

5. Repeat infringers

We keep a record of valid copyright notices. In appropriate circumstances we close the accounts of users who infringe repeatedly. We may also limit or close an account after a single serious case. A closed account’s unused credits are lost, and the Refund Policy applies to any payment.

6. Our designated agent

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to:

Please use this contact only for copyright matters. For anything else, see the contact details in our Terms of Service.

7. Takedown form

Fill in every required field. By sending the form you make the statements in section 2, and your typed name is your signature. We store what you send, together with your IP address, to handle the claim.