Copyright and DMCA policy

How to tell us about material you believe infringes your copyright, what we do with a notice, and how to push back if we get it wrong.

Effective September 15, 2026Last updated August 30, 2026

Favist Inc. respects intellectual property rights and responds to clear notices of claimed infringement. Favist hosts user content, including files people upload and media they ask us to retrieve and keep, so notices about that content go to the designated agent below.

For how Favist relates to other people's work more generally, including what our retrieval tools do and do not do: Copyright and creator respect.

1. Designated copyright agent

Favist Inc. has designated the following agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. section 512(c)(2). Notices sent to the address below reach us and are acted on.

Organisation: Favist Inc.
Email: copyright@favist.ai

2. Filing a notice

A notice must include all of the elements required by 17 U.S.C. section 512(c)(3). Notices missing them may be ineffective and we may come back to you before acting.

Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed.
Identification of the material you say is infringing, and enough detail for us to find it, normally the address of the page it sits on.
Your contact details: name, address, telephone number and email.
A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
Your physical or electronic signature.

Use the form at the bottom of this page, or send the same information to the designated agent above.

3. What we do with a notice

Receive and log. Every notice is recorded with a content status and a resolution status, and you get an acknowledgement with a reference.
Review. We check the notice has the required elements and appears to be made in good faith. Filing a notice does not by itself remove anything.
Act. Where the notice is valid we disable or remove the identified material expeditiously and tell the affected user what happened and why, including a copy of the notice.
Restore or escalate. If we receive an effective counter notice we follow the process in the next section.

Repeat infringers. We maintain and reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, accounts that repeatedly infringe. We record substantiated notices against an account. 3 substantiated notices within 12 months will ordinarily result in termination, and a single egregious instance may result in immediate termination.

4. If your content was removed

If material of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can file a counter notice. It needs the elements required by 17 U.S.C. section 512(g)(3): your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, your name, address and telephone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district, or for any district in which we may be found if you are outside the United States.

We forward an effective counter notice to the person who filed the original notice. Unless they tell us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after we forward it.

5. We protect people from abusive notices too

We evaluate every notice for validity and may reject ones that are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or sent in bad faith. A notice used to silence criticism, remove a competitor, or take down obvious fair use is not a valid notice.

Section 512(f)

Knowingly making a material misrepresentation that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can carry liability for damages and legal costs under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f). This applies to both notices and counter notices.

6. Notices that are not about copyright

This page is for copyright. For trade mark concerns, impersonation, privacy, intimate imagery shared without consent, or anything else, write to legal@favist.ai and describe the problem. Reports of child sexual abuse material are actioned immediately and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as required by law.

7. File a notice

Every field marked required is required by statute, not by us. A notice missing any of them may not be effective.

Your full name (required)Your email (required)Your telephone number (required)Your address (required)Rights holder you represent, if not yourselfWhat kind of item is it?Where the material is on Favist (required)The copyrighted work being infringed (required)Anything elseI have a good faith belief that the use described is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.Under penalty of perjury, the information in this notice is accurate, and I am the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf. I understand that a knowingly false claim can carry liability under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f).Electronic signature (required)