Copyright Policy

DRAFT. Not in force. Compiled by an agent from blueprint/27 §4.1, §5, §6 and §7 and from the text of 17 U.S.C. §512 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512, read 2026-10-13). No standard base was named by the plan (27 §2.0), so this document is Studio's own clauses. It is not legal advice. No lawyer has reviewed it. It is not in force until Zakaria approves it (D54).

No standard base. Written for Surf Studio. (27 §2.0 rule 5)

1. Who this is for

Rights holders who believe material stored in Studio infringes their copyright, and Founders who stored it. Studio is a service provider that stores material at its Founders' direction. In this version that material is what a Founder submits for a Scan, the captures Studio makes of the Founder's App, and the films, stills and files Studio makes for the Founder. Studio hosts no Founder's App or Site in this version.

2. Designated agent

Studio's designated agent under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(2) is:

• Role: Copyright Agent, Surf Platforms Inc. (the title Surf's own Terms already use: SurfWebsite/app/terms/page.tsx)
• Address: Surf Platforms Inc., San Jose, California, United States (principal office: 5434 Manderston Drive, San Jose, CA 95138, United States; source: the Copyright Office designation of Surf Platforms Inc., read 2026-10-13)
• Email: copyright@surfplatforms.com until surfstudio.app is bought, then copyright@surfstudio.app (27 §1.2 L-5)
• Phone: 669-294-5932 (the Copyright Office designation of Surf Platforms Inc., effective 2026-08-10, read 2026-10-13)
• Copyright Office designation: Active for Surf Platforms Inc., effective 2026-08-10 (the number is on the directory record; 27 §4.1). Studio's names onsurf.app and surfstudio.app are added to it as alternate names, $6, the day each is bought (21 §2.1). [PENDING until then: do not publish this page as in force for those names before they are added]

3. How to report

Use the form at surfstudio.app/report or write to copyright@surfstudio.app. A notice must contain (17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A)):

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act for the owner;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (or a representative list);
3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it;
4. your contact information (address, telephone number, email);
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act for the owner.

A notice that lacks an element is answered with what is missing. Studio does not ignore it. (27 §4.1)

4. What Studio does with a notice

4.1 Studio records every notice first (27 Rule 7) and acknowledges it. Studio's targets are to acknowledge within one business day and, where the Founder has not acted, to act within 72 hours of receipt (27 §6.1). They are targets.

4.2 Studio tells the Founder what was reported and gives the Founder 48 hours to remove the material, dispute the notice, or ask Studio to decide. (27 §6.1, §6.2)

4.3 Studio removes or disables access to the material expeditiously where a notice is complete and the Founder does not dispute it, or where Studio decides it should go. It restricts the smallest thing that ends the harm. (27 Rule 8)

4.4 Studio sends the Founder a statement of reasons and the way to appeal. (27 §6.3)

5. Counter-notice

If you are a Founder whose material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to copyright@surfstudio.app with (17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3)): your signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address and telephone number, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if outside the United States, for any district where Studio may be found), and that you will accept service from the person who sent the notice.

Studio sends the counter-notice to the person who sent the notice and tells them it will restore the material in 10 business days. It restores the material not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after receiving the counter-notice, unless that person first tells Studio they have filed a court action against you. (17 U.S.C. §512(g)(2)(B), (C))

6. Repeat-infringer policy

Studio will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of Founders who are repeat infringers (17 U.S.C. §512(i)(1)(A)). It applies this policy to Founders as follows. (27 §7)

6.1 A strike is a copyright notice about material a Founder stored or controls that led to removal and was not successfully countered. A counter-notice followed by no court action within the restoration period of section 5 removes the strike and restores the material.

6.2 Three strikes in any 12 months, or one adjudicated wilful infringement, end the Founder's use of Studio. Studio sends a statement of reasons, allows one appeal decided by Zakaria, and gives the Founder 30 days to download everything except the removed material.

6.3 A terminated Founder may not open a new account. Studio looks for linked accounts to apply this.

6.4 A Founder sees their strikes in Settings, each with its notice.

6.5 Notices about material that a Founder's own End users upload to a Founder's App count against the Founder only when Studio had to act because the Founder missed the time allowed. Studio hosts no such App in this version; this item takes effect when it does.

6.6 Studio accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures (17 U.S.C. §512(i)(1)(B)).

7. Other notices

Notices about trademark, phishing, intimate images, child safety, or illegal content, and Digital Services Act notices, go to the channels in the Notice-and-action document.