dmca policy

Sloppywood respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe content on Sloppywood infringes your copyright, you may submit a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

This page describes our process. For our broader content rules, see Terms of Service Section 7.

1. designated agent

Send DMCA takedown notices to our Designated Agent (registered with the U.S. Copyright Office):

Our Designated Agent is registered in the public U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory.

2. how to file a takedown notice

Send a written notice to our Designated Agent (email is fine; a physical letter to the address above also works). Per 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice MUST include all of the following — a notice missing any element is legally defective and we cannot act on it:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list).
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, including information sufficient to permit us to locate it on the Platform — typically the URL of the theater or film page on sloppywood.com.
4. Information sufficient to permit us to contact you (mailing address, telephone number, and email).
5. 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.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

3. what we do upon receipt

When we receive a properly-formatted notice, we expeditiously:

• Acknowledge receipt to the claimant.
• Hide the allegedly infringing content from sloppywood.com.
• Revoke video access for any film files associated with the content (so signed-URL streaming stops working).
• Notify the alleged infringer (the publishing wallet's associated email, if available) that the content has been removed and that they may file a counter-notice if they believe the removal was in error.
• Retain a record of the notice, our response, and any counter-notice.

What we cannot do: remove content from the blockchain itself. Theater metadata (name, description, banner IPFS hash, etc.) recorded on the Base blockchain is permanent and outside our control. We can only restrict access via our website and our private storage. See Terms of Service Section 5.4 for details.

4. counter-notice

If you believe content of yours has been removed in error or misidentified, you may submit a counter-notice. Per 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notice MUST include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed and the location at which 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, address, telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Sloppywood may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original takedown notice or their agent.

Send counter-notices to the same Designated Agent contact above. Upon receipt, we will:

• Forward the counter-notice to the original claimant.
• Wait 10 to 14 business days per § 512(g)(2). If the claimant does not file a court action against you in that period, we may restore the content.
• If the claimant does file a court action, we will leave the content removed pending court resolution.

5. content reporting (non-DMCA)

For content that violates our Terms but isn't a copyright claim — e.g., harassment, illegal content, spam — use our general report flow rather than the DMCA process:

• Click the report link near the content on the website.
• Or email [contact: enable JavaScript or write to the address above] with a description and a link.

For content depicting child sexual abuse material (CSAM), please report immediately. Such content will be removed and preserved for law-enforcement review, and the matter will be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

6. repeat-infringer policy

In compliance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Sloppywood will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate access for users who are repeat copyright infringers.

For our purposes, a wallet address that is the subject of three (3) or more separate, properly-filed, and un-counter-noticed DMCA takedown notices within a rolling twelve-month period will be permanently banned from interacting with sloppywood.com and from receiving any further video access via our private storage. We may apply this policy more strictly in cases of clear, repeated, willful infringement.

A successful counter-notice (where the claimant fails to file a court action within the statutory period) does not count as an infringement strike.

7. records and transparency

We retain records of all DMCA notices received and our responses for at least three (3) years. We may, in the future, publish an aggregated transparency report describing volume of notices and actions taken. Individual notices are not made public.

8. updates

We may update this DMCA Policy from time to time. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

9. contact

Designated Agent contact for DMCA matters is in Section 1 above. For other policy questions, email [contact: enable JavaScript or write to the address above].