DMCA Policy

1. Filing a DMCA Takedown Notice

If you believe that content hosted on or accessible through SplatChat infringes your copyright, you may submit a written takedown notice to our designated agent. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following elements:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work(s) claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works.
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (e.g., a direct URL to the specific content).
4. Your contact information, including your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. 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.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Misrepresentation warning: Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, the service provider, or anyone harmed by the misrepresentation.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

Our designated copyright agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). Send DMCA takedown notices to:

Email is the fastest way to reach our designated agent. Incomplete or informal notices (e.g., those that do not contain all six elements required by Section 512(c)(3)) will not be acted upon and will not start any response clock.

3. Counter-Notification

If you believe that material you posted was removed or access was disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to our designated agent. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notification must include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access was disabled.
3. 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.
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 your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which SplatChat may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original takedown notification or an agent of such person.

Upon receiving a valid counter-notification, we will promptly forward it to the party that submitted the original takedown notice. If that party does not notify us within 10 to 14 business days that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we will restore the removed material or cease disabling access to it, in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C).

4. Repeat Infringer Policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i) and other applicable law, SplatChat has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers of copyright or other intellectual property rights. We may also, at our sole discretion, limit access to the Service or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others, regardless of whether there is repeat infringement.

5. Avatars and Right of Publicity

SplatChat allows users to create AI-powered avatars from uploaded photographs. Users are solely responsible for ensuring they have the right, consent, and legal authorization to use any photograph they upload. Creating an avatar from a photograph of another person without their freely given, specific, and informed consent may violate:

• Their right of publicity (the right to control commercial use of their name, image, and likeness), which is recognized in most U.S. states;
• Their right of privacy (including the tort of false light, appropriation, or intrusion);
• State biometric privacy laws (e.g., Illinois BIPA, Texas CUBI); or
• Other applicable local laws.

Right of publicity / likeness complaints (not DMCA). Because the DMCA applies only to copyright claims, right of publicity and likeness claims are handled separately. If you believe that an avatar on SplatChat uses your likeness without authorization, please contact us at dmca@splatchat.com with the subject line "Likeness / Right of Publicity Complaint", including:

1. Your name and contact information.
2. A description of the avatar or content you believe uses your likeness.
3. A URL or other means to identify the content.
4. A statement that you have not authorized this use of your likeness.
5. Any supporting documentation (e.g., photo ID or comparison photograph).

We will review all likeness complaints and take appropriate action. We are not able to process right-of-publicity claims under the DMCA counter-notification procedure, but we maintain a separate internal review process for these complaints.

6. AI-Generated Content

SplatChat uses AI models to generate character responses, synthesized voices, images, documents, meeting deliverables, character blog posts, and avatar renderings. If you believe that AI-generated content on SplatChat infringes your copyright, you may submit a takedown notice following the procedure in Section 1.

We will evaluate such notices on a case-by-case basis. Because AI-generated outputs are produced algorithmically and not copied from any single pre-existing source, the applicability of traditional copyright infringement analysis to AI-generated content is an evolving area of law. The U.S. Copyright Office has stated that purely AI-generated works lacking human authorship may not be copyrightable. We reserve the right to evaluate all claims on their merits in light of applicable law.

Character blog posts and meeting deliverables. AI characters may author and publish long-form blog posts and post-meeting documents (e.g., meeting summaries, investment memos). These are AI-generated outputs under the direction of a SplatChat user. If such content infringes your copyright, please submit a takedown notice as described in Section 1, including the URL of the specific published post or document.

Social media content. Content posted to third-party social platforms (e.g., X/Twitter) via SplatChat’s social tools is posted by the user who authorized the action. SplatChat is not the publisher of that content. Copyright claims regarding content on third-party platforms should be directed to those platforms under their respective DMCA procedures. If you believe a SplatChat user posted your content without authorization using our tools, you may also contact us at dmca@splatchat.com.

7. Non-Copyright Complaints

The DMCA procedure described in this policy applies only to copyright infringement claims. Other types of legal complaints are handled separately:

• Right of publicity / likeness: Use subject line "Likeness / Right of Publicity Complaint" — see Section 5 above.
• Defamation / false statements in blog posts or character outputs: Contact legal@splatchat.com.
• Trademark infringement: Contact legal@splatchat.com.
• Privacy violations / unauthorized data: Contact privacy@splatchat.com.
• Meeting Bot conduct / surveillance complaints: Contact legal@splatchat.com — Subject: "Meeting Bot Conduct Complaint".
• Child safety / CSAM: Contact legal@splatchat.com immediately. We will report CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
• General abuse: Contact legal@splatchat.com.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this DMCA Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

9. Related Policies

This DMCA Policy should be read alongside our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Biometric Data Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy.