Copyright
How to notify BoardRepo of alleged copyright infringement, and what happens next.
Last updated: September 12, 2026
Summary
- Send complete notices to [email protected]. Incomplete notices are returned with what is missing.
- We review promptly and disable access when a notice is complete.
- The owner of an uploaded board can send a counter-notice. Restoration is not before 10 and not after 14 business days unless a court-action notice arrives.
- Accounts with repeated upheld notices may be terminated after review.
- A knowingly false notice or counter-notice can create liability for damages.
Designated agent
Flintt, Inc. has designated the following agent for notices of claimed copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). The agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office as DMCA-1080308.
Copyright Agent, Flintt, Inc.
2261 Market Street STE 13714, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States
+1 (415) 905-0084
[email protected]
The same details appear in Terms § 8. Use this inbox for copyright notices and takedown requests. General questions still go to [email protected].
Sending a notice
A complete notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A) is written and includes all of the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act for the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if several works are covered by one notice.
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it (the exact BoardRepo URL is the most useful).
- Information reasonably sufficient to contact you: name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Open a notice email with those headings already filled in. You can also write in your own words, as long as every element is there.
If a notice is missing required elements, we tell the sender what is missing and do not disable access on that incomplete notice alone (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(B)).
What happens after a complete notice
We review complete notices promptly. When a notice is complete, we remove or disable access to the named material. We do not delete the files on receipt: hiding the board keeps a later restore exact if the notice was mistaken or a counter-notice succeeds.
If the board was uploaded by an account holder, we tell that owner that a notice arrived and how to send a counter-notice. A partial claim against named files on an uploaded board is sent to the owner first, with one business day to remove those files before we hold the whole board.
Part of the library was imported from public GitHub repositories. If a board of yours is here and you would rather it were not, write to [email protected] with the board URL. If it is yours and you want to keep it, you can claim it by proving the GitHub identity that owns the source repository.
Counter-notices
If your uploaded material was disabled and you believe it was a mistake or that you have the right to post it, send a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) to the same agent. A complete counter-notice includes:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location where it appeared before that (the BoardRepo URL).
- 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 of the material to be removed or disabled.
- 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 outside the United States, for any judicial district in which BoardRepo may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of that person.
We send a copy of a complete counter-notice to the original claimant. We restore access not before 10 business days and not after 14 business days after receiving the counter-notice, unless the claimant tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material.
Business days follow the U.S. federal holiday calendar.
Repeat infringement
We may terminate accounts that repeatedly infringe. A repeat-infringer count includes only upheld notices, across the whole account, not notices that were withdrawn, rejected, or restored after a counter-notice. After a second upheld notice we review the account and may terminate it.
A person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake, may be liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).
How long we keep notice records
We keep notice correspondence for three years after the matter is closed. We do not publish notices or counter-notices. See the Privacy Policy for how imported GitHub profiles and notice data are handled.