DMCA / Content Takedown

Draft — pending legal review. Not yet in effect. This text is a working draft prepared for the operator's legal counsel. It is not legal advice and is not a binding policy. The designated-agent details and other bracketed [PLACEHOLDER] items must be completed — including a real, monitored agent contact — and the whole document reviewed by a qualified attorney before it is published or relied upon.

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How Sigildex handles indexed content

Sigildex indexes publicly available SKILL.md content and metadata from public source platforms and surfaces discovery, inspection, and verification results that link back to the original sources. Sigildex does not host, sell, or redistribute the underlying skills; indexed content remains the property of its original authors. We respect intellectual-property rights and will remove or disable access to indexed entries in response to a valid notice as described below. Because we index rather than host, the most complete remedy is usually to also contact the platform that actually hosts the material; removing it at the source will, in time, remove it from our index as well.

Filing a copyright notice

If you are a copyright owner (or authorized to act for one) and believe content indexed by Sigildex infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent (see below). To be effective, your notice should include all of the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple works, a representative list).
  3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and that you want removed or disabled, with enough detail for us to locate it — for indexed content, please provide the Sigildex result/source URL or skill identifier and, where possible, the original source URL.
  4. Your contact information — name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use 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 owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Notices that omit required elements may be invalid or delay our response. Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can expose you to liability for damages.

Designated agent

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

Pre-launch interim contact (until the designated agent above is finalized): security@sigildex.ai. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm whether to register the designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA directory.]

What happens after a valid notice

Upon receiving a notice that we determine to be valid, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the identified indexed entry, and we may notify the affected author/publisher and provide them a copy of the notice. Because we index public sources rather than host the material, our action removes the entry from Sigildex; it does not delete the material at its original source.

Counter-notification

If you are an author or publisher and believe your content was removed from our index by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification to the designated agent above. To be effective, it should include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location (e.g. the Sigildex result/source URL or skill identifier) at which it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, mailing address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of [PLACEHOLDER: counter-notice consent jurisdiction, e.g. the federal court for your district or, if outside the U.S., a jurisdiction in which the operator may be found], and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice (or their agent).

If we receive a valid counter-notification, we may restore the indexed entry in accordance with applicable law (under the U.S. DMCA, typically not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days after forwarding the counter-notice, unless the original complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action). [PLACEHOLDER: confirm counter-notice handling and timelines with counsel.]

Repeat-infringer policy

In appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, we will remove indexed entries associated with sources or publishers that are repeat infringers, and we may decline to re-index, or may block, sources that repeatedly generate valid infringement notices. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm repeat-infringer thresholds and process with counsel.]

Other removal requests

For non-copyright removal requests — for example, content you believe is unlawful, a security concern, or a privacy issue — contact [PLACEHOLDER: contact email] (pre-launch: security@sigildex.ai) with the Sigildex result/source URL and the basis for the request. See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.