Copyright and takedowns

If you own the rights

Write to copyright@coderook.com. So that we can act rather than write back asking questions, include:

• What you own — identify the work clearly enough that we could recognise it.
• Where it is — the CodeRook address of the project or file. A link to the whole account is not enough; name the material.
• Who you are — your name, the rights holder you act for if that is not you, and an address we can reply to.
• That you believe the use is not authorised — by the licence, by law, or by any permission you have given.
• That what you have told us is true, and that you are entitled to act for the rights holder.

A complaint that arrives without those things is not ignored, but it will be slower, because the first thing we do is ask for them.

What we do with it

We aim to acknowledge a complaint quickly and to act on a complete one promptly. What we do depends on how clear it is.

• Where the claim is clear — a complete copy of a published work, or an order from a court — the material is removed. It is retained for a period before it is permanently deleted, so a decision made quickly can be reversed if it turns out to be wrong.
• Where the claim is arguable — a dispute about a licence, ownership, or whether an exception applies — the project is made private while it is looked at. Nothing is destroyed and the account holder keeps every byte, including the ability to download it.
• Either way, we tell the account holder what was done, why, and what the complaint said. Removing somebody's work without telling them is not something we do.

Every action is recorded with the reason and the reference, so there is an answer later to who did what and on whose authority.

If your material was removed and you disagree

Reply to the message we sent you, or write to copyright@coderook.com quoting the reference. Tell us why the complaint is wrong — that you hold the rights, that you have a licence, that the material is yours independently, or that the complainant has misidentified it.

We will look again. Where we are satisfied the complaint was mistaken or withdrawn, the material is restored, and a project made private can be published again exactly as it was.

Content is retained for a period after removal before it is permanently deleted, which is what makes reversal possible — so tell us sooner rather than later.

Repeated infringement

An account that repeatedly publishes infringing material after being told will be suspended, and may be closed. We look at whether the pattern is deliberate rather than counting incidents — somebody who made the same mistake twice and fixed it both times is not the same as somebody republishing the same material under new names.

Complaints made in bad faith

A takedown is a serious thing to ask for. Knowingly making a false claim of infringement — to remove a competitor, to suppress criticism, or over material you do not own — may expose you to liability, and we will decline to act on complaints we believe are made in bad faith.

Australian law, and what that means here

CodeRook is operated from Australia, and Australia has no DMCA. The Copyright Act 1968 has its own safe harbour scheme, which applies to a narrower set of providers than the American equivalent, and we do not claim a protection that may not apply to us.

We run the process above because it is a fair way to handle a contested claim, not because a statute forces it. Notices written in DMCA form are accepted and read on their merits — the format does not matter, the information does.

Nothing here limits any legal right you have, and nothing here is legal advice. A court order is complied with regardless of what this page says.