DRAFT — not legal advice, not reviewed by counsel, not in force.

Copyright and DMCA

A draft of rumo's copyright notice-and-takedown process.
The designated agent has not been registered.
It has not been reviewed by counsel and it is not in force.

The designated agent

United States law makes safe harbour for user-uploaded material conditional on registering a designated agent with the US Copyright Office and publishing that agent’s contact details somewhere publicly accessible. rumo designates by role rather than by person — a position and a registered address — so that somebody leaving never requires a new filing.

Said plainly: the registration has not been made. An unregistered service has no section 512(c) safe harbour at all, however well it handles notices. rumo will not open to uploads with this table empty, and this page states the position rather than implying a protection that is not held.

Until the agent is designated, copyright correspondence can reach hello@rumo.live.
That is a general address, not a designated agent, and sending to it does not start any statutory clock.

This is the copyright route, and only the copyright route

Use this page if material on rumo copies a work you own — your photograph, your video, your text.

If the problem is that a story about your business is wrong, unfair or damaging, this is the wrong door and it will be sent back.
That goes through the report flow in the app, or to the grievance officer.
A subject’s strongest remedy is the pinned official reply described on the community guidelines page, and no takedown route in rumo lets the subject of a story remove it.

What a valid notice contains

A notice has to carry all six of these to be conforming.
A notice missing any of them may not be acted on:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of somebody authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
   If several works at one location, a representative list.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for rumo to find it — a link to the story or update, and which photograph, recording or passage.
4. Your contact details: address, telephone number, and email.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised 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 owner or authorised to act for the owner.

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing carries liability for damages, including costs and legal fees, to the person whose material was wrongly removed.
A takedown notice is not a cheap way to make something inconvenient go away.

What happens after a conforming notice

• The material is removed or disabled expeditiously.
• The person who posted it is told, and given a copy of the notice.
• They are told they may file a counter-notice, and how.
• The action, its basis and its timestamp are logged, as every moderation action in rumo is.

Copyright runs as its own lane, with its own contact and its own states.
It is not folded into the general report queue, whose clocks and outcomes are different.

Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can file a counter-notice with the agent above.
It must contain:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number.
5. Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district your address is in — or, if your address is outside the United States, any district in which rumo may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the notice, or their agent.

A copy is forwarded to the person who filed the original notice.
Unless they tell rumo they have filed suit seeking a court order, the material is restored after the statutory waiting period — [UNDERSTOOD TO BE 10–14 BUSINESS DAYS — TO BE CONFIRMED].

Repeat infringers

rumo terminates, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who infringe repeatedly.
The ordinary moderation ladder ends in restrict account and then close account, and a repeat copyright infringer reaches the same two rungs.

The law requires this policy to be reasonably implemented, not merely published.
The counter that tracks repeated infringements against an account and triggers the ladder is listed under What is still owed below.
A published policy with no counter behind it is exactly what the requirement is written to catch, and rumo says so here rather than leaving the sentence to imply more than it does.

What rumo does not sell

rumo may earn revenue from clearly labelled ad space, with most placements arranged through advertising agencies.
Advertisers cannot buy placement inside a story, story ranking, removal, reputation management or influence over any piece of content.