Getting a photograph or video taken down
Copyright and Image Complaints
A photograph published without the rights holder's permission comes down. This page explains what a complete notice contains, why a copyright complaint and a consent complaint follow different routes, and what happens after a notice arrives.
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Decide which complaint you are actually making
Three different problems arrive worded the same way, and each needs different information to resolve.
- Copyright — you took the photograph, or you own the rights to it, and it is published here without your permission. Ownership is the question.
- Consent and likeness — you are the person in the photograph and you did not agree to appear in this directory. Ownership may sit with a photographer you have never met; that is beside the point, and this route does not require you to prove copyright.
- Impersonation — somebody has built a listing using your images to pose as you. This is a fraud problem and is treated with more urgency than either of the above.
What a copyright notice should contain
United States practice under Section 512 has become the common template, and a notice built to it is complete enough for anybody to act on. It identifies the work said to be infringed; identifies the material complained of precisely enough to find it, which in practice means the exact page address and which image on it; gives the complainant's contact details; states in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, an agent or the law; states that the information is accurate and that the sender is authorised to act for the owner; and carries a signature, physical or electronic. The U.S. Copyright Office resource on Section 512 sets out the notice-and-takedown process, counter-notices and safe-harbour conditions in full.
What a consent or likeness complaint should contain
Far less. The address of the listing, which photographs or videos are yours, and a statement that you did not consent to their publication here. You are not asked to prove copyright, produce a contract or explain how the image was obtained. Send the least identifying information that lets the material be located — never a passport scan or an identity document — because the note on what a submission stores applies to a complaint exactly as it does to anything else.
What happens after a notice arrives
Hong Kong Escort locates the material and assesses it. Where the complaint is coherent and the material is identified, it comes down while the position is checked rather than after — a listing can be republished, an image circulating for another week cannot be recalled. The advertiser who uploaded it is informed that material was removed and why. Repeat offences against the upload warranty end the listing, not just the file.
Where to send it
Use the channels listed on the page that routes each kind of message , and put the word copyright or consent in the first line so it reaches moderation rather than a general queue. Naming the exact page address in the first paragraph is the single thing that most shortens the time to removal.
What this page does not do
Filing a notice here does not start a legal proceeding, does not preserve a limitation period, and does not substitute for advice about your own rights. Making a statement you know to be materially false in a takedown notice carries consequences in most jurisdictions that recognise the process at all.