DMCA Policy
Information about copyright notices, counter-notifications, and Sonauto's repeat infringer policy.
Repeat Infringer Policy (summary)
Sonauto issues a warning each time we remove user content for copyright infringement, whether following a DMCA notice or our own review. Warnings expire after 12 months. Three active warnings result in account termination. Egregious cases may result in immediate termination. See our Terms of Service for the full policy.
Read the full Terms of ServiceDMCA Notices and Full Repeat Infringer Policy
The following is excerpted from Sections 14 and 14A of Sonauto's Terms of Service.
14. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA) NOTICE AND POLICY Notifications We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information provided below (a "Notification"). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification. Please be advised that pursuant to federal law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney. All Notifications should meet the requirements of DMCA 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) (3) and include the following information: (1) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on the Services are covered by the Notification, a representative list of such works on the Services; (3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (4) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which the complaining party may be contacted; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed upon. Counter Notification If you believe your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Services as a result of a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter notification to [us/our Designated Copyright Agent] using the contact information provided below (a "Counter Notification"). To be an effective Counter Notification under the DMCA, your Counter Notification must include substantially the following: (1) identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled; (2) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which we are located; (3) a statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the Notification or the party's agent; (4) your name, address, and telephone number; (5) a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material in question was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and (6) your physical or electronic signature. If you send us a valid, written Counter Notification meeting the requirements described above, we will restore your removed or disabled material, unless we first receive notice from the party filing the Notification informing us that such party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material in question. Please note that if you materially misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees. Filing a false Counter Notification constitutes perjury. Designated Copyright Agent Ryan Tremblay Attn: Copyright Agent 555 Mission Rock Street San Francisco, CA 94158 United States dmca@sonauto.ai 14A. REPEAT INFRINGER POLICY Sonauto maintains a policy for terminating users who repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others. We track infringement events per user account. An "infringement event" means either (a) Sonauto's receipt and good-faith honoring of a valid DMCA notice regarding the user's content, or (b) Sonauto's own determination, based on review, that the user has posted infringing content. All removals arising from a single DMCA notice count as one infringement event. All proactive removals against a single user within a 24-hour review count as one infringement event. Removals for reasons other than copyright infringement do not count under this policy. Users receive a warning at each infringement event. Warnings expire 12 months after issuance. Three active warnings within the rolling 12-month window result in account termination. Sonauto reserves the right to terminate accounts earlier in cases of egregious, willful, or commercial-scale infringement, in our sole discretion. Users whose accounts are terminated under this policy may not create new accounts; we may terminate any account we identify as belonging to a previously terminated user.