DMCA Notice and Takedown Policy

Last Updated: 2026-05-08

Glass Plate Works LLC ("Glass Plate Works", "we", "us") respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 ("DMCA"). This policy describes how copyright owners can request removal of allegedly infringing material from the Glassplateworks service, how affected users can dispute those requests, and how we handle repeat infringers.

1. Scope

This policy applies to all content hosted by the Glassplateworks service at glassplateworks.com and its subdomains, including images and other media uploaded by users and made available at content-addressed URLs under img.glassplateworks.com.

This policy is part of and incorporated into our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in those documents.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), Glass Plate Works has designated a Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement. The Agent's contact information has also been filed with the United States Copyright Office and is available in the Office's public Directory of Designated Agents at https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/.

Designated Copyright Agent

Glass Plate Works LLC Attn: Copyright Agent (Jian Feng, Founder) 522 W Riverside Ave, Ste N Spokane, WA 99201 United States

Email: dmca@glassplateworks.com Telephone: (509) 906-3028

Service Provider ID (copyright.gov): DMCA-1072537 Filed: 2026-05-10

We accept DMCA notices and counter-notifications by email at the address above. Email is the preferred and fastest channel; physical mail is accepted but not required, and processing time will be correspondingly longer.

Note for counsel: the agent name, address, email, and phone shown here must match the copyright.gov registration exactly. Any divergence (typos, abbreviations, alternate punctuation) creates a colorable argument that the safe-harbor designation is defective.

3. Filing a DMCA Notice of Infringement

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that material accessible on or through the Glassplateworks service infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, you may submit a written notification to our Copyright Agent at the contact above. To be effective under § 512(c)(3), your notification must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notification, you may include a representative list.

3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it. For our service, the most reliable identifier is the full URL, including the SHA-256 hash, of the form https://img.glassplateworks.com/<hash>/... or https://glassplateworks.com/i/<hash>. Account names, upload dates, or screenshots alone are not sufficient — the SHA-256 URL is the canonical locator.

4. Your contact information: full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. Pseudonymous submissions will be rejected.

5. A statement that you have 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.

6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

A model notification is provided in Section 8 below.

3.1 Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that material was removed by mistake — may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner, or our service. Do not file a DMCA notice for material that is plainly fair use, in the public domain, or licensed.

3.2 What we will do upon receipt

Upon receipt of a notification that substantially complies with § 512(c)(3), we will:

1. Promptly disable access to the identified material at the relevant URLs, including purging it from our content delivery network.
2. Notify the user who uploaded the material, providing them a copy of the notification (with the complainant's address and phone number redacted to the extent permitted) and informing them of their right to file a counter-notification under § 512(g).
3. Record the takedown as a strike against the user's account under our Repeat Infringer Policy (Section 6).

If the notification is materially defective, we will respond to the complainant identifying the defect rather than acting on it. A defective notice does not give us actual knowledge of infringement under § 512(c)(1)(A)(i).

4. Filing a Counter-Notification

If you are a Glassplateworks user whose material was removed (or disabled) in response to a DMCA notice, and you believe the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification of the material, you may submit a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) to our Copyright Agent.

To be effective under § 512(g)(3), your counter-notification must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the user (the "subscriber").

2. Identification of the material that was removed, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed. The SHA-256 URL is again the canonical identifier.

3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material.

4. Your name, mailing address, and telephone number, and 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 we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification, or an agent of that person.

A model counter-notification is provided in Section 8 below.

4.1 What we will do upon receipt

Upon receipt of a counter-notification that substantially complies with § 512(g)(3):

1. We will promptly forward a copy to the original complainant and inform them that we will restore the removed material in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days unless we receive notice that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the subscriber.
2. If the original complainant does not file such an action within that window, we will restore the material and remove the strike from the user's account.
3. If the original complainant does file an action, we will keep the material disabled pending the court's decision and leave the strike in place until the matter is resolved.

4.2 Misrepresentation

The same § 512(f) liability for knowing material misrepresentation applies to counter-notifications. Do not file a counter-notification to keep material online that you know is not yours, is not licensed to you, and is not fair use.

5. How we identify a user "subscriber"

Glassplateworks accounts are tied to:

• A verified email address;
• One or more API keys; and
• (Where available) a Clerk identity binding to a third-party identity provider.

For purposes of § 512(g) counter-notification and § 512(i) repeat infringer tracking, the "subscriber" is the account holder of the Glassplateworks account that uploaded the material, identified by account ID. We retain enough information at upload time (account ID, client IP, user agent, SHA-256, timestamp) to associate uploads with accounts for the duration required by this policy.

