DMCA & Takedown Policy

[COLLECTOR NATION LEGAL ENTITY NAME, LLC] ("Collector Nation") complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") 17 U.S.C. § 512. This policy describes how copyright owners and their agents can report allegedly infringing content, and how we process those reports.

1. What we will take down

We will action valid notices for:

• Copyright infringement — a piece of indexed content that embeds material you own, used without permission and not covered by fair use or another exception.
• Creator withdrawal requests — if you are the original creator and you want your content removed from our index (even if no infringement exists), we will honor that request. No legal paperwork needed — see Section 6.
• Rights-conflict reports — if you hold rights that conflict with what the original creator has licensed (publicity rights for an athlete, a team trademark, a manufacturer copyright, etc.), please include those details and we will investigate.

We cannot remove content from the third-party platform where it lives (e.g., YouTube). For that, you must file a DMCA notice with the source platform directly. A takedown on Collector Nation removes the indexed metadata and embed surface on our Services — it does not affect the underlying upload on its original host.

2. DMCA notice — required information

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a valid DMCA takedown notice must include all of the following. Notices that omit any element are invalid and will not be actioned:

1. 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. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list is fine.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it on the Services. Including the Collector Nation URL of the content page (e.g. https://thecollectornation.com/content/[id]) is the fastest path.
4. Contact information — address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which we can reach you.
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 the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

3. Where to send a DMCA notice

Collector Nation's designated DMCA agent is:

[COLLECTOR NATION DESIGNATED DMCA AGENT NAME]
c/o [COLLECTOR NATION LEGAL ENTITY NAME, LLC]
[MAILING ADDRESS]
Phone: [PHONE NUMBER]
Email: dmca@thecollectornation.com

Our designated agent is registered with the United States Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). Registration details are published in the Copyright Office's DMCA Directory at copyright.gov/dmca-directory.

4. What happens after you file

1. Our rights desk receives your notice and logs it in our moderation system.
2. A human reviewer triages it, usually within 72 hours of receipt.
3. If the notice is facially valid, the referenced content is flipped to moderationStatus = takedown and rightsStatus = suppressed on our side — it stops appearing on the feed and gives a 410 / "removed" state on its detail page.
4. The creator (if they have an account) is notified.
5. If you supplied an email, we confirm the action back to you.

5. Counter-notification

If you believe your content was removed in error, you may file a counter-notification with our DMCA agent. A valid counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material removed and its location before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and 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 any district in which Collector Nation may be found if you are outside the US), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. Unless the complainant files a court action within 10–14 business days, we may restore the content.

6. Non-DMCA takedown requests (creators)

You don't need to file a legal notice to have your own content removed from our index. If you are the creator and you'd like us to stop surfacing your content, email creators@thecollectornation.com from the email associated with your creator account (or, if you don't have one, from an email publicly attached to your channel) and we'll remove it. Typical turnaround: same day.

Our rights desk surfaces these requests in the same queue as formal DMCA notices; only the paperwork requirements differ.

7. Repeat infringer policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Collector Nation terminates accounts of users and creators who are determined to be repeat infringers. Because we do not host primary content, "repeat infringer" in our context means a creator or account holder whose indexed content is repeatedly flagged and confirmed as infringing.

8. Misuse of this policy

Filing a false or bad-faith DMCA notice is a federal offense under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and may subject you to liability for damages. We take malicious or automated takedown abuse seriously and will refer cases to counsel and, where appropriate, to law enforcement.

9. Trademark, publicity, and other rights

If your complaint is about trademark, right of publicity, defamation, or any ground other than copyright, email legal@thecollectornation.com with the same level of detail requested above. Non-copyright complaints are not subject to DMCA safe-harbor timelines but are reviewed by the rights desk on the same schedule.

10. Contact

DMCA notices: dmca@thecollectornation.com
Creator removals: creators@thecollectornation.com
Other legal: legal@thecollectornation.com

Counsel review and USCO registration pending. Before this policy takes public effect, Collector Nation must (a) register a designated DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office (a $6 online filing at copyright.gov), (b) replace the bracketed placeholders above, and (c) have outside counsel sign off on the notice-and-counter-notice language in Sections 2 and 5.