Copyright and Takedown Policy

1. What this policy covers

Yellcano hosts material that creators and viewers put there: images and logos on a creator’s page and overlay, short video clips, sounds in a creator’s soundboard, reference recordings used to build a custom voice, and the text of interactions. If any of that infringes a copyright you own, or uses a mark, an image, a name or a voice you hold rights in, this page is how you tell us.

This policy forms part of our Terms of Service. The reporting page covers reports that are not about rights at all — harassment, threats, private information, scams — and the acceptable-use rules list what may not be sent through a creator’s page.

Nothing here is legal advice. It describes what we do with a notice and what the process requires; it is not a substitute for a lawyer.

2. Our own works, and the measures in front of them

Yellcano’s software, overlay documents, rendered bundles, console, themes, animations and artwork are copyrighted works. Access to them is controlled by links, tokens, sessions, a human check and an identity gate, each of which is a technological measure under 17 U.S.C. § 1201.

Circumventing one of them, or making, offering or sharing a tool or a service that does, is unlawful independently of any copying, and we will bring claims under § 1201 and § 1203 — including statutory damages of $200 to $2,500 per act of circumvention and our attorney’s fees — against anyone who does it. Section 11 says what this paragraph does not reach.

3. Sending a copyright notice

You can report a copyright problem in plain language and we will act on it. If you want to send a formal notice under United States copyright law — the notice-and-takedown process at 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) — it must contain all six of the following, or it is not effective:

1. Your signature, physical or electronic — typing your full name at the end of a message is enough for an electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it — a link, a page address, a timestamp.
4. Your contact details: address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

A false notice has consequences. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), anyone who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation that material is infringing can be liable for the damages and costs it causes. Do not use this process to remove something you simply dislike.

Do not attach the material itself unless we ask for it. A link and a description are enough for us to find it.

4. Where to send it

Use the contact form at yellcano.com/contact and choose the category “Report content or behaviour”. That is the route for a notice, a counter-notice, and every other complaint on this page. A notice may also be sent to the electronic mail address in section 12, which is the address published for the designated agent; we do not treat a notice as ineffective because it arrived by either route.

If your complaint is about a specific voice listing or a specific clip, there is a “Report” link on the item itself. It opens the same form with “Report a voice or clip” already chosen and the item already identified, so you do not have to describe which one you mean. That is the faster route and it is the same inbox.

A report sent to a creator instead of to us reaches the creator only. Reports sent by the routes above go to the platform.

5. What happens next

1. We acknowledge it. We aim to reply to every notice to confirm we have it.
2. We act expeditiously on an effective notice. The material is removed or disabled, and we tell the person who put it there. We aim to answer you within 30 days; that is the limit for answering you, not the time we take to act.
3. Or we explain. If the notice is not effective, or the material is not what it describes, we say so and say why.

What we forward. Where we act on a notice we normally tell the creator what was reported and why. Forwarding the notice in full is the ordinary way this process runs, because the person who posted the material cannot answer a claim without knowing who is making it. We ask you before we forward a notice, and we tell you what would go with it.

Two limits worth knowing. Removing something from Yellcano removes it from our side; a stream that has already aired may survive in recordings, clips and archives that we do not control and cannot delete. And an overlay already running in a creator’s broadcasting software does not fetch a fresh copy until that source reloads, so a removal can take effect on our side before it is visible on a live stream.

6. Counter-notice

If your material was removed because of a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice by the same route. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3) it must contain all four of the following, or it is not effective:

1. Your signature, physical or electronic.
2. Identification of the material that was removed, and the address it appeared at before it was removed or disabled.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or a misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district your address is in — or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found — and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or from that person’s agent.

A counter-notice is passed on in full, and sending one is how you ask us to. We give an effective counter-notice — with the name, address and telephone number the law requires it to contain — to the person who sent the original notice, and there is no version of the process that keeps those details back. The material may then be restored unless they tell us they have gone to court, on the timetable the law sets.

7. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe. Infringing rights you do not hold breaches section 6 of the Terms of Service, and section 10 of those Terms lets us terminate an account for a breach of them.

