Copyright notices and DMCA process.

How to send a Podcentro copyright or DMCA notice, what a counter-notice must include, and how takedown requests are reviewed.

Roles

• Rights holder. The person or organization that owns the copyright in the work, or an agent authorized to act for that owner.
• Member. The Podcentro user who uploaded or ordered the file that is the subject of a notice.
• Podcentro. The production service that receives the notice, reviews whether it is complete, and applies the steps below. Podcentro is not the seller of record on your store.

Send notices and counter-notices to hello@podcentro.com with the subject line “Copyright notice” or “Copyright counter-notice.” You may also mail them to Podcentro, 7901 4th St N, Ste 34250, St. Petersburg, FL 33702. A complete email is reviewed more quickly than an incomplete one. Review of a complete notice commonly takes up to 10 business days, and longer if the file or order is hard to identify.

What a takedown notice must include

A DMCA notice should contain the items the statute expects. In practical form, include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you believe was used without permission. A link to the original, a registration number, or a copy of the work helps. If you name many works, provide a representative list.
3. Identification of the material on or through Podcentro, specific enough for Podcentro to find it: a page URL, product or file name, order number, or other unique reference. A notice that only names a brand, with no location, cannot be actioned.
4. Your 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, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner.

Narrow the request to the files or orders that actually use the work. A request to remove “everything similar” without identifiers will be sent back. License disputes, fair-use arguments, and ownership disagreements are noted, but Podcentro does not decide those questions as a court would. If the notice is complete, Podcentro can still remove or hold the identified material while the dispute continues.

What happens after a complete notice

1. Podcentro removes the identified file from its production queue or disables access to it, and holds matching open orders that have not shipped.
2. Podcentro tells the member who submitted the file, and shares the notice or a description of the claim so the member can respond.
3. Podcentro tells you what action was taken, or asks for the missing detail if the notice cannot be matched to a file.
4. Orders already handed to a carrier are not pulled back by a notice. Future production of that file stays blocked while the claim stands.

Podcentro may suspend or close an account that is the subject of repeated valid notices. Members should not resubmit a removed file under a new name.

Counter-notice

If you are the member and you believe the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice. Include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal, such as the file name or order number Podcentro cited.
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, 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, if you are outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Podcentro may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

Podcentro will forward a complete counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. If that person does not give Podcentro notice of a filed court action seeking to restrain the member within 10 to 14 business days, Podcentro may restore the material. Restoration is not a finding that the member owns the work. Podcentro may keep a file disabled when a separate trademark, safety, or legal reason still applies.

Misuse of this process

A notice or counter-notice is a legal statement. Knowingly material misrepresentations can create liability for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. Podcentro may ignore or block repeat submitters who send incomplete, abusive, or bad-faith claims, and may suspend a member who uses a counter-notice to restore a file they have no right to print.

This process is for copyright. It is not the route for a customer return, a print-quality complaint, or a trademark-only dispute. Use production and shipping for order issues and the intellectual-property policy for marks and publicity rights.