Copyright Policy

We respond to notices under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and to equivalent notice-and-action requests under the European Union Digital Services Act, the UK, and other regimes. The procedure below is written to satisfy the DMCA, which is the most prescriptive of them; a notice that meets it will be accepted wherever you are.

Property photography is the most common subject of these notices. Photographs commissioned by an agent are usually licensed to that agent for a defined purpose and period rather than assigned outright, which means the photographer often remains the rights holder after a listing changes hands or expires.

Send notices to dmca@skautik.com. To be effective, a notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the work claimed to have been infringed. Where several works on the platform are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it: the listing URL, and where possible the specific image or passage.
4. Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised 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 authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

An incomplete notice delays removal, because we have to come back to you for the missing element before we can act on it.

We acknowledge receipt within two business days. Where the notice is complete and the claim is not obviously unfounded, we remove or disable access to the material expeditiously and notify the user who posted it, passing on a copy of the notice including your contact details.

If the material came from a syndicated portal feed rather than from a user, we suppress it on Skautik and refer the notice to the source, since only they can remove it at origin. Suppression on our side persists even if the feed continues to supply it.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or that you are authorised to use it, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. It must contain your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts described in our terms.

We forward a valid counter-notice to the complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed an action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material.

We keep a record of notices and counter-notices against each account. Accounts that accumulate repeated, unrebutted notices are terminated, and we may decline to serve the same operator under a new account. Where an agency account is terminated, its listings are removed with it.

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, carries liability for damages and costs under section 512(f) of the DMCA and comparable provisions elsewhere. We refuse notices sent to suppress competition, to remove a rival's lawful listing, or to unmask a user, and we tell the affected user when we do.

Copyright notices for Skautik should be directed to the designated agent of Rymote LLC at dmca@skautik.com, State of Wyoming, United States.

Notices sent to any other address, including general support, may not reach the agent and will not start the clock on removal.