Takedown and DMCA
How to report copyright infringement, rights violations, consent issues, AI-labeling problems, minor-safety concerns, and other urgent content issues.
1. Fastest reporting path
If the content is visible on SkillFans, use the Report button on the relevant creator profile or asset card when available. Reports identify the target type, target ID, reason, details, and review status so operators can investigate the exact item.
You may also contact legal@skillfans.org for legal, copyright, privacy, consent, or safety notices. Include enough information for SkillFans to identify the content and understand the issue.
2. What you can report
You may report:
- Copyright infringement, trademark infringement, stolen media, copied creator assets, or unauthorized reposting.
- Unauthorized use of a real person's name, image, likeness, voice, identity, or persona.
- Non-consensual sexual content, sexual deepfakes, revenge sexual content, hidden-camera content, coercion, threats, blackmail, or extortion.
- Minor-safety concerns, child sexual exploitation, grooming, sexualized age-ambiguous content, or youth-coded sexual content.
- Missing or misleading AI labels, impersonation, spam, malware, harassment, doxxing, or other Content Policy violations.
3. Urgent safety issues
If a report involves immediate danger, call local emergency services first. If a report involves child sexual exploitation or abuse, you may report it to NCMEC CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org. You should also use SkillFans' report tools so the platform can restrict access and preserve relevant records where appropriate.
For non-consensual intimate imagery, sexual extortion, threats, trafficking, or other urgent safety issues, clearly label the report as urgent and include the URL, creator name, asset title or ID, and a concise explanation.
4. Copyright and DMCA notices
If you believe material on SkillFans infringes your copyright, send a notice through the Report button where available and to the legal contact below. To support processing under U.S. DMCA-style procedures, your notice should include all required information.
Send copyright notices to legal@skillfans.org.
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by one notice, provide a representative list.
- Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or the subject of infringing activity, including the SkillFans URL, creator name, asset title, asset ID, screenshot, or other information reasonably sufficient to locate the material.
- Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the complained-of manner is not authorized by the copyright owner, the owner's agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
5. Counter-notices
If your content was removed or disabled because of a copyright notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to the legal contact below.
Send counter-notices to legal@skillfans.org.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before removal or disablement.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court where required by applicable law and accepting service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person's agent.
6. Repeat infringer policy
SkillFans may terminate or restrict accounts, creators, upload privileges, or access for repeat copyright infringement, repeated rights violations, repeated false claims of ownership, or repeated submission of content that violates another person's rights. SkillFans may retain takedown, counter-notice, and enforcement records to identify repeat abuse.
7. Rights, likeness, and consent requests
If your name, likeness, voice, identity, private information, or intimate image appears on SkillFans without authorization, include the URL, creator name, asset title or ID, explanation of your relationship to the material, and the specific action you request.
SkillFans may request additional information to verify identity, rights, or authority before acting, but may restrict content while a serious safety, consent, or rights issue is reviewed.
8. What SkillFans may do after a report
After receiving a report, notice, or counter-notice, SkillFans may:
- Acknowledge receipt where appropriate and request more information.
- Temporarily hide, restrict, or disable access to the reported content.
- Reject, remove, or restore an asset or creator profile.
- Pause signed delivery from private storage.
- Preserve metadata, logs, reports, review notes, and audit records.
- Notify uploaders, reporters, rights holders, service providers, safety organizations, or authorities where required or appropriate.
- Resolve, dismiss, escalate, or reopen the case based on available evidence.
9. False or abusive notices
Do not submit false, misleading, automated, retaliatory, or abusive reports, copyright notices, counter-notices, rights complaints, or safety complaints. Misuse of reporting systems may result in account restrictions, loss of reporting access, preserved audit records, and legal liability where applicable.
10. DMCA designated agent status
U.S. DMCA safe-harbor procedures may require an online service provider to designate an agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and publish designated-agent information in a public location. SkillFans currently publishes this takedown process and legal notice email for V0 operations, but it should not be read as a statement that statutory designated-agent registration has been completed unless SkillFans separately publishes that registration information.