DMCA Policy

Read Master respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. § 512, the “DMCA”), Read Master has designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement on its platform.

If you believe that material available on or through Read Master infringes a copyright you own or control, you may submit a takedown notice to our designated agent as described below. If your content has been removed in response to a takedown notice and you believe the removal was mistaken, you may submit a counter-notice as described in the “Counter-notice procedure” section.

Note: This page is a working draft awaiting review by qualified legal counsel. The information here reflects our good-faith understanding of the DMCA process but should not be relied upon as legal advice.

Our designated copyright agent for receipt of DMCA notices is:

We accept notices only by email or physical mail to the addresses above. Notices sent to any other address or by any other method (e.g. social media) will not be processed.

To be valid under the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)), a takedown notice must be a written communication to our designated agent that includes all of the following elements:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work. A description of the copyrighted work (or, if a single notice covers multiple works at the same online site, a representative list of those works) that you claim has been infringed.
2. Identification of the infringing material. A description of the material on Read Master that you claim is infringing and that you want removed or access to which you want disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to allow us to locate it (for example, a URL or a description of the specific book or section within your library or the platform).
3. Your contact information. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address so we can contact you about the notice.
4. Good-faith belief statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. Accuracy statement. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
6. Signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf. Typing your full legal name in the email constitutes an electronic signature.

Incomplete notices may not be processed. Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), submitting a materially false takedown notice may subject you to liability for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

Upon receiving a valid, complete takedown notice, we will:

1. Promptly remove or disable access to the material identified in the notice.
2. Notify the affected user that their content has been removed and the reason for the removal, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or court order.
3. Provide the user with information about submitting a counter-notice if they believe the removal was made in error.

We log all valid notices we receive. Takedown notices are part of the record we maintain for purposes of our repeat-infringer policy (see our Terms of Service).

If you believe your content was removed or disabled by mistake, or that you have the right to use the material, you may submit a counter-notice to our designated agent. A valid counter-notice must contain all of the following elements (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)):

1. Identification of the removed material. A description of the material that was removed or to which access was disabled, and its location before it was removed (for example, the URL).
2. Good-faith belief statement. 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.
3. Consent to jurisdiction. 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 you are outside the United States, the jurisdiction of any Federal District Court of the United States), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the takedown notice or their agent.
4. Your contact information. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
5. Signature. Your physical or electronic signature.

Upon receiving a complete counter-notice, we will forward it to the original notifying party and, unless we receive notice that the original notifying party has filed a court action seeking an order to restrain you from engaging in the infringing activity, we may restore the material in question no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after receipt of the counter-notice (in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C)).

Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), submitting a materially false counter-notice may subject you to liability for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

Read Master maintains a policy for terminating the accounts of users who are repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i). See our Terms of Service for details.

Read Master supports lawful uses of copyrighted material, including fair use (17 U.S.C. § 107), personal use, and other exemptions recognized by applicable law. We encourage rights-holders to consider whether a use is fair, transformative, or otherwise lawful before submitting a takedown notice. Submitting a takedown notice without a good-faith belief that the use is infringing may expose you to liability.

Send all DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

For general copyright questions, privacy requests, or terms-of-service inquiries, see our Contact page.