Content Removal Policy

This page explains how Sortrature handles copyright concerns and content removal requests. It is an administrative notice for rights holders, site visitors, and anyone who believes material on this website infringes a protected right. It is written to be readable, not theatrical. If you need a notice acted on, follow the steps below carefully.

Images and other third-party material

Unless a caption, credit, or page note says otherwise, many images historically published on this site were collected from the open web and treated as material believed to be available for noncommercial editorial display. That historical practice does not create a license where none exists. If a work is still protected by copyright, trademark, or related rights, an unintentional and noncommercial display does not cancel those rights.

When a rights holder provides a clear, good-faith claim with enough detail to locate the material, Sortrature will remove or disable access to the disputed content promptly after the claim is verified as complete. Speed depends on the quality of the notice. Vague complaints without URLs, ownership statements, or contact details cannot be processed as quickly as a complete notice.

DMCA compliance

Sortrature is committed to responding to alleged copyright infringement in line with the notice-and-takedown framework of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Official statutory information is published by the U.S. Copyright Office at copyright.gov. This page summarizes how to contact us and what information we need. It does not replace the statute, regulations, or advice from your own counsel.

We treat complete notices seriously. Incomplete notices may be acknowledged with a request for missing elements. Bad-faith or knowingly false notices can create legal exposure for the sender; do not file a claim you cannot support.

Remedy

If material on this site is found to infringe the copyright of an offended party, Sortrature may take one or more of the following actions, as appropriate to the facts:

• Remove the content or disable public access to it
• Block or terminate access for users responsible for submitting or maintaining the content, where that control exists
• Take other reasonable steps to stop ongoing infringement
• Retain records of the incident and, where we judge it appropriate, share documentation with third parties for enforcement, logging, or publication

Removal of a specific file, caption, or page section does not automatically imply agreement with every legal theory in a notice. It does mean we are acting to reduce risk and respect asserted rights while the matter is addressed.

Not legal advice / no attorney-client relationship

Copyright and related rights can be serious. This DMCA-oriented notice exists so the site can receive and act on alleged infringement efficiently. It is not legal advice to you, and reading or using this page does not create an attorney-client relationship with Sortrature or with any lawyer associated with the site.

Other remedies may exist outside this process, including claims directed to hosting providers, domain registrars, search engines, or courts. If your rights may have been violated, consider consulting competent counsel promptly. Deadlines and statutory requirements can be strict.

How to send a notification

To speed resolution, send alleged infringement notices by email to [email protected]. Use a clear subject line such as “Copyright notice” or “DMCA takedown request.”

Include all of the following elements. Numbering them in your email helps us process the request without back-and-forth.

Step 1. Identify the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed, in adequate detail. Useful identifiers include a URL to the protected work as published by you or your licensee, an ISBN or other catalog number where relevant, a registration number if you have one, or another precise description that lets a non-expert locate the original.

Step 2. Identify the URL (or URLs) on sortrature.com that you assert are infringing the work described in Step 1. Page titles alone are often not enough; full links to the specific post or media file are best.

Step 3. Provide your contact information. An email address is preferred; a phone number is strongly suggested so we can clarify details quickly if needed.

Step 4. Provide information sufficient to allow us to notify the owner or administrator of the allegedly infringing page or other content (for example, a blog post or forum-style contribution), if that person is different from you. An email address is preferred.

Step 5. Include this statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”

Step 6. Include this statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”

Step 7. Sign the affirmation. A clear typed name at the end of the email is acceptable as a digital signature for this purpose when the rest of the notice is complete.

Notices that omit the good-faith and perjury statements, or that fail to identify both the original work and the allegedly infringing URL, will usually be treated as incomplete until those gaps are filled.

Counter-notification

If content was removed or disabled because of a copyright notice, the party who posted or provided that content may be able to submit a counter-notification under sections 512(g)(2) and (g)(3) of the DMCA. Depending on the statutory process and the facts, material may be restored or re-linked after a valid counter-notice if the original complainant does not seek a court order within the applicable period.

Counter-notifications may be sent to the same contact channel: [email protected]. Warning: you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, if you knowingly misrepresent that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification. Do not file a counter-notice you cannot support under penalty of perjury.

If you still wish to file a counter-notice, include at least the following:

Step 1. Identify the specific URLs or other unique identifying information for material that was removed or to which access was disabled.

Step 2. Provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address, plus a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Sortrature may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or that person’s agent.

Step 3. Include this statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that each item of content identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled, or that the material identified by the complainant has been removed or disabled at the URL identified and will no longer be shown.”

Step 4. Sign the affirmation digitally (a clear typed name is acceptable when the notice is otherwise complete).

What happens after we receive a notice

Complete notices are reviewed for the required elements, then matched against live pages and media files. Where the claim is clear and the location is verified, we disable or remove the material. We may contact the complainant or the poster for clarification. We may decline to act on notices that do not substantially comply with the information requirements above, while inviting a corrected submission.

We do not promise a public debate in the comments under a disputed post. Copyright process is handled through the contact channel described here so that private contact details and legal statements stay off the public page.

Changes to this page

Like other administrative and legal notice pages on this site, this Content Removal Policy may change over time. Updates can appear without a separate emailed alert. If this page matters to your rights or workflows, revisit it before relying on a remembered version.

Questions

For questions about this page, copyright concerns, or other site administration matters, contact [email protected]. For formal infringement claims, use the notification checklist above rather than an informal one-line email; the checklist exists to make removal faster and more accurate for everyone involved.