Copyright / DMCA Policy

Last updated: October 25, 2026

SEPX responds to copyright complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512) and to equivalent notices under UK and EU law. This page sets out how to send a takedown notice, how to contest one, and what happens to accounts that infringe repeatedly.

1. Designated agent

Send copyright notices to the DMCA Designated Agent: support@sepx.cc.

By post: DMCA Designated Agent, SEPX LIMITED, 20 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU, United Kingdom.

Notices sent anywhere else may not reach the agent, and nothing starts until the agent has them.

2. What a takedown notice must contain

A notice must be in writing and must contain all six elements required by 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A). A notice missing any of them is not effective, and we may not be able to act on it.

We forward valid notices to the user who posted the material, including the contact details in them, because they need those details to file a counter-notification. If you would rather not give your own details, instruct an agent or use a professional address.

(i) A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for the owner. Typing your full name at the end of the email is an electronic signature.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If one notice covers several works on SEPX, a representative list of those works.
(iii) Identification of the material you say is infringing and want removed, with enough information for us to find it: a link to the message or upload, or the server, channel and time.
(iv) Your contact details — name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

3. What happens after a valid notice

We remove or disable access to the material, normally within one business day of the agent receiving a complete notice.
We tell the user who posted it what was removed and why, and send them a copy of the notice.
We record the removal against that account under the repeat-infringer policy below.

4. Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notification under §512(g)(3) to the same agent. It must contain:

(A) Your physical or electronic signature.
(B) Identification of the material that was removed, and the location where it appeared before it was removed.
(C) A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
(D) Your name, address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for the district where you live, or — if you are outside the United States — any judicial district in which SEPX may be found; and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice, or their agent.

5. What happens after a counter-notification

We forward your counter-notification to the person who sent the original notice, including the contact details it contains.

If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we restore the material. Restoration happens not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after we receive your counter-notification.

Filing a counter-notification exposes you to being sued and puts you before a court you may not otherwise be subject to. If you are not certain you are entitled to post the material, take legal advice rather than filing one.

6. Repeat infringers

Each removal under a valid notice that is neither withdrawn nor reversed by a counter-notification counts as a strike against the account:

First strike: the content is removed and the account is notified.
Second strike: uploading and paid publishing are suspended for 30 days.
Third strike: the account is terminated, the servers it owns are removed, its paid listings are taken down, and it may not be replaced.
A strike expires 12 months after it is issued, and is cancelled if the notice is withdrawn or if the material is restored after an unchallenged counter-notification.
Egregious infringement — running a service built on distributing infringing material, or reposting material to evade a removal — terminates the account on the first occurrence.

7. False notices

Under §512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, is liable for the damages and costs of the person harmed. We refuse notices that are obviously abusive, and where a sender does that repeatedly we stop processing their notices.

A takedown notice is the wrong tool for content you simply dislike, for a trademark dispute, or for a privacy complaint. Use the Content Removal procedure for those.

8. Outside the United States

SEPX LIMITED is registered in England and Wales. We accept notices under UK and EU law that give us the same information, and we handle them on the same timings. A notice does not have to use the American form of words to be acted on — but it does have to identify the work, identify the material, and be signed by someone entitled to complain.