They took your work and posted it. A DMCA notice makes the host take it down.

Photos, writing, video, music, or code reposted without permission. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act routes your demand to the platform rather than the person who copied you, and it works because the platform's own protection from liability depends on answering a notice that meets the statute.

Flat fee $499, signed by a licensed New York attorney, mailed within 48 hours.

For New York creators and businesses whose own work was copied. You will need the infringing URLs and something showing the work is yours, gathered at intake. Trademark and patent disputes run on different statutes and are not this letter, and uses that look like fair use or licensed use are declined with a written explanation, as the terms describe.

The notice has to carry all six elements

The statute lists what a takedown notification must contain: your signature, identification of the work, identification of the infringing material with enough detail to locate it, your contact information, a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized, and a statement under penalty of perjury that what you say is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the owner. A notice missing an element is one the host may lawfully ignore, and that is the usual reason a self-sent takedown goes nowhere.

17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)

The platform's own protection is your leverage

A service provider keeps its safe harbor only if it moves expeditiously to remove or disable the material once it receives a compliant notice. Platforms answer notices that look right for that reason, and set aside the ones that do not.

17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(1)(C)

You do not need a registration to send one

Your copyright exists as soon as the work is fixed, and the takedown route asks for no filing. Registration is what you need before you can sue, and registering before the infringement or within three months of publication is what opens statutory damages and attorney fees.

17 U.S.C. §§ 411(a), 412

Overreaching carries its own penalty

A knowing, material misrepresentation in a notice is actionable, with damages and fees owed to the person whose material came down. Fair use, licensed use, and work you do not actually own are screened before a word is drafted, which is a protection for you.

17 U.S.C. § 512(f)

If the uploader pushes back

They can file a counter notification, and the host may restore the material in ten to fourteen business days unless you notify it that you have filed suit. Attorney review of any counter notice, with a plain memo on where that leaves you, is included.

17 U.S.C. § 512(g)

Questions before you start

Will the platform actually take it down?

Major hosts process compliant notices as routine, because their safe harbor depends on it. No outcome is guaranteed. The notices that get ignored are the ones missing a statutory element, which is the part this service exists to get right.

Do I have to register the copyright first?

Not to send the notice. Registration is what you need to file suit, and its timing controls whether statutory damages and attorney fees are on the table. The intake flags where you stand on both.

They claim it is fair use.

Then attorney review tells you that before anything is sent. A notice aimed at a use that is plainly fair exposes you to a misrepresentation claim, so the screen protects you more than it protects them.

The site has no takedown agent.

Some hosts never registered one. The intake looks for the agent, then the registrar and the upstream provider, and the notice goes to whoever actually has the ability to pull the material down.

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