DMCA Copyright Procedure

PicturesQuePhotoVideo respects intellectual property rights. If you believe content on the site infringes your copyright, this page explains how to send a takedown notice that we can act on, and what we will and will not remove on receipt.

What we host

PicturesQuePhotoVideo is a catalogue. We do not host software binaries. We do not host installer packages. We do not redistribute the programs we list. The catalogue contains: editorial reviews (our own work), screenshots of program interfaces (fair-use editorial illustration), program logos (nominative use), version metadata (factual information), and external links to the developer’s own download pages. If your copyright concern is about a hosted binary, please contact the developer or distribution platform directly — we will not have a copy of it.

Required elements of a notice

To act on a DMCA notice we need each of the following, per 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or their authorized agent.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple).
  3. Identification of the specific material on PicturesQuePhotoVideo you claim infringes, with the exact URL on our site where it appears.
  4. Your contact information: name, email, postal address, telephone number.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Where to send the notice

Send the full notice to dmca@picturesquephotovideo.com with subject line beginning "DMCA:". Postal notices may be sent to PicturesQuePhotoVideo, Vancouver, BC, Canada, but email is processed faster.

What we will do

Notices that meet all six required elements are processed within ten business days. If we agree the content is infringing, we remove or disable access to it and notify the alleged infringer if their contact details are known. If we believe the use is editorial fair use (e.g., a screenshot used in a critical review) we will respond explaining the basis and may keep the content live; you remain free to pursue other remedies under copyright law.

What we will not act on

We do not act on notices that lack required elements; we do not act on notices that ask us to remove links to lawful content on third-party sites; we do not act on notices that target editorial criticism, parody, or fair-use commentary; we do not act on notices that are obviously automated takedown spam with no human review. Bad-faith notices may be reported and may carry penalties under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

Counter-notice procedure

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was wrong, you may send a counter-notice. To meet 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), the counter-notice must contain:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the removed material and the URL where it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, postal address and telephone number.
  5. 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, for any judicial district in which PicturesQuePhotoVideo may be found).
  6. A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original takedown notice (or their agent).

Send counter-notices to dmca@picturesquephotovideo.com. On receipt of a compliant counter-notice we will forward it to the original complainant; the material is typically restored 10–14 business days after that unless the complainant files a court action to keep it down.

Repeat infringers

PicturesQuePhotoVideo does not host user-uploaded content, so 17 U.S.C. § 512(i) "subscriber and account-holder" termination is not directly applicable — there are no user accounts to terminate. Editorially, however, we maintain an internal record of all valid takedown notices. Any catalogue entry that produces repeated valid notices, or any external content source that is the subject of repeated valid notices, will be removed from the catalogue.

This is not legal advice

This page describes our internal procedure. It is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether you have a valid copyright claim, please consult an intellectual property lawyer in your jurisdiction.