6. Repeat Infringer Policy

Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(A), Glass Plate Works has adopted and reasonably implements the following policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users who are repeat infringers.

6.1 Strike accrual

Each DMCA notification that we act on — that is, where we disable access to the identified material — counts as one strike against the uploading user's account.

A strike is not recorded if:

• The notification is materially defective under § 512(c)(3) and we do not act on it; or
• The user files a § 512(g) counter-notification, the original complainant does not file a court action within the statutory window, and the material is restored.

A strike is recorded if:

• The user does not counter-notify within a reasonable time (default thirty (30) days from the takedown notice we send them); or
• The user counter-notifies, the original complainant files suit, and the matter is not resolved in the user's favor; or
• The user expressly waives counter-notification and accepts the takedown.

6.2 Termination threshold

A user who accrues three (3) strikes within any rolling twelve (12) month period will have their Glassplateworks account permanently terminated. Termination includes:

• Disabling all of the user's API keys;
• Disabling access to the user's account;
• Removing all of the user's uploaded content from public availability (subject to legal-hold and provenance-ledger retention; see § 7);
• Refusing future account creation by that natural person, to the extent we can identify the same person across accounts (we do not undertake to identify perfectly).

6.3 Single-incident grounds for immediate termination

Some categories of infringing or unlawful conduct warrant immediate termination on the first incident, without waiting to accrue strikes:

1. Child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2258A. See also our Acceptable Use Policy § 2.
2. Non-consensual intimate imagery confirmed by StopNCII or by our review.
3. Re-upload of material previously removed under DMCA, by the same account or by an account we identify as controlled by the same natural person, where the user has not filed a successful § 512(g) counter-notification for the original takedown.
4. Attempts to circumvent strikes by creating additional accounts.
5. Bulk uploading of material that is plainly third-party copyrighted content (e.g., wholesale ingestion of a stock-photo catalog), as identified by our automated and manual review.

6.4 Records and review

We maintain a private record of each strike (notification date, material identification, strike count, current status). Users receive a copy of each takedown notification we send them, but we do not publish a "strike count" interface — strike status is disclosed on request to the affected user and to law-enforcement under valid legal process.

A user may request reconsideration of a strike by emailing legal@glassplateworks.com. Reconsideration is at our sole discretion and is not a substitute for the § 512(g) counter- notification process.

7. Retention after takedown and termination

Following a takedown:

• The material is purged from the public CDN within one (1) hour for CSAM/NCII matches, and within twenty-four (24) hours for routine DMCA notices.
• The original bytes and the C2PA manifest may be retained in our private manifest store for the period required to (a) comply with legal preservation obligations, (b) honor a § 512(g) restore request, and (c) maintain the provenance ledger. After expiration of the longest applicable period, the bytes are deleted; the ledger entry is preserved as a hash-only record.

Following account termination under § 6.2 or § 6.3:

• We retain the user's account record (email, account ID, strike log) for the period required by applicable law and for the enforcement of § 6.2's "no future account" rule. Other personal data is deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8. Model notifications

The following are model forms. Use of these forms is not required; any submission that includes all the elements above will be processed.

8.1 Model DMCA Notification

To: Copyright Agent, Glass Plate Works LLC Email: dmca@glassplateworks.com

1. I am the owner of, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of, the following copyrighted work: [describe work; if registered, include registration number].
2. The following material on Glassplateworks infringes my copyright: [full URL(s), one per line].
3. My contact information: [full name, mailing address, telephone, email].
4. I have a good-faith belief that the use of the material described above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. I declare, under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Signature: [physical or electronic signature] Date: [date]

8.2 Model Counter-Notification

To: Copyright Agent, Glass Plate Works LLC Email: dmca@glassplateworks.com

1. I am the user whose material was removed from Glassplateworks on or about [date of takedown notice]. The removed material appeared at: [URL(s)].
2. I have a good-faith belief, under penalty of perjury, that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed.
3. My contact information: [full name, mailing address, telephone, email].
4. I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located (or, if outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Glass Plate Works LLC may be found) and will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification or an agent of that person.

Signature: [physical or electronic signature] Date: [date]

9. Other intellectual property

The DMCA process applies specifically to copyright. Allegations of trademark infringement, trade-secret misappropriation, right-of- publicity violations, or other non-copyright intellectual-property claims should be sent to legal@glassplateworks.com with a clear description of the claim, the right asserted, and the affected URLs. We will respond on a reasonable schedule but are not bound by the §§ 512(c)–(g) timelines for non-copyright claims.

10. Updates to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced on glassplateworks.com and reflected by an updated "Last Updated" date at the top of this document. The most current version always controls.