DMCA.
ooey is a registered service provider under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512). If a recipe published on ooey infringes your copyright, you can ask us to take it down. If a recipe of yours has been taken down by mistake, you can file a counter-notice to put it back. This page explains how, what happens after, and what the rules are on both sides.
Designated agent.
Notices under §512(c)(3) and counter-notices under §512(g) must be sent to ooey’s designated agent:
Karl Boatright (founder, Alien Tech
Systems)
Email: copyright@ooeyapp.com
Postal: c/o Alien Tech Systems
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Email is the fastest path. Postal mail is accepted but slower by definition. The agent is also registered with the U.S. Copyright Office’s online directory; the registered record is the system of truth if anything on this page ever falls out of step with it.
How to file a takedown notice.
A valid notice under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A) must contain all six of the following. A notice missing any of them is not effective and ooey is not obligated to act on it.
1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Typing your full legal name in an email counts as an electronic signature.
2. The work you own. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed. If multiple works on a single site are covered, a representative list is acceptable.
3. The material on ooey.
Identification of the material claimed to be infringing,
with information reasonably sufficient for ooey to locate it.
For us, that means a recipe URL of the form
https://ooeyapp.com/r/<id> or a
@handle plus recipe title.
4. Your contact information. Address, telephone number, and email address.
5. Good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. Accuracy and authority statement, under penalty of perjury. A statement that the information in your notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
Send the complete notice to copyright@ooeyapp.com. Subject line: DMCA takedown notice.
What happens after we receive a notice.
We act expeditiously. In practice that is hours, not days, for a notice that arrives during business hours; up to 72 hours otherwise. The work you flag is hidden from public view; the recipe author is notified by email with the substance of your claim and a copy of your contact information so they can respond directly or file a counter-notice.
The takedown is logged in the public modlog (/community/modlog) as a DMCA takedown action with the recipe ID, the timestamp, and the steward’s handle that processed it. The notice itself is not published; your contact information is shared with the recipe author for the counter-notice path and is not posted publicly.
How to file a counter-notice.
If your recipe was taken down and you believe the takedown was a mistake or a misidentification, you can file a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3). A valid counter-notice must contain all four of the following.
1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature.
2. The material taken down. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before removal — the recipe URL is sufficient.
3. Good-faith statement, under penalty of perjury. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, telephone, and consent to jurisdiction. Your full name, postal address, 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 your address is outside the United States, the Eastern District of New York, where ooey is located), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person’s agent.
Send the complete counter-notice to copyright@ooeyapp.com. Subject line: DMCA counter-notice.
What happens after we receive a counter-notice.
We forward the counter-notice to the original complaining party. If they do not file a court action seeking a restraining order against you within 10 to 14 business days, we restore the recipe and update the modlog entry to record the restoration. The clock starts when we forward the counter-notice; we tell you when that happens and when the window closes.
Repeat-infringer policy.
Three substantiated takedowns within a rolling 12-month window terminate the account. Substantiated means the takedown was either uncontested by the recipe author or contested and adjudicated against them. Counter-notices that succeed are not strikes. Termination is not appealable in the app; the path back is the same as for any new account and is conditioned on satisfaction of the underlying claim with the rights-holder, not with ooey.
A warning on false claims.
Section 512(f) of the DMCA imposes liability for damages, costs, and attorneys’ fees on any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake. The perjury statements above are not decorative. If you are not the copyright owner and not authorised to act on the owner’s behalf, do not file a notice. If your recipe was taken down and the takedown was correct, do not file a counter-notice. ooey will pursue any party that abuses this process.
What this page is not for.
DMCA is a copyright remedy. It is not the right tool for every dispute about a recipe.
Recipes are not copyrightable. A list of ingredients and a method are facts and procedures; they are not protected by U.S. copyright. The headnote, the photograph, and substantial original prose are protected. A recipe that copies your headnote verbatim is a DMCA matter; a recipe that uses the same ingredients and method as yours is not.
Attribution disputes. If a recipe should have been forked from yours and was instead presented as original, the right path is usually a report to a steward (Report this recipe in the app) under rule 2 of the community rulebook, not a DMCA notice.
Trademark disputes. Trademarks are not copyrights. Send a separate request to copyright@ooeyapp.com with subject line Trademark complaint and we’ll route it.
Defamation, doxxing, harassment, hate speech. These are stewardship matters, not DMCA matters. Use Report this recipe in the app or, for serious cases, email support@ooeyapp.com.
Questions.
For questions about a notice you’ve filed or are considering, email copyright@ooeyapp.com. We are not able to give you legal advice; we can tell you whether a notice as drafted contains the §512(c)(3) elements and what is missing if it does not.
Alien Tech Systems
Brooklyn, New York