Copyright & DMCA Policy

1. Overview

YouTube Writer respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects the people who use the Service to do the same. This Policy explains how to notify us of copyright infringement, how to respond if your content is removed, and what happens to accounts that infringe repeatedly.

This Policy forms part of our Terms of Service and should be read with our Acceptable Use Policy.

What we host, and what we do not

The Service generates draft scripts for the person who requested them and stores those drafts privately in that person account. It is not a publishing platform: content in the Service is not public, is not indexed and is not shared with other users. If you have found infringing material on a video platform, social network or website, that material is hosted there, and the fastest route is to send your notice to the operator of that service. We can act on the account within our Service, but only the host of the published material can remove it.

2. Reporting Copyright Infringement

If you own a copyright, or are authorized to act for the owner, and you believe material stored in or generated through the Service infringes that copyright, you may send us a written notice under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 ("DMCA").

What a valid notice must contain

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must be a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it. Please be as specific as possible: the account email address, the script title or identifier, the date, and where you encountered the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you: your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized 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 authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

An incomplete notice may not be effective and may delay our response. If your notice is substantially incomplete, we will tell you what is missing where we reasonably can.

Please also tell us

It helps us act accurately if you also include, where you can, a link to where the original work can be seen, the copyright registration number if the work is registered, and an explanation of why you believe the material is not fair use.

3. Warning About False Claims

Before sending a notice, consider carefully whether the use you are complaining about might be fair use or otherwise authorized. If you are not sure whether the material infringes your rights, we suggest you seek legal advice first. We may decline to act on notices that are abusive, repetitive or plainly unfounded, and we may take action against accounts that submit bad-faith notices.

4. Designated Copyright Agent

Send DMCA notices and counter-notices to:

Email is the fastest route and is sufficient for a valid notice, provided it contains an electronic signature and all of the elements listed in Section 2.

5. What We Do When We Receive a Notice

On receiving a notice that substantially complies with the DMCA, we will:

1. acknowledge receipt, normally within 5 business days;
2. act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified, where it is within our control;
3. notify the affected account holder, forward a copy of the notice, and tell them how to submit a counter-notice;
4. record the notice against the account for the purposes of our repeat-infringer policy in Section 7.

We may act on a notice without making any determination about the merits of the claim. Removal is not an admission or finding of infringement by anyone.

Where a notice concerns material published on a platform we do not operate, we will tell you so and, where we can identify the account within our Service, act on the account under our Acceptable Use Policy.

6. Counter-Notices

If your material was removed or disabled and you believe that was a mistake, or that you have the right to use it, you may send a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

What a counter-notice must contain

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

What happens next

We will forward your counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice, including the contact information it contains. If that person does not notify us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we may restore the material, generally between 10 and 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice.

7. Repeat Infringer Policy

We maintain and reasonably implement a policy of terminating the accounts of repeat infringers, as required to qualify for the DMCA safe harbour.

• A notice that substantially complies with the DMCA, and that is not successfully resolved by a counter-notice or withdrawn, is recorded as a strike against the account.
• We will notify the account holder each time a strike is recorded.
• An account that accumulates three strikes will normally be terminated, and we may refuse to provide the Service to that person in future.
• We may terminate an account after fewer strikes, or immediately and without warning, where the infringement is severe, wilful or commercial in scale.
• Terminated accounts are not entitled to a refund. See our Refund and Cancellation Policy.

A strike that we determine was recorded in error, or that arose from a notice later withdrawn or defeated by counter-notice, is removed from the account record.

8. Copyright and AI-Generated Output

Because the Service generates text with an AI model, some copyright questions arise here that do not arise with ordinary user uploads. To be transparent about them:

• We do not warrant that output is free of third-party rights. Output is produced by a statistical model and may, in some cases, closely resemble existing material. You are responsible for checking output before you publish it.
• Output may not be protectable. Material generated by AI without sufficient human authorship may not be eligible for copyright protection under current United States law. That is a matter of law, not of our terms.
• Supplying infringing input is a breach. Pasting in a third-party transcript, article or script and asking the Service to rework it may infringe the rights in that work. Our Acceptable Use Policy prohibits it.
• We do not train on your content. We do not use your inputs or outputs to train any model of ours, as stated in our Privacy Policy.

9. Trademark Complaints

The DMCA process applies to copyright. If you believe your trademark rights are being infringed through the Service, email legal@youtubewriter.com with your name and contact details, the mark concerned and its registration details, the material you object to and where to find it, and an explanation of why you believe the use infringes your rights and is likely to cause confusion.

We will review trademark complaints and act where appropriate, but the notice-and-counter-notice procedure set out above does not apply to them.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy, including our designated agent details. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised. Always check this page for the current agent contact details before sending a notice.