DMCA & Copyright Takedown

Last updated: July 27, 2026

1. Our approach to copyright

VeriVote respects the intellectual property of others and asks its users to do the same. Our sourcing practices are designed to stay within fair use:

We do not reproduce full articles.
We use short excerpts with source attribution and original URLs.
For video, we reference timestamps only — we do not host full source files.
Official photos come from Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
We use text badges rather than party logos.

These commitments are summarized in our compliance overview. If you nonetheless believe material on VeriVote infringes your copyright, you can submit a takedown notice as described below.

2. Submitting a takedown notice

To be actionable under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), your written notice must include all of the following:

Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works are covered by a single notice).
Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — the specific URL(s) on VeriVote are the most reliable identifier.
Your contact information: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Your physical or electronic signature.

3. Where to send it

Registration of a designated DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office is in progress and not yet complete. Until it is, send takedown notices — and any counter-notices — to admin@verivote.ai. We will update this page with the registered agent's details once registration is finalized.

4. What happens next

On receipt of a complete, good-faith notice we review the identified material and remove or disable access to it where appropriate. We may notify the party responsible for the material so they can respond. Notices that are incomplete, or that plainly do not concern copyright, may be returned for clarification rather than actioned.

5. Counter-notice & right of reply

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to admin@verivote.ai. A valid counter-notice should identify the removed material and its former location, include your contact information and signature, and include a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.

Separately, subjects of contradiction records have a standing right of reply through our disputes process, which handles context, attribution, and accuracy challenges that are not copyright claims.