The Digital Millennium Copyright Act cuts two ways: it gives copyright owners a fast tool to pull infringing content offline, and it shields online service providers from liability for what their users post. We work both sides. For rights holders we enforce, and for platforms we keep you inside the safe harbor, and because we come from software, we understand the systems that make notice-and-takedown actually run.
Takedowns and Counter-Notices
When your work shows up on someone else's site, a properly drafted takedown notice triggers a prompt removal obligation across platforms, hosts, and search. We send notices that meet every statutory element so they cannot be brushed off. On the other side, when you receive a takedown we evaluate it and, where the removal is wrong, prepare a counter-notice to restore your legitimate content while managing the timing and litigation risk.
Keeping Your Safe Harbor
Platforms hosting user content depend on the DMCA safe harbor to limit copyright exposure, and that protection is conditional. We help you implement compliant notice-and-takedown procedures, designate and register a DMCA agent, and maintain the policies the statute requires. We also audit what you already have in place and flag the gaps that could quietly cost you the safe harbor before you ever realize it is at risk.
Repeat Infringers and Section 1201
Safe harbor also requires a real repeat-infringer policy, so we help you build one that satisfies the law and still treats users fairly when you decide whether to terminate. Separately, Section 1201 bars circumventing technological protection measures. We advise rights holders deploying those protections and parties who may need to circumvent for a legitimate purpose, working through the triennial rulemaking exemptions and fair use along the way.
Litigation and Global Reach
When informal enforcement stalls, we take DMCA claims to federal court over takedown failures, safe harbor disputes, and anti-circumvention violations, and we defend against improper notices, including Section 512(f) liability for knowing misrepresentation. Because content does not respect borders, we coordinate U.S. enforcement with foreign notice-and-takedown regimes like the EU framework, building a strategy that uses the right mechanism in each jurisdiction.