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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 Service

DMCA 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.