We count an effective notice that we act on, and we count a repeated use of another person’s image, likeness, name or voice without authorisation the same way. A notice that is withdrawn, or that a successful counter-notice answers, does not count against the account it named. Where we terminate on this basis we say so, and you may ask us to look again through the route in section 4.

8. Clips and embeds

Where a clip plays on a creator’s page or overlay from another platform, it plays through that platform’s own official embed, from that platform’s own player, under that platform’s terms. Yellcano does not copy the video and does not re-host it. The player, its controls and its link back to the source arrive as that platform supplies them. Where a platform’s own embed offers options we use two of them: the reduced-branding option it publishes, and the one that keeps end-of-video suggestions within the source channel. Neither removes the player’s branding, its controls, or the route back to the original.

That means two things for a rights holder. If the copy you object to is on the source platform, that platform’s own process is the faster route and the only one that can remove it everywhere. If what you object to is the use on Yellcano — the clip being queued and aired on a stream — tell us and we will act on it here.

Where a creator uploads video to Yellcano rather than embedding it, that upload is hosted material and the notice process in sections 3 to 6 applies to it in full.

9. Sounds a creator adds

A creator may add a sound to their soundboard from a discovery source. Those sounds are fetched and stored at that creator’s request and on that creator’s responsibility, as section 5 of the Terms of Service says. A source licence travels with the sound: where it requires attribution, the credit is shown with the sound and a creator must not remove it; where it forbids commercial use or changes, the sound must not be published to a page where viewers can spend points or money to play it.

Yellcano holds no music licence on a creator’s behalf. Recorded music, and television, film and game audio, need a broadcast licence the creator holds. If a sound on Yellcano is yours and should not be there, the notice process in sections 3 to 6 applies to it, and we remove the stored copy rather than only hiding it from the page.

10. Trade marks, likeness, name and voice

Trade marks. Tell us the mark, where it is registered if it is registered, the goods or services it covers, where on Yellcano it is being used, and why that use is confusing or unauthorised. Trade mark reports do not go through the copyright process above; we look at them individually.

A person’s image. If a picture of you is being used and you did not agree to it, report it — including where the image has been edited or synthesised to look like you. You do not need to prove ownership of a photograph you are merely in. An intimate image of an identifiable person published without consent is the most urgent class of report we handle; the reporting page says how to send one, and says not to attach the image.

A person’s voice. Every voice on Yellcano is synthetic, and a custom voice may only be built from a creator’s own voice or from one they hold a written release for. If a voice on Yellcano imitates you, or is being used to make it appear that you said something you did not say, tell us and we will remove it. This is the same complaint whether the voice was built from a recording of you or merely resembles you, and we do not require you to prove which.

A person’s name or persona. Impersonating a real person in a way likely to deceive breaches section 6 of the Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use Policy, and is reported here.

All four of these use the route in section 4, with the same relationship and contact details any other report needs: who you are, what you hold, where it is being used, and how to reach you.

11. Good-faith security research

Section 2 does not reach security research. Research conducted within the scope and the conditions of our published security policy is authorised security testing under 17 U.S.C. § 1201(j), is authorised access for the purposes of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and similar state laws, and is not a breach of our Terms of Service. Our policy, including the safe harbour it offers and the testing it puts out of scope, is published at https://interact.yellcano.com/.well-known/security.txt.

12. Designated agent and our details

Copyright notices and counter-notices may be sent through the contact form at yellcano.com/contact, or to the electronic mail address below. Both reach us and we act on either. Our designated-agent registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is pending, so that address is not yet an agent address published under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(2) — it is where a notice should be sent today, and it becomes the published address when the registration is recorded.

For anything else a lawyer would send us — a demand, a subpoena, a preservation request, a question about these policies — use the same form and choose Legal. It is a category rather than a published mailbox for the reason the contact page gives about every address: a published one is scraped within hours and lands wherever a forwarding rule happens to point.

Electronic mail address for copyright notices — [email protected]

Related pages: the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the reporting page, and the acceptable-use rules.