Copyright complaints

If something on boulder.art copies work you own, tell our copyright agent and we’ll take it down. Below is who to tell, what to say, and what happens after.

If it’s your own work, there’s a faster way

You don’t need any of this. Artists can have their profile, or any part of it, removed by asking us — usually the same day, with no form to fill in and no reason required. The notice below is for a copyright owner who isn’t the person listed.

Our designated agent

Send a notice to our copyright agent, by email or by post:

Agent: Copyright Agent, boulder.art
Email: hello@boulder.art
Post: 1500 N Grant St, Ste C, Denver, CO 80203

What a notice has to contain

Email is fastest. A notice missing any of these six things doesn’t oblige us to act, so it’s worth including all of them:

1.Your physical or electronic signature.
2.The work you say was infringed. If you’re pointing at several, a list is fine.
3.The material you want removed, and where it is — a full URL for each page or image, so we can find exactly what you mean.
4.How to reach you: address, telephone number, and email address.
5.A statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6.A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.

What we do when one arrives

We read it, and we remove or disable what the notice identifies promptly — normally within two business days. We tell whoever put it up that it has gone and why, and we send them a copy of the notice.

Much of what’s on the guide was found by us rather than uploaded by anyone, so often there is no third party to notify and the material simply comes down.

If we removed your work by mistake

Write to the same agent with a counter-notice. If you send one, we pass it to whoever complained; unless they tell us they’ve gone to court, we may put the material back between ten and fourteen business days later. A counter-notice needs:

1.Your physical or electronic signature.
2.The material that was removed and where it used to appear.
3.A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
4.Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address — or, if you’re outside the United States, for any district where we may be found — and that you’ll accept service from the person who sent the original notice.

Repeat infringement

We remove profiles and accounts belonging to anyone who repeatedly posts work that isn’t theirs, and we stop our automated systems from listing them again.

One warning

Knowingly misrepresenting that something infringes — or that it was removed by mistake — makes you liable for the costs and legal fees it causes, under section 512(f). If you’re not sure whether you own the copyright in something, ask a lawyer before sending a notice, not after.

Privacy & your profile covers what we publish, who owns the images, and how to get yours removed. Our agreement with artists covers what a claimed artist and the guide each agree to.