DMCA & Copyright Policy

Our position

AIToolsay complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and with equivalent copyright law in other jurisdictions. We remove infringing material promptly when we are properly notified, and we terminate repeat infringers.

We also take the other side of this seriously. Takedown processes are routinely abused to suppress criticism, bury competitors and remove lawful commentary. We check that notices are complete and facially valid, and we restore material that was removed in error.

Designated agent

Send all copyright notices and counter-notices to contact@aitoolsay.com. Put "DMCA Notice" or "DMCA Counter-Notice" in the subject line so it routes correctly.

Please do not send takedown notices through the general contact form, social media or a support ticket. They will be slower, and the deadlines below run from when the designated agent receives them.

Filing a takedown notice

Under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) a notice must contain all six of the following. A notice missing any one of them is not legally actionable and we will have to come back to you for it.

1. A signature — physical or electronic — of the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them. Typing your full name at the end of the email is sufficient as an electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If multiple works are covered by one notice, a representative list. A URL to the original is the fastest way to show us.
3. Identification of the infringing material, with enough detail for us to locate it. The full URL on aitoolsay.com is required — a bare domain name, a screenshot or a description of where it "should be" is not enough for us to act on.
4. Your contact details — full legal name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A good-faith statement: "I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."
6. A statement under penalty of perjury: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorised to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

What happens after we receive a notice

1. Acknowledgement within one business day. You will get confirmation that it arrived and is being reviewed.
2. Completeness check. We verify all six elements are present. If something is missing we tell you exactly what, so you can resubmit rather than guess.
3. Action within 24 hours of a valid notice. The material is removed or access to it is disabled.
4. Notification to whoever posted it, where there is such a person and we can reach them. They receive a copy of the notice, including your name and contact details, and are told they may counter-notify.
5. Record keeping. The notice is logged against the account for the repeat-infringer policy below.

Be aware that your notice, including your identifying details, will normally be passed to the person who posted the material, and may be published in a transparency report with personal details redacted.

Filing a counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake — or that your use was lawful, for example as fair use, fair dealing, criticism, review, news reporting, parody or because you hold a licence — you may file a counter-notice under §512(g)(3). Send all four elements to contact@aitoolsay.com:

1. Your signature, physical or electronic.
2. Identification of the removed material and the URL at which 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 full name, address, telephone number and email, plus a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district in which your address is located — or, if 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 filed the original notice.

On receiving a valid counter-notice we forward it to the original complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material.

False notices and misrepresentation

Section 512(f) makes it unlawful to knowingly and materially misrepresent that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake. A person who does so is liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, to the party harmed.

Do not use this process to remove criticism, competitor comparisons, lawful commentary or an unfavourable review. We read notices with that possibility in mind, and where a notice appears to be an abuse of process we will say so and decline to act.

Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts and contribution rights of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Each valid notice is recorded against the responsible account; accumulating them ends contribution rights, and we may decline future submissions from the same source.

A notice that is withdrawn or successfully counter-notified does not count against anyone.

AI-generated content

Output produced by our tools is generated at your request and is not hosted by us. Where AI-assisted material has been published on aitoolsay.com — in an article, listing or guest post — the process above applies to it exactly as it applies to anything else, and we will act on a valid notice.

If you believe a model reproduced your work in output, that is a matter between you and the model provider; we will pass on what we can and point you to the right contact.

Trade marks and other rights

For trade mark, publicity, defamation or privacy complaints — which the DMCA does not cover — write to contact@aitoolsay.com with the URL, the right you rely on, evidence of it, and what you are asking us to do.

Contact

Copyright notices and counter-notices: contact@aitoolsay.com. Everything else: the contact page.