Copyright policy

1. In short

Moymo respects other people's rights in their work, and the Terms of Service allow members and studios to upload only what they made or have the right to share. When a rights holder tells us that something on Moymo infringes their copyright, a person looks at it. If the notice holds up, we remove the content or disable access to it, tell the member why, and let them respond. Content removed by mistake is restored.

Copyright notices go through the same procedure as every other notice under the Terms (see Reporting illegal content and Appeals); this page sets out what that means for copyright. Notices about trademarks are handled the same way.

Moymo is run from the Czech Republic and Czech law applies. We also accept notices and counter-notices written for the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), so a rights holder does not have to write a separate one for us.

Nothing here is legal advice. If you are not sure whether something infringes your rights, or whether a use is allowed - as a quotation, a parody, under a licence or a legal exception - consider asking a lawyer before you send a notice.

2. Where to send a notice

The fastest way is the notice form, in the category ‘Copyright or trademark’. It needs no account, gives you a notice number and sends you a receipt by e-mail.

You can also write to info@moymo.net with ‘Copyright notice’ in the subject. It is our one address for everything, and a person reads it.

A notice that leaves out something listed below may take longer, because we will have to ask for it. One that does not let us find the content or see whose rights are concerned cannot be acted on.

3. What a notice must contain

Whether you use the form or e-mail, give us:

• the work you believe is infringed - its title and, if it is online, a link to it; for many works, a representative list is enough;
• the exact address of each page on Moymo where it appears - on moymo.net, a member's subdomain or a member's own domain - and, if the page holds more than one item, which one;
• your name, and if you act for someone else, whom you represent;
• an e-mail address where we can reach you;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, their agent or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them;
• your signature: typing your full name is enough.

In the notice form, the name field and the good-faith confirmation stand for the signature and the statements; say in the explanation which work is yours and whether you act for someone else. A notice sent under the DMCA makes the statement about accuracy and authority under penalty of perjury, as that act requires.

4. What happens after a notice

• You get a receipt by e-mail with the notice's number.
• A person checks the notice and the content; nothing is removed automatically. We do not decide who owns a work - we check that the notice is complete and that the claim is credible on its face.
• If it is, we remove the content or disable access to it without undue delay. When the content is a file tied to a feature, such as a profile track, we may also switch that feature off for the account while the matter is open.
• The member or studio whose content it was gets a statement of reasons: what was removed, that it was removed on a copyright notice, which work and whose rights it concerns, and how to respond.
• We e-mail you the outcome.

The member learns whose rights the notice concerns, because nobody can answer a claim without knowing whose it is. Your e-mail address is not passed on unless you agree to it or the law requires it.

5. If your content was removed

If you believe your content was removed by mistake - it is your own work, you have a licence, or the law allows the use - you can answer with a counter-notice. Send it as an appeal on My moderation decisions (or through the link in the e-mail if you cannot sign in), or to info@moymo.net, within six months of the decision. It should contain:

• which content was removed and where it was - its address, or the decision it concerns;
• your name and an e-mail address where we can reach you;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the content was removed by mistake or misidentification, and why - for example, that it is your own work or that you have a licence;
• your consent to us passing the counter-notice, with your name and e-mail address, to the person who sent the notice, so that they can take the matter up with you or in court;
• your signature: typing your full name is enough.

If the notice was sent under the DMCA, your counter-notice should also contain what that act asks for: that you make it under penalty of perjury, that you consent to the jurisdiction of the competent court for your address, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice.

We forward a complete counter-notice to the person who sent the notice. If within 10 working days they do not tell us that they have started court proceedings about the content, we reverse the decision and restore the content - unless it is obvious that it infringes.

If you do not want your details passed on, a person still reviews your appeal under the Terms, but the rights holder cannot answer it, and we decide on what we have.

6. Restoring content and keeping records

Restored content comes back where it was, and the decision is marked as reversed on My moderation decisions.

We keep a copy of removed content as evidence, with the notice and the decision, for 12 months after the matter is closed - longer only while an appeal or court proceedings are pending or an authority asks us to preserve it. The Privacy notice gives the details.

7. Repeat infringement

An account that keeps uploading content that infringes other people's rights can be suspended for a period, and in serious or repeated cases suspended with no end date, as the Terms describe. A studio can lose access to the studio programme.

We look at how many notices against the account were valid, how recent they were, how serious the infringement was, and whether the member responded. Notices that turned out to be wrong, and content restored after a counter-notice, do not count. Every such decision comes with a statement of reasons and can be appealed.

8. False and abusive notices

A notice is for content that infringes your rights - not for a review you disagree with. We may reject notices and counter-notices that are incomplete, misleading, sent in bulk without anyone checking each item, or meant to silence lawful speech, such as criticism that briefly quotes a game.

Knowingly false statements in a notice or a counter-notice break the Terms and can make whoever made them liable for the damage they cause. If someone frequently sends notices that are clearly unfounded, we may, after a warning, stop processing their notices for a reasonable period.

9. Game artwork and data from other sources

Much of what appears on game pages - artwork, screenshots, trailers, store descriptions - comes from Steam, IGDB and the other sources listed on the Credits page, and is shown under their terms. If you hold the rights to such material and do not want it shown on Moymo, send a notice the same way and we take it off Moymo. Changing it at its source is a matter for that service.

10. Contact

Notices: the notice form. Counter-notices: My moderation decisions. Anything else about copyright, or if the form does not work for you: info@moymo.net. More on the Legal information page.