Copyright and takedown

• Check the photograph’s credit line first. Openly licensed photographs can be reused under their licence.
• Send a notice to 3877957@gmail.com with the six items listed below. A maker’s press photograph, a face, a number plate or personal data is removed on request, no notice needed.
• If we removed your upload by mistake, send a counter-notice.

Every photograph on Car Interfaces is one of these:

• openly licensed files from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr, some of them close-ups cut from a wider open-licence photograph;
• makers’ press photographs, shown under each maker’s terms for editorial use;
• photographs sent by contributors, published only after an editor’s review under our contributor licence.

Every photograph shows its author or owner, its licence or terms, and where it came from.

Check that credit line first. An openly licensed photograph may be reused by anyone who follows its licence, so a notice about one needs to explain why the licence does not apply.

If you represent a maker and want one of its press photographs removed, write to us with the link. We remove it without a formal notice.

If a photograph shows your face, your number plate or your personal data, you do not need a legal notice either. Write to us with the link and we will remove it.

To act on a notice we need all of the following:

1. the copyrighted work you say is infringed, for example a link to your original photo;
2. the exact address (URL) of each page on Car Interfaces that shows the material, and which image or passage it is;
3. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
4. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
5. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for the owner;
6. your physical or electronic signature. A typed full name is enough for email.

These are the elements a notice needs under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). We ask for them from everyone, wherever you are.

Email

3877957@gmail.com with “Copyright notice” in the subject line

Languages

English

The same email address is our single point of contact for authorities and users under the EU Digital Services Act.

If you are in the European Union you can report any content you consider illegal, not only copyright infringement, under Article 16 of the Digital Services Act. Your notice should include:

• a clear explanation of why you consider the content illegal;
• the exact URL of each page, and which image or passage you mean;
• your name and email address;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the information and claims in your notice are accurate and complete.

We confirm receipt, review the notice carefully and without bias, and tell you our decision and how you can challenge it. When we remove or restrict content, we tell the person who uploaded it what we did, why, and how they can appeal.

1. We confirm receipt by email, usually within two working days.
2. We review the notice and may ask you for missing details. Incomplete notices may not lead to removal.
3. If the notice is valid, we remove the material or disable access to it.
4. We tell the person who uploaded it what was removed and why, and how to file a counter-notice.
5. We tell you the outcome.

If something you uploaded was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include:

1. the material that was removed and the URL where it appeared before removal;
2. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification;
3. your name, postal address and telephone number;
4. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for the district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent;
5. your physical or electronic signature.

We forward the counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. We restore the material 10 to 14 working days after we receive the counter-notice, unless that person first tells us they have started court proceedings to stop the use.

We stop accepting uploads from contributors who repeatedly upload infringing material.

Knowingly claiming that material infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, when it does not or was not can make you liable for damages, including our costs. If you are unsure whether a use infringes, take advice before sending a notice.